Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 256, 6 March 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

• Capt. Edwin wired at 11.13 to-daj : — Indications glass further rise. There will be Mass in St Bridget's next Sunday at 11 a.m. Messrs Gorton aud Sou's Waituna stock sale will be held to-morrow. The following arc the vital statistics for Martoii for the month of February : — Births 9, Deaths 6, Marriages 1. We are authorised to state that Mr R. F. Haybittle intends contesting a seat on tho Licensing Bench fur tlii« district. Mr Milhaiu, in our advertising columns thanks those friends who so kindly assisted to extinguish the fire which took place recently on his property. Notice is given that C. T. Lloyd, the selector of section ii, Block XII, Apiti, has applied to transfer the sauie to Mr John Wilson. The Returning Officer, Mr Alfred Rows, gives notice that under the " Alcoholic Liquors Control Act, IHW),"' candidates for membership of the Rangitikei Licensing Committee must be nominated on the liJth instant. Each candidate must deposit £10. For all other particulars sec advertisement. Arrangements have been completed for opening the Cheltenham store with a well selected stock of goods, at the end of the present week. This convenience will, no doubt, be appreciated by the settlers in the district and the proprietor rewarded for his enterprise. The proprietor invites tenders for the erection (labor only) of a three roomed cottage. The Towai correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes as lolows ; - One of the contractors on the Ramarama Valley Road had occasion to fall a totara tree, and inside the trunk, which was hollow, he discovered three skeletons, supposed to be a man, woman, and child, one of the skulls had apparently a bullet hole through the forehead. At a .special meeting pf the Jlunawatu County Council, on Saturday, the unsatisfactory state of a portion of the Campbell town -Longburn road, under the cuU: trol of the Manawatu Road Board was considered. It was resolved, " That the Manawatu Road Board be requested to have the half mile of road on their side of the Oroua bridge metalled without delay." Country residents who purpo.se visiting the Empire City should, before doing so, carefully read over the new advertisement which appears to-day from Messrs Kirkcaldie aud Stains— the fashionable drapers of that town - drawing attention to some of the choice linos which they have recently received direct from the leading manufacturer* iu fiance aud Saxony.

The parade of the Manchester Rifles on Thursday next will be in Kiinbolton road. The members are requested to be punctual. The Red Stars are requested to roll up at 2.80 p.m. sharp on the Oval, tomorrow, to play a scratch match against the Unions. The result of the Australian Cup, which is ruu this afternoon, will be posted outside the Star Office this evening. " Teach me to forget " is not a song which need be learned by many newspaper subscribers, most of whom already know the tender melody of " "Tis hard to part." A garden party, in aid of the Wesley an Church, will be given to-morrow afternoon at the private residence of Mrs A. R. Curtis, Manchester street, as notified in our wanted column. Pigs will do five hundred times more towards advancing the best interests of the country than the most intelligent Ministry possible on the Treasury benches. There is a lot of money in pigs. Mr M. O. Meadows inserts a card today in which he gives notice he is now prepared to receivo pupils in voice production, piano, and violin. Mr Meadows may be consulted as to terms etc on any day except Tuesday and Friday. The English Jacobites held a memorial service at midnight in London on January 30th to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of Charles I. beheaded in 1649. They decorated the statue of Charles I at Charing Cross. \ Taranaki paper says : — " It's all butter with us. We live ou butter ; we paj our debts with butter, and the whole place from beginning to end is butter. Why, even our breakwater has to be paid for out of butter." " She brought forth bntter in a lordly dish." It is easy to get on the horns of a dilemma. If you write for information to a mean man aud omit to enclose a postage stamp, you don't get a reply, and if you do send a stamp the temptation is took much for him, and you are no better off. It is a wicked world. A well-known settler of the Wairau, Mr John Hewitt, is dead, at the ripe age of 68 years. Mr Hewitt came to Nelson in 1842. He was manager of the late Mr George Duppa's station, near Wakcfield, and afterward did business in stock-buying and selling. He lived in the Blenheim District for the last iiO years. A special advertisement will appear in our next issue from Messrs Thompson and Thompson, of the Cash Exchange, Feilding, announcing the commencement of a sale of their valuable stock of drapery, clothing, groceries, boots, etc., on Saturday next. This step is being taken as the firm have decided to dissolve partnership, and the business will in the future be carried on by Mr R. J. Thompson. At a recent meeting of the New Zealand Flock-book Association, the following new rule was passed : — That the entries in the New Zealand Flock-book shall be classed A., 8., C. A. shall be a flock descended from imported ewes and pure-bred rams ; B. shall be a flock descended from reputed pure ewes and pure rams, from 1H70 ; C. shall be a flock descended from reputed pure-bred ewes and pure-bred rams, from 1880. " Young Husband," writes to Brunner News : — " I nm also newly married, and also fiud that the game 19 cot what it is cracked up to be. My wifo professed that she was a first class cook, and I unfortu* nati'ly believed her. I have bad indigestion for two solid months, as a result ■>f her hand work, she knows more about making cream puffs than .she does of cooking a plain mutton chop, and can turn out pineapple jelly to prefect ion, yet can't pluck a fowl. The girls of to-daj are far from practical." The many friends of Judge Ward will be glad to hear that he is now on the high road to recovery, though it will necessarily be some considerable time before he will be fit to resume his public duties. — The Hou John Bryce and Mr John Duthic, of Wellington, leave town this morning by the Wairere for Pipiriki going from thence to Ivarioi, and returning via Hunterville. — Mr A. A. Browne leaves by the 1 o'clock train to-day for Wellington, where he joins the Gothic, by which splendid vessel he has taken his passage for England. — Chronicle.