Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 333, 7 June 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The creameries in the Pohangina district have closed for the winter. Milk was decreasing rapidly in quantity and quality. It is confidently stated that Mr Scobie MacKeuzie will contest the Tuapeka seat against all comers. At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, judgment was given for Miss Leila Adair for the full amount claimed from the Manawatu Mounted Rifles, each party to pay their own costs. Wo are given to understand that another attempt will be made to form a Polo Club for Feilding. There arc already several good players in this neighborhood, and there should be very ittlc difficulty in carrying out the idea. The inventor Edison says he believes that eventually all newspapers will bo set up by a combination of the phonograph and type-setting machines. Just ho, but why doesn't Edison invent a machine to collect newspaper subscrip. tious ? He can't do it. The Mutual Improvement Society will meet as usual at 7.80 this evening. The msiuess will be a debate on the quesiou: " Which exercises the greater )OVVcr — Press or Platform?" Mr S. Andrews supports press and Mr Friberg platform. The Clerk of the Kiwitea County Council, Mr E. Goodbehere, inserts a notice to the effect that it is the intention of the Council, at a meeting to be held on tho 23rd instant, to levy a general rate in terms notified in the advertisement. The rate book is now open for inspection at the office of the Council, Feildiug. While Mr A. McNab, of Sauson, was riding past a neighbour's property the other day a boar, which was on the roadside, suddenly attacked his horse. The brute gripped one of the hin'l legs of the horse, and ere it was forced to let go, had inflicted a very ugly wound above the hock. Mr A. Cook, who is well-known at Palmerston as one of the relieving officers of the Railway Department, was married at Wangauui on Tuesday to Miss Aitkeu. The newly-married couple passed through Palmerstou to-day by j the mid-day train to Napier, where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Mr Cook is one of the most popular officers in the employ of the Department, and this morning he was accorded the hearty good wishes of all the employees along tks U»Pf— : Maji&watu Times.

Captain wired at mid-day to-day : North to east to north and west heavy gale with heavy rain after 12 hours from now. Glass fall. We (Standard) learn that Mr Briscoe, of Awaburi, lost no less than 600 sheep by the late floods. Of this number 400 were lambs. I Considerable trouble is being experiI enced by sheep farmers in some parts of the Waikato district owing to the great mortality in weaned lambs. The creamery at Buunythorpe is working only half time at present, the late rough weather no doubt having a depressing effect on the supply of milk. Trains crossed the bridge over the Oroua river at Aorangi to-day for the first time since last Tuesday week, the damage having been sufficiently repaired. Mr Geo. Key, a very old resident, was buried at Palmerston yesterday with military honors. Deceased was a member of the Palraerston Rifles and of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. A unique publication is The Upper Thames Recorder, a religious journal issued in the North, in which Anglicans, Wesleyans, and Presbyterians unite in publishing a sheet of news interesting to people of all three denominations. It is satisfactory to notice by Messrs Abraham and Williams sale at Colyton on Tuesday that the prices of sheep continue to show an upward tendency from that of recent sales in this district. Wethers were quitted at as high a price as 11s 2d. In our report of the Licensing Committee meeting at Marton on Wednesday, we omitted to mention that Mr Sa'udilands appeared for Mrs Hastie and Mrs Oliver, and Mr Prior appeared for Mr T. Ryan and P. Mcllroy. Inquiries made in Melbourne show that the transfer to Sydney of the Melbourne representatives of several large English publishing firms is due to the disastrous effect of the prohibitive Customs duties. We regret to have to announce the death of Mr C M. Crombie, Commissioner of Taxes, who died at Wellington j-esterday from typhoid fever, aged -57. The deceased gentleman leaves a widow and thirteen children to mourn their loss. In our report of the Licensed Victuallers' dinner at Marton on Tuesday evening, we inadvertently stated that the Mayor of Marton presided, whereas the President, Mr H. Bastings, was chairman and was supported on the left by Mr Macdonald, and on the right by Mr J. H. Stevens, M.H.R. There is always a lot of work on the Valley road after heavy rains, owing to slips, and sixteen men are employed getting the road into shape again. The Spur road lias been cleared, and there is a great deal of traffic on it now, in consequence of the Mangapne bridge on the Feilding-Ashurst road being washed away. At the Magistrate's Court, Mr. Hankins protested strongly against the late sittings, which have become so frequent of late. He pointed out that it was both unfair and inconvenient to the legal profession that the members engaged in cases should ho compelled to atteud the Court day and night. Something should certainly be done in the matter by the Department of Justice. — Standard. A number of residents in the Waituna and Beacousfield districts, members of the Church of England, have lately been endeavouring to secure section 51, sub-division E, Manchester Block, as a burial ground to be used for the exclusive interment of members of the said church. The sanction of the Colonial Secretary has been obtained, and the piece of land described abow is now open as a burial ground. It is not too much to say that the Feilding Permanent Building Society has already succeeded beyond the hopes of the promoters. Not only have the Provisional Directors been able to invest a very considerable amount in advances on the very best securities, but they are now in a position to accept deposits for twelve months and to pay at the rate of six per cent, for the same. As sums of ten pounds and upwards will be accepted we expect the invitation to that effect, which appears in our advertising columns to-day will be willingly responded to. It is said there was a grand sight from the cliffs near the Victoria sawmill, Pohangina, last week. The terrace was being undermined, when suddenly the whole face of it (some 60 feet high) toppled over into the river, completely stopping it for a short while, and the force of the fall drove a wave of water fiye or six feet high for a chain or so on either side of the mass of falling earth. When the water returned it was forced out of the straight into Mr Akers' ground on the opposite side of the stream. Two fine locomotives from the Baldwin works in Philadelphia have just been imported by the WelhngtonaManawatu Bailway Company. They are on the compound principle, each having four cyhuders, enabling steam to be used twice and they will be (he first locomotive* of that type running in New Zealand. Each engine weighs 60 tons and it is claimed that it can be run with from '20 to 25 per cent, less fuel than tho ordinary locomotive of the same size. During the month of May 33 estates of deceased persons wpre dealt with by the Public Trustee The largest estates wore those of Alex Milno, To Papa. £'723 ; A. F. Louett, Nokomai, "j-315 ; John Kelle?. Aylosbury, £250; Jessie Scaly, Auckland, ; £221 ; Bridget Spiers, Blue Spur. £'150 ; Paul F De Quincej, Auckland, £140 ; Patrick Leader, Christ chureb, £'120; Win. J. Wilsou, sa. Mararoa, £120 ; James Slade, Ashburton. 1 100; Chae. M. Burton. Helensville, £85 ; Joseph Ward, Otago, j£sl. We (Manawata Times) understand amongst tho important business to be considered at the annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Clhd, to be held next month, will bo a motion to alter the pro sent rule regarding the definition of a hack It 18 the secretary's intention io move that the rule be altered as fol« lows : — "A hack is a horse that has never won an advertised race of the net value of 40 "ovs (hack and hunter races except ed)." If the motion be agreed to. it is contended that a better class of horses will take part m the meetings of the Club, aud thut the handicapper cau prevent them having undue advantage ever the inferior contestants