The Feilding Star. Published Daily. FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1893. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 102, 27 October 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1893. Local and General News

The names of only 1500 women have so far been placed on the Napier electoral roll. Just opened up at S. Svendson's, two trunks of ladies', gents', and children's boots and shoes for summer wear. Mr J. G. Wilson, one of the candidates for the Otaki seat, was in Feilding yesterday on business connected with the election. A Watrarapa candidate thus expressed himself at a political mooting :— " I be liovemen and women, of either sis, should get tho same pay, Edison is at work on his phonokinctograph, a likeness that will ipeak, he says, and therefore undoubtedly a great improvmont upon the speaking likeness. Mrs Lapgtry possesses a dressing-bag which is perhaps the loveliest and costliest of its kind. It is adorned with gold and jewelled fittings, and cost— only £1,500. Tho Feilding Athletic Sports committee will meet at Mr Sher well's office to morrow evening for the transaction of goneral business and to decide upon a regular night of meeting. Patti has at last owned up to 50 years. In a recent interview she ingenuously says that she has been singing since '61, and she finds the public " just as eager " to hear her as when she was 18. Mr Robert H. Pudney, of Fairfield, Colyton gives the Ashurst buildors and contractors Messrs Rimmer and Craven, great praise for the way they erected his new residence. Mr J. Hollis, who recently sold out of his property on the Feilding road, has purchased a section of Mr McKenzie on the flat, and Messrs Rimmer and Crayon have just finished a neat little four-roomed cottage for him on the said section. We have been furnished with a copy of the Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company's yearly report, which shows the result of the year's business transactions to have been of a very satisfactory and profitable character. The reserve fund is now L 2.014.000. Last o von ing, at the Manchester Hotel, i Mr Bag nail entertaiued at dinner Mr I Duthie and the members of Mr F. Y. j Lothbridgo's committee. Tho gathering was a most enjoyable one, and the ■' spread " reflected great credit on mine boat of tho Manchester Hotel, Mr Bastings. Two children have died at Elwood, (Vie.) through drinking milk supplied by an insanitary dairy. Besides bad drainage, the manure of the racing stables waa thrown about in all directions at the dairy while the milking was conducted in such a manner as almost to ensue contamination. The Manchester Rifles met at the range this moruiug for volley and independent firing under the supervision of Lieut-Col. Newall. Captain Kirton, Lieutenants Bray and Burlace, and twenty-seven noncommissioned officers and men were in attendance The firing was of the usual average character. A large number of Maoris from Foxton, Otaki, and othfr places down the coast, arrived in Palmerston yesterday and proceeded to Awahuri to attend the tanyi over the dead chief, Tapa te Whata. Amongst them was Mr Hoam Taipua, M.HE, who, we are pleased to note, is in much hotter health than ho has been for some time past. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Bunnythorpo Good Templars' Lodge was held on Tuesday evening, tho attendance at which was very good. After the lodge was closed an open meeting; was held, at I which suyeral songs were eung by differ- ! ont ladies and gentlemen, the solo sung j by MissMcKeuzie.of Feilding, being particularly well rendered. It was mentioned in a recent issue of the S'i'AU that several volumes of Statutes had mysteriously disappeared from tho Court House Chambers. Sine© then (after being advertised for in the hjnu) one of the missing yolumee has been returned to the owner, and probably tho others vill turn up in a like manner. Strange to say the owner of the volume which turned up yest 01 day had only recently purchased a uew copy.

The Post and Telephone office, Cheltenham, is now open as usual from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m daily, under the charge of Mrs Rose Clifton. ( Messrs James and Heaps, architects, notify that they have plans etc., at their offices for certain additions to a residence in Feilding. Tenders are invited by the Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, for forming thirteen chains of Eyre street. Tenders close on Thursday, November 2nd. ' Wo are informed that Mr Bradford has purchased from Mr Maitland his road rights etc., in connection with the coaches running from Feildiug to Birmingham. Messrs Gorton and Son's stock sale was well attended this afternoon. Thero were a largo number of entries of sheep, but the prices realised wore rather below recent quotations. After the meeting last night a woman elector remarked to a friend : — " Well, I have heard Mr Seddon, and I have listened to Mr Dutbie. Now, one of them must have told taradiddles, and I do think it must haye been Mr Seddon." To morrow's illustrated supplement contains the concluding chapters of the tale "By the Sondor." with a large amount of interesting reading relating to tho cultivation of fruit and flowers, and the treatment of patients suffering from different diseases etc. The ladies are again well treated, and they will find, in addition to other matter, numerous useful recipes. A French statistician, who has been studying the military and other records has found that in 1610 the average height of man in Europe was sft 9m ; in 1820 it was sft sin and a fraction. At the present time it is sft 3Jin. It is easy to deduce from these figures a rate of repular and gradual decline in human stature. The calculation shows that by the year 4000 a d. the stature of the average man will be reduced to loin. At Bunny thorpe on Wednesday evening tho Mutual Improvement Society held a very successful mooting in the Public Hall. There was a large attendance and Mr C. Nissen presided. "An ideal M H.R ." was the subject discussed, and a number of papers, including several from ladies, were road. Although opinions differed on some pionts, all agreed that a Parliamentry representative should bo in favour of the direct veto.