Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 34, 3 September 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

A Chnstchurcb man has just purchased a thousand acres of land on the Kimbolton road near Cheltenham. The football match played at Napier on Saturday between Auckland and Hawkee Bay resulted in a win for Auckland by 8 pointß to 3. It was a very hard fought game indeed.

The law of Libel Bill is looked as cortam to be one of the " slaughtered innocents" of the session. Even if the Bill is not abandoned by the Government it is unlikely to get through.

On Sunday afternoon the Salvation Army, when marching along Kimbolton road, managed to scare a trap horse and saddle horse, hitched up at Dr Charlton's, bo much that the two animals bolted. By great good Jnck the streets were empty of £ooh passengers or there would have been an accident*

An important sale of 6525 acres of freehold land will be held in the auction rooms of Mr D. C. Tennent, Marton, on Thursday the 12th instant. The block has been subdivided into seven allotments, contents of which are given in the advertisement. The terms are exceptionally easy, and for other particulars application is directed to be made to Mr Tennent at Marton.

The last Gazette has the following alterations :— Foxton Port traffic— Flax and tow delivered at Foxton railway station to await shipment will be charged 6d per bale, which will include receiving into shed, loading up, aud delivery to ships in trucks alongside wharf. Foxtou wharf rates, horses 2s 6d per head ; Cattle, Is per head.

A correspondent of the Manawatu Times points out that though the Counties Act of 1876 has been repealed, the Kiwitea Road Board 6till continuer to staike a rate under it, as well as the general rate under the Road Board Act. This course, however, may not be exactly according to law, but if Jviwitea ratepayers receive benefit therefrom and do not complain, it is nobody eleee business.

The Native meeting held at Aorangi on Sunday last } roved a great attraction to the pakehas of Feilding and district, especially in the afternoon, when from 500 to 600 Europeans paid a visit to the pah. Among the dusky race were some chiefs of great distinction, and one or two Maori members of the House of Eepresentatives. The proceedings were ;wat«hed with considerable interest, especially the alimentary operations. Divine services were conducted by the Rev. Mr WiJl.iams, of Wanganui, in the morning, and the Hey. Arona te Hana.

HThe Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. There were several gentlemen in Feilding to-day on the look out for land. The finder of a £5 note, lost yesterday in Feilding, will be rewarded if he leaves it at the store of Mr W. G. Haybittle. Sir William Jenner has advised the Queen to give up champagne and claret for the present, and to drink whiskey and Apollinaris water. Mr Lovejoy who has been closely iden^ tified with sport in Feilding for the last two years, left for Auckland yesterday. On Saturday night a few friends were invited to meet him at Mrs Hastie's Hotel to say farewell. The secretary of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce has received the following circular from the Wellington-Mana-watu Bailway Company : — This Company has reduced the rate of freight on butter -for export, in quantities of not leas than 'iOcwt, on the Company's line between Longburn and Wellington from 31s 2d to 24 6d per ton." A football match was played on the Oyal on Saturday last between teams representing the World and the Colonists, the game was well contested, and ended in a win for the World by 4 points to 3. Tries were obtained by Pope, for the World, and Bilderbecks (2) and Dyer for the Colonists, while Robinson kicked a goal from a free kick for the winners. The following team will represent the Feilding 2nd against Awa Huri on Saturday next at Awahuri : — Fowler, Dixon, Bellve, Foster, Fanthorpe, B. Parr, Terry, Boache, Terry, Evans, Horsford, E. Corkery, M. Bilderbeck, Kitchen, Bailey, Collins, and B. Whisker. Emergencies, Corkery, and Bilderbeck^ Should any of the above players find they are unable to go they are requested to inform the secretary at once. The team to play Bulls will be selected from those who play against Awa Huri. Kirkham and Narellan, Mr James White's Derby colts, have created a very favourable impression at Home. A special cable to the Sportsman Rays : The two colts have commenced work on the training tracks, and have evoked general admiration among the English trainers, and the best English judges of racehorses. In particular ia great surprise expressed at their un usual eize and the general excellence of their development aud ' furnishings.' Mr Daweon has publicly expressed his satisfaction with their splendid tempers and the style of their going. A writer m yesterday's Wellington Times, dealing with members of finance in the House, and speaking of the member for Manawatu, says : — As to Mr Macarthur, he is of a different class. The private opinion of thia writer is that the moves which Mr Macarthur is not up to are emphatically not worth learning. A very vigorous speaker when in the humour, he is ordinarily one of those men who have the rare faculty — as Mr Mitchelson has —of listening. He sits quietly m that far-away corner of his, at the rear of the Government benches, and what is some men's discomfiture is his gain. One of these days Mr Macarthur must be a very prominent man in New Zealand politics. The Pall Mall Gazette says:— "Mr Spurgeou may be interested to hear that he was warmly praised from a Roman Catholic pulpit. The Eev \V. 0. Bobineon, M. A., a distinguished Oxford convert to Borne, is delivering a course of Sunday evening lectures on ' The Protestant Beformation,' m the Church of St James, Spanish Place. Ho illustrated his sub ject with several references to the case of the Bishop of Lincoln, which he anticipates will huve some momentous results. In Father Robinsons' opinion dissolution will be the early fate of the Church < f Eugland : •• A house divided against itself cannot 6tand." Distent was visibly dissolving into various forms of Freethought, and at this point the compliment to Mr Spurgeon came in, for Father Bobiuson declared that he had from the first admired the noble atand made by the pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in defence of fundamental Christian faith. The half-yearly meeting of the United Otago District of the Ancient Order of Foresters was held on Friday, when there wore present representatives from Court Pride of Dunedin, Court Enterprise, Court Pride of the Leith, Court Pride of Oaraaru, Court Star of Tuapeka, and Court St. Andrew. A letter was read from the Registrar of Friendly Societies complaining of the Dunstan L d^es not sending in returns, and of the Tuapeka, and aDunstanLodge not answering ques tions regarding returns, A letter was recoiyed from the Nelson district relative to a presentation to the P.S. and Assist-ant-Secretary of the Order, intimating that the Order should take action as a whole. It was resolved that the Otago District, through the various Courts, be asked to take joint action in the matter. Business of local interest was transacted, and it was decided to ask the Otago Friendly .Societies to take steps to have a demonstration on the occasion of the opening of the Dunedin Colonial Secretary protesting against any member of a friendly society sitting on the commission appointed to inquire into the position of Friendly Societies in New Zealand,