Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 107, 8 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday, the 14th instant. Mrs John Watson, wife of a former Resident Magistrate at Akaroa, died from influenza at Cheltenham recently, aged 76. Mr E. W. Humphreys, formerly M.H.R. for Chnstchurch, has tmdergone a successful operation for cancer in the jaw in London. Mr Menzies, of the Oroua bridge, is having a large and commodious dwelling erected on his property fronting the Ashurst road. Notwithstanding the long spell of dry hot weather, feed is abundant in the Harbour Board Block and adjacont districts, and stock of all kinds are looking well. Today Mr James Scott, jeweller, advertises that he has just received a new line af onyx and pearl brooches of very superior make and elegance. An advertisement of great importance to bush settlers is published to«day by Mr James Laird, the well known seedsman of Wanganui. The poverty, distress, and starvation* in Russia, Austria, and Germany, wili compel those powers to reduce their standing armies, to maintain which the people are worked like slaves. The Annual Meeting of members of the Wellington Branch of the Journal, ists' Institute will be held at the rooms of the Press Association, Wellington, on Saturday, 26th inst., at 4.30 p.m. Mr E. Ellery Gilbert, piano tuner, has a characteristic notice in to-day in which he requests his customers to exercise caution in employing alleged tuners who do not advertise. Mr C. O. Montrose, a well- known New Zealand journalist, is manager for Miss Alice Sydney Burnett, an Australian pianiste, who has arrived at Dunedin from Australia, and will give concerts in the various towns in New Zealand. Mr Coghlan, Government btatist, estimates the population of New South Wales at 1.165,000. There has been an increase of 33,000 since the census was taken He estimates that the population of Victoria at 1,157,000. Mr James Pringle has a magnificent field of potatoes growing on his section on the Taonui road, and the yield of tubers therefrom should, judging from present appearances, be something splendid. The Wosleyan Sunday School anuual picnic will take place tomorrow afternoon (weatbor permitting) in Mr S. J. Thompson's paddock on the Awahun road, where friends will be made wolcome. Bush burning and logging-up operations are now ia full swing throughout the country districts, and should the present fine weather continue, the demand for grass seed and fencing wire should be something phenomenal this season. Mr Sam Daw intends shortly running a passenger and goods coach into the Feilding Small Farm Block, thus completing his extensive coach service between Feilding, Kiwitea, Birmingham, Pemberton, and the Feilding Block. Go on Sam and prosper ! A cricket match took place last Saturday on the club's ground between a local team and a team from Kiwitea (one innings each side) with the following result '.—Feiluing, 130; Kiwitea, 87. Feilding thus won by 43 runs. Pressure on our space prevents us giving the scores in detail. Mr S. Svendsen, boot and shoe importer, has several replace advertisements in our wanted column to-day, to which we direct the attention of our readers. Mr Svendsen has just opened up fresh shipments of splendid goods, comprising gents' porpoise and French calf shooters, gent's hand-stitched French and English boots and shoes, and a fine assortment of ladies' and children's boots and shoes, inspection of which he invites. The timber for the now hotel at Colyton on Mr Milieus section, is on the ground, and the major portions of the frame- work are already adjusted, ami will be placed iv position during the current woek. The building pi onuses to be a large ami commodious one, and will certainly bo an acquistion to that rising district. Stock yards also are shortly to bo erected at Colyton by Messrs Steyeus and Gorton for the holding of ponodicdl stock sales.

