Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 130, 1 December 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

La Grippe has made its re-appearance in this district, and several families at Makino are unfortunate in having it amongst them. The following are the vital statistics for Palmerston North for November :— Births 22, deaths 9, marriages 8. Notice is given by Mr Hayns, the secretary of the Pohangina Road Board, that a poll of ratepayers on the proposal to raise a loan of £7472 11s 3d to construct roads in No 1 Ward and part of No 3 Ward, will be taken at the Board's office, Pohangina, on Saturday next. It was rumoured during the general election campaign that Mr Scobie Mackenzie, in the event of his defeat at Waihemo, would be offered the Waikouaiti seat, and that it was only on condition that another constituency would be found for him if he lost Waihemo that he undertook the contest there. A Press Association telegram from lnvercargill says that the Hon Mr Richarison's defeat for Mataura is attributed to the want of organisation. Mr Richardson himself thinks the women's votes at Gore were the cause. In the vicinity of the unemployed works the Government candidates got 57 votes, to 15 for the other candidate.

The Manchester Road Board will meet to-morrow. It is reported that there is a dearth of shearers on the East Coast Why is it right Fisher is not elected to the House! Because there's no Fish there now. Captain Edwin wired at 12.42 p.m today : —Strong east to south and southeast winds ; glass rising. A notice from Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., thanking the Rangitikei electors will appear in our issue of to morrow. The sale of privileges of the Feilding Athletic Sports will be held by Mr Charles Carr, auctioneer, in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock in the Foresters' Hall, Bowen street. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. The Manchester Rifles will resume the match firing at the range on Wednesday next at the usual hours morning and afternoon. The corps will parade on the following day (Thursday) for inspection. The catering at the grand stand dining room during to two days races, was everythat could be desired, and reflected the greatest credit on the proprietor of the Manchester Hotel, Mr Bastings, who was the providor. The railway bridge over the Makino stream is now being strengthened, and a gang of men are now employed piledriving there. Mr W Gichard, one of tbe pioneer settlers of Feilding, is in charge of the engine used for pile-driving,

The cup match between the Marton and Feilding Cricket Clubs has been postponed from to-morrow, to Wednesday next. The cup fixtures for to-morrow aro :— Colyton v Birmingham at Birmingham, Sanson v Carnarvon at Sanson, and Union v Palmerston at Palmerston. An extraordinary general meeting of the Longburn Freezing Company was held at Palmerston yesterday. The Chairman moved alterations in the articles of association, which have already been published. A special meeting will be held on December 16 to confirm the resolutions passed. A meeting of the Manawatu-Rangitikei Cricket Union met in Feilding last evening. The protest entered by Carnarvon against S. Smith, of Marton, was withdrawn, and the disputed match, Marton v Sanson, has to be fixed by the Union. The secretary reported that all clubs had paid their entrance fees. A cricket match will be playod on the Feilding ground on Saturday afternoon between the second elevens of the Feilding and Palmerston clubs, commencing at 2 o'clock. The following are tbe names of Ithe local team : — Hill, Giesen, Baillie, Galland, Halcombe, Henderson, Reade, Eade, Parr, Foster, Carty. A full Cabinet meeting will probably be held towards the end of next week, and immediately afterwards Sir Patrick Buckley will start on his long meditated trip Home. Far this purpose leave of absence will be granted him, and therefore no alteration in the personnel of the Ministry will be necessitated. It will be seen by our telegrams that the man Knight who committed burglary in the Colonial Bank here, has been sentenced to seven years. He appears to have been a hardened offender, and Mr Wakelin who behaved so pluckily in arresting him when on the bank premises deserves the utmost credit for his conduct, The Napier Telegraph thinks Sir Robert Stout's opposition a danger to the Government, He is sure to detach a considerable part of their following, and the probability is that he will try and trump up some kind of alliance with the battered remnant of the Opposition. Ministers, at all events, may well pause before promising themselves an uninterrupted career of absolute power. A Pahiatua correspondent writes to the Wairarapa Daily Times:— " There can remain no doubt now as the existance of the dreaded bot fly in the district, as a harness horse— the property of Mr D. Knight— died suddenly on Thursday evening, and upon opening it a cluster of the bots in the grub state was discovered. They were attached to the spine, near the kidneys, where they had played sad havoc."

Messrs Wilson and Co, fellmongers, are displaying considerable energy in pushing their business in this district. They are cash buyers of wool and skins in any quantity, and will go to any part of the district to purchase large or small lots from settlers, thus saving the latter the trouble of hunting for a market. So far they have spent large sums of money in the district, and their turn-over is very great each year. A notice from the firm appears in another column. Anyone contemplating making purchases in the drapery line should make it their business to give Mr John Cobbe, of the brick store, a call, where they will will find that he has, in that line, a firstclass assortment of everything requisite for house furnishing. In linoleum, tapestry, and Brussels carpeting, curtains, etc, Mr Cobbe has a fine display, the prices of which, with other articles, will be found in his replace advertisement, which appears to-day The Manawatu Times has the following ominous paragraph which is calculated to make even the most apathetic oppositionist "sit up." — " Parliament can do anything, and it has been suggested that the first " truly Liberal reforms " which should engage the attention of the new Parliament should be the extension of the duration of Parliament from three to five or six years, and the increase of the honorarium from £250 to £500 per annum. It is assumed to be a certainty that dissolutions are things of the past. About eight years ago during a heavy north-west gale of wind, a goods van was blown out of the Feilding Railway station yard. Mr Towler, the chief porter, was held responsible for this and his pay and rank reduced. We are glad to hear that yesterday Mr Towler was reinstated in his old rank as 1st class porter and his pay raised to what it was before. Mr Towler has been porter at the Feilding station for about seventeen or eighteen years, and has always borne a good character as a steady man, and faithful public sorvant, What Mark Twain described as meanness in the employer who, when one of his men was blown into the air owing to an explosion, and after several minutes had elapsed came down again and resumed his work as though nothing had happened, reduced his wages for the time lost, may perhaps in these days of retrenchment be set down as pure saving and wise economy. The American humorist has at any rate been outdone in Victoria. Some time ago (says the Argus) a man named John Hastings, employed at the Western railway station, Ballarat, had the misfortune, when half his day's work was done, to be knocked down by a train and run over, the result at the time being that he lost his arm, Since then the consequences have been aggravated, for Hastings has been " docked " half a day's pay for the half shift he did not work.