The Feilding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1893.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 93, 17 October 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1893.

Local and General News « The Eiwitea Road Board will meet next Saturday. Mr Bruce, M.H.K., was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. The Manchester Rifles will hold a parade on Thursday next. Christchurch Truth does not think Sir Robert Stout will be elected for Wellington. The Martini-Henri rifles, purchased by members of the Manchester Rifles, have arrived. The mam electoral roll for the Rangitikei electorate will be completed about the oud of this month. The Bank of Now Zealand recently forwarded from Sydney a large amount of gold to San Francisco. The regularly monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday next. Captain Edwin wired at 12.45 p.m today :— " Indications for strong north-west to west and south winds ; glass rise." The population at last census in the Rangitikei County was 4438; Oroua County, 7418; Manawatu County, 2725. Miraboau said that had there been no such thing as honesty in the world, some one would have invented that virtue— and made it a success. We understand that the owner has disposed of a portion of the site of the old Public Hall, at a figure satisfactory to both parties to the transaction. There are some sneak thieves about Feilding. A thrifty housewife had a roast shoulder of lamb taken from her meat safe the other night. The correspondent of a Napier paper thinks that long beers should be laid on to the Supreme Court for the relief of counsel and witnesses engaged :n trials. The well-known cross country nder McTaggart, who was injured through Unity falling on him in the hurdle race at the Rangitikai meeting, has been ordered to the Wangauui hospital. Until permanent arrangements can be made, Mr F. Dowdle has been temporarily placed in charge of the Cheltenham Post and Telephone Office. He will be in attendance from 10 to 11 a.m., 2 to '6 p.m., and 4 to 5 p.m. For Mr Bradford's coach timetable, we refer our readers to hia advertisement. Mr Bradford has decided not to run »n afternoon coach from Feilding and a morning one from Birmingham, for some little time. Mr H. B. Yogel, son of Sir Julius of that ilk, is announced as a candidate for a Wellington seat. All Mr H. B. Yogel has inherited from his gifted papa is a portion ot that gentleman's impenetrable cuticle. — Christchurch Truth. The Hope of Awahun f.O.G.T. hnlrl thoir weekly meeting on Friday night, when it was decided to hoid a concert and coffee supper on Friday next (20th). Tho Order is steadily advancing here, there being 29 on the roll at proaent. A New York " temperance " papor has at length, and entirely to its own satisfaction, found out what was the matter with poor Admiral Tiyon when bo lost the Victoria. il« was "drunk.'' Talk about the story of tho " Throe Crows ' ' First the Admiral was an unmitigated feero : then he watt mini, aud now— druuk.

Messrs F. Hill and Joseph Poole, bookmakers and iurf commission agents, of Wanganui, have dissolved partnership. " Let joy be uneonfined.' 1 Tho brother of a Hawera resident was presented to tho Duke of York and his bride. The renl Britisher " dearly loves a lord, but a Duko is true inwardness " Messrs Archer and Co., drapers etc., of Birmingham, have an advertisement in to-day stating that they have just opened up a splendid assortment of boots, shoes, I and drapery. Large numbers of bales of wool have already arrived at the Feilding Railway station. We notice the bridge at Aorangi is a great convenience to woolgrowers at Aorangi, Taonui, and Bunnythorpe. A meeting of persons interested in the election of Mr F. Y. Lethbndge was held last night, in the Forester's Hall. A committee was appointed, of which Mr SherwiU was elected chairman, and Mr Sandilands secretary. Tne Napier News asks why the speech made by the Premier in Feilding on Friday last, was not telegraphed to the morning papers. We may inform our contemporary the speech was published the following morning in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Christchurch. A young man named L. S, Morton, agod 23 years, died yesterday at New Plymouth. He had been connned to his bed for some weeks, suffering from an abcess on his hip brought on by a kick received in the football field. An opera* tion was performed, to which he succumbed. The Post says: —An erroneous impress Bion very generally prerails that under the new electoral law all electors who fail to record their f otes at any election are to bo struck off the roll. A provision to that effect was contaiucd in the Bill as introduced by Ministers, but it was struck out iv committee. A horrible thing happened m a dressmaker's establishment in Wellington recently. A young lady found a mouse in the pocket which contained her lunch, and then the wild beast ran up her sleeve. It required four able bodied men to remove the dangerous rodent and there was a great deal of hysterics transacted during tho operation. On Thursday next, at Mr Guy's store, Apiti, a poll of ratepayers will be taken on the proposals to raise a loan of .£2OOO, under " The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the purpose of completing roads in the Feilding Special Settlement Block, being part of No. 5 Ward of the Pohangjna Road District. The polling hours are fronfßa.m. till 6 p.m. Last night a large audience assembled in the Army Barracks to witness the limelight service. A great variety of pictures was exhibited, nearly all of which were of an interesting, instructive, or amusing character. The applause was frequent and hearty. Captain Harlow made an excellent spokesman, and Lieutenant Fleming also rendered valuable assistance. A bootmaker down South, iutonding to build, invited tenders for carpentering, plumbing, etc., proposing to be bis own architect. A man thereupon wrote to the bootmaker: —"Sir, —l want you to give mo a price for making twolve pairs of boots. I will find all material, contractor to provide wax, threads, and guarantee same for three months, £1 to bo kept until it is assured the woik is satisfactorily done." A sad story was told at the inquest on the body of an unfortunate Australian, named William Gilbert, recently in London, who had died from syncope, supervening on delirium treinens. Gilbert was an inventor, and had patented a new tea-packing machine for grocers and teadealers. Leaving his wife and family in Victoria, be went Home nine months ago to " push his patents." The inevitable disappointments followed. Some of his inventions had been anticipated, whilst others were impracticable. He lost hope, and took to drink. The local doctor pulled him through two bad attacks of D.T., but the third was fatal.