Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. The parishioners of St. John's aro reminded that tho offertories at that Church tomorrow will, as usual, be presented to the Curate, the Rev. A. Herinon as an Easter offering. At the Marton Caledonian Sports on Saturday last A. W. Watts was second in the 100 yards first in tho 220 yards, and tied with Francis and Williams for the points prize. I. Watts was first in the 100. There were about twenty-five members of the Manchester Rides who left here by the 4.15 a.m. special train yesterday to attend the encampment at Johnsonville. The company was under the command of Lieut. Kirton. A telegraph office will be opened at the Feilding race course on Tuesday from noon to 5 pra. Monday being a post and telegraph holiday the opening of the office at the course on that day would be useless. Isaac : 'I sells you dot coat for nine shillings.' Customer :' I thought you did not do business on n Saturday. Is not this your Sunday s*' Isaac (in a hushed voice) : 'Mein fricnt, to sell this coat for nine shillings vos not peesiness ; dot vos chanty.' The following shows the price at which wool has been valued per pound during the ten years from 1882 to 1892 inclusive, the figures being taken from a Government return, and given in the order of the year: — Hid, lOjjd, 9.1 d, H^d, B'd, 9d, 'Jd, <3.1 d, Giju, 9.|d. At one time oyor ten thousand men were involved in the strike at the Carnegie Works. Homestead. The amount lost in wages is estimated at L50D,000; the expense to the State of keeping troops in Homestead, L 200.00 0; the loss sustained bj the Carnegie Company, Ll.ofH3.ooo— total losses thus amounting to L 1,100,000., 100,000. Mr Hickford has fitted up his new refreshment rooms in a very complete manner. The public room is well and comfortably furnished, and the ladies' private sitting and refreshment room under Mrs Hickford's supervision has j been very neatly papered and furnished j throughout in a very taking manner, j Everything looks most clean aud inviting about the place, and we predict for Mr Hickford's enterprise tho success which il destii'vts.

The annual general meeting of mem- i bers of the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at Palmerston North on Saturday, Bth April, at 2 p.m. The proposed match for £20 a side between a well known Ashurst sporting man and a commercial traveller has fallen through, the latter gentleman having withdrawn from the contest. Mr Izard waited upon the Wellington Land Board last Tuesday on behalf of an application from Messrs Ross and McGregor to be allowed to take np more land adjoining their sections 97, etc., Blodc XIV etc., Apiti. The Board resolved to adjourn consideration of the question until next meeting, it haying transpired that Messrs Ross and McGregor already hold some 900 acres in the Apiti district. A meeting of the Sports Committee was held at Mr SherwiH's ofiiee on Thursday | evening last, to receive the report of the subcommittees appointed by the Feilding Borough Council and the Sports Committee re the agreement for the appointment of Trustees for tho Sports ground. The report of the subcommittees was adopted ; and it was resolved to forward ft copy of the same to the Feilding Borough Council, and also to tho Directors of the Colonists Land and Loan Corporation. It is very satisfactory to learn that tho railway revenue is coming in remarkably well, and that the estimated surplus at the end of the financial year, will, in all probability, be largely exceeded. Indeed, we should not be surprised if tho amount were, instead of the expected ten to fourteen thousand pounds, to prove to be from twenty-eight to thirty thousand pounds. The returns for the four weeks ending March 4th will show a large increase. — Press. The advocates of temperance nre reminded of the grand demonstration to be held in the Oval on Monday next. A procession will be formed at 10 o'clock at the Foresters' Hall, and the march to the recreation ground will be headed by the Salvation Army band. No charge will be made for admission to the Oval, all being freely invited to attend. Tea will be provided at Is a head for adults ; children, 6tl ; Band of Hope children free. A political significance is to be given to the affair, as resolutions are to be proposed in favour of the direct veto of tho liquor tratlic, and in favour of female sufftge. Given fine weather, there is every probability ot" the demonstration turning out a grand success.