Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 71, 21 September 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

A creamery started work at Bunnythorpo this morning. Tho next meeting of the Wellington Land Board will be held on Thursday, 28th instant. The Rangitikoi Racing Club will hold their Spring meeting at Bulls, on Wednesday the 27th inst. Big fields and good sport are guaranteed. * Wo regret to hear that Mr Sandilands has boon laid up with an attack of erysipelas since Monday, but it is hoped that he will be about again in a fow days. The Manchester Rifles are reminded 0^ the parade this evening, when the corps will be inspected by Colonel Fox, and Lieutenant Colonel Newall. It is rumoured in tho lobbies that if the Hon R. J. Seddon fails in his object to be appointed on the Railway Board, he will bo mado Commandant of tbo Forces of tho colony. We don't quite believe this. 1 A magic lantorn entertainment will be given at 6 o'clock this evening in tho Sal. • vation Army Barracks, to bo followed by a public mooting, when Adjutant Hoare, and other officers, will speak. j It is reported that the recent heavy j rains hare caused great loss amongst the flocks in the Turakina Valley. On the beach at the mouth of the Turakina ' river hundreds of carcases of sheep and cattle arc lying about, Oranges grown in the province of Auckland are now being sont to Feilding 1 They aro very swoet and nicely flavored. In the course of a few years wo hope to see tho whulo colony supplied with this , delicious fruit produced within our own L borders. At tho Palmorston R.M, Court yesterday his Worship refusod to issuo a Bhort I service summons until tho Christian name of the debtor was supplied. Tbo solicitor 1 said it was impossible to compel a man to givo his Christian name, whereupon his Worship rotnarked that a creditor who failod to obtain tho Christian name of his debtor did not dauoryo to recoyer his money. — Manawatu Tinier, Tho Chief Justice at Napier excused a railway employe from serving on the jury but said he did not think ho was quite right in doing so. Railway men were not under the control of tho Government, strictly speaking, and were not under the Ministry. However, as he had excused a railway man in Wellington tho othor day he supposed that ho must do so again, — Telegraph. In the barracks last night Captain Condon of the Salvation Army gave an interesting address on his connection with that denomination. He has now been an officer in its ranks for ten years, during which time he has been perfectly satisfied with his position, and, by the helf of God, is determined to remain true till death. Mr T. Anyon, of Feildiug, has purchaeed the property in Campbelltown lately owned by Mr Jas. Turner, and it is his intention tx> havo the building renovated, when be mmII commence business there early in October 11s a baker and confectioner. As Mr Anyon in well, known in Feilding as a capable trades man, we are confident he will receive the support hi 3 enterprise deserves. We wish Mr Aoyon every saiccess in his new venture,

Tapa te Whata. a well and favourably known natiye, of Awahun, is seriously ill at Aorangi. The Apiti settlors are anxious to secure better postal communication than a biweekly service. When the Cheltenham dairy factory's refrigerator is in work we will enjoy the luxury of ice in summer at reasonable cost. Those interested are reminded that there will be impromptu speeches at the Mutual Improvement Society this even* ing. The M to Z Committee cannot recommend the application of A. W. F.-Smith, Marton, for the remission of certain fines for non-payment of stamp duty. We have to thank Mr Danvers, the Secretary of the Napier Park Racing Club, for a copy of the programme for the Spring Meeting of the Club. The Good Templars social will not bo held at Awahuri to-morrow night. Due notice will be given when it is to take place. As the Fencing Bill now stands, the clause bringing Native lands within the scope of the Act has been struck out. With this amendment the Bill has been agreed to by both Houses. Articles of value, comprising orders, cheques, dividend warrants, bank notes, and coin, representing a total sum of £4740, were found in letters opened in the Dead Letter Office during last year. Tho Minister of Education, in reply to Mr T. Mackenzie, stated m the House yesterday that, owing to tho measles epidemic and the consequent loss of revenue to tho boards, tho payment of capitation allowance te boards lor tho quarter ending 30th September would be according to tho working average. The Public Works Statement will probably bo brought down to-day. It is un« derstood that beside tho vote for school buildings, tho sum of over £300,000 is to be allocated for railways, and over £200,---000 for roads. The Government intend to complete the Rotorua Railway, and the Estimates are to include a sum of £33,000 for that purpose, — Times. The member for Masterton, Mr Hogg, has more than once complained that the rates for conveying sawn timber by rail botween Wairarapa and Wellington are excessive. He asked tho Government to suggest to tho Railway Commissioners that the charges should be reduced, in viow of the fact that millions of feet of valuable timber are being annually burnod in tho Forty Milo Bush, and that the ex* port trade between Now Zealand and Australia is languishing. Tho Commissioners reply that the subject will haye their careful consideration. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold an important sale of dairy cows, Jorsoy heifors, store pigs, dairy utonsils, including a Do Laval Separator etc., on the promises of Mr D. Laing, of the Feilding-Ashurst road to-morrow, at one o'clock. Such an opportunity for securing first class dairy stock does not occur every day, and with the great demand likely to arise in consequence of the rapid strides which this industry is making, there should bo keen competition for tho various lots to bo submitted. A meeting of tho Gladstone Farm Homestead Association was held in Short's Hall last evening. The Secretary (Mr Bowater) read a letter from the Minister of Lands granting the Block as selected by the Association, but suggesting certain alterations in the boundaries in order to leave out the Waimarino plain. Eleven new members who applied for 1900 acres, were admitted, and the total area taken up. now amounts to 8000 acres. It was decided to leave the fixing of the boundaries in tho hands of the Secretary. John Moth-am, ot Leeds, aged 75 years, receiving parish pay, was recently sued for a debt of 70s, which had been due some years to a loan office. "Do you press for this debt V" said the Registrar to plaintiff. The plaintiif said " I do." " Good," said the Registrar, " I niako an order that the defendant pay one penny a I year ; first payment to be duo July, 1899. Next case 1" It will take poor John Mottram almost 800 years to pay that debt, and there is every possibility that the plaintiff will bo in Heaven before the last instalment is paid. But the probabilities are the other way. A dairy farmer at Ormondville gives the following as his experience of the pig industry. He had eight cows, and of these tho milk •£ four cows was usod for feeding calves, which were worth 30s each. The milk of tho othor four was given to the pigs, along with other feed. After deducting the valuo of the other food, the profit on these pigs was equal to £10 for tho skim milk alone. This was an addition of £16 on the return from tho eight cows by tho use of skim milk, and supposing a return of £7 a cow were obtained from the dairy factory, this would mean a result of £72 for the eight cows This return could bo improved, as the calves could be weaned at three months, or any time after threo months without risk, and tho milk could then go to pigs. The following new books have been added to the Public Library : — " The terrible Czar," '"In the stranger people's Country," " The life of Napoleon Bonaparte," " Green pastures and Piccadilly, 1 ' " The Valley Council," " The story of Philip Methven," " Stephen Elliots 1 Daughters," " The old Woman," " A P°PPy' 8 Tears,' 1 " Passe Rose," lc The heir presumptive, and hoir Apparent," " Tim," " Merely Many Ann," •'Children of the Ghetto," " Maid of Athens," " Helen Treveryan," " Kilgroom," "Coomassio and Magdala," •• A young wife's trial," " Prntty Misß Smith,"" For King and Queen," " The wise woman of Inverness," " Thrift," "The Island of Fantasy," " Bab Ballads," " Blacks and Bushrangers," " "Where duty lias," " Life by the Fells and Fords," " Barrack-room Ballads," " Tanglewood Tales," " When wo wore Boys."