Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 231, 5 February 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

" In every town oil the coast the Payue Family have been drawing crowded houses. They will appear iv the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday next. Mr E. W. (Jieseu, of Palmerston North is among the number who passed the medical preliminary examination at the Duucdin University examinations. A heat for the local teuuisclub'schauupionship singles was played on Saturday afternoon between Messrs Dyer and Strachan, the former winning with 6-2 and 6-1. The Anniversary services of the Palmerston North Wesleyan Sunday School were celebrated yesterday. The Rev Mr Judkiu preached in the morning and in the evening, the church being crowded on each occasion. During this week some astonishing bargains may be had at Mr J. B. Hamilton's drapery establishment, when drapery remnants and millinery will be of. fered at exactly half cost price for cash. See advertisement. Norwegians aro excellent cooks, especially of fish, which, by the way, aro never bought dead, but are kept alive in anchored cages in the waters of the fjord. The vendor of fish dips his net into the water for each customer, who chooso* what he likes and carries bomo his purchape still ahre m a large cohered tin dish. The Lyttelton Times has reason to believe that Parliament will be asked during the coming session to put a final stop to the small stream of Asiatic immigra. tion which is going on. If that should be done, the quiet and peaceful dying out of the Chinese element iv the colony will be but a question of time. Tenders were received on Saturday last for the collection of the Dog Tax iv the Mauchesser Road District for the ensuing year as follows: — H. Wishaw, X'2tj 7s 6d (accepted) ; D. Younger, .£2l ; E. T. Strawbridge, .£ls. The following t.-uders wore also received, but were in-formal-J. H. Ashworth, .£2B; ,). Slipper at the rate of Is per head, and A. Reeve Is per head. In the libel case of Bell v the proprietors of Fair Play, an order was made by Mr Justice Richmond (says the Post) that the plaintiff should answer interrogatories as to the use of the words ' froth and scum ' in his speech after the close of the poll. Mr Jellicoe made the motion on behalf of the defendants, and Mr Morrison opposed.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Mangaone Public Hall Company will be held in the Hall at .Colyton this evening^ We direct attention to certain alterations in the Waituna sale, and the Bulls Ram Fair advertisements, of Messrs Gorton, and Son's. A meeting of the directors of the Feilding Permanent Building Society will be held at the office of the manager, Mr E. Goodbehere, to-morrow afternoon at^ 4 o'clock. Another of Wellington's earliest settlers, Mrs Henry Kells, has passed away. The deceased lady came to the colony with her late husband in the year 1852, and has lived in Wellington and Karori ever since. Easter falls this year on Lady Day, says the Catholic Times. This only happened once before la the present century, viz., m 1851, Easter on Lady Day is an unusually early Easter. The onlyj earlier Easters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the following : March 22nd, 1818; March 2Srd, 1845, 1856, 1913; March, 24th, 1940. Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening when Manchester street was crowded with people going home from the several I churches, some reckless youth, who was old enough to have known better, rode up the street at a brisk pace, scattering the people on all sides. He is said to be a resident of Awahuri. Following are the statistics for the Palmerstou District Hospital for last month as supplied by the secretary : — In the institution for treatment on the Ist January, 16 ; admitted during the month 14 ; discharged, 10 ; in the hospital on 31st of January, 19. Of those discharged five were reported as cured, and five as being relieved. As will be seen by our report of the Manchester Road Board meeting on Saturday last, it is the intention of that body to have the Makiuo road from the boundary of the Feilding Borough, widened for a distance of about eleven miles and a loan will be raised for that purpose. When completed this will be found to be a great convenience to settlers in driving stock, as well as for vehicular traffic. The Canadian mammoth cheese has been shipped by the Dominion Government to Liverpool. The American papers state that this gigantic cheese was one of the most attractive hits at the World's Fair Exhibition, Chicago. It weighs something like 24,000 or 2.3,0001 b (nearly twelve tons), and it has been shipped to Lipton, the well-known tea and provision merchant, who will exhibit it throughout the country. Messrs W. aud G. Turubull and Co., the proprietors of the famous Empire Tea Company, have just received their first of tln - ee shipments of Indian tea, amounting to 7. r >,Bßo lbs. In addition to these importations the company have shipments of Ceylon teas, the quality of which it would be hard to sxirpass, arrivalmost every week all the year round. These vast shipments prove that the company are doing an enormous business, and to attain this, the fact is clear that nothing but the very best tea is handled by this enterprising firm. A replace advertisement appears from the company in to-day's issue. The Marton Operatic Society played " The Yeomen ot the Guard " to a large audience at Bulls on Friday evening last and were very successful. The applause was frequent aud everjone seemed well pleased with the performance. If the entertainments given at Marton, Hunterville, and Bulls may be taken as a criterion the opera should be well worth going to hear when the company appear in the Assembly Rooms to.morrow evening. The company is large and well trained, those taking the leading parts being well known and popular vocalists. We would advise all tho.se who can possibly make it convenient to attend to hear tin's opera and feel confident they will not go away disappointed. A girl was recently expelled from the Otaki State School because her father refused to supply her with sewing material for the sewing lesson. The Education Board submitted the matter to Messrs Brandon and Hislop, and they have supplied the following opinion : — "We are of opinion that the School Committee cannot lawfully expel or exclude from the school any girl who does not supply material for the sewing classes. Sewing and needlework are among the subjects prescribed by the Education Act to be taught to girls, and so far as attendance of girls at the kcliool is compulsory, it is not compulsory for them to attend the sewing classes." The Board decided to forward a copy of the opinion to the Otaki committee, and request it to act in accordance with the advice given therein.