Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 193, 16 December 1893, Page 2

Local and General News.

A presentation will be made this eyen« ing at 8 o'clock at Mrs Oliver's Empire Hotel, to Mr Watts, stationmaster, who is leaving for the South. All subscribers . are requested to bo presoat. The Bunnythorpo Stata School annual picnic will be held nest Thursday. The the sum of Ll3 has been collected to provide presents for tho children. An attractive and ingenious advertisement from the Manawatu Farmers' Co» bporatiyo Company, Palraoraton North, is published aa ap " inset " with to-day's issue of the Stab.

The Kiwitea Soad Board was sitting to-day as we went to press. Timber, once the staple export of this district, is now baring its place taken by wool and butter. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The Lodge will be tjled at 7 30 p.m. It is estimated that at least £2,500 is being paid out in cash to the milk sellers between Eltham and Stratford on this coast. The Wnnfianui Chronicle is responsible for the statement that the " forthcoming football senson promises to be one of unprecedented success." This, surely, is a trifle previous, The Palmeraton Standard soys:— lt is rumoured that owing to the poor demand for timber, a couple of the sawmills on the Company's line are likely to be closed for a time. We are glad'to hear that Messrs Hickford Bros have made a good start at San. giwabia, and that their push and energy is already being appreciated by thoße among whom they have cast their lot. A new adyertisement appears to«day from Mr John Cobbe, of the brick store, drawing attention to his Christmas importations, a special lino being articles suitable for Christmas gifts. See adver. tiseinent. The Returning Officer of thePohangina Road Board, M r H. J. Hayncs, publishes the results of the poll for a loan of £7472. 11s 3d. As the number of votes polled was not equal to the number required, the proposal was lost. A special treat for ladies this evening will be Mr J. B. Hamilton's magnificent window display of Christmas millinery. The most charming and elegant etjles of the season will be on view this evening, togotber with a grand selection of new goods just unpacked. A Nelson brewer on the Alcoholic Liquor Sale Control Act :— " It is a grand Bill; the grandest Liquor Bill of any country in the world, and it serves you TemperanCe people right for not being satisfied with the old Act, which was good enough for you. before." Miss E, Prendergast, the popular feacher of the Apiti school, is working up an entertainment and concert, to be followed by a coffee supper, for the benefit of prize funds to be shortly given to the scholars attending the school. The concert will take place on Thursday, the 21st instant, and will, we have no doubt, prove a great success. Apropos of the \cxcd question Labor " Bowrow " or " Buroo," the South Canterbury Times asks, " Why should Englishmen bother with these Frenchy words, anyway ?" Well, you sec, great Liberal statesmen, like W. P. Reeves, who have been to Parec consider them distangay and rckerkey The Puhiatua Herald sayj ; There have been some big tallies at the Edenham station, sixteen men having shorn 2496 sheep in one day, for lb6 most part Lincoln and Longwool heavy sheep, tho Wolseley machine being used. Euan, a native of somewhat slight build, passed up 227 in one day to his tally. A writer in the N. Z. Times over the signature " X," speaks out very strongly on the subject of cattle and sheep stealing, which is said to be rery prevalent all over New Zealand and particularly in the Wairarapa. Tho writer claims that " there is no more secure and paying bus; lies? in the Colony Ihaa cattle stealing at the present time." On Thursday the 21&t instant Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a sale of Eng« lish and American furniture at the show rooms of Mr W. (1. Shoiror. The stock is very well selected, and is also of the best known factories in the world. A quantity of locally made furniture will be sold at the rame time. The sale will begin at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The mysterious disappearance of the Rev. W. C. Burming, Baptist minister at West Melbourne*, which was reported recently, has been explained a few days ago when his body was found floating in the Ysrra, near the Walue street; bridge. In the pockets were found 3s 6d and a piece of paper upon which was written, " My name and address — W. C. Burming, Buhamah villa, Brighton street Newmarket. We are informed that the Cafe de Paris Hotel has changed hands, the purchaser being Mr Hook, of Timaru. Mr J. A Montague yalued on behalf of Mr Black, aud Mr H. Wollerman acted on behalf of Mr Hook. The Bunnythorpe Hotel has also changed hands, Mr Braun being the purchasor, Mr J. B. Montague was the valuer for Mr Evenson.— Manawatu Times. j Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co,' ' proprietors of the ronowned Empire Tea Company, have a replace advertisement in to«day's issue io which it is announced that they are fighting on and gaining ground, " quality " being their object, and " value " them goal. There are numerous brands of teas now in the markets, but those who are seeking for a really good article in anticipation of an enjoy* able cup of tea at Christmas time should certainly give the Empire brand atnal. A fire oocurred at Stoney Creek lust evening by which Mr H. Cobb's handsome residence, together with the outbuilding and almost the whole of the furnituie, were totally destroyed. The origin of the fire is at present a mystery, as the servant girl, who was alone in the house, Mr and Mrs Cobb and family being away from home at the time, was too excited to give au intelligible account of its commence* ment. The buildings wore insured, but Mr Cobb is nevertheless a heavy loser. The insurance waa £100 m the New Zealand office. On Thursday evening next Lyons' Tourist Burlespuo Company will give ono of their popular and varied entertainments in the Assembly Booms. The performance will opea with a short musical vaudeville entitled "The Loan of Lover," which from all accounts is very amusing, and will be followed by an evtrayaganz* entitled " lalo of beauty" in which all the latest songs, dauces, and Acrobatic sensations are introduced. An advertisement giving further particulars will appear early next week. At a meeting of the committee of the Manawatu Bacing Club, held last Thursday evening at the Commercial Hotel, the following regulation was ordered to be printed on tko tickets for ad tuition to the oeurse, which are to be issued on the express condition that the persons using them agree to submit to it :— No person on the Manawatu Eaoing Club course shall lay or take totulisator odds or make any bet straight out or otherwise except through tno totalisator ma* chines on the course. Any person committing a breach thereof may, by order of any steward of the Manawatu Bacing Club, be removed from the course.' — Manawatu Times. Aa amuHDg- rencontre took place last night on a distant part of the Kimbolton road. Two horsemen met "at noon of night " at a spot where the gloom cast by the overhanging forest made things look rather " creepy " not to say blood curdling. At the time that each rider heard the hoof strokes of the approach ot the other's horso, a woodhen gave utterance to her wild and mournful seroiim, and immediately afterwards another tir^htbml hooted a dibin.il response. " Who's that " stammered one rider, " Bail up " cried tho other, and then, with one common impulse of terror, both turned their horses aud rotirod at full Fpeed However, oue of them turned about presently and continued his journey, but the other ha? not beeu heard of since.

Captain Edwin wired today :—lndications of glass rising. The lawn tennis tournament between the Falmerston and Feilding Clubs was proceeding as we went to press. A new advertisement from Mr A, Eade, cabinetmaker, will appear next issue. Mr Eade requests us to state that he wants some " cash " for the festive season. It has been decided to unveil the Old Soldier's Monument at Wanganui on Tuesday evening next at 7 .30. Among others, the officers of tho Manchester Rifles. haye been invited to be present. A grand concert, cantata, gift auction, Christmas tree, and sale of .work, in connection with the Feilding Primitive Methodist Church, will be held in the Assembly Rooms .on Tuesday evening next, for the purpose of raising funds to wipe a debt of Ll3'4 off the church. For further particulars see advertisement. The way things are in England is shown by a proposition of a London periodical that an association be formed to persuade widows from marrying a second time. This is a mere matter of justice to their sisters who had not yet had an initial chance in the matrimonial market.