The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, 2 July 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894. Local and General News.

Several letters to the Editor are beld over. The Directors of the Feilding Building Society will meet to-morrow afternoon. This afternoon the Mayor, Mr Garthew, left for Wellington to attend the Mnnicipal Conference now sitting there. Mr Chas. Carr held a very successful sale of fruit trees, on account of Mossrs Newport and Sons, Palmerston North, on Saturday last f the whole of the lots being cleared at satisfactory prices. The 1.0.0. F., A.C., Britannia Lodge, No. 53, holds a public installation in the Cauipbelltown Hall on Wednesday evening, at 7.80 p.m. After the installation the anniversary banquet will be held. The Manawatu river was in flood yesterday, it having rose about ten feet above the ordinary level. Slight freshes were also observable in the Oroua, Eiwitea and Makino. As young macracapas and willow trees were coming down the Oroua, some damage must have been done up in the country. A youth named Arthur Amez, son of the Wellington City valuer, whilst playing lawn tennis at Paikakariki on Thursday, fell and broke his thigh. There is danger even in the playing of that gentle game. Owing to the Longburn Freezing Company being unable to get their consignments of frozen meat away on account of insufficient shipping space, the works will be kept open for another three weeks. Notice of motion has been given in the Legislative Council by Sir GeorgeTWJritxnore, to the effect that Ifoe conclusions of the Commissioner in the Fox Commission are directly opposed to the evidence. This is rough on Mr O'Hara Smith. A meeting of the Bunnythorpe Small Farm Association will be held on the 21stinst. After the above a meeting will be held to consider what steps can be taken for getting the Railway Commissioners to make the necessary alteration - in" the present railway crossing and the erection of a goods shed at Bunnythorpe. A youth fifteen years of age, named Henry Charles Amner, was admitted into the Palmerston Hospital on Friday suffering from a fractured ankle, sustained while bushfelling at Fitzherbert. On Saturday, Henry Brandt, of Feilding, was admitted, suffering from a bad knee, the result of an old gash while bushfelling at Makino. The last has not yet been heard of the Fox correspondence. The Minister for Lands is very much displeased igitk-Sir P. Buckley for eggag^flrafihr'-on his J tavtmmt&tfSriyßMrßromith) by refiectkjajfon his unsuitableness for the position Commissioner; and there is every j probability that b© will attempt to make Sir Patrick Buckley^gat humble pie.— Chronicle's corre^opAaeht. We are indebted to Mr Geo. Wheeler j for the following particulars of the guessing competition, held in Feilding on Friday, in connection with the Stanway Church Building Fund:— There were 186 guesses made, and the successful competitor, Mr E. G. Wilson, guessed the exact weight of the sheep, viz., 238 ibs, live weight. Messrs Carr. Reade and Millen guessed 237, Mr Percival 2391b5, and Mr E. Bell 289*lbs. A Parliamentary correspondent wrote to the Napier News that " there is an active canvass going on iv the lobbies to get Sir Bobert Stout as Premier. Dr Newman is at the head of the movement, and there are associated with him Messrs Tanner and Piraui as active agents, but I fancy it will end in»ft fizzle." The attitude of Sir Robert Stout to the Premier is decidedly antagonistic. 1 Bitter complaints are made by settlers residing on the Awahuri side of the •Oroua bridge, on the Bangitikei line, of the negligence of the Mauawatu Road Board in not making a ford across the river, the bridge being damaged by the recent heavy flood. The shortest road to Palmerston from Awahuri, for wheeled traffic, fourteen miles, just double what it would be if a ford were made at the bridge site. The following are the Vital Statistics for Feilding during quartet, ended 80th Jnne :— Births 86, Deaths 6, Marriages 15. The last item shows our young men are marrying at the raid of , sixty yearly, and calls forth the thought that if they do it so freely now what will they not do in the spring when " lancy turns to thoughts of love t " The progress of Feilding is doubly assured. We regret to have to record the death of Mr John Kitchen, which took place last Saturday at his son's residence, Russell street, Feilding. Deceased ar. rived in this colony about 1855 vpm •> detachment of the 66th Regiment. Bfc joined the regiment at Portadown, County of Armagh, Ireland, on Jamr. ary 29th, 1855, and was discharged after ten years'- service, at the camp, Te Awauzuta, on 21st August, 1865, with one good conduct badge. He served through the Maori war and saw much active service The late Mr Kitchen, in company with Mr Laurence Ormond, also a 65th man, assisted in working one of the first printing machines introduced into Wellington at the Advertiser office, some 30 years ago. The funeral will take place tomorrow Afternoon.

TOr^bhn Cotter, of Ashurst. Only six bankruptcies were recordeH in the Wairarapa for the six months^ ending Saturday, 80th June. I Thus Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R. : "If any member tries to make Saturday the compulsory half -holiday he'll hear from me." The Rev. Mr Walker, President of the New Zealand Temperance Alliance, will lecture in the Feilding Temperance Hall on Friday evening next. Mr Walker is well-known as a lecturer, and no doubt he will have a good audience. Good news for asthmatics comes from Canada. A letter received by a Dunedin citizen from a relative states that a comp'oundof the Kola plant, found on the Congo river, West Africa, is a positive cure for asthma, safe and reliable in the yerj worst cases. The Wangnnui Education Board has 103 schools open, which makes it the fifth most important educational district in point of numbers, those ahead of it being Auckland 21)0, Otago 202, North < nnterbury 179, and Southland 121, but in poiut of average attendance it is bolnw I Wellington, and in the mean average for j one school it stands at 62 9 as against j Wellington's 105 6, and the mean for the Colony 73*7Tho person who is alleged to have been found preparing legal documents and charging fur them without being a solici tor, was brought before Sydney Full Court last week. Tbe Law Institution sought to have an order made a gait •' him for tbe payment of £4& and ooets, in con nee! ion with an application made to prevent him from performing tbe duties of a solicitor. The offender, who was a man with a wife and six children, was ordered j to pay £5 in satisfaction of the claim, and the lourt gave him to July 31st to pay it. The School Attendance Bill provides that every child between the ages of seven and thirteen shall attend a public school at least six times a week, provided the school is within two miles of a residence, or that the parent has not obtained from the Board a certificate of exemption on account of illness, &c. There are ample powers to prosecute the parents and guardians of trnant children. Native children and schools are included within the scope of the Act.