Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 26, 31 July 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding B>rough Council will meet on Thursday uext. The Colyton school has boon closed owing to the prevalenco of moaslos. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a sale of stock and hordes at thoir Sandon yards to-morrow. The Mayor invites the rosidoats of tho Borough to observe Friday (Arbor Day), as a half-holiday. Of courso there will be no halMiohday on Wednesday afternoon. Tho number of cases of measles in the Borough is very large. Amongst other victims, wo regret to hear that Mr and Mrs Garhck, of Manchester street, are prostrated with this complaint. A concert was giyon in tho Bunuythorpe Public Hall last Friday evening, in aid of the fund for stumping and clearing the cemetery. A very longthy programme was gone through in a most sat* isfactorv manner, as was evinced by tho frequent and hearty applause accorded to the performers by a yery large audience. The next horse sale of the United Farmers' Alliance will take place in Feilding on Saturday August 12th, instead of tho sth as previously announced. This change has been made so as to avoid clashing with the horse saloa of Messrs Abraham and Williams in Palmeeston North. Entries for tho Birmingham sale on Tuesday, Bth of August, and for the Foilding sale on Friday, tho 11th of August, are pub hshed to-day by Mr Charles Carr, Auctioneer. The Pahiatua Herald is responsible for the following: — An incident, funny despite its circumstances, happened during the Tarawcra eruption, and does not appear to hnTe hitherto found its way into print. At Tauranga a Minister's wife rushed into the street exclaiming " The end of the world liqß come, and there's no steamer to take us away. " This was surely mix* iug up matters with a vengeance.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board commences this evening. A lady'a sunshade has been left at this office. Owner can have the same on paying expenses. We regret to hear that Mr O, O. Fischer has another child laid up with an attack of diphtheria. Captain Edwin wired to-day: — West and south-west gale with rain and colder j weather ; glass rise. The annual meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held this evening at the Manchester Hotel. We are informed by the Post Office officials that telegraphic communication is now fully restored with the South Island. On Friday next Mr Franklm-Browne will sell, on account of Mr James Laird, of Wanganui, a choice selection of forest, fruit, and ornamental trees, also a splendid assortment of flowers, at the Manchester Hotel Sample Rooms, A seusation has been caused at Montreal by the contents of the will of the lato Mr Chanteloup, tho wealthy brassfounder, nearlj the whole of his large fortune being left to his employes, who aro to coutinue the business as a joiutstock company. The amount of tho bequest is estimated at £200,000. Canon Farrar has been quoted recently as saying that if all the books in tho world were iv a bluzo thoso that ho would hasten to snatch from the flames would be tho Bible. " The Imitation of Christ " (by Thomas a Kompis), Homer, iEschylus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Virgil, Marcus Aurolius, Dante, Shakspere, Milton, and Wordsworth. Messrs Bartholomew Bros havo se* sured a splendid piece of bush at Ranga* tira, where they luteud starting anothe 1 " sawmill. Tho plant is already purchased and operations will commeuco iv about a fortuiglit's time. The bush is well timbered with rimu, totara, matai, and white pine, and it is estimated that it will take three years cutting before it will bo worked out. Workers mterosted in the approaching visit of Mr Ninian Melville, M. LA., New South Wales, aro requested to moot in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening at 5.30 for the purpose of making the necessary arrnngomouts. This gentleman visited Dunedin iv 1891 during the licensing oloction, and delivered several very powerful addresses on tho prohibition question, which wore commouted on at tho time in a most favorable manner by tho local press of that city. Notwithstanding the storm of wiud and raiu, about a dozen settlers assembled at tho Bunnythorpe Hall on Saturday night to listen to an address on tho political subjects of the day by Mr Fred Pirani, one of tho candidates for the Palmerstoti sent. Mr Mathieson suggested that it was hardly fair to expect Mr Pirani to address such a small meeting, aud ho moved that the meeting be adjourned till Saturday, August 26th. The motion was seconded by Mr J. Dixon and carried, and tho gathering dispersed. — Staudard. Negotiations for the purchase of the Ngaire Block, a tract of unoccupied Native land of 7500 acres, witliin a mile ot the Eltham Railway Station, Taranaki, and close to the Mangaminn Block, haTe almost been completed by the Government. This laud, which belonged to the late Hone riluitna, is owned by the chief's daughters. Mr Caverhill was the lessee of the block, but the Government leased it from him, paying a remal of £200 a year. While the land remains locked up settlement in the district is checked, and as the Government found it impossible to make necessary roads unless tins block were acquired, its purchase was resolved upon. The price is 10s per acre, and the land is reported to be of excellent quali> ty. — Times. Honesty is said to be the best policy, but at times it is not encouraged as much as one would suppose. Not so very long Bince, a wealthy old lady iv a northern town had the misfortune to drop her pocket-book, containing a large sum of money and some valuable documents. A youth happening to find it was informed that if he returned it personally to the old lady it would be to his advantage. He did so, and was rewarded with " thrttppence in coppers " for his trouble. We forget whether the old lady advised him not to spend it all at once, although we we have a vague idea that the gentle youth went into a confectioner's shop and invested his " three lovely browns " in stick-jaw, and suffered excruciating agony from toothache next day. That old lady may die of swelled liver, but of enlargement of the heart— never. The following is a corrected list of places and dates of examination arranged by Inspectors Bindon and Spencer : — South Makirikiri, Tuesday, 3rd August; Upper Tutaenui, Thursday and Friday, 3rd and 4th ; West Rangitikei, Friday, 4th : Paraekaratu, Monday 7th ; Huntervillo, Tuesday and Wednesday, Bth and 9th ; Ohmgaiti, Tuesday and Wednesday Bth and 9th ; Crofton, Wednosday and Thursday, 9th and 10th ; Groatford, Friday 11th ; Parawanui, Friday 11th; Sanson, Monday aud Tuesday, 14th and loth ; Campbelltown, Wednesday and Thursday, 16th and 17th; Carnarvon, Thursday, 17th; Awahun, Friday 18th; Stoney Creek, Monday and Tuesday, 21st aud 22nd ; Taonui, Mouday and Tuesday, 21st and 22ud; Lintou and Fitzherbert, Monday 28th ; Kelvin Grove, Tuesday, 9Ofh