The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 261, 12 March 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1894. Local and General News.

Mr George Fisher, ex-M.H.R., of Wellington, has gone for a visit to Sydney, New South Wales. Past and present members of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge are-invited to attend a social meeting to-morrow evening. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold their usual monthly stock sale at Bulls tomorrow. They have large entries of sheep and cattle. Additions are made to-day to entries for Mr Carr's sale at Cheltenham and Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmerstou North. We are glad to learn that Mrs F. Towler, who is at present in the Wellington Hospital, is making good progress towards complete recovery. The Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association has decided not to appeal against the decision of the Judge in the case of S. M. Baker v the Association. Messrs A. Pallaut and Co., boot and shoe makers, have now secured a good assistant workman for their Feilding, branch and repairs will now be executed ou the shortest notice. The annual picnic in connecLkm with the Wcsleyan Sunday School will take place on the Oval on Wednesday afternoon next. Should the weather prove unfavorable adjournment will be made to Short's Hall, where there is ample room for amusement. On the fourth page of to day's issue will be found a repiace advertisement fro.ll the famous Empire Tea Company. By putting into the market teas of only the very best quality, excellently blended, and ] at rensonnble prices, this Company is j daily extending its already enormous business. The need of either enlarging the present Wcsleyan Church or of building a new one, is becoming no apparent to fche i members that it has been decided to call a meeting on Thursday evening next to consider the best means to be adopted to afford more accommodation for the rapidly increasing congregation. To-day Llewellyn's famous Bee Ointment is advertised. We have seen a number of the testimonials from wellknown residents in this district, declaring it to be all it pretends to be, and a first rate article for either football or polo players who are liable to suffer from bruises incidental to these amusements. A slight alteration has been made today in the advertisement of Messrs W. Franklin-Browne Bros of Rangiwahia, bakers aud confectioners, to which we direct the attention of our readers in that important part ol this, district. The members ot tliia firm have had eight years experience iv the business in Napier, Hawke's Bay, where they were universally respected both in their business and private capacities. Mr F. Fanthorpe has decided to start business in Birmingham as a cabinetmaker, and has purchased a suitable section there. He will commence the erection of a shop immediately, and will be ready to receive orders in a few weeks, j Mr Fanthorpe is well known in Feildiug as being a first class tradesman, and a useful citizen, and will no doubt receive the patronage his enterprise deserves in starting in a new settlement. An interesting cricket match was plavcd at lluntcrville on Saturday last between teams from Bartholomew's Bros', aud Bailley Bros', sawmillers, and after a close contest resulted in a win for the former by nine runs. Mr G. Bartholomew made top score for the winncis, and he, J. Bartholomew, and G. Manning divided bowling honors as well as being the principal scorers. For the losers F. Parkes bowled well and Baker batted nicely. The Feilding Temperance Demonstration Committee have decided to erect a very large tent iv the Oval. Tea will be made and a good table laid. The charge for adults will bo Is. Encouraging replies continue to come in from temperance societies iv other centres, to the effect that their members intend to be present. There will be a large force of Band of Hope children in attendance, those of Bulls, Feilding and Bunnythorpe almost to their full strength. Members 'if temperance societies are requested to attend with their regalia and form part c;f the procession, which will .start from the Foresters' Hall at a quarter to eleven. Says " Mercutio " in the Auckland News: — Mr George Fisher, of Wellington, is at present in Auckland. The ex M.H.11. is supposed to be hankering after the vacant Waitemata seat and seeing how the laud lies. My belief is Mr Fisher's electioneering ability is profound, and I think he would do the trick without the Waikomiti six gallon " billy " for beer, the services of " the two gumnelds' ladies," " Brittania Rules the Waves," " The Dear Little Shamrock," or other adventitious accessories. Like the author of ' The Birds of New Zealand," the ex- member for Wellington is the "oldest bird "in Uie crown. You cannot put salt ou his tail ! " We regret to record the death of another of Wellington's pioneers. Mrs Joseph Dixon, known to old residents in the city as Mrs Dixon of Te Aro Brewery, which occurred at 5 o'clock this moniiug, Mrs Dixon arrived in Wellington with l:::r husband in the ship London in 1812, aivl J.vssed through the vicissitudes expeiieuced by t!.o early settlers. She was known to'all aroiujd her as a good citizen — from her kjudii.ness of disposition she was generally called in the early days the "mother of Te Aro Flat "—a wise counsellor to youug people, aud a devoted mother to her family, which numbers eleven. All her children were euabled to be with tick.' iv hpv last moments. Her grandchildren numbs*: [;% and her greatgrandchildren 22.— Post.

The Queeu's New Year's nifts to the poor of Windsor consisted of a ton and a half of meat and 63 tons of coal. A meeting of ratepayers of the Horse shoe Drainage District will be held in the school house, Campbell town, tomorrow eveniug at 7.80 p.m. The privileges of the Feikling Jockey Club's Easter Meeting will be sold by Mr Carr in the Assembly Rooms on Friday the 16th instant at two o'clock in the afternoon. It is intended to hold a Chrysanthemum Show in Napier in the third week in April. As Mr Weightman, of Awalmri, has always been a successful exhibitor, elsewhere, we hope he will be a competitor on the occasion indicated. Polls for the Kiwitea Road District loans of i:2605 10s, Apiti and Ongo Wards ; X2571, Apiti Ward ; i:6Bf> over sections in the Birmingham Block of the Apiti Ward, will be held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Friday next. The Oamaru Mail says: — The largest transaction in wheat th.it has taken place hero for some considerable time pa»t has just been completed by the National Mortgnge r.nd Agency Compauy, which has disposed of about 14,000 sacks of lust season's crop. On Saturday night heavy rain set in, and continued ncaily all the whole of yesterday. Its effect upon the district will be of tbe ruost beneficial character, as the country was beginning to wear & parched up appearance, and the prices for stock were being materially affected thereby. The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald learns from a good source that Sir Robort Stout will shortly become a permanent resident of the Empiro City. It is reported upon excellent authority that ho will take over the legal practice of Mr Jellicce, who goes shortly to England to recruit his health Preaching at the Botany Road Congregational Church, Waterloo, near Sydney, the Rev. P. Mos^s said i h .-re were in New South Wales now at least 20,000 unemr>lo}'ecl men and women. No less than 500 men and women were at present grinding their lives out to cam from ( 2s 4d to (3s a day, and there wore thous- ] ands of men and women of Sydney j whose standard of life was not equal to , that of the cabhorso. ! Messrs Spence and Spcnce, the purchasers of Mr Morey's bankrupt stock, intimate by an advertisement on the third page that they have also seemed a large consignment of direct imported drapery and clothing at a considerable discount, and on Thursday next and following days the whole will be offered for absolute sale. This will be a favourable opportunity for the residents in this district to lay in a winter stock of genuine goods, which can be bought for cash for exceptionally low prices. The performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's popular opera ' H.M.S. Pinafore ' has, no doubt been seen at some time or another, by almost everyone who has any taste for operatic performances, but the opera is such a favourite oat, abounding as it was with sparkling music, beautiful scenery, and humorous sketches that one could hardly ever tire of listening to it when properly rendered. The Foxtou Amateurs have gained for themselves much praise for the capable performances which they have recently given of this opera, and on their reproduciug it in the Assembly Rooms tomorrow evening, we have no doubt that the accommodation of the building will be taxed to its utmost by an appreciative audience.