Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 126, 16 April 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

For the future Mr G. W. Shailer, photographer, will visit Feilding every Wednesday at Mr G. W. Fowles' studio. A correspondent informs us that the the Apiti School Committee have got the school ground clear and ready for the erection of the school building. The Apiti brickmaker, Mr Dick, has beon having some bad luck, and has lost two- thirds of what he has made up to the present time. Colonel Gorton will leave for a trip to England at the commencement of next month. We understand this his partner. Mr R. S. Abraham, will wield the hammer dnring the Colonel's absence. The Awahuri School Committee met on the 4th inst., when the finances were discussed and found to be in a satisfactory condition. The receipts f i r the year were £38 and the expenditure £28, leava credit balance of £10. All are mvited to attend a Temperance Meeting in the Methodist Church at 7 o'clock on Friday evening uext, wheu MrGeorge Grant, the popular pieaoher, is to give an address. There will be also recitations and singing. As the Hon Mr Bryco has nil along displayed a strong disinclination to be put foiward for the leadership of the party opposed to the present Government, it is now believed I hat the choice will fall upon Captain Russell. In connection with the New Zealand Life Insurance Department, Mr William Allison has beeu appointed agent, and canvasser, in the place of Mr Young, who has been transferred to Auckland Mr Allison bas been stationed at Eltham for same time.

The Government party will fight to the death to win the Te Aroha seat. The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday n«xt. The first log whs broken up yesterday at the new sawmill oo Mr Rathbone's bush, by Messrs Adsett Bros. Our exchanges from the Wellington Post have not been regular in coming to hand lately. The new buildine for the Roman , Catholic Church at Banana, on the Wan--1 ganui River, was opened last Sunday. | The tender of R. Bowler, junr., at £1 9s 9d per chain, has been accepted for metalling 45 chains of Pharazyn street. We regret to learn that Mr B. J. Gosling is laid up with an attack of brain fever. He is under the care of Dr Charlton. Captain Edwin telegraphed to day :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for southerly gales and much colder weather have been sent to ali places. Mrs Wallace, formerly a resident in Feilding, had her leg broken to-day when getting into the train at the Makino side station. She was brought down to Dr Sorley, who set the fractured limb. The Manager of Mrs Hastie's farm on the Apiti Block has sent down eight cabbages the total weight of which amounted to 79 pounds. We have to acknowledge receipt of one of theni, with thanks. The following were the tenders received for erecting sample rooms, by Mr Bray, the architect : — Accepted — F. Pope, £176. Declined — J. Robertson (Palmerston), £202; J. D. Valentine, £198; Fowles Bros., £199 12s 6d. Yesterday after the ordinary business of the R.M. Court was concluded, Mrs Madsen, whose husband deserted her some few days ago, was charged with being of unsound mind, and was, on the certificate iwo of medical men, committed to the asylum at Wellington. Astounding revelations are being made (says the Wairarapa Daily) as a result of enquiries into land settlement in the Forty Mile Bush. It is stated that of every three who have taken up land, there is not more than one who is a bona fide settler. The " man in the street " in Wellington says there has been a blazing row between the Premier, the Hon Mr Bal lancp, and the Hon Mr Seddon because the Honorable Dick polished off the Christohuroh unemployed with his " nugget boots ". A man named Crisp was charged at the Oamaru Resident Magistrate's Court recently with working a pocket totalisator at the North Otago J. C. Meeting. He pleaded guilty, was convicted, and fined £10, with £1 7s costs, and in default of payment was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with, hard labour, m Dunedin Gaol. Previous to the last election a move ment was set on foot to start a newspaper company in Palmerston. We have expected that " after all tbe uproar was over " the movement would have died out, but we are creditably informed that the share list is steadily increasing, and that it will not be long before definite action is taken. -Manawatu Herald A meeting of the Loyal Manchester Unity ot Oddfellows was held on Tuesday last when the District Grand Master, Bro. Rolf, paid an official visit. He received a most cordial welcome, and after the discussion of matters interesting to the Lodge the meeting closed with a hearty vote of thanks to the Grand Master tor his yisit. A resident of Napier, desirous of ob taining the music of Ihe devotional composition, " Tenebra," wrote to a Iriend in London for it, starting at the time when he believed it was pub i-died Whether shorl sight on tlie part of the friend, or bad writing on the part of musical ainn* teur, be or b<» not the cause of what foi .owed, certain it is that by last mail th'> writer receiyed a copy of the London Referee. This evening Madame Tisher, the famous exponent of palmistry, will open her rooms at Mrs Parr's, where she will read the palms of her clients, and give accurate sketches of their past lives and experiences, with a tolerable insight into the future. Her powers are described by our contemporaries in Wellington and Palmerston, as something marvellous. Madame Tisher has spent eight years studying the subject, and has obtained certificates of her proficiency. At a meeting in the Choral Hall, Auckland, on Sunday evening, while addressing the audience, Pastor Birch lost his voice. A hymn was sung to give him time to recover, and one of those in the body of the hall prayed that Mr Birch's voice might be restored. Mr Birch then came forward and, saying that he was much better, proceeded with his address, claiming that he was much better, proceeded with his address, claiming that he had been miraculously cured. The agent of the Press Association m London is a fearful and wonderful man. He " takes lines " aud his latest one is a singer calle 1 Madame Melba. This lady has the most wonderful adyehtures. A Royal Duke fell in love with her and was seen attending her as a lackey ;. then the R. D. denied the soft impeachment — and his lawyer threatened awful things would happen to the authors of the scandal — why scandal, we don't know, because, after all, a duke is only a kind of lackey to a king. Then Madame Melba's solicitor says she is going to " let slip the dogs of war " and have a few actions for libel against the papers. The latest infliction is that Madam's house was burned down, and that she escaped with a nightdress— and her jewels. Now, we are in fear and trembling lest the London Press Ass. agent will contradict about the nightdress.