Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 21, 6 August 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. By letters lately received from Eng land it is stated that Mr Arkwnght will return to the cobny before Christmas. It is expected that the road into the Coal Creek Block will be surveyed very shortly now. The bridge across the Waituna, at West; Waitapu, was opened for traffic on Wednesday. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held at the Denbigh Hotel on Monday the 15 inst. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers irom the Government printer. Mr Montague held a xerj successful auction sale yesterday. There was n large attendance and the prices realised were highly satisfactory. Mr Carthew's monthly case of books and periodicals has come to hand, and contained a large consignment of all the most recent and popular woiks. The instnilation meeting of Otangaki Masonic Lodge commences at 6.30 on Tuesday eveuing. Several of the Feilding brethren purpose being present at the ceremony, The Shop Assistants Bill, which is to be introduced by the Minister for Labour, proposes a weekly half holiday tor shop assistants, and sitting accommodation for female assistants. Yesterday Mr J. R. Montague auctioneer obtained an excellent building site in Feilding, 3nd, after the usual preliminaries, he will proceed at once to erect a commodious auction room with suitable offices. At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Refrigerating Company. Mr John Rob* crts, chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said a loss had been made on the year's operation of £1917. owing to the purchase of sheep to fill engagement. At the Auckland Presbytery the the Clerk said an answer haa been received re the invitation to Messrs Moody and Sankey to visit the Colony that it was found impossible to accede to it. It was resolved to invite the Rev John McNeil, a Scotch Evangelist to visit the Colony. Some mean spirited individual purloined one of fhe trees which were planted in the Square on Thursday. It is a dangerous game to play, and we would point out to the person referred to, or anyone else similarly disposed, that .severe punishment will certainly follow detection. To«d«y the agent of the Colonists Land and Loan Corporation (limited) advertises that the Corporation have resumed making advances in large and small sums on mortgage on rural lands. The rates of interest are very low, in fact this may be said to be the cheapest money in the market as no commission is charged to borrowers. The death is announced of Mr Frank J. Woods, personal secretary to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M. P- While attending Mr Balfour at Hat field Park on the 4th June he was stung on the lip by a gadfly, which had evidently been on a diseased animal. Erysipelas an>l blood poisoniDg set in, and he died on the morning of the 14th. The Dunedin Presbytery have instructed the Moderator to forward *o the Hon Downie Stewart the following resolutiou of the Presiytery :— " The Presbytery affirms its conviction of the urgent necessity of reintroducing the Bible into the State schools, under fhe sanction of a timetable and conscience clause." The champion pieeon flying race from Wangnnui to Wellington, in connection with the Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association's Annual Show took place last Thursday the winning bird being as follows :— J. Mouatt's White Feather, 1 hour 56 minutes 7 seconds, 1 ; A Smith's Amber, 1 hour 56 minutes 24 seconds, 2 ; J. Smith's Frolic, I hour 56 minutes 24 seconds 3. The Waikato Times says :— " The value of fat cattle has lately more nearly approached the good prices obtained some ten or twelve jeurs ago, in proof of which we hear that Mr Edward Allen, of Pukekura. obtained the substantial average of £11 17s 6d per pen of seven bullocks at Mr Buckland's sale last week. The cattle were tip top, of course, th« weight of oae reaching close on to 1,2501b5." A return has been laid on the table of the House showing thai the Stock Tax was paid during the last financial year by 12,293 persons, the total amount being £16,970 17s. The number of owners having Jess than 1000 sheep was 9963, amount paid, £2942 16s ; less than SGOO, 1635, amount paid, £3220 4s ; less than 20,000, 526, amount paid. £5306 j Is ; upwards of 20,000, 169, amount paid. £5501 16s lOd. In the hurry of going to press on Thursday afternoon, we omitted the names of several prominent citizens who were very energetic during the tree plant ing in Manchester Square. Messrs Day, Jannings, .Nolan, Logan, Knox, and J. Smith worked hard, Mr Day especially wielding the mallet to good effect, Mr Nolan the axe, and our worthy Mayor Mr W. G. Haybittle, was indefatigable in his efforts to make the affair a success. A return haa been prepared showing the valuations upon properties, the number of holdings, the population of each charitable aid district, the amount con tributed by each district either by rate or in any other way for hospital or charitable aid, together with the subsidy paid in each case from the consolidated revenue. From it we gather that the valuation of the Wellington Hospital District is £6,713,039; number of holdings, 1265; population, 45,214 ; contributed by rate, £2531 2s lid ; voluntary contributed, £82 Os Bd ; subsidy, £2531 2s lid. The following are the totals for all the districts in the Colony : — Contributed by rate, £52,273 7s 7d ; voluntary contributions, £7407 16sl0d; bequests, £13,055 4s 6d; subsidy, £63,471 11s Bd. At a meeting of the Crown Lands Board a protest was read from the appli cants for lot 463, parish of Whantjamurino, against the section being allotted to J- L. Polwart, the successful applicant. The complaint was that Polwart applied for the section on hisown behalf undon behalf of each of his children separately, an 1 thereby swamped the ballot. This tue protestors declared was contrary to the spirit of the Act Mr Mueller, the Commissioner, thought the whole thing was quite regular and legal. Polwart had a right, as guardian for each of his children, to make a separate application. It was resolved that the applicants be informed that the question raised would be submitted to the Crown Lands Office at Wellington for consideration. Entries are published to-day for Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Palmerslon North on the 11th instant. A replace advertisement from the Co Op., giving important imformation to cash purchasers will appear in our next issue. We desire to draw the attention of residents of Colyton and district, to Mr D. Henderson's advertisement which appears ia another column, he hufing taken over the butchery business for . some time past carried on by Messrs Eulwisle aud Filch m that place. '

A whip found in iitjssell street, has been left at this office. Mr Tolley wants 25 acres of grass within 10 miles of Birmingham. To-day Mr Wilson received a consignment of new and interesting books aud general literature. To-morrow morning Mr Goldsbury will occupy the pulpit in the Wesley an Church, and in the evening Mr G. t-irnnt will preach tht>re. The attention of the public is tailed to the advertisement in another column in reference to the halMioliday. The regular ; half*holidav will be observed as usual on Wednesday next. The Kiwitea Road Board hold a meeting this morning, and the Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Both reports will appear in our next issue. The anniversary services of the Primitive Methodist Church will take place on Sunday week, and the soiree on the following Monday. Particulars on tickets and in future advertisement. Judgment wrs given yesterduy in the Magisterial enquiry into the wreck of the Edith May at the Wangiinui heads, when the Captain's certificate was suspended for six months and he was also ordered to pay the costs of the enquiry. News hus boen received in Invercar- J gill that David McKellar, who, with his brother Peter and A. McNab, were first to use Southland as a pastoral country landing sheep at the Bluff in 1856. lias been shot in New Mexico. McKellar latterly owned Brooksdale, Tapanui, on which he spent £30.U00, and left it a model estate on selling out. He went to Mexico some years back and took up a large a'ea from the Government. Over this land the Mexicans previously had a free range for cattle, and resented violently McKellar's fencing in the land. Lstters received at the beginning of year from him stated that it being a dry season, these people had torn down his fences to let their cattle get at his grass, which was better than that outside It is supposed that McKellar has lost his life in an altercation over this fencing question. He was 61 years old, and leaves a widow- and sis children. __