Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 296, 24 April 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will bo Mass in St. Bridget's next Sunday, at 8 a.m. The local paper reports that a Trotting Club is to be formed at Waipawa. We regret to learn that Mr Feck, hairdresser, is laid up, and unable to attend to his business. Mr Alex Bell, of Halcombe, has gone for a trip to tho Old Country. He will be absent from the colony about eight months. Hair dye is considered so detrimental to long life that a Paris insurance company refuses to insure the lives of persons who use it. An old resident of the Thames, named Martin Whelan, died suddenly on Saturday while driving a cow along Richmond street in that town. The Wairoa Guardian reports that twelve Maori Mormon converts left Wairoa by the Te Kapu on Sunday, en route for Salt Lake. There has been on view in Mr Clementson's window, Manchester street, for the last few days, an enormous garden carrot of the " shorthorn " variety, grown by Mr Rowles, of Birmingham. This fine vegetable weighs 41bs Eozs. About a dozen members of the Feilding Masonic Lodge left for Wellington by the express train this afternoon to be present at the installation of Bro. Bell as Grand Master, which ceremony will take place there to-morrow. A quiet marriage took place yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mr W. Poole, in Warwick street, when Mr Frederick William Legg was united in the bouds of matrimony to Miss Kate Grantham. We (Times) regret to learn that Mr Page, well known in the Ashurst district, who has been under treatment in the Wellington Hospital for some time r past for au internal complaint, died' in that institution on Saturday evening. His remains were taken to Ashurst for interment If tho weather holds fine there ih every probability of the attendance being very large to-night at the grand concert to be given in the Assembly Rooms. There has been quite a ruu ou the tickets, so in order to avoid a crush at the doors those who iutend beiug present should be there early. The following players are requested to roll up at 2.30 to-morrow to play the Palmerston Half-holiday Football Club : — Foster, J. McFarlauo, Joe Robinson, Conny, R. Pan - , Markman, Moore, James, Evans, Smith (2), Brinkniau (2), Loveday, McMillan. The Secretary to the Pahucrtiton Hospital Board desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of fruit, flowers and vegetables from Rev limes Jones, of Feilding, as result of Harvest Thanksgiving services : books from Mr J. James (Feilding), and illustrated papers from Mr Morton. We are glad to learn that Mr F. Gabitcs, who has given up business iv Feilding, has accepted a lucrative appointment with the Manawatu Fanners' Cooperative Associatiou at Palmerston North. During his residence in Feilding, Mr Gabitcs has made a host of sincore friends, who will always be glad to hear that he is doing well. Influenza is agaiu very prevalent in Feilding and surrounding districts, and la grippe has not yet altogether died out. With the approach of tho winter months it is quite likely we shall have another outbreak of dipfcheria iv Feilding, and it therefore behoves every resident so tar as lies in his power to take measures to prevent a recurrence of that fell disease. Now is the time for cleaning out tanks, looking to the drains, etc A movement is on loot to form an association of the various chess clubs along this coast with the object of holding annual tournaments. Definite action will probably be taken in the matter within a few weeks. — The stock inspector, Mr Bluudell, states that the cattle in the district are remarkably clear of disease at present, aud the uutuber of infected sheep has been considerably reduced.— Standard.

In 1889 the price of wheat in England was 8s lOd per bushel, and in 1892 3s ■9id. The Cheltenham Dairy Company forwarded two tons of butter to Wellington by the evening train yesterday. The final competition for the ladies' bracelet presented to the Manchester Rifles will be fired to-morrow, morning and afternoou. Captain Edwin wired at 12.45 p.m today : — North-west to west and south gales of exceptional severity with rain and exceptinally cold weather within 10 hours from now ; glass fall. A party of ten men, who are ou their way to Government works north of Rangiwahia, and are sent up by the Labor Department, arrived in Feilding from Wellington by the mid -day train to-day. The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times predicts that Major Steward will be re-elected Speaker by the vote of the temperance party, led by Sir Robert Stout. The chances of the new aspirant for the Speakership, Mr j A. R. Guinuoss, are deemed to be very small, while there is the probability of J Sir Maurice O'Rorke not being nominated by the Government. At Mr CJ. Bull's property at Aorangi yesterday, the trial of Bennett's stump | extractor was a great success. A totara ' stump measuring at least 7ft through at i the base was torn up by the machine in | a vcrj' short time. Undoubtedly the ex- [ tractor does all that it is claimed to | do. The Farmers' Alliance inform us that they have already disposed of several iv the district. | An important meeting of the parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, was held on Saturday night to consider the proposal of the vestry to offer i'2oo per annum to the successor to the Rev W. E. Paige, and to do without an Incumbent until July, the revenue in the meantime having been pledged. A letter was read from Archdeacon Faucourt opposing the proposal, and hinting that unless r_f)o per annum was provided in stipend the parish would be reduced to a parochial district. A resolution was proposed endorsing the action of the vestry, but was lost on a show of bauds. Au amendment requesting the appointment of a clergyman at a guaranteed stipend of .1-250 was carried. The vestry, considering this vote a want of contideuce, rcsigucd, aud the meeting broke up. Another early settler passed away on Wednesday — Mrs Wm. Thomas, who arrived iv Wellington early in 1842 with her husband and four children. In common with many others they lost all they had in the first great lire in Wellington, after which they proceeded to Wanganui, walking the whole distance, and taking their children with them. Many were the troubles which befell the family in their new home. After the murder of the Gilfillan family the Maori murderers went to the Thomas', and danced a war dance, on which occasion Mrs Thomas faced them boldly, which so surjiriscd them that they did uot harm any of the family. In 18f>6 the couple removed to Napier, and lived there till 18H(>, when they came to Wellington to live with their daughter, Mrs W. H. Fordhatu, in whose house both have breathed their last — Mr Thomas seven years ago, and now Mrs Thomas, at the ripe age of 87 years. — Post. The folllowiug tenders were received by tbe Kiwitea Road Board on Saturday last : — Raugitikei Valley road, 40 chains formation and clearing, Garland and Co., i:55 (accepted) ; R. Lyon and Son, .£125 10s ; P. Doyle, 155 2s 6d ; Behrent and Strawbridge.^ £70 ; J. Cottrell, i.IBO 10s. Kiwitea - Tapuae road, forming aud culverfcing 106 chains, No. 2 contract, Mclntyre, 1144 10s (accepted) ; Keeler and Wigg, Xl5O 7s ; T. Palmer, £1 10s per chain ; Behrent and Strawbridge, i.177 ; R. Lyon aud Son, i' 254 14s ; Garland and Co., £"210. Northern lind forming and culverting 157 chains, W. F. Marsh, £457 (accepted* ; D. McGrath, £580. Vinegar Hill bridge road, Jas. Cotterell, £500 9s 7d (accepted); R. Lyon and jSon, £689 13s ; D. McGrath, £730; J. Madden, £567. Kiwitea— Tapuae road, No. 5 contract, 52 chains formation and culverting, Garland and Co., £78 (acccepted) ; J. Madden, £73 10s ; Lyon and Son, £127 8s ; Behrent and Strawbridge, £113 ; T. Palmer, £1 10s per chain. Branch road, formation and culverting, M. Dogherty, £1 19s per chain (accepted) ; B. Poole, £108 10s ; W. F. Marsh, £136 7s 6d ; McDermott and Woodman, £125 15s. Fencing cemetery, A. Churcher, wire 9s 6d, stab 17s 6d (accepted) ; G. Richardson, wire 15s 6d, stab £1 3s ; R. Lyon aud Sou, wire £25 10s, stab £17 10s.