Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 49, 3 October 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ - Mr John Taylor's new advertisement will appear on Tuesday next. The Wellington Post wants to make a policeman of Colonel Whitmore. Fresh strawberries are already on sale in Auckland. We are sorry to learn that the Mayor of Pahnerston, Mr James Linton, is seriously ill. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway will be opened as far as Plemmerton today, sixteen miles from Wellington. Mr Charier Bradiaugh will visit Aus- . tralia and New Zealand on a lecturing tour in a few months. Several addition are made to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's saleatAwahuri on Tuesday next. - We direct attention to the advertisement of Messrs Fraser Bros., of Awahuri, which appears in our Wanted column. At 8 a.m. to-morrow (Sunday) mass will be held in the Catholic Church, Feilding. The jurors required for the District Court, at ', Palmerston on Wednesday, the 28th inst., will (says the Chronicle) be drawn on Monday next. At the 16th meeting of the Emigrants and Colonists' Aid Corporation, the Duke of Manchester in the chair, a dividend of seven per cent, was declared. Messrs Halcombe and SherwilTs stock sale-will be held on Thursday next at the sale yards of the firm in Warwick street. Several additions are made to-day to the catalogue. [ Mr Henry Rutherford had a splendid show of lamb in his shop last night. The lambs were grown by Mr Peter Stewart at Mount Stewart. The Manchester Rifles will assemble ' for church parade to - morrow at the usual time and place. Of course if the weather is boisterous the men will not be expected to attend. . We understand that the Palmerston Dramatic Company are willing to play in Feilding, if invited by the authorities of these bodies, for the benefit of either the Benevolent Society or the Public Library. Prince Bismarck recently told a Russian diplomatist that he had decided never i again to use tobacco in any form, and , that he regarded cigarette smoking as extremely noxious, and ridiculous to • loot. A notice of great importance to mem- : bers of the Feilding Small Farm Associa- , tion appears to-day calling a meeting for next Wednesday. We understand that 1 the object of the meeting is to close the ■ members list. ' A meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board t was called for at noon to-day ; also a ' meeting of the Manchester Road Board ' at 2 p.m. The proceedings of both will « be duly noted in our next issue. ! We are glad to learn that a satisfactory arrangement has been made between the Bi rough Council and Mr Curran respect- ■ ing the damages claimed in re the acci- [ dent on Makino road. On Thursday night about nine o'clock ■ a heavy breeze of wind set in accompanied with welcome showers of rain. This 1 weather has continued up to this time of . writing. The amount of good which will be received by the farmers is incalculable. A witness in the R.M. Court, Palmer- ' ston, on Thursday, being asked by the ' R.M. whether he wished to give his cvi- . dence on oath, replied that he was not particular whether he gave it on oath or } in any other way. On Thursday last the Napier Daily > Telegraph was issued in a much enlarged , form. . This journal now claims to be the . ; largest evening paper in the colony. We congratulate our contemporary on the I prosperity which continues 7 with it, and { which it most certainly deserves. r The following is an extract from the ' report of the Inspector on the Makino ' School :— Percentage of. passed on roll, .> 21*4 ; percentage of the number exam- ? mcd, 31-9 ; percentage of the number in ' standards, 29*4; percentage as per new > regulations, 37*5 ; percentage of roll pre- | sented, 68*5. • Yesterday Mr R. F. Haybittle, of Invercargill, one of the members of the band from that city, now visiting the i Wellington Exhibition, arrived here on a I visit to bis brother, Mr W. G. Haybittle, accompanied by his younger brother, the courteous secretary of the Palmerston Dramatic Club. Mr Haybittle was very favorably impressed with Feilding, and regretted that the time at his disposal did not permit him to make a longer stay. ; Arrangements are, we (Post) believe, being made by which Cobb and Co.'s i coach to and from Foxton will shortly , run in conjunction with the Manawatu- • Wellington railway trains between the city and Paremata. The coach train in .' the morning will leave town at 7 a.m., [ and the Government has agreed to allow the Wanganui train to wait for an extra ' quarter of an hour at Foxton for the arl rival of the coach. > The Colonial Exhibition. To the cdi- , tor. Sir,— Having been asked how it is that our name, which usually figures so ' conspicuously in prize lists of agricultural • machinery, .is not even mentioned in the } list of awards just published as haying been made at the Wellington Exhibition, '" we would intimate for the benefit of the I curious that, although bur exhibits oc- ( cupied the largest space in the Exhibition, and were most favorably commented upon i by His Excellency Sir William Jervois, i they were' all marked and entered as "not .for competition," hence our name does 1 uot appear in the pfize list. — We are Ac., Reid and Gbay, Dunedin, September 25, 1885.