Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 107, 28 February 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

A garden party will bo held to-morrow afternoon at Mr George Saywoll's, in aid of the building fund of the "Wesleyan Cburch. I In our report of the school concert, we omitted to mention that little Bliss Ida llaybittlo sang " Home, sweet home," very nicely, her two brothers accompanying on the piano and violin. Mr Bradford will run a coach to the Palmerston races, should sufficient inducement offer, starting eacli day at 10 a.m. The coach will return at 9 o'clock, or later should tho passengers desire.

The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. All the flaxmills in Foxton are now working full time. There will be ransa at Hnlcounbe at H a.m., and nt St. Bridget's Fciiding, at 11 A.m. next Sunday. There wiii Lo v uiticiing of the. oport." Committeo at Mr Sherwill's office tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. I The friends of the Rev. T. H. Lyon will meet him at a farewell social in the ! Colyton Hall, next Thursday evening. ! Mr S. Svendsen has opened two cases ! of new goods, including gents' cycle shoes and a large yariery of boots and shoes. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will hold its usual monthly meeting on Monday, March 6th. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 2£ hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Wacata^s for ircslcrly gains southward of Napier and New Plymouth. The quarterly meeting of the Feilding Licensing Committee will be held on Monday next at 12 noon, in the Court House. Miss Louiso Potncroy (Mrs Elliot), the celedratod American actress, who toured Now Zealand sumo years ago, died at New York on the 7th of January, of pneumonia. A man named Jones was recently fined £5, and costs £d 13s, in the Wellington R.M. Court, for netting fish at the mouth of the Hutt river. The Acclimatisation Society prosecuted. Mr Blundell, Stock Inspector, paid a visit to the Farmers' Alliance Palmerston North saleyards last Thursday and condemned four cows that were suffering from tuberculosis. The milkers were ordered to be destroyed. — Standard. Mr Collins has just completed a sot of four horse coach harness for Mr Bradford, of the Feilding Horse Bazaar, and it is intended to run the new turn-out to Palmerßton races to-morrow if a full coach load can be obtained. On Friday, of last week, at Carterton, Dr Hosking performed a successful operation on the seven year-old daughter of Mr William Reid, of Makino, by the removal of a quantity of diseased bone from her thigh. The girl was injured 12 months ago by a fall from a gate. The advertisement of Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stftins, of Wellington, published today, indicates that tho first early shipment of this enterprising firm has now come td hand. For other particulars wo refer our lady readers to tho announcement over leader. In the cricket match against Halcombe to be played at Feilding to-morrow, the following will represent the Manchester Club :— Burlace, Richards, Parr, Bellve. Garratt, Eade, Henderson, Garlick, Galway, Keen, and Belfit. Emergencies, F. Bray, and Feck. A few hundreds of thousands of circulars have been poured into this colony headed " Monster Freehold Property Distribution," amongst the shareholders in the Equitable Building Society. Tho affair is evidently a lottery and we warn our readers to have nothing to do with it. " Assistant " in the Palmerston Standard asks for a reform in reference to the Wednesday half-holiday, and suggests that as blacksmiths, factories, banks, etc., close on Saturday, the grocers and drapers should forfeit the Wednesday afternoon ior Saturday, and work up to 10 o'clock on Friday evenings. The idea is to have the half-holiday for all classes on the same afternoon. Mr Arthur Clampett gave a selection of 3acred songs in the Feilding Assembly Rooms on Sunday evening last, when a large audience was present. His rendering of the " Lost chord," " Rocked in the cradle of the deep," " Where is my boy to-night," and " Almost persuaded," were given in a highly finished style. A collection was taken at the close towards defraying the expenses. A painful accident happened to Sid Cleaver, tho jockey, last week while exercising Miss Dawn over hurdles at Awahuri. The mare took a tremendous leap at one of the hurdles and fell over, unseating the rider, who received an inj ury to his shouldor as well as a severe shaking. Tho accident is an unfortunate one for Cleaver, as it will prevent him fulfilling his engagements at the Manawatu Autumn meeting. — Manawatu Standard. A fatal boat accident happened in Wellington harbour last Saturday afternoon by which three men lost their lives. The men were returning from Soame's Island, and it is supposed the boat capsized in a squall. The names of the unfortunates were— Osborne (a married man with no family), Bnrgess (a married man who leaves a wife and four children), and Barten (a married man who also leaves a wife and four children.) A man named George Macalister was arrested in Palmerston last night on the alleged charge of stealing a horse from Feilding. According to the accused's statement the horse, a hired one, after throwing him off between Bulls and Sandon, decamped. Ho was forwarded to Feilding last night by the police, where he was brought before Mr Kirton J.P. and, at the request of the police, discharged, as the horse had been found at Bulls, and sent on to the owner, Mr Samuel Daw. Mr Hogg, M.H.R., has given notice of his intention to move at the next meeting of the Land Board the following motions, in addition to those which were published recently : — (1) *" Tliat the request of the Palnntua and Mangatainoko village settlers, to be allowed to exchange their present licenses for leases in perpetuity, be granted." (2) " That the various forfeited sections in certain Special Settlement blocks and clsowhere, which it is proposed to submit to auction at an early date, be offered for selection on the optional system, under tho provisions of Part 3 of ' The Land Act, 1892 ' " Hawera and the surrounding districts were visited by floods and a heavy gale last Saturday. The Waiau bridge at Opunake was wrecked. The Oaonui flaxmill was carried out to sea. The water races at the Warea, Fungarekn, Oaoiti and Eltham butter factories were washed away, and considerable damage was done to fencing aud gardens throughout tho district. Flooda were also experienced in the Auckland district. At Dan/aville the flood was the heaviest ever known. It made a clean sweep of Maori plantations, horses, pigs, sheep, and poultry. One Maori child was drowned. Several people had to escape from their houses through tho roofs, and pass the night on rafts. The Agricultural Department m answer to enqvimes tttwut C(i<j pcooec <ceaiai<3«C for the bot iiy advises careful inspection of all horses, especially about tho forelegs, inside the knees, on the shoulders nnd throat, and if anything which is believed to be an egg is found the Department will be glad to receive and pronounce on tho specimeu. Where it is established that eggs have been laid on the liorse, the animal should be rubbed over with a weak carbolic wish, or Little's dip, about lin 20. A leaflet, with drawing of (lie fly ta all stage I*,1 *, nnd full instructions for preventing the farther spread of the pest, is now in the press, and will bo issued by the Department next week, nnd, like other of the Department's leaucts, may be obtained free on application to nny Stock Inspector. The bot c^'jjs appear liko a tiny whito ovnl ottaciied to the hair, usually in patches. The horse licks off thu cgt;, which develops into the dreaded maggot in his slowacU.— M,auawatu Times.