Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 133, 2 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

We aro j*iad to learn that Mrs Oliver, of the Empire Hotel, is making rapid progress tow»wds complete recovery from her recent severe }llnes3. Sportsmen are reminded of the meet ! ing !o-m»ht at the offices of the Colonist'? Lfind ttnd Lfian Corporation. Punctuality is particularly requested. The r«cent accident on the (Jorgre railwuy, when fhe Napier express online got off the railSj probably caused by careless gua^ing of the metals. The idea nil calling the engine "refractory" was absurd. The reyenne and exponditure for tho past financial year have heen made up^ and show a surplus of £107,390 lfis 2-1. which, added to 1889 90 surplus of £'3(3,---568 19s 4d, makes a tota! surplus of £143,905 iJaUdi

The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Mass 111 St Bridget's to-morrow at 11 o'clock iv ttlH forenoon. Petroleum has beeu discovered by the natives m the itotot ua district. It is a fact worth noting that where the the girls aro good looking the men do not drink much. The men iv Feilding are singularly abstemious. We learn by telegram from Christ - church that au attempt is to be made to upset the election of the Sydenhani Licensing Committee on certain groun.is not yet revealed. The Chr3 T sa!ithemun Show held at Palmerston on Thursday, was a great success. We notice Mr Weightman, Mr Worsfold, and Mr Bennett were among the prize winners. A Palmerston man was driving to Awahuri the other day, when a swarni of bees settled on his horse, A prudent Awahuri resident safely hiyed them. The horse was neither hurt nor alarmed. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Manawatu Permanent and Equitable Building Society will be held iv Palmerston North on Thursday next. For other particulars see advertisement. A notice in the estate of Ann Hodge, of Ferry Road, Christchurch, but lately residing in Feildmg, deceased, is published to day, by Messrs Garrick, Cowleshaw and Fisher, solicitors. Owing to his medical advisers stating there is no possibility of Bishop Snter. of Nelson, returning to his duties, he will resign the bishopric almost immediately. The fittest man in the colony to succeed Bishop Suter is Archdeacon Harper. We never receive letters like the folslowing, recently sent a Napier editor : - " I)ear Sir, — Having just received some grouse from our friends at Home, we shall be glad if you will accept a brace and a-half with our compliments." The Masonic Lodge Ara, New Zealand Constitution, at Auckland, propose to dispense with the usual banquet at the installation of officers, and to vote the money thus saved to a fund for establishing homes for orphans, children of Masons. According to Lord Onslow the consumption of intoxicants in New Zealand per head of population, is the smallest of any of the Australian Colonies wii-h the exception of Tasmania, and is but little more than half the consumption per head in Great Britian. The only people on this coast who are growling because of the good times, are the Official Assignees. One of them writing to a " fellow unfortunate," the other day, said " The business is gone to sheol and there is no health in it." Profane but expiessive. On Wednesday night, at the Manawatu Kilwinmng Lodge, Paltnerston, Bro. W. Rutherford was installed as W- rshipf ul Madter. There was a very large gather ing, and Lodges in all parts of the colony were represented. Bro. W. Carthew, P.M., represented the Feilding Lodge. Mr Thomas Ward, who, for some tune, was relieving Postmaster in Feildin^. Marton, and Bulls, has been arantud six mouths leave. He passed ihr >ujrh yes terday, and leaves for the Old Country by the "Taonni." He was formerly an officer in the English Service. The annual presentation of prizes was made 3 7 esterday to the scholars of the Feilding State School to those children who secured passes at the last examinaiion. Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, chairman of the committee, made the presentations. Several of the committee were in attendance. } A correspondent writes : — " There are no less than three places in which the water-table is choked by defective private crossings in Fergusson street. The accumulations of dirty water, and the decayed fruit and vegetable matter strewn in places there, are no credit to the Borough." Messrs Levin and Co, as mi experimental shipment, forwarded toE'isil.nd in the cool chamber the of Ma 1 atua two cases of potatoes. The shipment comprised early flukes, and. were packed, iv cases made of white Dine, and encased in paper and soft meadow hay. They arrived at their destination in Febn a -y, and were sold at the rate of £14 per ton. Henry George says that in the Austra liau colonies there are many little mdi-> cations of that spirit which, if suffered to grow and intensify, may give justification to the adage that people sepamted by creeds mny more bitterly hate each other tlu»n those separaied by oceans. The Post has the following : —It is cur rently reported, and on apparently good authority, that the recently appointed Chief Inspector of Stock, has received ;i guarantee of three years' employment at £500 a. year with los per diem travelling expenses, and it is added that he is about to become closely related to the Hon. the Minister for Lauds by marriage. At the sale of Messrs and Gorton here on Thursday, Mr Abraham, otic of the members of the firm, weilded the hammer in the place of Colonel Gorton, who has gone to England for a trip. Mr Abraham was su ve<sful in ci'eating a most favourable impressim, and the general opinion was that the vendors would not suffer by fcho change. The sale was very good and the current hi:>h prices for all classes oi stock were well maintained. As an instance of the progress of settlement upon the Crown Lauds, a schedule submitted to the Land Board to-day set forth that siuce the cud of last month an area of 8272 acres 2 roods 20 perches was disposed of to 19 different persons, the upset price realised bomg £6810 7s Bd. Five of the selections were for village land, for which cash was paid) one was taken up on deferred payment, and 13 rural sections wero taken on perpetual leaso. The deposits made in respect of !he hind mentioned amounted to £189 16s Bd, and £469 los was paid in survey fees. The land is situated m the Hunter villo, Taiarua, Ongo, Pohangina, Marshall, Mangaono, Makuri, Puketoi, Tiraraukawa, and Apiti districts. — Post.