Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 88, 5 January 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ „ , Tho Manchester Rifles will assomble for drill this evening as usual. On Fridaj* evening next, Edith O'Gormim, known as the Escaped Nun, will lecture in the Feilding Temperance Hall. The Makino Brass Band played at the Bulls races on Friday and Saturday last, and also enlivened the township of Bulk with a few tunes on Friday evening. Their playing was greatly admired. , Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will ■ hold a stock Halts nn Thursday, the Hth I iust., (market day). There aro catalogued to-day 150 head of groat cattle and about POO sheep.

The Hon. John Ballance, M.H.R., will | address his constituents in Wanganui on the 13th inst. I It was reported yesterday that the Waipawa post office had been burned down. The Government have cancelled the order which authorised the transmission of delayed telegrams on Sundays. Our Taonui readers will be pleased to learn that Mr Slipper, the State Schoolmaster there, has quite recovered his usual health. Mr Glover, the popular temperance lecturer, ls expected to arrive at Auckland next month. He will lecture in all the large towns in the colony. We warn storekeepers and others that there are some base coins in circulation here. Bronze pennies silvered over to represent florins victimised one or two tradesmen since the Sports. Mr James Derby, formerly editor of the South Canterbury Times, has been appointed sub-editor of the Lyttelton Times, vice Mr W. H. Atack, who takes the management of the Press Association at Wellington. Some careless or stupid person dropped alighted match m the grass on the Square this morning, and set it in a blaze at once. Luckily Mr T. W. K. Foster saw it, ahd extinguised tho fire before it got a good hold. Yesterday morning the grass fires approached so unpleasantly near a quantity of cut hay in their paddocks, that Mesßrs Halcombe and Sherwill had to employ a couple of drays to remove it to a place of safety. Yesterday a grass fire near the railway line was on the point of setting alight to Borne of the sleepers. The station master put on a man to keep them well wet with water carried from the Makino stream and prevented any evil consequences. Amongst the passengers by the mail steamer Raikoma, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday last, on a visit to the colony, are the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, General Sir Patrick and Lady MacDougall, Count Rosen, and Messrs Quarterman and East. Messrs Stevens and Gorton advertise to-day that their new season's teas, sugar of all kinds, fencing wire, turnip and clover seeds, and a large variety of grass seeds have arrived and are now ready for selection at their Feilding, Palmerston, and Bulls establishments. A Wellington paper says that Mr Wotton, a settler living on one of the hills at Karon, had about two tons of his hay blown away on New Year's Eve by the high wind which prevailed. By a most fortunate foresight, Mr Wotton had his sheep and cattlo in strong peus and stockyards, otherwise they would have gone after the hay. The Manchester Rifles attended church parade on Sunday last. Before dismissing the men, Captain Macarthur reminded them of the Government parade to be held on Thursday, the 21st inst., when Sir George Whitmore will inspect the company. Absence from this parade will make the offender liable to a penalty of £3, which will in each case be rigidly enforced. It was also intimated that target practice would be held every Saturday, and that a match would be arranged with the Palmerston Rifles. We have had the pleasure of inspecting an illuminated address, prepared by Mr A. Harding for presentation to a reverend gentleman, near Wanganui, who has just entered into the bonds of matrimony. The work is really artistic. The tartan of the Highland clan to which the reverend gentleman belongs, has been most faithfully reproduced in the ornamental or text letter at the commencement. The names of the signatories to the address are beautifully written in Roman letter. Mr Harding has been a visitor here for the Christmas Holidays, and the work was finished during the period. Who will say that the hired girl of this century is a down trodden creature p 1 These young ladies ot kitchen and dining room are not so fearfully burdened as to destroy tbeir constitutions, they always look nice on the street, and everything 1 appears to bo generally lovely with them. A Napier Terrace lady of the homte was about to go shopping. She had given ' the toilet a little more attention than ' usual. As she came out of her room, ■ drawing on her gloves, her little girl raised her hands in admiration, and said, "Oh, ma! Ain't you just lovely P You look as nice as Sarah, now." Sarah is the kitchen angel — Telegraph. The continued depression of the tinned meat market (according to the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Time.) is proving a very serious matter for the Home importers, many of whom have never be ea able to move off the large consignments which were ordered during the Russian war scare. The Government too, laid in large supplies then ; consequently the autumn orders are smaller than usual. Meanwhile the imports are increasing prodigiously, as many of the tinned meat companies which started at the Plate and in the colonies when things looked rosy have just got into active work.