Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 291, 18 April 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

I ♦ i Since Robert Elsmere no book has ! created such a furore as " The Heavenly Twins." Lieutenant-Colonel Newall will inspect tho Manchester Rifles to -morrow ovoning. Sir Georgo Grey arrived iv England on his birthday. He was 62 year.* old on Saturday. Mr H. Hickford has been appointed Feildiug agent for Mr T. Kae, practical dyer, whose advertisement appears today. The Secretary of the Red Star Football Club wishes to acknowledge receipt of a donation of ill to tbe funds of tbe Club from Mr W. Light. A Mr Mouckton informs the Woodvillo Examiner that he saw a stoat killed by a bawk on the western side of the Manawatu on Sunday last. At a meeting of the Bunnythorpe branch of the Prohibition League, held on Saturday night, Messrs Dixou and Matheson were appointed to attend the conference to be held at Palmevstou. Persona desiring to see the working of the Stump Extractor at Cheltenham, tomorrow, are informed, by advertisement, that 11. Robinson's coach will Itave the Manchester Hotel at one o'clock iv the afternoon. An error appeared in the Advertisement yesterday referring to the Harvest Festival services in Bt. John's Church this evening. The offertory will go to the aid of the choir fund, not the church fund, as stated. A poll of ratepayers in the Campbelltown Special District will be taken ou Friday next, ut the Teuqierauce Hall, on the proposal to borrow {"200 for forming aud metalling streets within the said district. It will be learned with regret by members of the Wosleyan Church at C'anqibelltown that Mi.- Makey, who bus acted ,a.s organist at that church for a number of years, has resigned her position uwiuy to ill-health.

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday, the 23rd iusfc. Captain Edwin wired at 12.55 p in. today : Indications for strong north-west winds, >m d glass fall. A number of the brethren of the Feild ing Lodge will be present at the Masonic installation to take place this evening at Palmerston North A large number of visitors, including the members of the Feilding Brass Band, left Feilding by the special train this morning for the Foxton races. 1 At the Salvation Army barracks tbis ! evening Mrs Captain Renshaw will give nn interesting nddresson " Female Rescue Work of tho Snlvation Army." As Mrs Renshtuv has had two years' experience as an officer in the female rescue work in Auckland she is well acquainted with the subject of her address. At a meeting of creditors at Wellington on Monday tbe .Official Assignee remarked that they had had quite an epidemic of absconding bankrupts. There bad been seven eases within the last ten mouths, and they had managed to stop them. He wished that they could put a stop to this sort of thing. Says the Waugauui Chronicle : - Milk ! The proprietors of some of the local dairies notify consumers that during the winter mouths the price of milk will be ■id per quart. This is a grim fact, aiid completely takes the cream off any joke that might otherwise be indulged in. A sheep farmer on the East Coast last year fattened off 4000 sheep for export ou 120 acres of turnips. Of the sheep he sent home lie arranged for the sale of 1200 iv London through a Smith field firm of butchers, with the result ho made a clear profit after paying all expenses of i'l Js 6d pev liDad. A lad named S. Smart, son of Mrs W. Smart, of Grey street, met with a painful accident yesterday While riding he was thrown from his horse, and received ft double /racture of the ieFt artn. Y>r Johnston was soon in attendanco and reduced the frncture, and the little fellow is now progressing as favorably as c.m be expected. Sheep-stealing is said to be so prevalent in Bruce County that an association has been formed to raise £70 to be offered as a reward for such information as will lead to tl.e conviction of the parties eu gaged. It was also decided to ask the Minister for Agriculture to inquire into the truth of the allegations that sheen-stealing is prevalent in tbe ! colony. The Government have under consideration the advisability in tbe interests of economy of anpoiuting salaried i legal officers in Auckland, Wellington, Christclmrch, and Dunedin to whom Government officers requiring legal advice may resort instead of seeking this advice as at present from whomsoever they please. The fees for legal advice tot up to a goodly