The Hon. John Ballance will address the electors at Turakina to-night. The Advocate reports that diphtheria has again broken out at Bulls. The Manawatu "Racing Club have received no less than 143 nominations for their Autumn Meeting. All are invited to a Band ot Hope Meeting this evening. Workers are asked to come prepared. True bills have been found against Harrison and Smith in connection with the Eketahuna murder. The annual meeting of the N.Z.R.A. commences at Trenthan Farm, 19 miles from Wellington, on Friday next. The Government Surveyor, says the Ailvocate. has been instructed to select a site for a punt for crossing the Karnd tikei river at OtaraAccording to the Lyttleton Times a volunteer encampment will be held immediately after the new commandant, Captnin Fox, arrives in the colony. In the cricket match Wellington versus Canterbury, now being played at Christchurch, Wellington scored 224 runs in the first innings, and Canterbury 154. The Manawatu Racing Club have de cided to co-operate with the Folding Club in getting rid of " walking totalisators." A detective will be employed. Mr Trimble to-day shifted into " The Other House " where for the future he ffill Conduct his business as auctioneer, and agent for the New Zealand Insurance Company. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been repeated to all places north of East Cape, Taupo, and Raglan. The crime of sheep stealing is reported to be common in the Rangitikei District, while several farmers in this part of the country have had their flocks lessened in a mysterious mannerThe Government, we learn, have de cided to recommend to Parliament that the Key. Mr. De Castro, late chief clerk in the Public Trust Office, should be aN lowed his pension, which will be about £200 per annum. — Post. The work of sinking an artesian well is at present stopped owing to some slight mishap to the pipe. The contractor, Mr Marten, will attend at a special meeting of the Borough Council this evening to explain. Mr Charles Wickham, having in his possession two Bibles in the Maori language, has presented one to Mr W. Duruy, of Aorangi, and is willing to bestow the other where it would be of use to the recipient. The following are the handicaps for tbe third competition for Dr Charlton's medal :— Saywell, Stevens, Parker, scratch ; Dougherty, J. Evans, 4 points ; Bassett, 6 points ;" Hopkins, 10 poiuts ; Pethenok, 8 ; Humphrey, 20 points. The competition takes place to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2 o'clock. Ammunition will be supplied on the ground. We direct special attention to a new advertisement from Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, the well-known drapery and millinery importers of Wellington. This old established and popular firm announce the arnyal of their autumn and winter supplies of fashionable costume fabrics, French and English millinery, children's mantles and jackets, etc. For prices and further details see advertisement. Some years ago an old Scotch divine thus finished off an exhortation against drunkenness : "IVe nae objection to a , drain in the morning when you get up, and anither after breakfast to help ye to begin the day, and ane before dinner to gie ye an appetite, and anither afterwards to help digestion, and ye may tak' a dram or two in tbe afternoon, and ane for a night cap; but dinna be aye dramdratnmin'." The Pohangina School Committee has been re-constructed. The chairman and three of the committee have resigned. Mr Gawler was elected chairman, Messrs Sinclair and Jones committee men. The school will now stand at 44, last term 38 ; but tbe average attendance is under 30. It is a great pity that children are allowed to lose the free education provided for them, and sometimes for very paltry reasons. There are a great many of our settlers who say they wish they had had the same chance of becoming scholars as their sons and daughters are haying, and yet they let them attend school anyhow. The fact is, being free, it is not appreciated as it ought to be. New Zealand seenas to be a spot much fancied by those whose amorous adven* fcures have rendered this country too hot to bold them, writes a London correspondent. A married gamekeeper living at Tiverton, John Partridge by name, eloped a tew days since with the wife of a farmer named Bowden. They were traced to Liverpool, where they lired as Mr and Mrs Lang. Their passages were booked to New Zealand in the s.s. Doric, but before they embarked Partridge was arrested on a charge of deserting his wife and children. He had £212 in his possession, £150 of which is said to have belonged to Mr Bowdea. He was taken back toTiierton, where his wife promised to forgiye her husband if he would go back and live with her. He promptly acquiesced, and the magistrate, after fining him 40s and the expenses incurred in his arrest, let the gay Lothario depart. ' Farmer Bowden was equally conciliatory. He met his wife at the railway station, and drove her home as if nothing had happened. The steamboat company, not to be outdone in generosity, consented to refuud £30 out of the £45 paid on account of passage money.