Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 224, 27 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

A meeting of the "Wellington Land Board will be held ou February bth. A meeting of members of the Birmingham Jockey Club will be held this evening. Mrs W. Kitchen, of Birmingham, noti--1 fies to-day that she is prepared to receive pupils for the pianoforte ami singing. Address care of Mr It. Buriie. Mr Bred in has takeu the shop luljoining Mr Brent's premises in Kimbolton road where he intends to conduct business iv future, due notice of which will be giveu iv our advertising columns. Ou the first page of to-day's issue will be found a replace advertisement from the Paluierstou branch of Te Aro House. During next week a clearing sale will be on, when innumerate bargains can be had in all kinds of drapery, millinery, dress fabrics etc. We are pleased to learn that the Lougburn Freezing Company continue to receive good offers to support, and iv some cases from quite unexpected quarters. The settlers evidently appreciate the enterprise of the company in providing them with the means of dealing directly with the London market. The Kiwitea Koad Board give notice that it is their intention to raise two loans, under the " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act," for works in the Apiti Ward. One loau amounting to £684, is for road works iv the Birmingham block, being part of the Apiti Ward, and the other amounting to 1*2,571, is for similar works in the Apiti Ward. For payment of interest at 5 per cent for 26 years it is proposed to levy a special rate of three pence iv the £ on various sections within the Birmingham block for the first loan, and three pence halfpenny iv the .1" on a number of sections in the Apiti Ward for the secoud. The American Trio and Novelty Company will appear iv the Assembly Rooms on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The entertainment is purely a variety one, consisting of comic sketches, skirt dancing, step dancing, high kicking, comic and sentimental songs, tumbling etc., ami every one of the members is in the first rank in his or her specialty. It may be mentioned that Mr Crawford, a member of the company, is a pheuominal high kicker, kicking, as he does, to a height of lift 4in. The pantomimic sketch " Saifl Kee's Laundry," which concludes the performance, is said to be one of the funniest pieces ever produced ou the New Zealand stage — funnier eveu than '• Skipped by the Light of the Moon," which is sayiug a great deal.

The Marton Operatic Company will produce the "Yeomen of the Guard" in I in the Assembly Rooms on February 6th. Mr T. W. Thompson, ex M.H.R., points out that by the Alcoholic Liquors Act it is required that members of a licensing committee must reside in the electoral district as well as being on the roll. A general meeting of the shareholders in the Mangaone Public Hall will be held at Colyton in the Hall, on Monday, February sth, at 8 p.m. A heat of the Tennis Handicap Tournament was played yesterday afternoon between Messrs Strachan (15 and 1 bisque) and Reade (15), the former winning with 6 4 and 6 4. The clerk of the Manchester Road Board, Mr Charles Bray, gives notice that at a meeting of the Board to be held on Saturday, 3rd of March, a .special rate will be struck. Colytou is still advancing. Mrs Snow, who has recently purchased a section opposite the Colyton Hotel, has let a contract for the erection of a residence at the corner. If the young fellow, who stripped the lower branches of a nectarine tree in Derby street the other day, will call at the Stak office, they will be told where to find a ladder so that they may steal the fruit on the upper branches. " Says a Sj'dney paper.— "No fewer than five of the eleven cricketers who have left for New Zealand are Civil servants." Why, certainty, what is a Civil servant for but to play cricket and football ? Iv consequence of Messrs Gorton and Sou holding their Ram Fair at Feilding on Tuesdaj r , February 6th, Mr Charles Carr has altered the date of his Birmingham sale to Wednesday, the 7th instant. Entries are published to-day for the sale and those interested are requested to note the alteration. A meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m., to make arrangements for the Temperance picnic and Demonstration on Boxing Day. [By an oversight the advertisement did not appear yesterday as it should have done.] The Wanganui Herald states that Mr R. H. Mcßaith, veterinary surgeon, exhibited at Messrs F. R. JackssuaudCo's sale yard on Wednesday afternoon a very peculiar monstrosity in the form of a calf, which, owing to some freak of nature, was born inside out. Such a case has not in our experience been on record before. It will be seen by advertisement in another column that the first terms of the Wellington College and Girls High School will begin on the Ist of February. Miss Hamilton will receive parents and guardians at the High School on the 30th and 31st insts., and owing to the increasing number of pupils another teacher is to be added to the teaching staff. Parents who reside iv the country may, on applying to the Secretary, Mr C. P. Powles, hear of suitable homes for their daughters. The cycle is said to be threatened with a formidable rival in the shape of a pneu matic road skate, which will shortly be placed upon the market bj a Scotch firm. The new skate, instead of having four wheels, like the ordinary roller skate, ha« only 'two. which are placed in line, one behind the other, and are nut solid, but furnished with pneumatic tyres. With this aid to locomotion it is said that ordinary roads can be traversed with ease and that the acsent and descent of hills are by no means difficult. The skates have been already seen in some of the Midland towns, where a speed of from six to seven miles an hour has been attained with them in the ordinary thoroughfare. Simple trianism may soon go out of fash' ion. On Thursday evening last when Mr Frank Cornwall, who was employed on Mr J. Bray's property near Colyton, had mounted his horse at about 5 o'clock with the intention of returning home • after his work, the animal commenced to buck. The girth breaking Mr Cornwall was thrown to the ground, with the • result that one of his legs was broken. The accident happened about B 5 chains from the nearest house and about 60 chains from Mr Bray's. Mr Cornwall cooeed for assistance, but although heard by several of the settlers around nobody seemed to think of an accident until about 9 o'clock, the cooeing continuing at intervals all the time, when several setters turned out almost simultaneously to find the cause and about a dozen found the unfortunate man at the same time. The reason for not turning out when the cooeing was first heard is accounted for by some by the fact that a party of bushmen, returning after having finished a contract in the Harbor Board Block, had gone down early iv the evening shouting and singing. Mr Cornwall, who is a married man, and for whom much sympathy is felt in the district, was taken at once to the Palmerston Hospital by Messrs J. Bray and Pcarue for treatment.