Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 60, 6 November 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Nominations for the position of Mayor of this Borough will be takeu on the Idth instant. Harry Laing left Wanganui yesterday for Sydney in company with his trainer, J. Nicholson. Mr Simpson, of Byker Farm near Feilding, returned yesterday from England whence he had been for a trip to visit his friends. Those desirous of obtaining some cheap furniture are reminded of the sale to be held on Saturday by Mr Trimble, at his auction mart. Te Mahuki and the twenty Natives have beoji committed for trial for disturbing the peace at Te Kuiti and assaulting two storekeepers of that place. Th© weather was exceptionally cold yesterday, and theie \vow frequent hhowers of hail and rain in the various parts or" the surrounding eouutry.

Mr Carthew has a .first consignment of new fancy goods now on view. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Manawatn and Weßt Coast A. and P. Association for 1890. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Warnings for gales and rain have been sent to all places south of Eaßt Gape, Taupo, and Eaglan. Mr Arkwright gives notice that he will address the electors at Awahuri, on Tuesday the 11th instant, and at Sandon, on Friday the 14th instant, at 7.30 p.m. A public meeting is advertised to be held in the Foresters' Hall on Saturday evening next, when political addresses will be given by prominent Knights of Labor. The wool season may now be said to have fairly begun, and dray loads of bales may be seen passing in the direction of the Kailway Station, at all hours of the day. We haye to thank the Secretary of the Wesleyan Church Sewing Bee, for a complimentary press ticket for the entertainment on Monday night in the Assembly Booms. Our sporting tipter, " Mentor," was successful m spotting the winners of both the V.B.C. Derby and Melbourne Cup, while his tip for the N.Z. Cup acted as runner-up to Wolverine. Train services for Monday next, the Prince of Wales Birthday, are now pub- ! hshed. They are evidently prepared with the view to meet the convenience of the public as far a6 possible. Notice is given of the following transfers of land in the Apiti Survey District. Section 18, Block XI, from John Oke to George Smith Cawood ; and section 13, Block VII, from Samuel Strawbridge toJames Millar. The Directors of the Mangaone Public Hall Company have decided to celebrate the opening of the new building by an inaugural ball to be held at a date to be decided on at a meeting to be held at the Mangaone schoolhouse next Satur- j day evening at 7.30. The Taonui Sports, to he held on Monday next, promise to be more than usually attractive. The entries are numerous and the Handicaps light so that good fields inajr be expected for every event. Visitors maj go by Eailway, carriage, or on foot.' The fifth of Novefrber was celebrated in Feilding by thcee boys. There were, two big ones and 0 a little one. The little fellow had his face blackened with burnt cork. As a Gue^Fawks he was a failure. The amount of their collections was too small eyen to purchase a packet of Chinese crackers. The following are the polling places for the Kangitikei electorate at the forthcoming elections :— Apiti, Ashurst, Awahou, Birmingham, Bulls, Bunnythorpe, Cheltenham, Feilding, Harbor Board Block, Halcombe, Marion, Mangaone, Makino, Peinberton, Pohangina, Porewa, Waitapu (Welford's Woolshed), Waituna. To-day Mr Carthew heralds the approaching festive season by announcing that he has Christmas cards in eudless yanety. In order that people living here may send cards Home to their friends, Mr Carthew reminds them that the mail which will close on Tuesday next will arriye in London on the 25th of December. By the end of the year there will be about seven hundred more acres of bush felled iu the E'eilding Small Farm Block. The grassed laud there is looking splendid and the flocks of sheep which have been away in the low lands getting shorn, will have abundance, of feed ready for them on their return. One large mob was on the way up yesterday. The public of Feilding will suffer no luck of means whereby to be entertained, enlightened and amused during the next few weeks. The Assembly Booms alone are already under no less than a dozen engagements between this and Christmas. The bill of fare too will be sufficiently various to suit most tastes. It will include tea and cake, elocution, colonial politics, basLti bell ringing, fruit, flowers, and vegetables, dramatic recital, orchestral music, negro minstrelsy, and we know not what besides. For all information as to dates &c, &c, we refer our readers to the advertisements. It is'nt always ferrets, or weasels, or c?tf that do the mischief in a chickenrising establishment, as the following incident will show. A gentleman not many miles from Feilding had a fine brood of young chicks, over whose welfare he watched with all the anxiety of a hen duck-inother, and that is saying a good deal. But, notwithstanding this, they disappeared " one by one away." Cats were blamed, weasels or ferrets suspected, and doubts cast on the honesty of rats. Poison was laid, traps set and careful watch and ward kept at all hours. Still the brood was getting small by degrees and beautifully less, while the criminals were undetected. At last, after the case had apparently become hopeleis, the villains were unmasked. With the other birds, there were two domesticated seagulls, who from their general modesty of demeanour and discretion, were looked upon as models of rectitude. Not the slightest suspicion was directed towards them, and any reflections cast on their honesty would have been treated as an insult to the family ; yet they were the offenders. Yesterday there was a sudden commotion in the yard, and on one of the young ladies of the family running out to " ascertain the cause," she was shocked to discover one of the seagulls in the act of swallowing a full-grown chick, while its mate stood by aiding and abetting. A stick and a few stones thrown in rapid but erring succession, startled the would -be murderer who, with a muscular jerk of his throat, threw the alarmed chicken on to terra firma, whence he fled on the wings of terror to the bosom of his anxious mother. It would appear that the seagull had not taken into calculation the fact that the capacity of his throat had not kept pace with the growth of the chicken, and what was an easy and pleasant task a fortnight ago was an impossibility to-day. Hence these tears. A preliminary announcement appears to-day that the young and talented Basonicas will give two of their noyel and popular performances in the Assembly Boomß on Monday and Tuesday the 17th and 18th instants. The public of Feilding and surrounding districts have thus a great treat in store for themselves. When the Basouicas appeared here about 18 months since the audience were enraptured with these young performers, especially with the delightful and inspiring music they extracted from mere ordinary earthenware basins, &c x Good as their coucert then was we utiderstand th-iy have made wonderful improvement in the manipulation of their " bells." as well us haying added certain further novelties to their unique enfertainment. They have travelled with great success, and the Press has been unanimous iu speaking of thain in golden terms. Fuller particulars will be given in future advertisements and in posters. Cobbe and Darragh are taking orders for Ktiiapoi suits made to measure from 678 Hii the suit. They guarantee the fit of every suit which they nudertako. No (iepo.-»:fc required w-heij'orflowti^.