The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1893. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 86, 10 January 1893, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1893. Local and General News

_^ ♦— Tho Now Zealand Insurauco Company have declared a diyidend of 12^ por cent for the past year. A girl ten years of ago, named .Mabel Dromgood, hying at Ponsonby, (Auckland), died from tho effects of eating some unripo fruit. Preparations are being mado 03' tho United Farmers' Alliance for holding fortnightly sales of horses, farm produce, aud poultry, in Palmerstou North. Tenders for altering the old barracks into cottages, including painting, were oponed yesterday as follows : — F. and A. Pope, £166; W". Huald, £293 10s; 11. Etoyoneaux, £395. Messrs Pope's tonder was accepted, On Saturday next Mr R. B. McKouzie the auctioneer of tho Unitod Farmers' Alliance, wiil sell at tbo yards adjoining the .store, Pulrourstou North, a threshing machine, a quantity of chafi", oats, ry«! and other gruss seods, a chaff cutter, soiuu saddles, a number of horses &c, us detailed in tho adyortiseineut. Miss Shaw, special correspondent of th« London Times, now touring in Australia in the interests of that pa por, in a article considers that tho Queensland sugar industry is a remunerative enterprise, of which tho advantage is hardly yet realised in tho colony. Sho draws attention to thu wealth of the cedar forests iv the northern portion of the colon}-. Mr John Blackott, C.E., who was En-gineer-in- Chief fur the colony from 1884 until 1890, diud at Wellington last Sunday. Ho only arrived from, England four weeks 11 go. His health had been bud for Botno time before leaving which caused his ietu'n. Ho was among tho earliest settlers 111 Taranaki whore ho arrived in 1801 but about six yoars lator be removed to Nelson, whoro ho carried out important engineering works. Ho loaves a widow, ono son, and two daughters. Says the Standard :— The doings of the Woii^anui Education Beard afford a spectacle for L-ods and men, and if some special power does not interpose to aid them, they will become ihe la»gh)n» stock and" byword of everyone who admires consistency and good manage ment. Their latest freak is in connection with the Stoney Creek school. After ] giviug the head matter throe months' notice, which expired on December :Hst, he receives v curt note from the Board, J bearing the postmark of 6th January, I withdrawing the uotice just expired ! The next step in the Stoaoy Crepk farce | will be awaited with interost. | Mr F. de J. Clere, of Wellington, has j recently patented a useful invention, j whereby the sashes of windows can be I turned completely round, so as to enable the panes of Klaus to bo cleanud from the inside of the Building. In the invention the stops and parting bond ings are hinued, allowing the window to lie j swung round on a pivot. The invention j appears eminently calculated to supply « j long frit want, and we learn that already | there is a b;g iun for the patent at Wei ! lingion. Mr T. H James, architect, .if i palmerston >orth, ha* particulars of [lie patent, and can supply all information v> anyone interested.

We have to acknowledge receipt of tho time table of the Uuiou Steam Ship Company for the current month. Canterbury won the cricket match against Otago, after an exciting game, by two wickets. The funeral of tho lato Mrs Wright will take place at two o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Mr F. Pope is the undertaker. Mr Norman Cuarltou was taken to the Wangauui Hospital by to-day's express , for the purpose of receiving medical ! treatment. ; Mr Miison will be at the Barracks this j afternoon, from six o'clock to half past, ! to serve out ammunition to volunteers who firo to- morrow for tho N.Z. Clothiug j Factory's trophy. i To- day wo publish tho business card of Mr Lawrence E. Reade, solicitor, who has commenced tho practice of his profession m Feilding in the promises known j as tho Temple of Fashion . lately occupied i by Mr E. Martin. Mr James Scott is taking a few days holiday. It is his inteution to bo present at tho Trentham Shooting Competition. ! As bo will be tho only representative of 5 the Manchester Rifles, we trust it will be | his good fortune to bring ono or two prizes back with him. 1 The death is announced to-day of Mr ' Jous Jensen, which took place yesterday ; in Wanganui, at the residence of his wifo's mother, Mrs Cornoy. Tho funeral will take place to-morrow. Mr Jensen was in business for somo years in Feilding as a blacksmith. Ho leaves a widow and young family to mourn his loss. At a meeting of tho Wanganui Harbor Board josterday, a letter was received from tho Commissioner of Crown Lauds, enclosing draft covenant re sale of tho Mauawatu lands to tho Pohangina Small Farm Association and approving of same. Tbo Secretary stated that tho document had since been forwarded to tho Association. In refereDce to the Pohaugina township sactious tho Board were informed that they would bo scheduled ready for sale as soon as a htho had been published. A lady who had soon much of tho world was asked on ono occasion why plain girls often married sooner than handsome ones, to which she replied that it was owing mainly to tho tact of tho plain girls and the vanity and want of tact on the part of men. " How do von make that out?" asked v gontlemau. " In this way," answered tho lady, " the plain girls flatter the men, aud so ploaso their vanity, while the handsome ones wait to be fluttered by tho won, who haven't the tact to doit." In (he match Manchester Cricket Club married v\ single, to be pluyed to-mor-row, teams will bo chosen from the following -. - Married — Garratt, Burlaco, Bartholomew, Garlick, Fade, Valentine, Pringle. Neshiit, Parker, Scott. Gnlway, Wcllsman, Cobbe, Carthew, W. Stevens, and Waugh Single— Richards, A.i Parr, Bellve. Joe Robmson, Bellit. Henderson, Feck. Keen, Baillie. Rutherford lVrcival, Fraser, Aiken, Downey, Jack Robinson, R. Parr, Taylor, Roach, Williamson.