The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1890. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 104, 25 February 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1890. Local and General News

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on our fourrh. page. The Manchester Boad Board will meet on Saturday next.. The usual monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on j Monday, the 3rd March. The cricket" match, New South "Wales V.Wellington, resulted in a victory for New South Wales by 8 wickets. The date of the meeting of the Wanganui and West Coast Bine Association has been fixed for March 17th. The imports and exports of Hawkes Bay are principally tourists and wool. Although the wool is shorn we do not dasire to draw any invidious comparisons. By a fire in a stable at Dunediu a man named Alexauder Johnston was burned to death. It is supposed the fire was caused through his own carelessness. " There are far more unlikely things than a dissolution of Parliament before many . weeks are over." So wires the Wei - lington correspondent of the Napier News. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Barometer fall at all places'north of Tauranga and Baglan ; further rise, but fall everywhere else within 12 hours. By the explosion of a kerosene lamp at Wellington on Saturday night* a tiveroomed cottage was burnt to the ground. The occupants had a narrow escape of losing their lives. The following were the tenders for erecting shelter sheds at the Feilding State School: — C. Spearing (accepted), £21; W. Watts, .625 ; J. D. Valentine, £26 10s ; J. Hurdle, £28 10s. We understand Mr S. J. Thompson, of the Bed House, leaves for Wellington tonight to personally select his parcels of Autumn and Winter Goods. A splendid assortment may be looked for. The Ohmainan at Invercargill suffering from leprosy, who for some years occu pied a hut near Biverton, has been sent home to China, thus relieving the local authorities of a considerable item of expenditure. The election of the Cheltenham Licensing Committee took placs at Cheltenham yesterday, at Bruce's woolshed, aud resulted in the return of the following gentlemen : — Messrs Bruce, Mills, Law, Clapham and Kidd. Mr Trimble's auction sale on Saturday last, at the Feilding Chambers, was well attended, and the sale on the whole was a success. His next sale will take place on Monday next at the residence of Mr Bowley, and particulars will be published in Thursday's issue. The first meeting of the newly elected Feilding Licensing Committee was held at the Court House, at noon, yesterday. Present — Messrs G. Kirton, W. G. Haybittle and H. Rutherford. Mr H. L. Sherwill was re-elected chairman, after which the committee adjourned. A sad occurrence is reported from Ohinewai, Auckland. Mrs B. Muir was sitting near her house recently when she saw a man thrown heavily from his horse. She called for assistance, but was herself so frightened that a few moments afterwards she fell dead from heart disease. The prizes in connection with the Dunedin regatta were paid over on Saturday evening, the total bemg about £520. The Dunedin Bowing Club's (£100) Champion Fours were the largest winners, the Pastime (£6O) and Neil Matterson, Champion Sculls, (£4O) coming next. . A man named James Jan sen was committed for trial at Wellington yesterday for having stolen between .£BO and £'Jj worth of coins and medals from the Museum. It appears that the accused was " hard up," and wanted to sell 16oz of melted silver to Messrs Hislop and Co. The claim of MrT. G. Macarthy against the Wellington Corporation for £6000 as damages sustained by him by way of loss of water frontage through the construction of the Te Aro reclamation was settled on Saturday last, the Court awarding Mr Macarthy £1060, to be given in land valued at £20 per foot. A tennis tournament took place on the Palmerston Court on Saturday, between the Palmerston and Feilding Clubs, and resulted in a victory for the latter after generally close contests. The respective representatives were: — Feilding: Messrs Bichmond, Barton, Dyer and Haddow. Palmerston : Messrs Bawson, Mellish, H. Tripe and Holmen. Mr W. H. Vereker Bindon, Inspector of Schools for the Wanganui district, has been on a short visit to Napier. In company with Mr Blair, the well-known art instructor, he made a tour through Victoria and New South Wales. Mr Bindon informed us that the school buildings on the other side were far inferior to ours in every way. — H.B. Evening News. The following team will represent the Mangaone Club in their match with Feilding on Wednesday next : — G. Millen, A. Pringle, G. B. Simpson, J. Mexted, D. Knight, J. Brown, B. Brown, W. Boyd, G. Allerby (sen.), G. Allerby (jun.), and O. C. Pleasants. Emergencies, E. Smith, F. Young and C. Fowler. The players are- requested to be on the ground at 11 o'clock. 'His Worship the Mayor of Tauranga, Mr R. S. Galbraith, died somewhat suddenly at his residence, " Quarter Acres." Tauranga, on Saturday, from pluney. The deceased was only 32 years of age, and was single, though engaged to be married for some time. He was editor of the Bay of Plenty Times, and was a few weeks ago admitted to the Supreme Court of Auckland to praotise as a barrister and solicitor. The following as been related to us as a fact— Two spielers, unknown to one another, were playing a game of cards in a railway carnage between Wanganui and Palmerston North. " It's very odd >: remarked one of them, "we have been playing a long time but I havu't seen a single king." "That's not to be wondered at," replied 'the other, •' seeing that you have the King of Hearts up your sleeve and I've the other three in my. boot." The game was at onoe brought to a olose. — Chronicle. Itissaid that the Secretary of War at Washington recently became so greatly impressed with • the value of an original invention (an instrument known as the " hitch-lock ") that at bis special request it was 1 hurried through the patent office. Its importance lies in the use to which the Government can apply it. Attached to a telegraph line, any electric message j can be sent over. the wires -to its destina- , tipn without being heard at intervening stations,' and Government secrets. cannot fee interpreted. ..- „^