Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 222, 25 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Land and Income Tax is due next Wednesday. A Presbyterian Church is projected in Bunnythorpe. The shearing of lambs has commenced in Apiti and the fleeces are a good average weight. Mr Sawers will visit Apiti in a few days where he will give an address on the dairying industry. Town sections in Apiti are changing hands very freely at prices satisfactory to the vendors. Messrs Hatrick and Co., of Wanganui, have ordered a new boat in England for the Wanganui river traffic. The Manchester Rifles will be inspected this evening by Lieutenant- Col. Newall, in the Assembly Rooms. The Taranaki Herald has been enlarged, and we congratulate our esteemed contemporary on its improved appearance. The time for accepting tenders for the erection of a dwelling house at Cheltenham for Mr J. R. Johnston, has been extended, Weather permitting, the settlers who have bush down in the Feilding Small Farm Block, will begin to burn during next week. To-day Mr Hayns, District Engineer, went up to Apiti to effect certain improvements on the Main road through the township. Mr Hugli will leave Feilding on the 7th of next February. He announces that he has a splendid assortment of cutlery, clocks etc, now on view to which inspection is invited. In a replace advertisement which appears in to-day's issue, Mr F. Gabites, the well known draper of Fegusson street, announces that he has now commenced and will continue until the 19th of February, his great Summer clearing sale. Mr Gabites intends offering greater bargains during this sale than he did at his last summer clearance, as he intends commencing the coming season with an entirely new stock. In order to meet the increasing demands of the public Mr Charles Wickham, carrier, has just had built by Mr F. S. Ellerm, of Makino road, a capital express, suitable either for passenger traffic or the removal of heavy goods. The vehicle, winch is strongly built, is capable of carrying 25cwt, and the whole turn out reflects much credit on the builder. Mr E. J. Tozer, painter, did the decorative work. Mr F. Pirani, M,H.R., has received a petition from 96 settlers in the Feildiug Special Settlement Block for presentation to Government, praying for a grant for the construction of a bridge over the Oroua river on the Oroua Valley Road, The petition sets forth that a large area of Crown Laud would be thereby considerably enhanced in value, and the settlers have already spent £4OOO and propose to spend an additional £2000 in making the road which gives access to the land.

The Feildimg State School will open on Monday next after the Christmas vacation. A valuable horse belonging to Mr Cuthbertson, baker, of Sanson, was shot the other night while running in a paddock. No clue has been obtained to the perpetrator of the foul deed. A meeting of the Feilding State School committee was held in the school house last evening. The usual routine business was transacted. Mr Geo. Wilks was nominated as a candidate to the Wanganui Education Board. The irrepressible sparrow is said to have declared war against the bot fly in the Canterbury district, and to this cause the Secretary of the Agricultural Society attributes the fact that the fly is less prevalent this year than last. Summonses will be issued on Monday next by the Secretary of the Pohangina Road Board against all defaulting ratepayers in that district, so that Saturday is the last day on which they can pay up to escape being summonsed. A polo team, consisting of Messrs D. Ridderford, W. A. and E. Keiller, and Arthur Cooper, passed through Feilding with their ponies by the 11 a.m. train to-day, en route for Hastings, where they play a match with a Hawke's Bay team on Saturday next. The Kahu arrived in Wellington from the Chatham Islands last night, with a cargo of 475 bales of wool from the ship Jessie Readman. When the Kahu left the stranded vessel had a large quantity of water in her. There are 600 bales of wool still in her hold, and they are under water. The Woodville correspondent of the Post states that one of the village settlers in that district cleared £230 last season from potatoes, This was trom five acres of land, representing a profit of nearly £50 per acre. Potatoes are likely to bring a good price again this season. Mr E. C. Merewether, who died lately at Newcastle (N.S.W.), left an estate worth £236,000, of which the bequests to public institutions were £250 between two mechanics' institutes and £100 to a school of art. The probate duty amounted to £11,830. The Medical Press cautions its readers against neglecting small cuts and wounds on the hands or elsewhere, adding : " The public would do well to bear in mind that from the most trivial injury to the skin acute septicaemia may supervene, and may rapidly be followed by a fatal termination." A meeting has been called for Tuesday evening next at Campbelltown, to be held in the Temperance Hall, for the purpose of appointing five trustees to take over and manage on behalf of the settlers, the site of the town hall in that township. As the site is close to the square, a hall, when erected, will be in a capital position. What is regarded as a great victory of the cause of Labour in England has been acheived. For a long time past the Labour leaders have been urging the Government to adopt the eight hours system in the Government department, and, now a definite promise has been obtained that the system will be introduced among the Government employees. The Hawera Star reports a providential escape from death at the beach (zig zag route) on Sunday. A lady and gentleman were standing close to the cliff when a piece of stone falling struck the latter, who with the lady rushed back just in time to escape being crushed be neath a fall of about thirty tons of papa rock, which came down with a terrific crash. To-day Mr Robert H. Whisker was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Nellie Fraser, daughter of Mr Fraser, of Feilding. The contracting parties are well known in Feildiug, and a large party of friends will be entertained at Mr Whisker's residence, on the Awahuri road, this evening. We wish the newly-married couple every happiness in their wedded life. We would remind shareholders in the Feilding Building Society, that their usual monthly paymehts are due to-mor-row, Friday, and it is necessary they should be paid promptly. The directors have not as yet enforced fines, but from this date all shareholders in arrear will be fined in accordance with scale. Pass books can now be obtained from the manager on application. Mrs W. Kitchen, who a few years ago resided in Feilding, is now living in Birmingham, at Mr Richard Burne's, and it is her intention to receive pupils for singing and pianoforte. On several occasions Mrs Kitchen has appeared before a Feilding audience, when her cultivated voice was much appreciated. We have no doubt the Birmingham residents will take advantage of this opportunity of giving their children a musical education with benefit to all parties. We notice in the New Zealand Gazette of the 18th instant that in the arrangements for first elections of councillors to the Kiwitea County Council His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr Edmund Goodbehere to be the person to make up electors' roll for the ridings of Kimbolton, Oroua, Makiuo Waituna, Ongo, Hautapu, and Apiti, in the new county as constituted by " The Counties Act, 1886," and " The Kiwitea County Act, 1893," also to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of members of the said County Council ; and also to be the clerk of the Kiwitea County Council for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting thereof.