Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 114, 19 March 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Kiwitea Euad Board will meet on Saturday next. A Roman Catholic Church is about to be erected in Hunterville. We are glad to hear that Mr Pleasants has had a most satisfactory " burn." The Fausts and London Eellringers have been booked to appear in Feilding on Wednesday the loth of April. The Awahun School Committee have nominated Messrs Baker, rianson, and Hurley as members for the Education Board. The head quarters of the Bushfellers' Union is in Feildmg, and settlers desirous of having their bush cleared by the most competent men should bear this in mind. It will interest the public of Feildini* and neighbourhood to know that Mr J. C. Richardson is the accredited agent of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dr J. A. Fritz, the famous scientist, and who has with hiua Stanley's pigmies from Central Africa, is at present showing in Palmersfcon, and we understand that he purposes paying Feilding a visit m a few days. When working in a gravel pit on tho Upper Cross Road on Tuesday last, a man found a piece of bone under about ten feet of gravel. It is probably a portion of the remains of some large fish. Owing to pressure of other auction business on Saturday Mr Trimble has postponed the Horse Pair adyertisGd to be held on that day until a date 60 be notified shortly. The privileges of the Feilding Jockey Club will be sold ai 1.30 p.m. at the auction rooms on Satur* day. On Tuesday afternoon last the scholars attending the Primitive Methodist Sunday School were given their annual treat on the Oval. The usual picnic games were indulged in till about 4 30 p.m. when all sat down to a good spread, which was done full justice to by those present. Edison has a fresh noyelty in store for vs — a clock to talk the time. Instead of a blank sound, it will say " One, two," i etc., at the proper hours. For alarm it will say in so many words, " Get up," in : a stentorian and commandiag voice. The warning to "book fiends'" is too awful for publication. Messrs A. Hatrick and Co, have made ; satisfactoiy arrangements for having the new river boat brought out by direct I steamer ; under these circumstances she ; should arrive here about the middle of ' June, and will be ready for running to and from Pipmki about the end oi : July. — Wanganui Herald. The Cantata of "Red Riding Hood," which was such a success a few months ago when performed in the Assembly Rooms by members selected from the . children attending the Feilding State School, is to be repeated on Thursday the 26th instant. The proceeds will be devoted to the purchase of school prizes, therefore everybody should assist by taking tickets. A well attended meeting of the Wesleyan Church Choi; 1 , was held in the Church last night to consider the resign a tion of Mr Dixon as Choirmaster. It was proposed and carried, That Mr Dixon's resignation be accepted with regret, and that a hearty vote of thanks be awarded to him for his past three years services. Mr R. F, Haybittle was then unanimously elected as Choirmaster and Conductor, At the Palmerston Sports on St. Patrick's Day Messrs Shearer and Collins, two of our local Fire Brigade, competed in the 0 meu Manual Engine, Ist prize 100s and 2nd 70s, and assisted to pull off the second priae. They also competed iv the 2 meu Engine event but did not succeed as they only did it in 31sec, the winners, Hosking and Johnston, making only 23fsec, Haigh and Quinn, 27|sec, 2nd prize. Mr Soddon, speaking at Nelson the other day, said he thought the Railway Commissioners would promote the public interests if they were to mix more with the people and ascertain their requirements. It was on this principle Ministers were acting in travelling about the country. That is, the Commissioners should " mix with the people " by playing skittles with the proletariat, and lawn tennis with the /taut ton. Mr J. H. B. Murray, an officer connected with the Survej 7 , and who has lately been stationed at Nelson, has, with his family, taken up his residence 111 Martou. He is charged with the duty of inspecti/ig various special settlements along tho Coast, with the view of reporting to the Lands Department whether the settlement conditions have been complied with or not. When this has been done he will be engaged in the inland tnangulation. — Advocate. Dressbs -We have now opened out our two first shipments of autumn and wintp.r dress fabrics, which have come to us recently by the steamers Aoranei and Arawa. We may conscientiously affirm that no finer, more varied, or wellselected goods have eyor previously passed the portals of Te Ary House, Weiingtou.

Captain Borlase has resigned the command of the Wanganui Kifl.es. Mr Carthew's usual monthly case of books and periodicals, arrived yesterday. Mr Tripe, dentist, is now in Feilding, and may be consulted at Mr Light's Denbigh Hotel until to-tuorrow evening. Vendors o p game, during the shooting season, will note that they will require a license to sell imported and native game. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Warnings to expect strong westerly winds have been sent to most places southward of Napier and Wanganui. It is stated that freezing works will be started shortly at Danevirke. If this goes on, there will soon be as many of these works as newspapers in the colony, and the sheep, like newspaper subscribers, will find it hard " to keep pace with the times." We have heard of persons who could see double, but one of our Palmerston contemporaries has apparently a reporter who can see treble, for in describing the gathering at the Ashurst Sports on Tuesday last he says there were 1000 persons present. Our own representative, whose powers of vision are only normal, did not see more thon 350 at the outside. However, six or seven hundred more is neither here nor there, and in making the most of things there is no prescribed limit, and one may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb. Referring to the hop crop a correspondent of a Nelson paper writes : — The crops are good all round, and one of our latest growers, Messrs Eden Bros., have picked 1000 bushels a day for the last week. ' What's the price going to be ?' is the question asked by the growers, and up to present time still unanswered by those who ought to know. While crops in our district are good, those at Motueka and Takaka are about as usual. But what is the produce of our four or five hundred acres when thrown into the world's yield ? There is at present a great boom in the northern hemisphere, owing to the shortage in last season's crop. Papers from America by the last mail give the latest quotations ac 36 cents a lb, a good rise on the usual price, 8 or 10 cents."