Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 113, 14 March 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

It is probable that Parliament will assemble for business about tho end of June. The Oamnrn Mail reports that the projected combination of the millers of New Zealand has come to nothing. The pony advertised for by Mr John Bartholomew is branded HIl conjoined, and not H as previously notified. The Premier, the Hon. John Ballance, has so far recovered that ho will return to Wellington this week. The Wairarapa Daily Times reports that pigeons are plentiful in the bush districts, therefore sportsmen may expect tjood bn»s this season, which begins on Saturday, April Ist. A facetious member of a certain Road Board in this district, suggested that it would pay all local bodies to run a paper, and thus do their own printing and advertising themselves. The manager of the Bank of Australasia at Wellington states the dividend paid by the bank is 10 per cent., not two, as cabled. Tho latter was apparently mutilated in transmission. The prospect of an income tax in Victoria has created some excitement among " a few favored by fortune." Tho great majority are calm — they have no incomes. It is rumoured that the Rev. Mr Isitt will contest a Christchurch seat at the nest general election. It is to be hoped that he will be elected. A session in the House would be a good schooling for himThe ' Prohibitionist ' is in for another libel action ; tin's time at the instance of a member of the Motuoka Licensing Committee, whose actions were very freely criticised in that paper a couple of months ago. The Foxton paper says there is a patch of land of two acres at Parewanui simply covered with the Bathurst burr. The fact was discovered through the issue o the leaflet of the pest by the Agricultural Department. It has been reported to us that a snake wna seen a few weeks ago, near Bnnnyihorpe, by a man who was eel fishing. He is very positive, nnd gives an apparently accurate description of the reptile. Feilding boys are fastidious. One of them was asked the other day by a wicked companion " Why didn't you to soand so's orchard for some apples. You said yon would?" " Well " replied the other, " 1 was a Koin^, but I heard the cocllin moth was in 'em, and they're beastly to eat in the dark, so 1 didn't go mar."

The various branch banks doing business in Feilding will be closed on Friday next, St. Patrick's Day. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales with heavy rain have been sent to all East Coast stations. Our readers are reminded of the sale of furniture and effects to be held at the residence of Mrs Macarthur on Thursday j next by Mr J. R. Montague, the well j known auctioneer. There will be abso- j [ lutely no reserves. : We regret to state that |Mr H. Dixon, of the Post Office, is somewhat seriously indisposed and therefore unable to attend to his official duties. His place is at present filled by Mr M. Tucker, from the Wellington office. The Palmerston Standard learns upon undoubted authority that the directors of the Longbnrn Freezing Works have suspended buying stock, and that the works will in all probability be shut down as soon as the stock now under purchase liaye been dealt with. This evening at the chamber of the Borough Council the Bye-Laws Committee will veport, and a special meeting of the Council will be held to adopt the " Loans to Locals Bodie3 Act " in connection with the cost of erecting the Aorangi bridge. At the Feilding Football Club's annual meeting on Saturday last, the report mentioned in feeling terms tho loss the club had sustained in the deaths of Messrs Macarthur and John Bartholomew, who had always taken great interest in the club. We have to thank the secretary of the Ashurst Sports, Mr Sanders, for a press ticket for the occasion. We have been requested to notify that acceptances will be received on the 17ih instant (the date of the sports) instead of the 15th instant as previously advertised. A sad calamity is reported from Wagga, New South Wales. Three girls, aged respectively thirteen, eleven, and nine, the daughters of a boundary rider named Alex. Morrison, were bathing in the Murrmnbidgee river, when the youngest child, getting out of her depth, the sisters went to save her, and all three lost their lives. The animal picnic of tho Wesloyan Sunday School will be held in the aports ground to-morrow afternoon. For the entertainment and amusement of the children there will be tea and the usual refreshments, races and games, and Mr 11. F. Ilaybittle has undertaken to manage the musical portion of the affair. All that will be wanted is fine weather. We (Wellington Times) understand the Most Rev tho Primate has written officially to Archdeacon Fancourt informing him that he purposes to send to the Senior Bishop notice of his wish to resign the See of Wellington, in time to enable the Synod to bo convened for the election of a iiisbop to succeed him, about the end of May or beginning of June. We have received the first number of the Paraekaretu Express published at Hunterville. It is well advertised and well printed. In his introduction the editor informs us that " we do not appenr as a party paper and have but one object to serve, that is, to promote the welfare of the district, and the settlement of the people on the land." We wish our new contemporary all the success his enterprise deserves. Weather permitting, an interesting cricket match, which had to be postponed three weeks ngo, takes place to-morrow, when Mr Carthew's team of veterans try conclusions with the Manchester Club. The latter will be represented by the following players : — Richards, Parr, Bellve, Burlace, Garratt, Tucker, Henderson, Galway, Feck, Pringle, and Bray. Emergencies, Eade, Keen, and Belfit. The veteran team will be the same as published three weeks back. Mr J. C. Morey having taken over the whole of the business formerly carried on by Messrs J. C. Morey and Co., will re- open on or about Thursday 23rd mst. with an entirely new stock. In the meantime the shop in Fergusson Btreet will be renovated and fitted up with every regard to the convenience of patrons. Further particulars will be duly advertised. We congratulate Mr Morey on his \ enterprise and feel assured that he has a i prosperous future before him. I The concert to-morrow evening in the Assembly Rooms, in aid of the sufferers by the floods in Queensland, promises to be in every way a success. The several ladies and gentlemen who are taking part, have spared no pains to prepare a most attractive programme, and the performance will be equal to the promise. Apart from the charitable object of the occasion, those who patronise it will receive " good value for their money " both in present enjoyment and the consciousness that they are doing good to others in a more distant and less fortunate land than theirs. We have received from the Agricultural Department an advance copy of their leaflet (No. 8) on the Bot fly. The leaflet contains eight lithographed representations of the eggs, maggots, and flies, together with a section of the inside of a horse's stomach with the maggots attached. This last has not been successfully lithographed, as it might easily be taken for a piece of rock with molhisca attached. The text includes descriptions of the pest in all its stages, together with tho symptoms 6hown by horses affected, and various remedies and preventive measures. Every horse-owner should make a point of obtaining one of the pamphlets, which can be procured free from the office or from any Stock Inspector. We will publish the greater part of it in our next issue.