Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 116, 14 November 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Good Friday in 1894 will fall on March 23rd, Easter Sunday on March 25th. The accounts passed for payment by the Pohangina Road Board on Saturday amounted to £751 5s 10s. The Colonial Office in London con stders that the seizure of the New South Wales mineral exhibits in Chicago is a grave breach of international laws. During the past 12 months eight Friendly Societies in the provincial district of Auckland paid over L 4998 in sick money and L 897 in funeral claims. A requisition is in course of signature to Mr E. (Joodbehere, asking him to stand for election as Mayor ot the Borough, for a second term. The Columbian sealers claim a million dollars from the United States Govern* ment for being excluded from following their calling in Behring Sea for the last two seasons. It is estimated that the Palmerston Trotting Club will make a profit of £50 over their recent trotting meeting. Thiß is a highly satisfactory result and augurs well for the prosperity of the Club. A scratch match will be fired at the butts to-morrow afternoon by members of the Manchester Rifles commencing at 2 o'clock, and all who intend taking part are requested to roll up early, as tides are to be chosen on the ground. In London a man has been sentenced to seven year's penal servitude for marrying women in order to possess himself ot their saving!. At the time of bis arrest he had just advertised for a wife, and received no fewer than 150 letters in reply " Thit is an age," says Mr Worth, one of the Wellington candidates, " in which human nature hti to assert itself more than any age I have lired in yet." Well we (Truth) always suspected Worth of being a pre-Adamite fossil. Miss Dealy, one of the sufferers by tho railway accident at Awapuni recently, is not yet out of danger, being still in a semNconscioui state. We understand that Mr Trask is entering an action against the Railway Commissioners in connection with the accident. — Standard The Scotland Daily News thinks Mr. Evison's, (one of the candidates for Christ, church) suggestion, that the Labor Department should forward daily reports as to the state of the Labor markets in all parts of the colonies to the newspapers, is practical, and one likely to result in much benefit to the workers. At the triennial election for members of the Rangitikei County Council held last Saturday the following was the reBult :— Eangitoto Riding, C. W. MoLean ; Porewa Biding, B. E. Beckett; Paraekareta Biding, B. Aldworth ; Otairi Biding, J. Allison; Ohingaiti Biding, A. Dalziel. Improvements are being made to the footpath in Manchester street past the new shops lately built by Mr Hamilton and others, To make a good job of it the footway should be extended as far as Kimbolton road, the same as has been done on the opposite side of the street. It would be a convenience, and give the Square a more uniform appearance. A noticeable feature in the cricket match, Halcombe v. Feilding, (played on Saturday last) and one which drew forth expressions of admiration from the on' lookers, was the smart fielding and quick delivery of the Halcouibe men. On the other hand, the inferior display of the local men while in the field was very marked ; they appeared to lack sufficient energy, and allowed too many chances to slip by them, " butter-fingers " being often heard amongst by-standers. The winning or losing of a game depends equally as much, if not more, on the fielding as on batting or bowling, 60 it is to be hoped that our men will attend more to the former, or their chauces for the cup will be very poor.

Cricketers are reminded of the practice to-morrow afternoon. Mr S. Goodbehere's letter in reply to Mr Wilks will appear to morrow. The estimated value of tho stock pas* sine annually through the Chicago stockyards is £46,000,000. To-day's Wellington Times says :— The time for enrolment closed at 5 p,m yesterday in all electoral districts throughout jhe Colony, Mr George Eidd has purchased the well-known trotting horse St James from Mr Robertson, the price being £30. At the sale of Dceming's effects in Melbourne, someone with a specially exquisite taste for horrors paid L 24 15s for an axe and knife supposed to hare been used in tho murder of Emily Mather. The sale realised uearly LIOO. In our report of the prize-takers in the vehicle class at the recent show at Palmerston, we omitted to mention that Mr W. A. Browning, the well-known coach-builder, of Palmerston, took first and second prizes for rustic carts, first prize for a gig, first prize for a spring cart, and second prize for a visa-vis phaeton — all excellent samples of good workmanship. To-day Messrs McColley and West notify that they have leased the Foilding Hotel stables for a term of years to begin on Monday next. The public of Feilding and the surrounding districts aro invited by advertisement to extend to the new firm a share of their patronage which Messrs McColley and West intend to en» deavour to deserve by strict attention to business and moderate charges. " I am here, gentlemen," exclaimed the pickpocket to his fellow prisoners, "as a result of a moment of abstraction." " And ll," faid the incendiary, "because of an unfortunate habit of making light of things." "And I," chimed in the forger, " on account of a simple desire to make a name for myself." "And I," added the burglar, " through nothing but taking advantage of an opening which offered in a large mercantile establishment in town." But here the warder separated them. Our Birmingham correspondent writes : —The recent heavy ram has cut up the road from Birmingham to Pemberton very badly in some places. About 150 yards from the township there is a very ugly hole, and last week a dray loaded with wool, and a buggy were upset in trying to navigate it. When some serious accident lias taken place and the Kiwitea Road Board gets mulcted in damages, perhaps then they may see thoir way clear to put tho road to rights. There is considerable traffic on this road so that accidents are inevitable. We believe that the settlers although heavily rated, are subscribing a certain sum of money with the object of getting tho £1 for £ subsidy from tho Go. vernment to mend the worst part of the road. At a meeting of tho Executive Com* mittee of the Wanganui Education Board jostorday, there were present:— Messrs Notmnn (chairman), Bridge |and Carson. Soine school furniture was authorised to bo sent to Pohangina aided flcliool. It was resolved that it be a recommendation to the Board that when on the receipt of the June quarterly returns it is found that a school is over efficient through the promotion of a pupil teacher to the grade of junior assistant the staff may bo reduced, :f necessary., without waiting for the expiration of tho complete quarter. It was also resolved, That when the December cheques are forwarded to first-class pupil teachers, a circular be sent informing them that their pupil (eacherehip will expire on Juno 30th, and if they wish to remain in tho service of the Board they must apply for appointment. It was resolved that Mr D. Matheson be transferred from Linton to Stanway, and that the Believing Teacher be sent to Stanway.— Chronicle.