Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 347, 23 June 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

« The usual quantity of reading matter will be found on onr fourth page today. The Kiwitea County Council met today at Feilding. Five acres in the Pohangina township have been set apart for a public school site. Capt. Edwin wired at noon to-day: Indications for strong westerly winds after 20 hours from now, glass fall. We have to thank the RegistrarGeneral for parts 1., 11. aud 111. of the Statistics of the Colony for 1b93. In our report of the ball at Colyton on Wednesday we omitted to mention the name of Mr D. Kuight as first comet player in the Colyton String Band. The Feilding football team left town about noon for Birmingham whero they play the Birmingham Mountaineers in the second round for the Championship. The poundkeeper of Halcombe inserts a notice to-day which should be of interest to horseowners. A notice also appears from the Feilding pouudkeeper. Mr Samuel Knight, of Awaburi, is now writing a uew play entitled " Nora," and he anticipates that it will altogether eclipse bis former production, " The Banshee." The 'Frisco mail will arrive at 4 p.m., and will bo at once sorted into private boxes. Persons to whom delivery is made by carrier may obtain correspondeuce from 4.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. Mr F. Butler, account-book manufacturer, bookbiuder, etc., of Palmerston North, has removed to more convenient premises in the Square. Mr Butler has a new stock just to baud. Coustable Gray of the police staff at New Plymouth left yesterday for New South W'ales in order to bring over the absconder Bailey, who was recently arrested at Dubbo iu that colouy. Quantities are now being taken out by the Government Quantity Surveyor for the Hawera Post Office and Courthouse. [When are the quantities to be taken for the uew Feildiug Post Office?] Mrs Yates, the lady Mayor of Onehunga, is to bo in Wellington shortly to assist the passage of tho Onehuuga Cemetery Reserves Bill through the I House. Mrs Yates is reported to be au 1 active lobbyist.

Messrs H. Rutherford and Son had a splendid show of beef and mutton in their shop last evening. The muttou was fattened by Mr D. P. Buchanan, of Beaconsfield, and the beef by Mr J. G. Wilson at Kairanga. The proposed Stock Convention Trust in London for the purpose dealing of with the deposit receipts of the reconstructed bank 4 will not conveit the securities unless it receives a certain proportion of each banker's deposits. It is proposed to begin with £100,000. A Hobart workman was handing up a sheet of corrugated iron to his mate when it slipped back and cut his nose clean off. A surgeon stitched the organ on again, but had doubts it would adhere, the galvanised metal being prejudicial to healing. Concerning the plague now raging in Hong Kong it is authoritatively stated that it occurs chiefly under conditions of over -crowding and uncleanliness, and among communities where the soil is allowed to become saturated with tho organic waste from man aud animals and from the kitchen. The statioumaster at Masterton sent a message to Sergeant M'Ardle the other day, asking if he could find men to go to Mangainahoe and assist to remove the slip from the railway line. The Sergeant went to every boarding-house iu town and offered 6s 6d a day. Not a single man, however, responded, the wages being considered altogether too small. — "NVairarapa Star. The ■Wellington Co-operative 'Bus Company is in financial difficulties. At a meeting held yesterda}' the chairman stated that the Company had uo money to pay the wages, buy horse feed, or pay for printing of tickets ; no money at "all, in fact. The plant is mortgaged, j and \ycrp the Company to go into liquidatj^P^herc would not be more than cnc^pi to meet the mortgagees' claims. Says the Post : — Some of our contemporaries, we observe, affect to treat the statements telegraphed as to the discovery of a plot to set fire to the Government Buildings as a hoax and a joke. We cau assure them it is nothing of the kind. The statement as it originally appeared in our columns is absolutely and literally true. The design was providentially discovered in a somewhat remarkable manner, but for obvious reasons we cannot publish the details. We understand that Mr T.Watson, at present residing iu Feildiug, will deliver his popular American War lecture, interspersed with a number of the famous old war songs contributed b} T some of onr best Feilding vocalists. This lecture, we gather from our southern contemporaries, provides an entertainment of exceptional merit, aud altogether Mr Watson is described as a powerful aud eloquent speaker. The lecturer speaks from personal knowledge of tho land of the Stars and Stripes, aud is ait fit it with his subject. The date has been fixed for Wednesday the 4th July. A mcetiug of tho Rangitikci-Mana-watu Cricket Associatiou was held last evening at Mr Basting's Hotel. Tho delegates present were — Messrs H. Lance aud Hunter (Halcoinbe Club), E. Halcombe (Palmerstou), Moss and Grant (Birmingham), Simpson (Colyton), Burl.icc and Reade (Feilding), and A. 11. Tompkius, secretaiy. Mr Reade occupied the chair. Accouuts were passed for payment, leaving the Union with a credit ba'auce. After discussion it was decided to postpone the question of presenting medals to the champion team until the annual meeting in September. A resolution was passed to the effect that the vice-president, Mr Lance, be instructed to write to Mrs F. Y. Lethbridge thanking her for providing refreshments for teams which played on the Feilding ground during the past season, and asking her to convey the thauks of the Union to the other ladles who assisted her. The meeting then adjourned.