Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 276, 31 March 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

♦ On the fourth page ot to day's issue will be found a number of articles of in» terest to all classes of readers. A meeting of the Red Star Football Club will be held in the MaDchoster Hotel on Monday evening next at 7.30. The Feilding Library Committee will 1 meet on Monday evening, at 7.30., in the Borough Council ofiices. Mr Charles Carr has purchased a piece of laud at Pemberton where he intends to build yards jat an early date. Those requiring household furniture are reminded of the auction sale to be held|byMr Charles Carr ou Mouday atjtlm residence of Mr R. Somcrvilla in Kirn - boltou road. The sale couiniences at 2 o'clock. Tenders are invited Mr Robert Lamb, architect, Napier, for the erection pf a dwelling house at Arapata, Waitnna West, for Mr. Henry Williams. Tenders may be seei? s,h the office of Mr W. Nicholas, builder, Feilding. The infant child of Mr W. E. Tujiier died suddenly yesterday, tweiity.-four hour.-* after its birth. Dr Chaifliou gave a certificate that the cause of death was premature birth aud consequently no inquest will be held.

A meeting of the Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles will be held at Mrs Hastie's Hotel at 7.30 this evening. A meeting of those interested in the Feilding branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society will be held at Mr Bray's office on Thursday April 6th at 8 p.m. At the Wellington Stipendiary Magistrate's Court yesterday, Richard Smith, for supplying two prohibited persons with liquor, was fined £5 and costs. Mr Charles Carr held a very successful opening sale at Rangiwahia on Friday last when the prices realised were highly satisfactory. The attendance of the settlers was large. Those desirous of joining the Feilding contingent of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles are invited to attend a meeting on Tuesday next, at 7.30 p.m., at Messrs James and office, Kimbolton road. The 'Frisco mail will arrive by the 8.25 p.m. train to-night and will at ouce be sorted into all private boxes. Any person asking for letters at the counter will receive attention till about 9 p.m. The Nelson Colonist is the authority for the statement that on the cartridges being sewed otit to the men at the encampment there ou Easter Monday, it was discovered that there was one round of ball cartridge. Mr J. C. Thompson, who is retiring from business, thanks his many friends and patrons for the liberal support given him hitherto, and requests a continuance af tho game to his late partner, Mr R. J. Thompsou, who \yill in future carry on the business of the popular Cash Exchange. The Feilding Wesleyan body are getting up a concert, to be given in the Assernblj' Rooms on or about April 2fiih, i the funds of which will be devoted to the erection of a new church. Some of tho most popular singers in Feilding and Palmcrstou are to be invited to take part. Messrs Gorton and Son's stock sale at Feilding yesterday was the largest the firm has held for the last eighteen mouths, upwards of 10,000 sheep and 500 htad of cattle being yarded. The prices for cattle show a slight improvement but sheep were dull of sale. However, a large portion of the stock were disposed of. In a replace advertisement which appears to-day from Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, the well known drapery firm of Wellington, attention is drawn to the fact that the}' have just opened up ten cases of ladies fancy dress materials of all the latest fashions and novelties. Ladies should follow the advice contained in the advertisement, aud send for patterns. The express train from Wanganni was an hour late last evening, owing to being delayed at the Wangaehu hill. The 5 p.m. train from Palmerston to Danevirke was also delayed a couple of hours in Palmerston last night owing to the engine being derailed whilst shunting. Attention is directed to an alteration which is made to-day in the advertisement of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. The company receives all kinds of produce for shipment to London, and makes liberal cash advances on the same free of commission ; and they have on hand for sale farm aud station requisites' of every description, as well as several kinds of sheep dips, lung worm and foot rot cures, otc. When a newspaper man makes a mistake in his papers, all the world seers it and calls him a liar. When a private citizen makes a mistake, nobody knows it except a few friends, and they como round aud ask the editor to keep it out of the paper. When a private citizen dies, the editor is asked to publish his good qualities aud leave out the bad. When the editor dies, tho private citizen says : — " Now that old liar will get his deserts." — American paper. The speed of railway travelling 19 to he nearly doubled when the new exp ess locomotive, now in course of c instruction at Wulverhutnptom, is placed upon the line Tho horse power id 2000, and the speed is to be luU in lies pur li <ur ; the driving wheels are 12ft in diime er, and lhe<6 are threo cjl odors ol 40m. ltiia, nnd ISiu m diameter, with a 30 iu stroke The boiler pressure le 2001 b. It is pro pused to run from Loudoa to Edinburgh in six houri A well attended meeting of settlers was held at Rangiwahia yesterday, to consider the advisability of establishing a dairy factory at Rangiwahia. The question was discussed at some length, but we understand that another meeting is to be held shortly to deal further with the subject. The establishment of a butter factory would be a great boon to the district as it would be the means of circulating ready money amongst the farmers, who would uot have to wait so long for returns as in the case of woolgrowing. We wish the promoters every success in their endeavors to benefit the district. Mr F. G. Dalgety, whose death has been announced by cable, was the founder of the firm of Dalgety and Co., established by him iv the year 1846 in Melbourne. The fortunes of the firm were first laid by a great coup effected by the managemont in bn'yib" gold aud shipping it to England in 1852. Mr Dalgety was a keen man of business, but at the same time his liberality was unstinted. It is related of him that he settled on one of the firm's earliest coustitueuts who had come to grief an annuity of .£'3oo. He received absolutely no commercial training .simply the education of an ordinary English gentleman — yet tho firm founded by him at the present day estimates its capital at £4,000,000 sterling.