The Fielding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 314, 15 May 1894, Page 2

The Fielding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1894. Local and General News.

The Manawatu Kilwining Lodge, Palmerston North, will meet to-morrow , evening. The Sydney Evening Star says that the Rev Mr Isitt is a " brilliant comedian lost to the operatic stage." The Marton butchers have reduced the price of mutton as follows: — Hindquarter, 2|d per lb ; forequarter, 2d ; leg, 4d ; shoulder, 3£d. The Colonial Treasurer has prepared a bill for submission to Parliament dealing with the establishment of control of abbatoirs throughout the colony. A burglary was committed at Wellington on Sunday on the premises of a seedsman named Cooper, and about £'7 was secured by the thieves. A cashbox containing £'40 was left untouched. "We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for the Grand Concert to be held in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow eveniug in aid of the Wesleyan Church building fund. Communication by telephone was completed j'esterday between Feilding and Colyton. The Colyton office is at Messrs Bramwell Bros." store, and Mr Fletcher is the Postmaster and operator. Yesterday was Whit Monday, and therefore observed as a close holiday by the banks. As no public notification of this was given, several people from the country who came in to do bauk business were disappointed. In all 10,000 people attend the services at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, every Sunday, the morning aud afternoon services each attracting about 2500 worshippers, aud the eveniug service 5000. The following tenders were received by Messrs James and Heaps, architects, for the erection of a cottage in Warwick street : — Hubner Bros. £148 (accepted) ; C. Tarrant, £149 ; W. Wilkinson, £151 ; H. Bilderbeck, £161 12s; Grogan and Cooper, £'164 15s ; W. Watts, £189 12s. The above arrived too late for publication yesterday. Hapuka have been very plentiful in the Sounds during tho past week. Six fish brought over to Wellington on Saturday averaged nearly 1001 b each, and were sold for lOd apiece. They were purchased by one man, who disposed of them a few minutes afterwards for 2s each. Tho tickets for the concert in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening are selling well, and there is every probability of the Hall being crowded. Independently of the desirableness of assisting such a deserving object as the erection of a church, the concert will be well worth attending as the several vocalists are all very deservedly popular. A " Father of a Family " writes to the Standard as follows, re the price of butcher's meat:— "Prime wethers cau now be bought for 7s to Bs. Can't they ? Yet the retail price of mutton is the same as when a few months ago yon had to pay 12s to 14s. Is this fair to the consumer? I say not, most emphatically not." Apropos of the Fox Commission, the newspaper boys in Wellington now cry " O'Uara " " McGinnis " in a manner that is said to prove very aggravating to the unlucky Commissioner, Mr O'Hara Smith. These catch words are reminiscences of " Robbery Under Arms," as produced on the stage. Mr Martin, S.M., in Wellington, has ruled that an auctioneer's " dealing talk" amounts to a guarantee. In a case recently brought him, where a horse was sold as a four year old when in reality he was five, and as sound, when he was suffering from inflammation of the leg, his Worship gave a verdict to the buyer for £'16 10s, the whole amount sued for, with costs.

On Friday morning last Fred Price, a jockey, got a nasty fall on the Bulls racecourse. He was riding Messrs Cameron and Holmes' horse Result, when a bullock swerved on to the course right in front of the horse, a sudden collision being the consequence. Price was thrown a considerable distance and received a slight injury to his shoulder. The horse also came down but received no injury. Tenders are invited by the Engineer to the Kiwitea Road Board for bushfelling, forming and culverting 100 chains on the Tapuae road ; forming and culverting 50 chains of the Pararororangi road ; and for the erection of a bridge on the Cheltenham Cross road. Plans, etc., for the two first named contracts may be seen at Messrs Ran sou and Son'e store, Waituua, and the whole at the Board's office, Feildiug. Tenders close on the 22nd of May, at noon. The following proposition will be submitted at the next meeting of the Canterbury Progressive Liberal Association, " That all retail dealers, shopkeepers, or other tradesmen who do not come under or within the designation of wholesale dealers, warehousemen, or other import, ers, be permitted to place each and every 1 of their accounts of over one weeks' standing due and owing to them, in the hands of the local postmasters for collection, and that such local postmasters be authorised to advance to such dealers shopkeepers, or tradesmen as aforesaid, ninety seven and a half per cent of the gross amount of such accounts, in negotiable bonds at ten years bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum.