Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 124, 8 April 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Jockey Club will clear about £230 on their Easter meeting. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The London ' Spectator ' strongly advocates the New Zealand plan of holding a general election on the one day. A Feilding resident is the unlucky possessor of fifty shares in the Commercial Bank. The Feilding Jockey Club paid £107 to the Government for the totalisator tax at their last meeting. The loau proposals for No 2 Ward of the Pohangina Road Board were carried by a large majority. This is a matter for sincere congratulation. Tho Hon Mr Seddou addressed a crowded meeting at Hokitika last night. A vote of confidence iv the Government was carried unanimously. It is understood that in al) future caees householders who permit their chimneys to become ignited, will be proceeded against in the R.M. Court. Sir G. 11. Dibbs has been returned no- , opposed for his seat, which he had resigned in consequence of his bankruptcy. The unpleasant affair must have been satisfactorily adjusted. The following are the amounts won in stakes at the late meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club: — Mr Utiku Alarumaru, £275 ; D. Knight. £95 ; L. Bennie. £95 ; J. Wilson, £55 ; D. Scott, £50, D. Page £45; W. Humphries, £\0 ; C. A. Dune, £30 ; D. McKinnon, £30 ; C. Loon, £25 ; J. Humphries, £10 ; J. CJ. Nugent, £10 ; C. E. Calthrop, £10; D. Campion, to; J. Paul, £5; C. G. Woodley, £5; (J. Haukius, £5 ; E. Nicholson, £5 ; J. TUley, £b. Total, i:800.

The Pohangina Road Board waß sitting is we went to press. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Warnings for northerly gales and rain haye been sent to all places. Owing to excessive pressure on our space we are compelled to hold over the second instalment of notes on the Easter Encampment till our next issue. The following team of cricketers will represent the Manchester Club against Woodville on Wednesday the 12th April, commence at 12 o'clock sharp -.—Reade, Richards, Parr, Bellve, Burlace, Tucker, Garratt, Henderson, Bartholomew, Entwisle, and Garhck. The Returmug Officer, Mr Sherwili, fives notice that nomination of candidates to represent Nos. 2, 3, and 6 wards, in the Manchester Road Board, must be sent in to him on Friday 14th instant at noon, at the Board's office Feilding. Mr Sawers has formed a very high opinion of the gentlemen composing the directory of the Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company, and considers them ••level headed" and practical men who are certain to make the enterprise a success. Messrs Barraud and Abraham, the local agents for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, have received advice that the R.M.S. " Ruahine " will, on the homeward voyage, pass through the ' straits of Magellan, if the weather is favourable. There was one rather disappointed | man at Messrs Abraham and Williams' Colyton sale yesterday. He sold his cow a few paces from the yards for £7 10s Ihe purchaser obtained under the hammer a few minutes afterwards £8 12» I 6d.— Standard. The chairman of the Kiwitea Road Board, Mr T. li. Taylor, who represents the Oroua ward, invites a meeting of the ratepayers to discuss the proposed increase in the rates. The meeting will be held in the Public Hall, Kiwitea, on Wednesday next at 7.30 p.m. We have received the first number of The Agriculturist, a Sydney agricultural and farming publication. Tho paper is published monthly and contains fresh readable " matter " relating to all kinds of work connected with farming and agriculture generally. It is one of the most readable papers we have had for a long time. The Provincial Farmers' Co-operative Association Limited, of Wellington, has a notice in to-day. The Secretary, Mr Durling, informs us that at the Lower Mutt, ten miles from Wellington, land is let :it Ll per acre rental per annum, payable from milk sold wholesale to dealors at od per gallon. Under the method of operating by the Association there is nothing to preyent their netting the equivalent to their members. It must be a matter of regret to men of all shades of politics that Mr li. C Bruce, the member for Bangitikei, lias intimated his intention of withdrawing from public life at the termination of the present Parliament. He will not ofier himself for re-election, and his retirement cannot be considered other than a loss to the country. — Dunedin Star. The rapid progress they have made since thoy established a branch of their business in Feilding, in Montague's build ings, next the Star office, has necessitated Messrs Thacker and Pallant, tho well-known boot and shoo manufacturers and importers, introducing a yery large supply of new lines in their business to meet tho increased demand. Yesterday tho firm unpacked twelve cases of a direct shipment of winter slippors, football boots, ordinary and special boots and shoes, all of the very best material, aud most fashionable makes. It has been for some time a complaint of builders in Feilding that they could not always be supplied with timber according to their wants. Owing to the enterprise of the Manawatu Timber Company, whose office and yards are on the railway re serve near the station, such cause of complaint no longer exist 3, because they have have on hand now upwards of two hundred thousand feet of seasoned timber, of all classes, available at the shortest notice. They have also doors, sashes, and turnery of every description, and of the very best workmanship. A meeting was held in the Methodist Parsonage last Thursday evening, having for its object tho formation of a Mutual Improvement Society. The Rev. Mr Clement presided. Those present were enthusiastic, and it was resolved to hold the opening night in the Methodist Church next Friday evening at 7.30. The inaugural meeting will take the form of a social, for which occasion several interesting items have been promised. The society propose to meet every Thursday, after the first night, and the syllabus will contain a wide range of subjects. The liev. Mr Clement has been elected president and Miss Curtia secretary. Excellent reports from reliable newspapers are to hand auent tho performance of the Palmer company who visit us on Wednesday and Thursday 12th and 13th April. We cull tho following from the ' Aucklund Weekly News :— " Tho outer- ' taiumont proved to be oue well worthy of support, the views wore very fiuo amongst which Queen street, Auckland, in 1852. and the same in 1892, tho Albort Park, Waitimata, by moonlight, Calliopo Dock, Free Public Library, aud lifo size portrait of Sir G, Grey, called forth long I and loud applause. Some boautiful viewa of statuory were also shown. Tho singing aud recitations woro well worth double the price charged, and should Mr Palmer return as intimated, we advise one and all who wish to enjoy a really good entertainment not to miss the opportunity. "