Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 129, 30 November 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The new timetable for tho Hunterville branch of railway will be published on Saturday next. It is rumoured that a Feilding resident intends shortly to erect a large accommodation house in town. Mr Goodbehere returns thanks to those burgesses who voted for him at the election ior Mayor yesterday. la another column Mr Carthew returns tbanka to those burgesses who voted for him at tho Mayoral election yesterday. Captain Edwin wired at 1.35 p.m. today :— lndications glass rising, with westerly winds." A Kerry farmer namod CasteUoo ro« cently kissed a joung lady named Miss Kennedy against her will. The Castlegregory magistrates sent him to gaol for a month ! Mr Purkiss, of Awahuri, has just finished shearing and has had a good clip averaging Bjlbs. One shearer, Alex. Stewart, of Awahuri, sheared 206 sheep in one day, in the usual hours. This i beats the record. The Heller Company, who were playing in Eeildiog some six or sevea weeks since, have returned here, and last evening they gave one of their varied entertainments in the Assemby Booms. The leech blight has already made its appearance among the fruit trees here. Orchardists will remember that hellebore of Little's sheep dip dissolved in water are effectual modes of destroying this pest. Tho deepest well in Australasia is said to be on Messrs Taylor, Rowan and Co.'s estate, where a magnificent flow of wator measuring 120,000 gallons, has been atruck at 3617 feet. The tomperaturo is 180 deg.

In another column we publish the eighty-sixth report of the Bank of New South Wales, one of the staunchest and best banking institutions in the colonies of Australasia. Sound in its finance, and liberal in its management. The town was crowded last night with sporting people and others, who were attracted here by the races. The hotel accommodation was insufficient to meet the requirements of the public, and consequently some fifty or sixty people had to journey to Palmerston for beds. Th 6 voting between Messrs Piram and Rnelson in the country districts on Tuesday was remarkably close, only two votes separating the candidates. The numbers were— Mr Pirani 648, and Mr Snelson 646. The total majority in favor of Mr Pirani was 203. The usual monthly meeting of the Wanganni Education Board commenced last night. It was decided that the schools be closed for the Christmas holidays on Thursday afternoon, the 21st December, to Monday, the 29th January, 1894. The Board meet again to day. The following team ol cricketers lias been selected to represent Birmingham i against Colyton. to be played at Birmingham on Saturday next .'—Messrs Hedges, H. Mtinro, Birks, Barlow, Hyde, Sandeman, Palmer, Byrne, Taylor, Smith, and J. Munro ; emergencies, H. Moss and J. C. Baynes. The Standard says :— Mr W. Matravers, the Returning Officer for Palmerston, is deserving of special praise for the efficient manner in which he conducted the polling arrangments on Tuesday. Everything wns worked smoothly, smartly nnd well. His assistants at the vnrions polling booths also merit a word of praise for the satisfactory manner in which they discharged their duties. No less tnan thirteen candidates have forfeited their deposits of LlO through failing to poll one- tenth of the winning candidate's number. Their names are : — McNicol, Dunedin ; Vaile and Fernandez, Auckland j Frith, Oamaru ; Mc< Malion, Mnnuknu ; Stewart and Fraser, Bay of Plenty ; Smith. Waikouaiti ; Pick, Ashley ; Price, New Plymouth ; Leek, JSclson; Douglas, Lyttelton ; Munro, Cavcrshnrflj