Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 61, 31 October 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

G. A. Sala will give two lectures in Wanganui. . There will be no mass ..in the Catholic Church, Feilding, to-morrow. ThoM persons who purchased books, &c., from Mr T. F. Reeve will find an interesting notice from him in our issue to-day. We have to acknowledge receipt of the annual report of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. This is a courtesy we would like to see imitated by similar bodies in Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch. The cheap sale of Messrs Summers and Mayhew is still going on. Somemarvellous bargains are offered, and this opportunity of purchasing — cheap and good — ought not to be neglected. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, on Wednesday last, the usual dividend and bonus were declared, and a balance of £27,000 earned forward to the next half-year.

Mr A. E. Bird, of the New Zealand Eeferee, was in Wellington last week on his wedding tour. MrW. Watts was the successful tenderer for the erection of the store at Halcombe which was advertised in these columns. We have received a copy of the schedule of the Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral Association Cattle Show, to be held at Hawera ou December 2. As the prizes and conditions appear liberal, the show ought to be a success. Lord St. Leonards, who was imprisoned some months ago in London for an alleged criminal assault «n a servant girl, has bolted to Australia without going through the formality •! paying his landlady— a po«r woman who trusted him for more than a year on the strength of his title and his affability. The Hon. Mr Stout complains that plenty of newspapers write against the Government. The Oamaru Times says Mr Stout may take it as a moral axiom that a Government must be thoroughly bad when " plenty of newspapers ' write against it. What the present Goyernment hicks is public confidence ; when they can attract that, more editors will write " for" instead of "against" them. The approach of Christmas is heralded by Mr Carthew, who will give details in our next issue of his newly received Christmas cards. Persons desirous of sending these Home to their friends should do so by the out-going mail which will leave here on Friday next to arrive in London on December 18. Willis' cards of New Zealand views are the most appropriate, and Mr Carthew has a most excellent selection to choose from. This is the last day for sweeps and consultations in New Zealand. We understand the companies will be formed to work on the totalistor, which is a legal institution. The modus operandi will be simple and effective, but far more open to fraud than the plain and straightforward consultation. Bookmaker's private agencies will be established in every town and village in the colony, where the timid " sport" may deposit Ms pound or two on his favorite, and comfortably lose it. All New Zealand wants is a tariff that will encourage and establish local industries, so that the farmers may find local consumers for their produce, and not be handicapped with heavy shipping freights to take their grain and wool to markets at the other side of the globe, which are themselves glutted and daily falling lower and lower in prices. It will not pay to send our grain to England, but it will pay to get the people to come here and use it upon the spot. — Herald. The shipments of the wool clip of the Argentine Republic up to May the 23rd amounted to 300,000 bales, being already above the total shipments for last year, viz 297,000 bales. About 20,000 to 25,000 bales are believed to remain for export. The Argentine production of wool is growing very steadily, and is susceptible of immense development. The export of wool has increased 90 per cent, in thirteen years, and at the actual rate of production in another five years the export will exceed 500,000,0001bs from the Argentine Sepublic alone.

For the information of Councillors and others, we would suggest that a synopsis of resolutions passed at the several meetinge of the Borough Council, he prepared after each meeting, and posted in a conspicuous place in the Council Chamber for reference. This would save a great deal of the valuable time and trouble now expended in hunting up in the Minute book some half-forgotten propositions, or a resolution that has not been carried into operation. A meeting of the Feilding Goldmining Prospecting Association was held at Hastie's hotel on Thursday evening hist. The attendance was rather poor. The object of the meeting was to receive the report of the two prospectors— who returned from the Pohangina reefs on Wednesday night. This report was unfavorable, and the following resolution, proposed by Mr H, L. Sherwill, and seconded by Mr L. Clapham, " That the Association be wound up, and the prospectors paid off," brought the proceedings to a close. The Welling ton Times says :— The Gazette contains new regulations r»r aid to prospecting, and for the payment of rewards for the discovery of new geldfields, recommended by the Goldfields Committee last sestioa, and adapted bv the GoTernmtnt. The Government will give pound for pound expended ou prospecting by Boad Boards or Counties which adopt the mutations. The pro* Coials of to* local bodies will, however ave to be first submitted to the Minister for Mines. Not more than LSOO will be paid in subsidies to any County Council in one year, and not mort than L2OO to any Boad Board. Mr M. Allen, Picton, writes to the Auckland Weekly News, on the 24th September as follows: — Noticing in your paper that a reward of £10 had been offered in California for a cheap, simple, and effective means of eradication of sorrel, I give you the following: — In the winter season get some sea-weed, or kelp, /and spread it over the ground as you would manure before ploughing clover. Where this is used there will be no sorrel, as it kills the sorrel, and takes the place of manure. In the south of Ireland, they make use of this for growing potatoes and such like, where manure is scarce. The Circus appears to have a wonderful and mysterious attraction to some men, as well as to the youngsters of the rising generation. Even at the Borough Council table on Thursday night it was observable that one or two Councillors fidgetted very uneasily in their seats when the music of the Circus band permeated through the ambint air, and foggily made itself heard in the room. Business was done in an hurry which | would have been all the better for a little deliberation. However, it had one effect, a resolution was passed under which all circus companies, visiting Feilding in future and using Borough land, will have to pay a pound a night for the privilege. „•;..-. :•:•. j