Local and General News

Feilding Star, 15 June 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The toll sate system is to be again established iv the Hull county, A new convent is projected at Hawera, tbe present one being unsuitable. The new breakwater at Napier is a success, and vessels can ho alongside in the heaviest weather. The enlarged plan of tho Township of I'ohangina, to be sold next month, iuay bo Keen at this office. Mr W. "Wilkinson was the successful tenderer for the erection of tho buildings for the Cheltenham Dairy Factory. There will be a Government parade of the Manchester Rifles this evening, when every member must be in attendance. Mr S. Thacker will open up his third direct shipment of boots and shoes for winter wear, on Saturday next. Mr G. W. Shailer, photographer, has succeeded in taking a very excellent picture of the Palmerston North Rifles, We are informed by the Standard that Mr and Mrs R. S. Abraham have returned from their Australian trip to I'ahnorston. It ia highly probable that the Misses Albu, assisted by the talented performers associated with these ladies, may be induced to give a sacred concert on Sunday evening, in the Assembly Rooms, after the conclusion of the several church services. Mr Donald Grant has resigned the Chuirmanship of the Mannwntu Road Hoard, and it is stated (says the Standard) he ng:iin intends to claim compensation to the tune of many hundreds of pounds lor damage done to his land by the overflow of drains at Kairanga. 'Die professional " snow chopper " has arrived. A clothes line at Awahuri was stripped a few nights ago, and the owner robbed of a number of articles of wearing apparel, and a resident in Feilding was hl^o deprived, in a similar way, of several white table cloths. Tho custom of taking the horse covers oft" horses is also on the increase, and is thu source of much discomfort to the unfortunate unimals thus stripped.

A whip, found this morning on the Makino road, has been left at this office, A carriage lamp spring and socket, found on Sunday, has been left at this office. A bundle of accounts was lost in Gray street a few days ago. The finder will be rewarded on delivering the same at this office. We learn from the Egmont Settler that Mr R. J. Gal way has taken a shop in Stratford and opened with a nice stock of jewellery. Mr A. D. Willis, M.H.R., has consented to move the address in reply to the Governor's speech on the opening of Parliament. Mr John Saxon, has we understand, disposed of his property of 250 acres, in the Harbor Board, to Mr Burgess at a satisfactory price. The Secretary of the Salisbury Farm Homestead Association gives notice that the final call of 7/6 per member is now due. Mr Edmund Jennins, of Riverlande, left for Wellington yesterday afternoon, where he will be tbo guest of his cousiu, Admiral Bowden-Smith. Tho members of tho Birmingham Cricket Club will give a concert on Saturday, the 24th instant. For other particulars see advertisement. The Wanganui Museum is now practically completed. Mr A. Atkms, F.R.1. 8.A. was the architect, and the building is an ornament to Wanganui. The Red Star footballers are requested to meet at Mr F. Bray's to-morrow evening to make arrangements ior the match to be played next Wednesday. The manager of the Bank of Australasia, Mr E. Barton, is at present on leave of absence. Mr Dyer, the accountant, is acting in his place. His Excellency the Governor, Admiral Bowden-Sraith, the officers and men of H.M.S. Orlando, along with the local volunteers, attend church parade in Wellington on Sunday. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places northward of New Plymouth. Bad half crowns are reported to be in circulation in some of the towns on this coast. They are very poor imitations of the genuine coin, but they can bo * passed ' in the hurry of business, and the surprise of a cash transaction. The Post says : — lt is understood that the Miowera, the pioneer steamer of the new service beiweeu Australia and Canada will return with a cargo of 30,000 sacks of oats. This is encouraging to our New Zealand fanners. Yesterday Mr Hills, of Longridge Furtn, on the Feilding-Ashurst road, brought us in a bunch of rhubarb well grown and ready for the table. This is another evidence of the mildness of the season. A meeting of ratepayers in tho Apiti Ward will be held at Birmingham on Friday (to-morrow), at 1.30 p.m., to cousider the proposal to form the Kiwitea district into a county. Mr F. Homer, warden, convenes the meeting. A meeting of ratepayers in No. 3 Ward of the Pohangina Road District will be held at the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Saturday next, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of considering the question of raising a loan of £4,970 for No. 3 Ward. It has been found, by the Department in Wellington, that typewriting machines are not suitable for telegraph operators at receiving instruments, and that operators are unable to take down by machines nearly as fast as when using the pencil. A fine mob of cattle, numbering 260 head, went through Feilding yesterday morning en route for Messrs Manson's property at Waituna, This was the balance of 460 head recently purchased at New Plymouth. We regret to hear that Mr S. Cossey's daughter who was so severely burnt a few days ago, and has since been removed to the Wanganui Hospital, lies in a very precarious state, and very slight hopes are held out of her ultimate recovery. The railway authorities have laid an information against the editor of the Egmont Settler for " trespassing on a part of the Foxton-New Plymouth railway, not being a station platform, or a railway, or other part, to which the public are allowed access by law." A Texas editor has boon going into economies. He says : — A bushel of corn makos four gallons of whisky, which retails at £16. Of this tho farmer gets 2s ; the railroad, £1 ; tho United States, £3 ; the manufacturer, £4 ; the vendor, £7 ; and the drinker— 6o days' and the deli num tremens. The commendable spectacle of a bankrupt insisting on paying bis creditors 20s in the £ was witnessed in the Feilding Court on Tuesday last. Mr T. M. Mitchell, of Campbelltown, was the party in question, and we hope to see so worthy an example imitated on all future similar occ&sions, A billiard match for £5 a side, 200 up, was played in Mrs Hastie's billiard room, yesterday evening, between Mr Worsfold, the (essee of the room, and a local amateur. The match, which excited* a great deal of interest, was won by Mr Worsfold, by b 4 points. The amateur made the biggest break of the evening, viz., 39. According to Judge Richmond the barbarous old custom that obtained in England when a Judge was on circuit was as follows. A jury which did not agree upon its verdict was kept locked up without food or light at night until the assizes were over, and then the jurors were placed in a cart and accompanied by the Judge's carriage to the borders of the town, where they were shot into the first ditch. A very pretty wedding took place at St. John's yesterday morning, the contracting parties being Mr E. H. Cummer field, of Apiti, and Miss Annie James, of Feilding. The bride was attired in a handsome cream cashmere dress with orange blossoms and veil. The bridesmaids were Misses Richardson and Cuminerfield, who wore pink zephyr dresses, and Misses Amy James and Nester Cutmnerfield, younger sisters of the bride and bridegroom respectively, and they wore white dresses with orange blossoms and veils. The bride and bridesmaids carried lovely bouquets of white flowers, th© present of Mr G W. Shailer, of Palmerston. The bride was given away by her father, Mr James, of Feilding, and Mr Joe Cummerfield acted as best man. The ceremony completed, the wedding party droye to tho resiilenco of Mr James, in Princess street, where a sumptuous breakfast was partaken of.