Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 313, 14 May 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Five marriage licenses have been taken out in Fcatherston in three weeks. A mob of 500 cattle passed through Feilding yesterday morning en routo to Napier. Six tenders were received for the erection of a new Wesleyan Church in Feilding, and Mr R. Heald's, at £438, was accepted. The highest tender was £508. William "Whisker (ju Qr -) was committed to the Wellington lunatic asylum to-day, on the certificates of Drs Sorley and Johnston. Messrs W. Cartbew and C. Bull were the presiding justices. The lonio brought 10 English wild ducks, pouchards, Carolinas and gadwalls for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Twenty -three birds were orignally shipped by the steamer, but 13 died on the voyage. The Monowai, with English mails of 21st April, left 'Frisco for Auckland on 3rd May, due date. The Alameda, with colonial mails of 21st April, reached 'Frisco from Auckland on 10th May, due date. A Scandinavian named C. Standall, who had been lost in the bush for nearly a week at Johnsonville, was found in a very exhausted condition on Saturday. He was taken to^fche Wellington Hospital for treatment. The strike at Maine Bros., boot manufacturers, Christchurch, has been settled, the firm having consented to adopt the system of wages and conditions of labor as agreed to by the New Zealand Boot Manufacturing Association and Federated Bootmakers' Union and General I board decisions. To meet a growing demand for pure, fresh, coffee, Messrs Bramweli Bros., of Fergusson street, have just imported a hand coffee mill, with which they will grind the best Ceylon berries as the coffee is required. By this means purchasers will be certain of obtaining an unadulterated aiticle, and no doubt Messrs Bramweli Bros, will be well patronised for their enterprise. At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs Carthew and Kir ton, J.P.s, E. Whitehead was charged by H. V. Pickering with having made alleged illegal charges for impoundage of cattle. Mr Saudilands appeared for Mr Pickering, and Mr Whitehead defended himself. The Bench adjourned the case to Thursday next as a similar case between the parties had already been .icard before the Stipendiary Magistrate. The programme for the grand concert ■o be given in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday evening next, in aid of the uew Wesleyan Church funds, is published in another column. With eighteen capital items on it, consisting of instrumental pieces, recitations, solos, glees, trios, &c, given by some of the best talimt which Feilding and Palmerston can produce, the programme should be a most enjoyable one. The object for which the concert is to be given is, in itself, sufficient to ensure a crowded house, while the prices to be charged for admission are very reasonable.

In a letter to Mr James Reid, Clujirinan of tho Kiwitea County Council, Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., stated that immediately on the return of the Minister of Lands to Wellington he wired him re the Otara bridge to the effect that a deputation bad been appointed to interview him urging the advisableness of erecting a bridge there, and hoped that he would acquiesce in their view of the matter, and reply, which would obviate the necessity of the deputation proceeding to Wellington. A reply was received by Mr Stevens from the Minister of Lands stating that it was with regret that he could not give a favourable answer, and it would be impossible to have the bridge at the site indicated ; the Three Log Whare site would be of far more benefit to Crown lauds. Mr Stevens therefore advised the deputation to await the return of the Minister of Public Works before going to Wellington, in orcley that the fullest consideration may be giveu t^ th.e^r request. It would appear there is a conflict M f jntercsts somewhere in convection with this muchneeded work*