! 1.0c.nl and General News

Feilding Star, 24 November 1891, Page 2

! 1.0c.nl and General News

-> The Mayoral olecliou will tako place to- morrow. Tho banks will bo closod on Monday next, St Audrow's day. Wo regret to havo to announce tho death of Jessie, the cldost daughter of tho late J. \V. liade, which took placo at the ■NYolttngton Hospital on Saturday last

Thez-e are several cases of la grippe at Awahuri. It is reported that Mr Petor Bartholomew is laid up at the Occidental Hotel, Wellington, with la grippe. We notice that Mr J. B. Hamilton is having asphalt laid on the footpath op • posito his premises. Several good baskots have been made lately by a fisherman in the Oroua river, One trout turned the scales of 6^lbs. Mr T. W. Lewis, Under- Secretary for Native Affairs, died in Sydney on Sunday last from inflammation of the braiu. Our readers are again reminded of the flower show in the Assembly Rooms tomorrow. An emergency meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday, the 80th instant. Visiting brethren are invited. The Auckland branch of N.Z. Journalist's Institute have made a vigorous protest against the use of flimsy paper for press telegraphic messages. The requisition to Mr W. G. Haj bittie nsking him to stand as Mayor at the election to take place to morrow, is pub* lished to-day on our third page. On Sunday Miss Taylor, a nurse, was bitten on the elbow by a kafcipo spider. She is now confined to bed, under the care of Dr Charlton. A meeting of the creditors of G. T. H. Lyne, storekeeper, a bankrupt, will be held in the Court house, Feilding, on Monday, the 30th instant. The successful tenderer for the erection of a ten-roomed house, advertised for in this journal, was Mr William Heald. Mr C. Bray was the architect. People who have had large experience in working by rule of thumb and hazard • are always ready to give advice as to the 1 correct way of doing anything. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Warnings for gales and rain with colder i, weather have been sent to all places. A twin rose was shown us yesterday by i Dr Charlton, which he bad cut from one of the trees in his garden. It will be sent for exhibition as a " specimen " at the show to-morrow. We notice that the Government are going to subsidise the Oamaru ram providers. In our opinion it would be much hotter to do the job themselves and sell the water. ' The Feilding Lawn Tennis Club had its inaugural meeting on Saturday last on the new ground. There was a large attondance of guests, and the whole affair was an undoubted success. ', We regret to hear that the Stratford County Council is likely to be involved lv a law suit. It is stated that Mr Barleyman has decided to issue a writ against tho Council in connection with the dispute about the stones in the river. — Egmont Settler. Last night a meeting of the V.M.C.A. was held in Glasgow Houso. Owing to the lack of interest evinced in the Association, under its present system, it was decided to hold another mooting next Monday to elect now officers, and commence the work again on a new foundation. The captain of tho Feilding Fire Brigade, Mr J. C. Morey, gives notice that members of the Brigade who intend to visit Christchurch next year, should send in their names to the secretary before Friday next. We are glad to see that the men are now practising morning and night. Owing to the fact of many of the curves on the railway line between Feilding and Wanganui having lately been straightened, it is intended to shorten the running time of the express trains by half an hour. The new time table, which will include a north 6.10 p.m. and south 10.57 a.m. daily, will be issued shortly. When a buggy containing a number of children was being driven on the Valley road on Sunday it upset, aud the youngsters were under the vehicle for some time. One of them, a daughter of Mr H. Curran, had both bones of the left forearm fractured. The others escaped with a few bruises. Dr Charlton is attending the little sufferer. Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.K., in a speech reported in the last number of Hansard, says :— "I hare calculated that the West Coast people pay not less than £20,003 a year more in freight than they ought to pay if, as is the case with other lines, this Wellinglon-Manawatu line were in the hands of tho Government." Tbe Christcliurch Telegraph says : — The police force is not faring very well at the hands of the " Liberal" party. It has been cut into in all kinds of ways, and such a reign of terror produced in the namo of retrenchment that it can now have but few attractions for those who belong to it. On Saturday last at Waituna a whare was destroyed by fire. It belonged to Messrs Morgan and Mexted who are working at a contract under Messsrs Manson Bros. On leaving at breakfast time the whare was all safe but on returning in the evening they found it totally destroyed, aud as they wore thus left without food they were obliged to make for homo where they arrived at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. It is stated by a Wellington paper that the real reason for Lord Onslow resigning his position of Governor is on account of the bad sauitory arrangements ' of the Empire City, particularly in the vicinity of Government House. Accordtng to recent statistics Wellington is the healthiest town in Australasia. It is hard to pleaso some people, and the rogrot at Lord Onslow's departure will bo all the keener now that the roal reason is known. We regret, to have to announce the death, at Wellington, of Mr John Me Lenman, of Oroua Downs station, which occurred at the Occidental Hofel on Saturday afternoon, at the ago of 59 years. By his death the southern portions of the district has lost one of its most widely known and highly respected residents. He leayes a widow and five ohiU dren — one son nnd four daughtrrs, one of the latter being the wife of Mr John Pascal, of Brooklands, Palmerston North. The deceased was one of the founders of the Longburn Freezing Works, besides which he had been a prominent and successful agriculturist, and a successful exhibitor at agricultural shows both in the iNorlh and South Island.