Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 112, 19 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

At the Otaki athletic sports on Thursday, W. H. Arnott won the principal events.

The Wellington - Manawatu Railway Company propose to declare a dividend at their animal meeting next month.

Richard Frederick Cavendish, nephew of the Duke of Devonshire, was fined £2 for using obscene language at Cambridge University.

About six hundred ferrets have been imported lately to bo used on runs in the Wairarapa. They will be ovar on this side in about six months.

We remind our renders of the unique social gathering to be held in the " Cash Exchange " stores next Monday evening. We are informed there is a choice programme arranged for of addresses, music, singing, readings, recitations, &c. liefreshments will be sent round about 9 o'clock. All are invited.

Harffoct thanksgiving services will be held in the Failding Wesleyan Church to-morrow. The morning preacher will be Mr G. Grant, wlio will discourse on an interesting topic, viz. "'The Best Gifts." This text being taken form 1 Cor . 12, 31. The evening preacher will be Mr Joe Dixon. This is Mr Grant's first service jtji Fejldini; since lie returned from the Old Com^vy. The choir will render the autheru " He jfciitt Wulketh Righteously."

'] ho Kiwitca Koad Board was sitting nn we went to press.

To-day Mr Macarthur, M.H.R. returned from Wellington. We are glad to know he is now much better in health.

The Otaki Maori Band wont north today, and when the train was at the station platform they played one or two pieces very creditably.

TheJlibel action, Hutchison v. Ballance nnd Boyle, a claim of 40s damages, will be heard before a special jury at Wans ganui on the Cth April.

Mr and Mrs Goodbehere returned to Feilding to-day after a lengthy visit to the Lake country. Mr Goodbehere has benentfced slightly by the tour.

In a cigar shop in Parliament street London, the following notice was posted in 1871:— "Credit given to gentlemen, but cash is expected from members of Parliament."

Captaiu Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for northerly gnles aDd ruin after from 10 to 20 hours have been sent to nil places.

The Rev. T. H. Lyon, the new Primitive Methodist minister, will preach the Sunday School anniversary sermons in the Feilding Church to-morrow morning, aiternoon, and evening.

The annual general meeting of the Feilding Football Club will be held this evening, at Mrs Oliver's Hotel, at halfpast seven o'clock. Intending members are invited to be present.

"No," he murmured reflectively, "I cannot be called lazy, by any means, but I have a disinclination to work or take violent exercise of any kind during the intervals between meals."

We are informed by the Dunedin Star that the constituents of Mr A, E. G. Khodes, M.H.K., intend presenting him with a massive silver salver suitably engraved, as a wedding gift.

The Woodville Examiner says:- -So daring are some of our local thieves be« coming that they took a cart to an orchard m the district one night, cleared the trees of their fruit, and took it away.

On Thursday night, we learn from the Advocate, a performance was given at Sauson under the auspices of the Albert Club in aid of the Hall funds. Among the performers were Mr Keen, Mr Lucre, Mrs Oliver, and Miss Keen, of Feilding. At Cardiff, we gather from a letter published in the Egmont Settler there are three classes who attend the dances there. Those who have manners, those whose manners are partly objectionable, and those who have no manners at all.

The appeal against Mr Justice Denniston's decision re the powers of the Sydenham Licensing Committee will be argued at the sitting of the Appeal Court in May. Sir E, Stout and Messrs Caycill and Widdowson have been retained to conduct the case on behalf of the appellants. — Dunedin Star.

At a meeting of the Ashurat School Committee held last Wednesday, it was reported the school roll stood at 234 ; attendance, 170. Mr Warne was elected auditor. The committee decided to vote for the Key Mr Wilks as a member of the Board. The committee further resolved to ask the Board to grant increased accommodation at the school.

When returning from the Wbodville Horticultural Show on Saturday, where he was a big prize-taker, Mr Weiglitman's horse shied at some timber on the road and upset the vehicle. Several of the exhibits were utterly ruined, and others damaged considerably. Fortunately the driver was unhurt. The shafts of the trap were smashed.

During the last few days Taranalri has been invaded by bees, which »ust, people think, have been driven in from the bush by fire. The bee is what is termed the wild bee. Fruiterers' and grocers' shops have been attacked by the insects in their quest for food. The majority of the fruit shops in town have been attacked, and in many instances the bees have invaded private houses.— Herald.

The papers for the income tax returns will be sent out early in April, and a fortnight will be given for them to be made up. The land tax returns are now nearly complete, and the Boards of Review are being appointed in the several districts of the Colony. It is hoped that the returns will have been made up with sufficient accuracy to give the exact amount of the tax payable under them about the middle of May.

Quoting trom this journal the Catholic Times remarks:— We learn that there is not nn idle man in Fielding just now, and that those who are apparently out of work are men who are "indulging in a well* earned rest, after a long spell of hard work bushfalling." We notice that there are a large number of men in Wellington who are indulging in a wellearned rest after a long spell of hard work electioneering, and electioneering, for hardness and for the amount of rest required afterwards' knocks bushfalling into a cocked hat.

The newest thing in the shape of combination is that of medical men, who in Chicaco, Philadelphia. New York, and other important cities, are organising with the object of boycotting patients who do not pay their bills. Each member belonging to the Association biuds himself not to attend professionally persons who are in debt to any other members of the Society for professional attendance. What consternation there would be in New Zealand if newspaper proprietors did this thing.

The following items are from th c Manawatu Times of Thursday : — Mary Bertlia Rasmussen, a domestic servant in the employ of Mr J. Herbert Hankins, died somewhat suddenly last night. Deceased had been laid up for a week or so with internal inflammation, and was receiving medical attention. — Mary Hopkinson, who for some time past has been carrying on business as a dressmaker in Palmerston, was arrested at Marton on a charge of lunacy, and committed to the Lunatic Asylum. The woman, who had formerly been resident in the Rangitikei district, had been yery eccentric in her behaviour for weeks past.

Mr Hugh Martin, one of the oldest settlers in the Nelson district, died on Sunday last at The Hayes, his property at Stoke, at the great ago of ninety two. He was born in Gloucestershire in 1799, and when considerably over forty years of age resolved to emigrate to New Zealand. He was one of the original purchasers of land under the New Zealand Company, though he did not come out with the first flight of immigrants. He arrived in Nelson early in the forties, and took up the land at Stoke, which he owned to the day of his death. Though he never held a seat in the Provincial Council, Mr Martin took a keen interest in provincial politics. He was a man of great strength and activity, and in extreme old age could do what many roan of a quarter of a century younger would be unfit for. Within two or three months of his death he walked from his own pluco to Nelson, and up to a few days ago he was able to work in his garden Even close to the end his triends thought that there was little immediate danger, and at the last he passed peacefully away. Mr Martin was the father of nine children, of whom four sons and three daughters survive. His death will make one more blank to old residents of this district. — Nel.<on Colonist.

We shall be happy to forward patterns of our new dress fabrics and otlier novelties, free by post, to any address, on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.