Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 127, 23 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

On Wednesday next the half-holiday will be observed. This being St. George's Day was observed as a bank holiday. Diphtheria is reported to have made its appearance in Campbelltowu. The Telephone buildings for Palmers« ton North will be commenced shortly. A limited liability company, with a capital of £1200, is projected in Christ* church to establish a crematorium. The next meeting of the Palraerston >?ortb Hospital Board, wiil be on stli May. We haye not received any exchanges from the Manawatu Staudard for several days. The skeleton of a moa m an almost complete state of preservation has been discovered at the Wanganui Heads. A Chicago man built a doll's house for his daughter at a cost of £700. There is a startling variety of lunatics in Chicago, We learn from the Wanganui Chronicle tbat Dr Hector is expected to visit Want;anui at the end of the week to value Mr Drew's museum. It is stated by the Woodville Examiner that the Hawkes Bay Timber Company propose to start a sawmill in the Pohangina valley. I The Committee of the Manchester Horticultural Society will meet this evening at the office of the Secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere, at 8 o'clock. Punctuality is requested. There are three classes of people who would like land nationalisation, viz.: Those who have land ; those who have no land ; and those who are never likely to have any land. Just tnink this over. The Returning officer of the Kiwitea Koad Board, Mr E. Goodbehere, gives notice that a general election of wardens will be held on Monday, 9th May, 1892. Nominations must be in by Thrusday April 28th instant, A correspondent writes : — The Premier missed a joke vyhen referring to and describing the " grid-iron " system on Crown Lands. He could not more aptly have shown the after effects of it than by saying the block of land was from the gridiron converted into a huge frying-pan ! The Feilding Fire Brigade will have a football match ou Wednesday afternoon when they will play fifteen of all comsrs On the same afternoon there will be the final competition for Lieutenant Shearer's raedal, highest aggregate score out of three runs to be the winner. The Premier, when commenting on the remark made by Mr John Stevens, (when the latter was proposing a vote of thanks) with regard to the bitterness displayed by the Opposition papers, said the Feilding Star was an honorable exception to that rule, as that paper " never hit below tbe belt." To day we received from Mr Lockyer, of the Kiwitea, a sack of fluke potatoes, certainly the best of the kind we have ever seen. One potntoe, taken from the top, weighed two pounds and ten ounces, sound as a rock right through. We are glad to know Mr Lockyer has had a splendid crop The Feilding Chrysanthemum Show will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday next the 27th instant. Although the weather Las not been too favorable for the growth of these beauti* ful flowers, yet we understand that the the coming show will be equal, and in some respects superior 1 , to that of last year. The following extract from the Catholic Times proves tbat the Land Nationalisation fad is all nonsense .-—The world does not seem quite full of people yet, ]udging by the fact that if 1,400,000,000 people were divided into 280,000,000 families those families could be comfortably located on half-acre lots in Texas, and there would still be 70,000,000 of family lots without occupants. The installation of Bro. Malcolm Niccols Grand Master of New Zealand Freemasons take place in Auckland next Wednesday. Great preparations have been made by tbe Auckland brethren for the ceremony, the musical portion of which is in charge of Bro. Schmitt, the well known professor of music. The Grand Lodge will meet in the Choral Hall. The new Grand Master residing in Auckland, the Grand Lodge o&ce wil be moved from Christchurch to the northern city, and the Grand Secretary, the Eev. Bro. Ronaldson, will move with it. We learn that Mr E. Remington Jones, of Taonui, lias just received a yaluable Jersey bull, bred by the celebrated Jerseybreeder Mr Hill, Dallington, Christchurch, and is by Jersey 6 N.Z.H.8., imported from Jersey Island, dam Mulberry, by Peter 5 N.Z.H.8., grand dam Mulberry, imported from England by Mr Hill. lie comes of an unusually heavy milking family, his dam having a record of over 201bs. of butter a week. The introduction of such an animal into the district is a matter of importance to dairymen, and to those wishing to breed milk cowa of unusual excellence, and we feel sure bis services will be largely sought after.

Air D. JR.. Lewers was a visitor to Feilding today. The Frisco Mail will arrive by the Inst train to-night and will be sorted inloprivate boxes at 8 45 p.m. The bailiff's sale at W. Trimble's residence, advertised for Monday next, will not tnke place. The funeral of the son of Mr W. Howie will take place on Monday next, j Friends are invited to attend. Mr W. G. Shearer is the undertaker. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for northerly gales with rain after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent to all places. The Fahintua correspondent of the Examiner says :— Mr Watts is mnkinir rapid progress with the erection of Stevens and Gorton's saleyards on the Mangahao Road. It is expected the first sale will take place early in May. At Mr George Hutchison's meeting at Maxvielllown, a vote of thanks nnd confidence was proposed, but withdrawn iv favor of an amendment of thanks only, proposed by Mr John Handley, and seconded by Mr John Peat. The proposer said that Mr Hutchison had not shown sufficient reason for deserting the Ministry. _^__________