Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 103, 28 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Lottors of naturalisation have been issued to Mr F. Rink, of Makino. A meeting of members of tho Sports committee will be hold this ovening in Mr Sherwill's office. Mr G. A. Snla and Mr Gladstone nre said to be the only two Englishmen in Great Britinn who can speak Italian without a trace of accent. The Duke of Westminister has spent over ±1,000,000 in re-building Eaton Hall which is now considered to rival Chats* worth as England's Guesthouse. Entries for the Manawatu and West Const A and P Show close on October 31st, at 9p m. Forms may be obtained at Messrs Barraud and Abraham's Feilding branch. Joseph Hessel, the Austrain, who is said to have invented the marine screw propeller, died in abject poverty. But a monument was erected to his memory the other day :n Vienna. Mark Twain's eldest daughter, Miss Clara Clemens, not yet 20 years of age has written a play of an allegorical character, which is said to be charming and clever. The oldest " old lady " in England is an old maid. Her name is Pol ley Thomp • son, and she is nn inmate of Chamberwell workhouse. She h&s recently celebrated her 107 th birthdaj. Mr William Maitland intimates tha all accounts due to him must be paid forthwith to his solicitor Mr La«r n:o E. Kende. All claims against the advertiser arc also to be sent to Mr Rcade. Mr S. Thacker, boot and shoe importer is now soiling the whole of his stock off, at greatly reduced prices. Ho has some special lines m women's and girls boots nnd shoes, also men's shooters, the prices quoted being extremely low. His new advertisement will appear in Monday's issue. The tariff for cable messages to New Caledonia is as follows : — For first ten words, 10s 6d, and for each additional word sd, plus 2d per word for the New Caledonia terminal rate. Thus, a message of five words will cost Ils4d, one of seven words lls Bd, and one often words 12s2d. The timetable of Mr G. B. Bradford's line of coaches between Feilding and Birmingham is published to-day. Mr Bradford informs us that he will extend the line to Rangiwahia some time before the Christmas holidays. The Feilding booking ofh'ce is at the shop of Mr Ross, in Fergussou street. Floral praise services will bo held in the Primitive Methodist Church, Feild. ing, to-morrow morning and evening. The Church will be tastefully decorated with flowers, shrubs etc , and the Ilev G. Clement will deliver two discourcos on flowers uud their teaching. Special and appropriate music will be rendered by tho choir at each service. The little lettter •' h," when used where it should not bo, makes a vast difference in the sense of a word. This was exemplified at a railwuy platform in this dietrict a day or two since. It was in this way. Porter (to guard) : " What No. truck shall I put these goods into ? " Guard : >l Where for :-" Porter: "Palmerston." Guard: "Oh, Bhove them into (H)'L No 1 ? " On Tuesday next in the Primitive Methodist Church Foilding, the Rev K. Ward will lecture on tho Pioneer Primitive Methodist Missionary. Th.c lecture will be illustrated by Lantern views, specially prepared, comprising early preaching places and fellow workers, besides many places of interest throughout the colony. On Wednesday night the lecture will be repeated in the Temperance Hall, at Campbelltown, and on Thursday in Colyton. A young man bad taken bis seat ia a railway carriage at the Palmerston platform, xnd, as is usual at that station, he was pestered with newspaper runners of ovory descriptions to buy their wares. Not being in a reading humour, and wishing to ruimnute oyer the coming electioneering campaign, ho religiously refused each offer of, "Times/- 1 or " 'JTit Bits," when •■ little follow observing this, ran forward with '* 'Era yor are mister, J've '' got books with picters tor tluuu as can't ro.id." Tlje truin moving on at that moment rubbed tho youm;»ter of the look ot di>gutst ou tUo disturbed oiio'm uouuteuauce.

All nominations for the Feilding races slose ou November 3rd at 8.30 p m. The Carcarnon v Feilding cricket match was being played as we went to press this afternoon. Captain Edirin wired at 12 30 p.m. to» day :— " Indications glass fall, with easterlj wind." The time for receiving tenders for tho erection of an accommodation house at Waituna, has been extended to Wednesday, November Bth. Milk is coming in very freely to the Cheltenham Dairy Factory, and the Coly ton creamery will make a start towards the end of next week. The statement of assets and liabilities of the banks of the Colony for the quarter ending 30th September shows the liabilities to be £15,429,606 3s sd, and the assets £18,272,017 17s 7d. At the annual meeting of the D.I.C. at Dunedin yesterday it was stated the receipts were £7482 2s Id. A dividend of 7^ per cent was declared, and it was decided to give shareholders a bonus of 4 per cent ou account ot purchases. The Baud of Hope childreu aio to hare a treat ou Mouday evening noxt, wlion a coffeo supper will bo given to them in the Forester's Hall, at 7 o'clock. Those members who are on the roll will be admitted free, while outsiders are required to pay sixpence. The Court of Appeal to«day suspended Mr Henderson, solicitor, of Gore, for a period of six months on the ground that he had received money from clients for the payment of probate fees and duty on an estate, and had failed to apply them as directed. Tho results of the lambing in tho Uorowhenua district have been very satisfactory (says the Standard), despite the bad weather. Mr P. Bartholomew, of Ley in, had 120 per cent, and Mr T. Ransfield, ot Ohuu, hud 100 per cent, and many others had nearly as good averages. It is said that about a month ago all the co-operative workmen on the Government works at Ohingaiti would have voted against tha present Government then, but now will support them The question was asked of one'of them " How is that '?" The reply was " They (the Government) are more Liberal now." A decline in prices for sheep was noticeable at Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale on Thursday. This was due to the fact that there was an unusually lurge entry of sheep, and the Freezing Com panics, it was stated, were not prepared to pay the same rates as they had formerly given. The fall may be regarded as a merely temporary one. — Standard. At the Aacklatid Diocesan Synod yes tordny the president said that a special public meeting woald be bold at an early date to consider the question of urging Government to allow the Irish text* book of Scripture to be read in the public schools. A discussion took placo upon the report of a committee, suggesting the reading of the Irish text book in the schools with a conscience clause. A slight error occurred in our report of j tho Mutual Improvement Society meet- ' ing on Thursday. The sentence wilh regard to the Christian Endeavour Society should hayo read-: " It meets every alternate Monday," aud uot " every Monday "as stated. The next meeting will be on Monday ovening next, when ilio subject to be discussed will be " Friend ship," _^__^____^ ——