Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 274, 29 March 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

A telegram for " Van" has been sent to this office. To-morrow Mr Charles Carr will hold a stock sale at Raugiwahia at 1 o'clock. The fruit trees around Mastertou are almost breaking down with a second crop just now. A boy was recently sentenced to three months' imprisonment by a Marylebone magistrate for stealing 4d. Judge Horton Smith, English judiciary, says : — " A man has no business to keep on having children if he gets into debt 1" The Wellington Education Board has abolished corporal punishment of girls throughout all the schools within its district. Under instructions from tho holder of a bill of sale, Mr Charles Carr will hold a sale of furniture ou the premises now occupied by Mr and Mrs R. Somerville in Kimbolton road, on Monday next at two o'clook. A contingent of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles is about to be formed iv Feilding. The intention is to hold parades here under Lieut. T. H. James. The Dunedin Star has this : A newspaper reporter down south told M'Nab M.H.R., that the only time he was tempted to take a drink was when he had to report temperance speeches ! Farmers aud others are reminded of the great bankrupt clearing out sale which in to be held by Messrs Gorton and Sou at Kilkern (uear Bulls) on Saturday next. The Tuapeka (Otago) Times states that now the crops are coming iv the ravages caused by the Hessian fly are beginning to be realised. In the Tuapeka West district fully half of the wheat crop is said to have beeu destroyed. The Now Zealand Land Association (Limited) has received the following telegram dated yesterday from its London office: — Wheat and Flour. — The market is dull, and quotations are unchanged since last telegram. The plans, specifications, and estimates of the road bridge over the Rangitikei river at Otara, which have been prepared by Mr Charles Bray, C.E., were forwarded to the Government ou the 21nt instant. The bridge will have three spans of 120 feet each, resting on cylinder piles. At Mavton to-morrow Mr R. E. Beckett will sell, on account of J. F. Studholme Esq., over four thousand A-bred Romney ewes, of various ages, and in lots to suit purchasers. Brooders should endeavour to secure some of these fine sheep, as they were bred, and have just been takeu off a new country where luiigworm is unknown. Says the Eyejjiug Post of Tuesday: — Early settlers in this district to-day mourn the passing away of an»tlu)r of their number, Mrs Frethey, who came out from Scotland to Wellington as 3liss Catjiprine Wilkie iv the year 1845, and wa« afterwards married to Mr Frethey, one of the J.&40 pioneers, who lived uutil last year. Mrs Fr/etluiy, has been bedridden for the past niiie mouths. Hhe »« survived by seven children, pf whom three souk aud oue daughter are iv the Tarauaki district, aucj three daughters are still at the Huti,

Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.R., is seriously ill. Forty-three doctors have recently cleared out of Melbourne because of the bard-up condition of the people. The comedy " Our Boys " is being rehearsed at Marton by the local amateurs, and will be produced at an early date. The Kumara Times says that a move ( ment is on foot, there to obtain signa tures to a petition praying Parliameni to re-open the Chemis case. Captain Edwin wired at 12.30 p.ro to-day : — lndications for strong north west to west and south winds, aud glasf further rise. In the Dunedin licensing elections, Mi Fish, as an independent candidate, beinj regarded by both parties as neither fish flesh, nor fowl, was treated to cold shoulder, being last on the list. We (N.Z. Times) regret to learn thai Dr Cahill, who went up to Napier last week to attend the annual meeting ol the New Zealand Medical Association, has been taken ill with typhoid fever, and is now in a critical condition. On© of the deputy returning officers at the licensing election for the Hawke'a Bay district was a laHj. Tho chief returning officer says that hor returns were the best in the nistiict, every minute detail being carefully attended to. A " saved " sinner has just forwarded to the New South Railway authorities A*2 with a letter saying it was a fare he neglected to pay before being saved. It would be a good thing if the man who " saved " that chap would come along this way and have a try at some of our subscribers. A remnrkable feat is reported to have been accomplished by a horse m South Australia. He weighed I,loolb. and drew a load weighing over 7^ tons — the exact weight beiug given as 17.0251 b The horse not only started the load from a standstill, but stopped onc9 or twice to ' blow out,' nnd then started agaiu. Messrs Gorton and Son have large entries of stock for their Feildiug sale, which will be held to-morrow, commencing at 1 p.m. The entries include over two thousand sheep, which will make one of the most important auctions of the season, and as prices for sheep are unquestionably hardening we expect it will also be a most successful sale. The following amounts were paid away as prize money by the Feildiug Jockey Club at their recent meeting: A.Portland, £180; E. Calthrop, £110; W. H. George, £110; D. Scott, £100; T. T. Watt, £60 ; A. S. Lovejoy, £60 ; C. Fit2Herbert. £55 ; J. Paul, £45 ; C. Chubbiu, £'40 ; W. R. Tuck, £30 ; Hon Captain Russell, .£2O ; J. Retter, £15 ; C. G. Woodley, £5 ; R. Kingan, £5 ; total, £835. In order to as nearly as possiblo represent the stock held in Wellington, the Palmerston branch of To Aro House has to be considerably enlarged, and while this work is in hand,and before opening up the winter season stock, an enormous clearance sale will be held for ten days only, commencing from to-day. An " inset," giving fuller particulars, appears with to-night's issue of the Star. Mr T. R. Attwood has on view in his window a large oil pointing, from his own brush, representing an English winter scene, entitled " Christmas at Home." To the right of the picture is a water wheel with an adjacent cottage, and in front of these there is a gentle rise in the ground, making the perspective very good. The freedom of the branches of the elm and other trees is remarkable, and is a proof of tho ability of the artist. The back ground, composed of a mountain range enshrouded in a light blue mist, is very natural, and with the snow covering- on the trees and cottage makes a very pretty picture. "We have been informed that poaching is becoming rife in various parts of the district. One farmer heard a number of shots fired in the neighbourhood oi his property last Good Friday. We would direct the attention of the secretary and ranger of the local branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to this matter. It will be rather hard on those who take out licenses on May Ist to find that someone '• has been there before them."