Feilding Star. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1885. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 54, 15 October 1885, Page 2

Feilding Star. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1885. Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet this evening at the usual hour. The Manchester Eifles will commence class finng on Saturday next. Mr T. R. Walton will open his drapery sale in the shop next to Mr Daw's stables on Saturday. The Patea folk were not over pleased because the Governor was unable to visit them. We (Chronicle) understand that Mr Charles Bull is the successful tenderer for the Eastown workshops, and that he has already commenced operations. A very pleasing notice appears to-day from the Official Assignee with reference to a dividend payable in the estate of W. B. Betemeyer. We have seen some of the butter kegs made by Mr Mai, of the Makmo Cooperage, and they are of excellent workmanship and good timber. We have received the names of the winners of Shakespear's Consultation. The first went to an expressman, Napier, the second to an hotelkeeper, and the third to a lady in Wellington. There was a very large attendance at the R.M. Court yesterday. The chief attraction was the fun anticipated wheu the defendant in the Lyceum case gave his evidence. Nobody was disappointed. We remind oar readers that the share list m the Pohangina Mining claim closes on Saturday next. It is rapidly filling up, and intending investors had better apply at once to the Secretary or Treasurer. The liability is limited to 5s per share. Mr 0. Henry experienced the benefit of advertising in our " wanted" column when he intimated, through that medium, that he had certain harness for sale. The advertisement appeared on Tuesday evening and yesterday the harness was sold. We learn that considerable ill-feeling has been caused in Palmerston through a blunder in connection with the catering for the luncheon given to the Governor on his recent visit. Time, no doubt, will restore harmony to the Palmerston rivalhouses of Hobbs and Dobbs. We have received from the Robin Hood Company the names and addresses of the principal winners in their Hawesbury meeting; also some of the Committee of Drawing. The promoters also tell us that their £50,000 on the Melbourne Cup is going ahead wonderfully fast, and that the number they will close for at the end of the month will ostonish the world. Agents are requested to obey instructions on books. Mr M. Keen desires to announce that he has now received a part of bis light boots and shoes for the summer. A second consignment will arrive by the Jane Douglas to-morrow, and there are more to follow. Mr Keen says that ''ike footprints on the sands of time" are hard on badly shod feet, and he will always do his best to find good understandings for both gentle and simple. A meeting of members of the Feilding Cricket Club was held at Roe's hotel last evening. The attendance was rather poor. Mr J. W. Eade was voted to the chair. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed, after which a statement of receipts and expenditure wag read by the secretary, Mr A. Thomson, which showed a balance to the credit of the club of £2 5s 7d. Somo discussion followed relating to securing a suitable piece of. ground for practice. A committee was subsequently appointed, comprising Messrs Thomson, Roe, Eade, and Fowles, to deal with the question, anil to report at another meeting to. be held on Wednesday next, at.Rod's hotel.

Mrs Moore has been elected president of the Feilding Lyceum. There will bo a circus in Feilding before many days. In our telegraphic news it will be aeon that consols are now above par. Also that the price for wheat has an upward tendency. The Melbourne Leader says : — The serious fall in the price of wool in the London Market is a great national misfortune. Over production has brought about a crisis in the trade, which may produce deplorable results. A large number of volunteers do not appear to understand how and when they are expected to salute their officers. Mora attention ought to be paid to this duty and the salute insisted on by the officers, as a disregard of the courtesy displays not only a went of discipline but a mark of disrespect to the officers of the force. To-day we publish on our fourth page Jacob Faithful's sweep on the Melbourne Cup. The consultation on the Napier Spring Handicap was a great success, 4714 tickets being sold. £700 went to the first horse, £300 to the second, and £100 to the third, others divided £267, and cash, prizes £940. The drawing took place in the presence of a Representative Committee, and the Press. One of Messrs Bartholomew's men, named Witt, was badly hurt on Tuesday from a blow given by a lever. It appears that one end of the lever was under a log in the course of being shifted, so that when the latter was moved, it swung round and struck him violently on the head. He has knocked down, and when his mates ran to his assistance, he was found to be insensible, with blood issuing from one ear. He was removed to Mr Reid's house, where he now lies under medical treatment. We are glad to hear that steps are being taken to erect a Presbyterian Church at Awahun. A centrally-situated piece of land has already been secured as a site, and the very satisfactory sum of £60 is at present in hand toward defraying the expenses of building the church. The whole of the sum named has b«en subscribed by residents in Awahuri and surrounding districts. An entertainment will shortly be given in the Awahuri School Eoom with a view of adding to the funds of the proposed new church, particulars of which will be duly advertised. A meeting of the chairmen of the Riai Boards in the Oroua County took place at the railway station to-day. Prtsanfc — Mr Taylor, Kxwitea Road Board, Mr Snelson, Manawatu Road Board, MrMacarthur, Manchester Road Board. The business was to elect a member of Hospital Charitable Aid District Board for the Wanganui District. Mr Snelson was elected. The Manawatu Daily Times in an article on the modesty of the Palmerston School Committee says: — " It is a wellknown fact that no grown-up individual in this town likes to see his name m print on any occasion, and least of all if ho has won an honor, or secured a position, or been instrumental in carrying some resolution of general benefit." Of course not. Even a well-turned "local" hinting a gentle compliment to a " well-known and respected resident," is a cause of pain to the object. This rule obtains all over i the colony. i The Zealandia sailed from Auckland the other day for San Francisco, i She shipped at Sydney — Thirty boxes sovereigns, valued at £150,000 ; four boxes gold, £24,467. Shipped at Auckland—National Bank, gold, £10,000 ; Bank of New Zealand, £48,208. Total, £230,675. Last Tuesday afternoon, two lads, named James and Edward Prendergasl, of Taonui, were sent to g«t in some cow^. In their search after them the lads got lost in the bush. Search was made for them by several neighbors, but without result. They, however, turned up on Wednesday morning considerably knocked up. When we consider what a fearful night it was, with a heavy gale of wind blowing, accompanied by an abundant rainfall, it is a wonder that they escaped st> well.