Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 100, 25 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

A Liberal Association is to be formed in Wauganui. The Saturday half-holiday has proved a failure in Dunedin. Milk will be received by the Cheltenham Dairy Factory oq and after Friday next. A Wellington paper hints that the Ministry are hankering after a five million loan. ! The Tuapeka Times says : "Mr Earnshaw is evidently moulting his Socialistic feathers." Mr John Duthio will arrive by the Mail train to-morrow at midday. Dur» ing his stay Mr Duthic will be tho guest of Mr Bagnall. Tho annual general meeting in connection with tho Feilding Athletic Sports will be held in the Assembly .Rooms this evening nt eight o'clock. A man named William Wilson was convicted at Marton yesterday ou two charges of sly-grog selliug and fined £20 on each charge, or two months' imprisonincut in Wanganui Gaol. The Dairy Union Canvassor is now in the Ashurst district for the purpose of taking up shares for the Aehurat creamery, and it is to ho hoped that settlors will respond freely, as the season is drawing on. At a meeting ot the Provisional Directors, held yesterday afternoon, it was resolved to register the Permanent Building Society. Tho success of this praiseworthy institution may now be looked upon as certain. Referring to Sir Robert Stout's proposal to abolish Party Government, the Taranaki News observes that "an elective Ministry would never have introduced and forced through the House a measure for the purposo of spending £800 as back ! pay on tho newly appointed Legislative Councillors who wore not entitled by law to a single penny." A number of Feilding mongrels have lately acquired a taste for fresh mutton, and Mr Lethbridge's run being the nearest to town they have singled it out as the tscene of their opertaions. Mr Lethbridge has suffered to a considerable extent, and bo likewise have Bouie of the curs, who lost the number of their mees in their laet mad frolic. The great danger attached to the practice of throwing banana and orange peels on the footpath was exemplified in the Palmerston Square yesterday afternoon, says the Standard, when a young lady had her ankle sprained through slipping on a banana peel. Throwing debris ou the footpath, it may be mentioned, is a breach of the Police Offences Act. This practice is also prevalent in Feilding. Mr J. G. Wilson's himllo horse, Iliamoe, is dead. It appears that on Friday afternoon the horse took advantage of the door of the loose box being opened, nnd rushed out Unfortunately the rug was not properly fastened on, and it slipped round. The horse trod on it with its front feet and tripped, falling over on its head, and injuring Iho neck 11 died from the effects of tho injury ou Sunday uftertlOQti;

