Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 34, 4 September 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meat this eyemng. Wirtu's circus is doing big business jn Aucklaud. The Manchester Boad Board will meet ou Saturday next. A confectioner is about to commence business in Feilding. The Resident Magistrate's Court will sit on Wednesday next. The Manchester Rifles will parade for ' drill instruction to-morrow night. Mr Knott will lecture in the Methodist Church, Foilding, to-mgbt, and in th« ; school room, Makino, to-morrow night. The religious belief of the people will not ho taken in the coming English cen ' a us. People haye to tell too many lies without that. Mr Arkwright will address|th« oleetors at Mar ton to -morrow. It speaks well for the profession that; i there are no medical men in Parliament. — at least none worth mentioning. An article contributed by King George { 111 to Young's " Annals of Agriculture" j was signed "rlalph Robinson of Windsor." Mr Trimble is sole agent in Feildin^ and district for Little's Sheep Dip and i Blight Specific. The firewood cutters of Feilding b*ve agreed to a schedule of prices, which in published elsewhere. They eeatn to be f u'r and reasonable and there is very little perceptibly adya»ce, if any. The town was very dull to-day, •hiefly owing to the absence of the regular train service. Several local sports went to the Marton racos on horseback or :» their own Yt'i eles, but the we; prevented a r§:.l i •xodus. A rentable rabbit mad* its appearance in Taonui ou Tuesday last. Efforts were mad* to capture it, but they were unavailing, We would suggest that an •xpoditioa to fitted out and prompt measures adopted to extirpate those pests before they become firmly established. Tho Govornment hope to finish nearly all tho business of the session by the end of next week, though the delays which haye taken place with the Estimates during the last days may prevent thoui doing so. If all goes well the prorogation may tako place on Tuesday weak. The following are the results of examinations by Ingpector Bindon last month : — Turakina, 727 ; Western Eangitikei, 81-8 ; South Makirikin, 73*1 ; Marton, 909; Porowa, 68-4; Mount View, 364; Sandon, 92-3; Carnarvon, 95.5 ; Campbelltown, 871; Feilding, 86-6 ; Awahun, 606; Makino Road, 90 ; Beaconsfietd, 94*4; Mangaone, 97*1; Upper Taouui, 50. The following players will represent Bulls in their match aga-nst Avraiiuri on Saturday next. Full buck, Waenga ; taree quarters, V\ illi . (2 « Smith, an«i Watkin ; halts, Thompson and Hathaway (captain); forwards, Bianchard, Ellis, George, Hmckley. W e bf>, Stevenson, G. •1 i R. Hathrway, and Knowles. Emer yencies. Bailey, and Kuku. Twelve boys wont playing cricket at Paddiugtoa (England). At tho refreshment bar on tho ground seven boys drank ginger beer, etc., these are Hying; five drank water, to oaoh of these it was the cup of Death. After yarious periods of suffering, one by one succumbed to that dreadful soourge, diphtheria, and in one instance tho father, infected by his child, also died. Sir James Fargusaon, at one time Governor of New Zealand, but now Political Secretary to the Foreign Office, is engaged to bo married for tho fourth time. As his throe previous wives brought him deoeut fortuuon (says the editor of the Westport Tunes, regretfully) he is gradually acquiring great riches by a process which few oaa avail themselves of. Wo lean from the local Herald that the port of Auckland has been iipproved of by th>> Admiralty ua a nUtioa and coal ing dopdt for the ltoyal Navy, und our contemporary »ay» umon^ oth«*r Advantugea to b» expsctwl from th« |n-<il<>ii^*(] pr»H«noe and more frequunt yuita of Hhipa of war would be tit* Hlroiigttr infunion of that nautical spirit which iv mh n«c««niiry ia a colony with th«{, r oi^ru|)ln<,,l position and other peculiar circa. uwUu< i • of Now Zealand. Tho Ogdeti Oonapany played " Loat asi Won " la tho A.**»mh\j Hooma luat night to a fair hou»«, whith uu doubt would hsyo been a fall on» but /»r the incJemoncy oi tho weather. U*Uy Og<Uti, as " Julia Vfcruon " was ol oourao a promiaeut Sf mro la tho pioco, and hor aotmg and singiag dvov warm asplauwt fruui i tbo audieaoo. Tho other charaotora were well sustained. It was aunonncci the company would pay a f#r«we)l visit on theii .rotura Ifobs tho Korth.

Private residences have lately been ereoted at the base of Mount Stewart near Awahuri, by Mr Saunders and Mr Gledhill. We understand that at the Knigbta of Labor moeUu£ to be belt! in thw Axsuuib!v Kooiii* this evening v l»tlw oii tU? subject whicb appeared in last Tiussiiav'* isbuo of the S'fAtt will l>e 'Wit wi.a. We ate aUo particularly requeued to state that Mr Piraui will, if desirable, devote a certniu portion of the time t»> further expl iomi? the principles »f the order, and to answering questions, after which the initiation of aew members twud the electioa of officers will be proceeded with.