Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 340, 15 June 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr Samuel Knight is having his new play the " Banshee" copyrighted. Mr Henry Jolly has been appointed the local ageut for the Manchester Fire Assurance Couipauy. Capta'n Edwin wired at 12 35 p m today : Strong N. to \V. and F,W winds after 16 hours from now ; #!ass fall. The Feilding State School closed today for the usual fortnight's midwinter vacation. Letters of naturalisation have been issued to John Lug wig Friske, manner, Campbelltown. Mr A. Hickford has purchased the Rangiwahia bakery business of Messrs Franklyn-Brown Bros. We regrot to learn that Mr A. Ratliff, of the firm of Ratliff Bros., is very seriously indisposed. Members of the local 1.0. G.T. Lodge who intend visiting the Buuuythorpe Lodge on Monday evening will meet at Mr Frank Bray's this eveuiug, at 7.30, to make arrangements for the trip. At a committee meeting of the Campbclltown Lodge of Oddfellows, held a few uights ago, it was decided to celebrate the anniversary of the lodgo with a banquet to bo held on July 4th. Tickets will be issued immediately. At a meeting of tlie Wanganui Har» bour Board ye>tetday an application from MrOldham asking for cost of survey of g-etion 109 to be paid by the Board <>n account of an error in the original plan, was hold over for future inquiries The ball which will be held in the Colyton Hall on Wednesday evening next promises to be a success. The promoters are working assiduously with a view to providing a pleasant evening's amusement and as the proceeds will be devoted to the Colyton String Band the Hall should be crowded on the occasion. We have seen a few bad roads in our time, and it has been our unpleasant experience to travel over some, but the road leading from Buuuythorpe to PalPalmerston is about tho worst we have ever seen. This piece of highway is under the control of the unlucky Manawatu Road Board. Mr Galland, who has been assistant master in the Feildiug State School for the past year, was presented with a handsome album this afternoon by the school children, lie having severed Ins connection with the school to take up the position of relieving teacher for a tiuife.

Counterfeit half sovereign are in circulation at Woodville. A slip occurred in the Gorge yesterdays but the debris was quickly cleared away. Mr Edward Smith, of Colyton, was sworn in as a J.P. yesterday before Mr Brabant, S.M. It is almost a certainty that Sir Maurice O'Rorke will be the next Speaker of House. A drunk who was arrested in Masterton on Saturday last had on him deposit slips for £180 and 4-68. The racehorse Kent was sold yesterday at Wellington for 195 guineas, and Swordbelt for 85 guineas to A. W. Cave. Mr Wiltsher, an old Palmerston resident, who died last week, bequeathed a thousand pounds to the Palinerstou Hospital. Mr W. H. Montgomery will move and Mr O'Regan will second the Address-iu-Reply, not Mr Pirani as previously reported. During the close season for the local factories, several of the dairymen here will send their cream to the Palmerston factory, and to Wellington. A veritable ring-tailed opposum was found on Mr Buck's property, Featherstou, last week. It was dead when picked up but had not been long soThe settlers in Pembertou are very iudigaf.n'i with the Ministry for not appointing the gentlemen nominated by them, on the Commission of the Peace. A poll was taken yesterday on a proposal to raise a loan of £1600 for drainage purposes in the Palmerstbn Borough, and resulted in the proposals being rejected. Yesterday Messrs D. and W. Mauson sold a block of their land at Palmerstou North, containing one hundred acres, at A' ls per acre. Mr Cairns was the purchaser. The meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society last evening was well attended. The business was impromptu speeches, and several interesting subjects were discussed. A Denver gentleman has had the blood of a live lamb introduced into his veins as a remedy for general debility. It is probable there will be no nuusual effect, save an abnormal fondness of all girls named Mary. Mr F. Towlcr sent us this morning a basket of apples which are the second growth of this season. They are well developed and well suited for cooking purposes. The local branch of the Salvation Army had a large meeting last evening, the occasion being an " Indian Conversion," by -which aii idea was givcu of how Hindoos are converted from their belief to the Christian religion. A gift auction of stock and produce will be held in Feilding on Friday, the 29th instant, in aid of the Stan way Church Building Fund. Intending contributors arc requested to communicate with the Treasurer, Mr George Wheeler, of Stan way. At New Plymouth the other day, the Chief Commissioner of Railways mentioned that a bill was now in preparation, and would be introduced during the coming session, rcudcring the inspection and grading of butter compulsory. Dunns the last twelve veara about 40,000 Jowa have emigrated from Rus-ia, of whom a very lar»o number liave pone to tho United States. Only 2 por cent of them were agriculturists ; the other 98 per cent, were etnplovoJ in small trade" and handicrafts, chiefly shoemakers and tuilors. The usual monthly meeting of the Palmerston Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday. Tho Kiwitea County Council forwarded A'sß 12s 6d as part payment of charitable aid rate. An offer by Mr Bastings, of Feilding, to present a number of periodicals to the Hospital was received with thanks. A plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the Assembly Rooms this evening under the management of Mr J. Hyde Parker. It is stated that some of the dancers will wear quaint, and exceedingly pretty costumes, and there will doubtless be a large number of spectators present in addition to those who go with the intention of dancing. The hearing of the case E. Jackman v. Schapleski Bros, was completed at the Feildiug S.M. Court after we went to press yesterday afternoon. The claim was for £9 3s 3d, and Schapleski Bros, disputed a portion, and also put in a set off, which would leave Jackman 4s 3d in debt to them. Jndgment was given for plaintiff for £2 14s Bd, with costs 24s and solicitor's fee 21s. We understand the settlers in Campbelltown contemplate taking over Mr W. Corpe's butter factory there and forming it into a co-operative factory. A meeting of dairy farmers will be held at Campbelltown in about a fortnight to consider the matter, and confer with Mr Corpe as to the terms on which he will dispose of the factory, to which he has recently beeu making extensive improvements. Meetings will be held at early dates at Makino and Stanway to consider a proposal which Mr Corpe intends making, to the effect that he should make butter at his Makiuo factory till the end of December, and after commence cheese making. If this proposal is adopted it would give dairy farmers, who supply the factory with milk, an opportunity to rear their calves on skim milk till they attain an age at which they would not be detrimentally effected by the whey. Messrs Franklin-Browne Bros., who recently purchased Mr C. Matthews' bakery business in Feildiug, have effected great improvements in their bakehouse. A new oven, known as the patent furnace oven, has been erected, with all the latest conveniences for turning out first-class bread. In place of putting the wood in the oven for heating there is a furnace on one side, where the tire is kindled. By this means much labor and fuel are saved, and it is claimed that bread made in those ovens is better thau that made iv tho old style. The Haybittle Concert, which is to be given in aid of the funds of the new Wesleyan Churoh, has been definitely fixed to take place on Friday, July 13th. Mr Chas. Carr's Feilding stock sale will be held on that date, and there will also be a good moon. Amongst other items on the programme, Mr Fred Haybittle will give " Jean Goello's Yarn," a high class recitation, full of dramatic selections ; also, " The Relief of Lucknow," and " Kissing Cup's Race." Mr Walter Haybittle will supply the comic element, iucluding amongst other items, " Up to Date," " Where Did You Get That Hat," and the " Coster's Lullaby." Yesterday morning Mr C. L. Wildbore of Taonui, had just lit the fire, aud gone out for more wood, when his six-years-old sou came from the bedroom and stood in front of the fire. A spark flew out and ignited the lad's nightdress which in a few minutes burst into flames. Mr Wildbore promptly smothered the ilames, but in doiug so was somewhat severely burned on his left hand. The lad was seriously injured, his back, and under the left, arm, being blistered, aud the hurts were made worse when the poor little fellow's charred flannel under shirt was removed, and the skin torn away. Simple remedies were applied and the little sufferer is now doing ' fairly well.

A fairly well attended meeting of the Birmingham Mutual Improvement Souiety was held in the Wosleyan Church at Birmingham last evening, Mr T. A. Bryce presiding. The usual routine business was transacted, a number of now members elected, and several candidates proposed. The order of the day, a paper .on " Phrase and Fable," which elicited keen criticism from several mombers, was read by Mr H. Tolley, Tho next meeting of the society will be held on June 30th. Wo learn on the best authority that some very large sums of money lent on mortgage havo recently been called in and ordered back to England. The lenders dread that further taxation may be imposed upon them. Moreover, the uncertainty engendered by proposals to issue paper money makes lenders dread that they may be forced to take payment in paper money of a greatly depreciated value. This withdrawal of capital (says tho Wellington Press) is the more disastrous since it comes at a time when it is the one chief need of the colony. To-morrow afternoon, before the Kea Kaha v. Birmingham football match commences, a scratch match will be played on the Oval between Trades v. Professions. The following will represent tho Professions- W. Watts, C. E. Bryce, Clark, Giescu (2), Strachan, MathcsoD, J. Coombe, Brabant, Carty, Halcombe, Gibson, Dyer, Gosling, and McNicoll ; emergencies, Kelleher and Hicks. Trades — A. and R. Parr, Robinsou, Whisker (2), Martini, Foster (2), Smith, I. W r atts, Moore, Hurdle, Matravers, Low, and Aitkcn ; emergencies, Smith and Thompson. The match will start at 1.45 sharp. One of Feildiug's earliest settlers passed away yesterday afternoon after a lingering illness. We refer to Mrs Bowler, wife of Mr Richard Bowler, seur.. Mrs Bowler, with her husband, arrived here with the second batch of settlers in February 1874 who were sent out by 111 3 Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation from England as pioneer settlers on the Manchester Block. Mrs Bowler leaves a grown up family to mourn her demise, they are — Mr R. Bowler, Mrs W. Wenham, Mrs J. Cummings, Mrs S. Burdett, Mrs J. Anderson aud Miss Phcebe Bowler, all of Feilding, and Mrs W. Pawsou, of Danevirke. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.