Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 95, 4 February 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Train arrangements for the Hawera Races will appear in our next issue. The Manchester Road Board does more financial business than any similar body in the colony. The Feilding Dramatic Club have commenced rehearsing " The Octoroon" for the Easter Holidays. Further proceedings are likely to arise out of the case recently heard against Miss Traynor and dismissed. If " G.E.," care of W. McFadgean, will .call personally at the Star office, he will hear of something to his advantage. About £500 ofthe thirds of the Pemberton settlers have now been returned and is now being expended in road making. A special general meeting of.members of the Feilding Football Club will be held this evening at 7.30 at the Empire Hotel. Mr D'Orsay Ogden was in Feilding yesterday, and completed arrangements for his company to appear in the Assembly Rooms on Monday 17th instant. While Captain Lightfoot, of the Nelson Fire Brigade, was hurrying to a fire in that place he fainted, aud before medical assistance could be obtained he died from stoppage of the heart's action. The following tenders were accepted by Mr Lucas and the Engineer for the Kiwitea Board on Saturday : — P. Hankin, for metalling Pollock's road, at ls 7£d per yard ; and P. Hanton, at ls lid per yard, for Zigzag road. It is understood that tho Governor will not bring his family to reside in Wellington until Government House has been thoroughly disinfected, and sundry necessary sanitary reforms effected by the Government. The City Council have done their part so far as drainage is concerned. J. Pettengell, the pugilist, is io town and is looking well. He has made a matoh with a 'Frisco man named George Allen to oome off in Dunedin on February 19th, and if that ' pans out all right,' he is coming hack to have his revenge on Laing. Both men are fit as can be, and if the event oomes off there oan be no doubt but that the oontest will he keen all through, —Wanga nui Herald.

A tenuis club is about to be formed in Feilding. Mr J. H. Stevens, our respected postmaster, returned from his holiday to-day. Mr Haddow, whose property is on the Awahuri road, returned yesterday from a trip to England. The Rangitikei County Council has abandoned the control of Scott's Ferry to the Manawatu County Council. A medical man was sick, and on being asked why he did not treat himself replied " What's the use ? I have no one to book it to," Fact 1 j Mr Light, of the Denbigh Hotel, is at ; present visiting the Lake Country in the j interior of this island. We hope he will have a good time. The Wellington Gas Company declared j yesterday a dividend of 13J per cent!, and the Wellington Trust and Loan Invest- ! ment Company declared a dividend of 9 per cent. Birmingham will be en fete on Thursday next, und visitors from the surrounding districts will throng to be present at the first stock sale connected with the Small Farm Settlements. St. Valentine's Day is close at hand, but Mr Carthew is quite prepared for the occasion. Some of the box valentines which arrived in his last case from England are " too lovely for anything." The Daily Telegraph hints thau Mr Ormond is played out as a politician, and that the time has now arrived for a change in the representation of Hawkes Bay. Mr Swan, the popular Mayor of Napier, is mentioned as the' coming man. New Zealanders, when they visit the Old Country, are always surprised at the continued fog which appears fco envelope the British Isles, and their delight on tbeir return to the colony, at again seeing old Sol and feeling the warmth of his welcome rays, is very touching indeed. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Warnings for easterly gales hold good at all places north of Napier and Wanganui, and have been sent to all places Irom thence southward to Lyttelton and Hokitika. Mr Hare lectured in the Assembly Rooms on Sunday afternoon last on "The End of the Wicked." The lecture occupied nearly an hour, and was listened to with profound attention by a numerous audience. Mr Hare announced that he would give the last of his present series of lectures on -Sunday afternoon next, and that the subject would be duly advertised. A member of our staff (Napier News) in conversation with a Sydney sporting, man, learned that it is expected by a little circle of scullers -across the water • that Robert Brown, a powerful .well built young man of 27 years of age, will come out of his shell this year and surprise the natives. Brown hails from the Clarence river, which has turned out so many good scullers. We regret to learn that the bush recently felled by Mr Comnierfield on the ' Apiti Block, caught fire accidentally last week, a.nd the " burn " was very unsatis- ' factory. By last advices the fire was i spreading, and as there were several hundreds of acres of recently felled bush not many chains away from its track, the , amount of possible damage may be serious. The case of a very large family (says the Daily Telegragh) came before the Freemasons' Board of Beneyolence on Wednesday evening, when the sum of i.805 was voted iv grants to petitioners in distress. One petitioner, who was 67 years of ago, had 39 children, the young--1 est of this interesting family beiug only three months old. Foresters throughout this district will , regret to learn that Bro. J. T. Bovis, District secretary for the Wellington district, died at Wellington on Saturday night after • an illness, the result of an attack of typhoid fever. The deceased officer was one of the most enthusiastic Friendly Society members, and his sterling worth could only be appreciated by his ..fellow members. Jeremy Taylor said, " Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh ; and all pleasures ' have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face." Jerry, no doubt, thought, when he made this remark, that .c had said a very pretty thing. But j M'ry had only spoken foolishness, as any oue will discover who thinks over the matter for four, minutes. Leigh Hunt knew better when he said, " Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness ; laughter is one of the privileges of reason, being confined to the human species." '