Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 15, 22 July 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Our report of the proceedings of the Kiwitea Road Board, held last Saturday, appears on our fourth page to-day. Odd Fellows Lodge to-night, Mr and Mrs W. G. Haybittle returned to Feilding yesterday. The Manchester Rifle Volunteers will parade for drill on Friday next, at the usual hour. The Feilding hounds will meet at Mr Saxon's to-morrow at one o'clock in the afternoon. On Saturday afternoon " in the gloaraing " there was a moderate fall of snow in the Kiwitea. We understand that there is — after all — very little likelihood of Sir Eobert Stout seeking to be elected for the next Parliament. The hardships, from taxation, on settlers are heayy. One young farmer we know of had to pay 25s last week to register four dogs and a baby. Constable McLoan, of Palmerston North, who was recently transferred f rom the Permanent Artillery to the Police Force, dropped dead on Friday night from heart disease. He leaves a wife and six children. At Woodville the other day the local Borough Council was sued for the wrongful sale of a red and white steer, alleged to have been insufficiently described in the advertisement. Plaintiff was nonsuited on the ground that the poundkeeper, not the Council, was liable. Richaeds & Co. have just to hand several varieties of the very earliest Potatoes, among which will be found the Chicago Market, Fidler's Victory, Giant King and the Bruce. This extraordinary Potatoe is now on sale for the first time in New Zealand, and with a limited quantity, should not be missed by gardeners. Full particulars can be had from Richards &Co. On the application of Mr J. Herbert Haukins, a writ of certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court last Saturday morning directing the Ashurst Licensing Committee to bring into the Court the certificate issued by the Committee for the Ashurst Family and Commercial Hotel, in order that the certificate may be qunshed. The effect is that the hotel will have to be closed at once. The N.Z. Times saysr—The people of Wellington will be glad to learn that the,. Government have decided to extend the railway line to Te Aro. Yesterday the Minister for Public Works informed the Mayor that the Government intended to introduce a bill providing for the extension, and also that a. sum sufficient to carry out the work would be placed upon the Estimates.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places. We have not had any exchanges from our contemporary the N.Z. Times for several days. Pending a meeting of the Feilding School Committee to be held on Wednesday evening next, also a meeting of the Education Board to be held on Monday, Mrs Liasaman has (at her own request) been temporarily relieved of her duties at the school as first assistant mistress. The forest trees may be felled by a wire heated to a white heat by electricity, and drawn through it, and it may afterward be cut into boards by the same means, thus doing the work of a circular saw. The only drawback would be in the fnct that the wood would necessarily be charred by the passage of the hot wire The morning train from Wellington to Masterton had a narrow escape Saturday morning. When coming down the Kimutaka hill, and just before reaching Cross' Creek, the brakes failed and the train travelled at a great rate, the driver being thrown, but escaped unhurt. The danger whistle was blown, and the points changed to allow of the train running up tho siding prepared for such contingencies. !he passengers stood on the carriage platforms ready to jump out if the points had not been altered. The cost of State education in the var ions colonies is given as follow in the work •' History of Labour and Capital" which has just been published: — New ! South Wales, £663.697 ; Victoria, £580,---336 ; South Australia, £96,685 ; Queensland, £123.764 ;Western Australia, £I<V 044; Tasmania, £25,710 ; New Zealand, £300,757. The cost per head of popula lion is 14s 3d in New South Wales, lls lid in Victoria, 6s 2d South Australia, 8s Queensland, 5s lid Western Australia, 3s lid Tasmania, and 10s 7d in New Zealand. The cost per scholar is — New South Wales, £6 1 2s Id ; Victoria, £4 17s 2d ; South Australia, £3 lls 7d ; Queensland, £4 2s 2d ; Western Australia, £4 6s Id ; Tasmania. £3 8s lid ; and New Z*ala' d, £3 16s 9d. Cobbe and Darragh have a splendid selection of Kaiapoi tweed samples, from which they are prepared to take orders for suits to measure from 655. The;? guarantee the fit and finish of any suil which they undertake.