Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 58, 1 November 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

* A special Bank Holiday will be kept in FeMing on Thursday the 13th mat. Since 1871 Germanj has spent fifteen millions upon new firearms alone. The Basonicas have decided to play two nights in Feilding, viz., on the 17th and 18th instants. A special meeting of Mr Artwright's Committee will be held at the committee room on Monday next at 7 D.m. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to«day :- -Warnings for gales have been sent to all places. The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Our report of the proceedings will appear next issue. At Blenheim a young man named Jelly, man was fined 30s and costs for mocking those giving testimony at the Salvation Army. Messrs Macarthur and Arkwright, the candidates for the Bangitikei seat, have fixed their respective dates for addressing the electors at Feilding, which will be duly published. We are pleased to learn that arrangements have been definitely made for the Bey. Charles Clarke to visit Feilding for the purpose of giving one of his famous lectures on Thursday the 13th instant. Mr Glover, who is well known as an eloquent evangelist, as well as a Temperance lecturer, will preach morning and eyening in the Methodist Church tomorrow, when, doubtless, there will be a good attendance. Our report of the Plain and Fan<y Dress Ball, held last night by the Feildiug Football Club, will be published on Tuesday next. The affair was a brilliant success in every respect, about sixty or seventy couples being present. Tenders are invited for additions and alterations to Mr Lowes Hotel, at Birmingham. Flans may be seen at the Star ofii«*, Feilding, Mr Lowe's Hotel, Birmingham and the office of Mr West, the architect, Palmerston North, on and after the 3rd instant. Tenders will close at Palm or st on North, at 5 p.m., on the 12th instant. An item of news from the South Sea Islands gives a remarkable instance of providential care. Twenty Wesley an s were exiled from Tonga to a volcanic rock called Tafoa, and were recently taken back to their homes by the Government. A few hours after their departure the volcanoe burst forth with tremendous vigour. The Public Works Department have committed a grave error in not providing a goods ehel and cattle yards on the railway at Ashurst. These conveniences will have to be provided. Ashurst is the outlet of a yast area of pastoral country, and the interest of the settlers should be consulted a little better. We (Woodville Examiner) hope the Department will take the hint and arrange to have arrangements for trucking stock and a goods shed erected without delay. In reply to a communication from the Wellington Laud Board [re putting down dummy isin, the Under- Secretary for Crown Lands replied that under the Land Act of 1885, Government have no power to issue regulations permitting the Board to repeat applications for laud which are considered not to be bona fide. The Board to-day decided to ask the Government to issue regulations under the Laud Act empowering Land Boards to put all applications on oath. " Frozen to Death," at Mangaone. — Under this chilling title a most pleasant evening was spent with the choir of the Feilding Presbyterian Church, numbering 23, by the Mangaone people, at the school house, last night. The room was packed to the door, with an audience who testified their appreciation. Miss M. Bartholomew's solo, as also Mre Collinß' and Miss Fraser's were really pretty gems. A rich bass voice was also noticeable in a quartet. Thanks are due to the school committee for the use of the room. We publish to-day an announcement of the events which are to take place in the Feilding Assembly Booms on Monday the 10th instant, under the auspices of tli6 Ladies Sewing Be« in connection with the Wesleyan Church. There will be a sale of useful and fancy goods, a Tea Meeting, a Promenade Concert, and a Collateral Entertainment consisting of a production of Dickens famous trial scene in Pickwick. As the iay will be a close holiday, and this will be the only local attraction we expect to see it very largely patronised. This evening there will be a grand show of confectionery, fanpy sweetmonts, and a thousand attractive and tempting condements exhibited in the window of that popular and well known establishment sometimes called Buckingham Palace, but more generally kuown as " Pollock's." The occusion of this display is the fact that op tk\a day the new proprietor, Mr John H. Worsfold, commenced business on his own account. We have every confidence that Mr Worsfold's well known energy, invaiiible courtesy, and thorough knowledge of his business, will secure him the same prosperity which has .attended the labors of his predecessor, Mr John Follock. Ladies' lain Summer Cashmere, well spliced and seamless, a very strong wenrinir Stocking, Is 3d Is lid, Is 9d. aud 2s por pan, at Te Aro House, Wei lingtou.