Another consignment of trout will be received to-morrow, from the Master ton fishponds, by Mr Sberwill, the Secretary of the Feilding branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. To day's Chronicle says -.—The funeral of the late Mrs John McGregor took place yesterday. The service at the grave was conducted the Rev. J. Treadwell. Quite [ a number of very handsome wreaths 1 were laid upon the coffin before it was placed in the grave. According to a recent Parliamentary Blue Book, there are more than a million widows in England and Wales. It gives the exact number of widows as 1,124,310, of whom no fewer than 169 are between fifteen and twenty years of age, while 3840 arc over twenty, but under twentyfive. As will be seen on reference to the advertisement.Messrs Wriggles worth and Biii'is, photographers of Wellington, have Opened a branch establishment in Pnlmerston N , next to Mr Montague's nuction rooms, and are offering the same concessions to residents in this district ns in Wellington. A writer in the Weekly Scotsman says, " 1 don't know whether the Edinburgh folks indulge in New Zealand mutton. If not, I wonid advise them to try. I onco subjected it to a test in my own house, and found it excellent, not knowing it came from the freezing works. I am rnther surprised that New Zealand butter does not top the Home market. Depend upon it, it will do so some day, for where will you find such pasturage and such a salubrious climate for all the conditions of butter-making ?" It was notified in a recent Gazette that from the Ist November, telegrams must not be accepted for transmission when the surname only of an individual is given as the address, and generally that the same rule should apply to the addresses of business firms. This applies also to addresses which include a ho rn dc plume. A mull dc plume may not be used in the place of the proper name of the person nddresse.l, and if inserted at all may only appear as part of the designation of such person. An extraordinary occurrence took place lat Olmu on Sunday afternoon. Throe of j Mr Robt. Whiley's daughters, accom--1 panicd by a younger brother, went for a stroll into the bush and whilt proceeding along the tramway, the younger girl's I ilross suddenly took fire and was burnt j in several places before it could be I extinguished. The young lady's hair I whs slightly scorclied. The only way it can be nccouulcd for is that the lightning which was Hashing at the timemust have ignited the dress. A team will be picked from the following players, after the practice this iifternoon, to represent the Feildinu ( ticket Club against Carnarvon on Sniurday next : — Messrs Hill, Baillie, Sweet, lieade, Parr, Richards, U. i.ifson, Henderson, Young, Bramwell, Uov. Innes'Jones. W. Gieson, Gallund, j Minson, nnd Foster. A committee I meeting of the Club was held in Basting^ Hotel last evening, when ordinary routine business was dealt with ; those present were Messrs Burlace, Baillie, Parr and IJ ciiaids. Mr Thomas Anyon, who is about to Lomtnonce business in Campbelltown as a hiiker and confectioner, will bo supplying :i long felt want in that district, as for soinotitne past there has been no local bilker thoro. Mr Anvou is well known in Feilding as a capable tradesman, and we have uo doubt he will receivo the patronage his ontetptise doserves. On the first of November his establishment will bo in working order, and he will deliver bread to all parts of Campbelltown. The Westport Times published an interview to-day with Mr Joachim, general manager of the Westport Coal Company. The company has paid away since its commencement £1,070,650. In weges there have been paid £567,072 ; in royalty for railway haulage, rates, and taxes, i."215,590; for freights to local carriers, £327,211; and for stores etc., i' 61,877. Tho company employs 525 hands at Denmston, and 62 at Oranity Creek, and has a fortnightly expenditure of upwards of £3000 in wages. Tho sale of game all the year round is found to interfere with the thorough stocking of districts, and the preservation of either Native or imported kinds, and consequently a united effort is being made by the Acclimatisation Societies to induce the Government to stop the sale of game for a year. At present it is the custom to storo game with the freezing companies, and in order to meet the demand that exists, the slaughter of birds is necessarily greater than used to be the case when such facilities did not exist. The Hawke's Bay Horald says : — " We hoar, on unquestionable authority, that the reconstruction scheme of tho Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will be ready for the approval of the Court in a few days. A cable message says that all the main details have been satisfactorily ar ranged, only some minor points, in no sense vital, having now to bo settled. No doubt matters would have been brought to a head earlier had it not been for tho long vacation, which ends to-day, tho Michaelmas law term commencing tomorrow, The funeral of the late Mr Samuel Powell took place yesterday afternoon at Wanganui. As showing the esteem in which tho deceased gentlemen was held, it may be stated that the cortege was ono of the longest that has been seen at a private funeral in Wanganui for some time past. The ceremony at the grave was conducted by the Rev C. 11. Garland, and was most impressive. Several members of the St Andrew Kilwinning Lodge attended without regalia, and placed their emblems on the coffin. Messrs C. 11. Chavanne, E. Moult, P. P. Hogg, and D. Hogg acted as pall bearers. A lucky man. Ho woio a phylactery His wife was beautiful, his children like them both, and healthy and strong. His cows gave full milk and his ewes ayeragod ono hundred and fifteen per cent. Not a corn or a bunion was to be found in tho whole family, while his dogs r.ovor had tho distempor. His guv novor missod, and his fiehiug rod was deadly among tho finny tribo, Tho sun shone specially for him. and the moon was always there to light him when ho went out at night. The charm which he wore, and which did so much— was only a receipted printer's account. There is every indication of a good time at the Cake and Apron Fair on Friday next in the Assembly Rooms, and the ladies are sparing no efforts to proTide nil conditions necessary for both a pleasant and a profitable afternoon and evening. Talented instrumentalists and vocalists from distant towns are expected to assist at tho concert, during which their will be intervals for promenades and conversation. The refreshments will be abundant and of ex' ccllont quality. The ladies will meet at ten o'clock on the morning of Friday to make preparations and roceive donations. Commenting on the frozen meat trade, and the fact that the depression is producing its proper effect in awakening the (•nei^ie:; of Victoria to means of increasing its production for export, the Argus says : — '• J'lie New Zealand pioneers of the !r,nle had a far greater risk to take than lac*.- t lie Australian pastoralist now. But j if he allows himself too poor-spirited to turn his necessity into his opportunity it is more than doubtful whether the trade will develop more speedily in the future than it has done in the past. New Zealand hns gone ahead of us in this direction, imt through the superiority of natural j ud\antuges, but by displaying greater | energy and evil-reliance.

The ladies of the Wesleyan Church will j hold a sale of work, tea, and promenade | concert, on November 9th, in the Assembly Rooms. Floral praise services will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday next, morning and evening. The church will be decorated with flowers and shrubs for the occasion. The Court of Appeal, m Wellington, is not to sit today, Mr Edwards having induced the Bench yesterday to observe the j general holiday, his plea being that lawyers get only too few holidays, and were an overworked class. His Honor the Chief Justice seemed to think this a good sign— for the lawyers. The usual weekly meeting of the local branch of !ho I.O'G-T. wns held in the Foresters Hall. Two new members were initiated and one was proposed. Items were rendered, after the meeting resolved itself into harmony, by Messrs Downey, Anderson, Boyd, F. Bray, and T. Foster, and an enjoyable evening wns spent.