figure. Some means ought to be taken by tbe Government to lighten the burden of taxation on the small farmers. Things have now got to such a pass that the settlers' mail bag is one succession of rates after another. The farmers are the mainstay of this and every country where property reigns isiiys the Wuod- ; villc Examiner), and assiu-Ii they s!io:i!d be equitably treated, instead of hci;i ;; made the butt of every petty bit of taxation that can be devised. A little boy named John Hogarth, aged six years, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital, ou Monday, iv a terribly burned condition. Ifc apnoais that he was sitting by the h're when bis shirt caught, and be ran outside enveloped in flames. Before he could be caught and the names extinguished he was reduced to the condition in which j be reached tbe hospital — shockiugly ! burued about the body and legs. The 1 burns extended all over the child's body. He died in the Hospital yesterday. Now that bicycles arc becoming popular on this coast, it is convenient to cyclists to be able to send machines for repairs to a tradesman who makes this kind of work a specialty. Another advantage is that anyone ordering a new machine may see it in the course of construction and thus become acquainted with the material used. To meet these growing demands, Messrs Pickering and Co. have opened an establishment iv Palmorston North, whore they will execute repairs or make new machines to order. We would again remind our readers of the entertainment to be given by Mr J. W. F. Halcombcou Friday and Saturday, April 20th and 21st. Judgiug from the press comments ou tbe West Coast, the Phonograph is well worth hearing, and is wonderfully loud. Mr Halcombo will tako vocal and instrumental selections on the stage and will reproduce them to the audience. " The humorous selections by Mr Russell Hunting are ! very good, and keeps the audience in a continual ripple of laughter," says the Hawera Star. A social was held iv the Primitive Methodist Church vestry last evening in aid of the choir fund, and was well attended. Songs were given by Mrs J. C. Thompson, Messrs Durraut, Young, Carty, a duet by Messrs Simpson and A. Shearer, reading by Mr Haycock, aud a violin solo by Mr Simpson. The accompaniments were played by Miss Thompson and Miss Kane. Tho Rev. G. Clement was chairman. After the musical items bad been given, refreshments were banded round aud games were indulged in. A quiet wedding was celebrated at Awahuri on Monday, the contracting parties being Miss Florence Pike, second daughter of Mr George Pike, of Awahuri, and Mr Charles YYeightman. eldest son of Mr Jos. Weightman, of Awahuri. The Reverend Innes Jones, of Feilding, officiated, and the bride, who was giren away by her father, looked charming in a very pretty silver grey costume, and carried in her hand a bunch of /lowers. After the ceremony tho guests retired to the residence of the bride's parents, where a sumptuous wedding breakfast was partaken of. We join with the many friends in wishing the couple a long life of prosperity. That the net of the law is to constructed that little fish are caught in its meshes while the largest oues suffer no interception, has long beeu known. The fact is strongly emphasised by a recent official prosecution of a clerk for embezzliug from his eoiplojors a fc>v hundreds out of the many thousands of other people's money which the said employers had, to put it euphemistically, failed to account for. Was the money takeu by the clerk the property of his immediate employers, or that of tho clients who have trusted them ? The point is a nice oue, but prosecuting the clerks while the principals go free is surely a grim jest. — Post. The usual weekly meeting of the local branch ol the 1.0. G.T. was held iv the Temperance Hall, Glasgow House, last evening. The attendance was good, and Bro. Stanton occupied the chair. This being the first meeting in the new Hall, a social was hold, and Bro. F. Bray gave a song. Bro. Sherlock one of J. B. Gough's temperance orations, J>vo. Stauton a reading, and Sister Nelson a soug. The following were appointed harmony committee for the ensuing quarter: — Bros. Bray, Daw, and Sherlock, and Sisters Mis and Miss Wor.sfobl. A henvty vote of thanks was accorded to Bro. and Sister ,T. H. Worsfuld for the man tier in which they carried out the catering arrangements. Three candidates t'oi- initiation, wuie proposed for the uc.\t meetiny.