The Feilding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 321, 23 May 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894. Local and General News.

To-morrow (Queen's Birthday) there will be no issue of the Star. The Standard says that diphtheria is prevalent in the Kairanga district, and the school has in consequence been closed for a fortnight. A match will be played at Feilding at an early date between the Napier and Feilding Association Football players. Some Russians have founded a steamship company to trade between America and Vladivostock, connecting at the latter port with the Siberian Railway. A notice appears in the Gazette vesting nine sections in the Apiti district, fifteen in the Pohangina, three in the Ougo, and one in the Oroua Survey district in the Pohaugiua Road Board. The usual weekl}- meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society will be held in the Methodist Church to-morrow evening at 7.30. The busiuess of the evening will be impromptu speeches. We have seen a very useful invention which has been patented by Mr Clapham, of Halcoinbe, called a " toasting jack." It will put the ordinary toasting fork quite out of use, and no family should be without one. It is simple, ingenious, and very cheap. A Building Society recently started in Wellington on the co-operative principle, is being well supported and promises to be a success. The number of shares which may be taken up by each member is limited, and advances will only be made to shareholders. The following team will represent the Red Star Football Club against the Pirates II on the Oval to-morrow afternoon : — Foster (2), James, Conney, Markman, Hurdle, McFarlane, Evans, Brinkman, Smith, Loveday, McMillan, Beechy Rosoman, Parkes. Any of the above who cannot play are requested to notify the secretary. Yesterday afternoon a resident in Feilding, whose business avocations necessitate his travelling over every road in the district, called on us and complained bitterly of the huge boulders lying on the highway between Colytou and Feilding. J3e considers that it would be cheaper and certainly much better for the travelling public if these stones were broken before they are put clown, instead of afterwards. It will be seen from a replace advertisement that Messrs Sponceand Spence have received further consignments of new goods. The Bon Marche has been considerably improved as regards light and accommodation, and now contains one of the largest and most varied assortments of drapery and clothing on the coast. Last evening an accident, which might have resulted more seriously, happened to a lad named Comfort, of Ualcombe. He was riding fast while a trap was coming at a smart pace in the opposite direction. A collision occurred, and tho shaft of the vehicle struck young Cornfoot on, the inside of the thigh, causing a wound seven inches long and one-and-a--half inches deep. Dr Sorley was sent for and dressed the wound. A writer in the Ota go Witness sajß hat " a great feature of tree planting — and one which is not well enough known — is that, where properly planted, trees destroy all gorse, broom, briar, or useless plants, these plants being all good nurses for young tree 9 when a space ia cleared »m"ng them to allow (be trees to get a -uri for a year or two. It would be well for settlers to plaut trees among gorse, &c, instead of repeatedly burning it ■ town for it to grow up in a year or two " We are informed by the Manawatu Daily Times that at the Palmerston North Police Court on Tuesday, before Captain Mowlem and Mr J. G. Rush, J's.P., J. C. Morey was charged under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act of 1893, with having contracted debts without any reasonable or probable ground of expectation of being able to pay the same as well as Ins other debts. Mr Hankins appeared for the D.0.A., and Mr Baker for the bankrupt. Accused reserved his defence, and he was committed to take his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court held in Wanganui. Bail was allowed. The Post referring to the recent earthquake says: — "A man who was working on the top of ihe Government Insurance Buildings was in a bad way. The unfinished tower swayed considerably, and the man had to throw himself flat on it and lie down. There were many diverting incidents. In one case a man was being shaved in a Manners-street barber's shop, and when the shake came had his face covered with lather and the usual towels round him, but he didn't wait to consider this, and simply made a bee-line for the street, lather, towels and all. The shipping in harbour felt the shake severely, those on board describing it as similar to the shock experienced during a collision." On Friday next an important land sale takes place in Feilding, when Messrs Gorton and Son will sell, on account of Messrs Lethbridge and Sons, twelve first-class building sites in the Borough of Feilding, and also one ten-acre section on the North road, and thirty-one acres on the Makino road. The building sites are situated on the hill facing West street, and running from near Mr F. Y. Lethbridge's residence in the direction of the Recreation ground. We have before referred to the excellence of these 5-acre sections for residential building sites, but in order to obtaiu a good idea of their suitableness for this purpose one should take a stroll over them, and they will at once be convinced, from their healthy position, and from the capital view Avhich they command, that they are not to be surpassed in Feilding. There will no doubt be spirited bidding at the bale

At the Police Court this morning John Hovind was fined ss, with costs 2s, for using abusive and insulting language in a public place to J. Milton. Messrs W. Carthew and H. L. Sherwill were the presiding Justices. A picnic will be held at Campbelltown to-morrow in connection with the Primitive Methodist Sunday School. As the place selected for it is well sheltered, and the supervisers are doing all iv their power to make the gathering a success, it is expected a large number will attend. The usual weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge was held in the Foresters' Hall last evening. Three candidates were initiated and four proposed for initiation at next meeting. A committee was appointed to make arrangements for a social in a fortnight's time. Songs and recitations were given by members of the Lodge, after which the meeting closed in the usual manner. Tho insect recently liberated at Tokomairiro, Otaeo, to surprise the Hessian fly, is doing it pretty effectually by eating him. It is found that of the chrysalis of the Hessian fly in mauy cases only tbe shell ia left, the inside of the body having been eaten out. The shell is perforated by small holes showing where the para sites had entered, and in some instances the parasites were found inside the shell. Mr Arthur Field Wolrige writes to a Sydney paper suggesting a means of paying off debts on churches by means of several insurance policies for small suns taken out and assigned to the Church by well disposed members of the congre* gation. By this means any members who had the welfare of the Church at heart would have the opportunity by paying of a tiflnng annual sum, of becoming substantial benefactors of tbeir Church at their death. The scheme, it is said, has been frequently resorted to in other countries, and has uniformly worked successfully.—Napier News.