Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 99, 24 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

There was a sharp earthquake at 3.25 this morning. The anniversary tea of the Birmingham Wesleyan Church will be held to morrow. Sir Robert Stout has been invited by the Prohibitionists to speak at Palmerston North. On Friday next the long looked for Cake and Apron fair will be held in the Assembly Rooms. The committee of the Feilding Jockey club meet at the Manchester Hotel tomorrow evening at 8 p m. The Directors of the Feilding Building Society were holding a meeting as wo went to press this afternoon. The special meeting of tho Feilding Borough Council to confirm the published bye-laws, will be hold to-morrow evening. A committee meeting of the Feilding Cricket Club will be held in Mr Basting's Manchester Hotel this evening at 8 p.m. A meeting of Mr Lethbridge's election committee will be held this evening is Mossrs James and Heaps office ut 8 o'clock. To-morrow evening the annual general meeting of the Feilding Athletic Sports will be held in the Assembly Rooms at eight o'clock. The first cricket match of the season will be played on the local ground betweon Carnarvon and Feilding teams on Saturday afternoon next. Mr C. Wickham gives notice to-day that he is prepared to cart small quantitios of wcol (about 4 or 5 bales) from any part of the district. During the last Iwenty years the Lord Mayors of London have collected over L 20.000.000 of money for philanthropic purposes. To-morrow will be observed as a holiday in some parts of the colony as " De« monstration Day of Sfc Labor." Strange to say the Banks will not be closed. The Palmer Beaumont Company have taken tho Assembly Rooms for November 6th, and tho Heller Company for the two race nights, November 29th and 30th. The Ashurst Racing Club intend erecting a grand stand, and have instructed Messrß James and Heaps, architects of Feiluing and Palineraton North to prepare the necessary plans. The Standard sajs that Mr George Fisher will speak at Marton and Feilding in reply to the Premier. Our contemporary has been misinformed, as Mr John Duthie has been entrusted with that task. Bro M. Cohen was installed last night as W.M. of the United Manawutu Lodgo E.C Palniereton North, in the presence of a large number of visitors from Wellington, Marton, and other places, At the request of a large number of tho electors of the Rangitikei Electorate. Mi 1 John Duthie, M H.R., has consented to give a political address at the Assembly Rooms, Feilding. on Thursday next, the 26th instant at 8 p.m. With a brave man you shall deal, or you shall auarrej, you shall profit or you shall be victor, yet you shall bo never the worse in purco or in your honour ,' but witha coward you shnll deal an 4 wjn, or shall fight uud wiu, rut shall tho prujii 01 the honor not be tv yuu.

The creditors in the estate of Joseph Temperley, of Marton, have decided that the debtor shall undergo a public examination. To-morrow night in the Army Bar* racks " Max Rinkle," the well-known circus clown, will give a narrative of his life and adventures. Coffee supper to follow: The annual general meeting of the Feilding Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Bank of Australasia. A prize fight took place at Aramoho, on Friday night last, and the concluding round will be finished in the Wanganui Police Conrt, the police having taken up the further conduct of the affair, Tho Mutual Improvement Society will hold their weekly meeting to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at the usual time, instead of on Thursday evening, in the vestry of the Primitive Methodist Church, On this occasion, which is tho last meeting of this season, thero will be a fruit banquet. Messrs Abraham ana" Williams, of Palmorston, have just imported from Taranaki, on bchalt of Messrs J. Saunders nnd F. E. Wntson, five head of purebrod 1 Jersey cattlo from" the pedigree herd of Mrs Halcombc. The cattle aaroe o excellent specimens of 'their class. At the Diocesan Synod yesterday the schedule of tho estimated receipts and expenditure of Pohangina and Hunterville were bracketed, with an appropriation of £200, and assessed at £40 and £100 respectively. The item of L2O for travelling expenses was reduced by L 3. Notice is given that John Euscoo, tho ! selector of section 37, Block 111, and Thomas Richard Ruscoe the selector of section 35, Blook 111, in the Survey district of Apiti have applied to the Commissioner of Crown Lands to traosfor the same to John Fredonck Ruscoo. " Quads " has the following pathetic lines :— " Wo had sweet dreams the other night, when all around was still ! We dreamed we saw a host of folks pay up their printer's bill. We wish the dream would come to pass and our empty pockets fill." The man must have been ill. Tapa ta Whata, a very old Maori chief, died at Aornngi last night. He was much respected both by his own countrymen, and tho pakebuc When tho old man died a Maori said : •' The thunder on Sunday waa tho henvons fortelliug his death, and the earthquake of this morning was old motbor earth opening her boiom to recoivo him." Tho following law books huvo from time to tiino mysteriously disappeared from tho Court Houso in Feilding. viz . 2 volumes of Statutes belonging to tho Court, two numbors of tho Now Zealand Law reports, tho property of a locnl solicitor, nnd on Thursday laft tho Stntutos of 18S2, tbo loss of which was advortised in theso columns on Saturday by Mr Maclean, This last is a bulky volume of !)7S pages, aud was bound in half calf, rendering it still raoro bulky. It could hnrdly therefore have been taken in mistake. The Grent Spring Knsdicnp of tho Wanganui Gun Club was fired at Fleming!on Lodge on Saturday afternoon. The shooting was excellent, and Mr C II Chavannes, who had tvo nominations, succeeded in obtaining both first and .second prizes, killing nil his nine birds nt ench try. He therefore takes the Cup, valued at L 25, and 25 sovereigns, for first honors, as well as L 7 for second j.rize. The fact that seven competitors tied for third place, with eight birds each, is proof of the closeness of the firing.— Chronicle.