Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will be Mass in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, on Sunday morning next at 11 o'clock. T There were 188 cases of twins registered in New Zealand during 1893, and 678 illegitimate births, An English paper says that "New Zealand has only one-storey houses." The man who wrote that par appears to be suffering from the same complaint. The general manager of the National Bank, Dnnedin, received cable advice yesterday that the directors declare a 5 per cent, dividend and carry forward £15,000. Mr N. Nathan, tbe well-known bookmaker, obtained a verdict for £50 in the Wellington Supreme Courtjjf^srday against th&pgdprieters cfthe Wa2&4)| rapa Star for alleged libel. | Several very eligible recruits have I joined the Manchester Rifles this month. There will be a parade of the corps for Government inspection on Thursday next. The Ngaire Co-operative Dairy Company has achieved what we (Hawera Star) think is a record for Taranaki cheese, its shipment by the Kaikoura having realised 57s and 58s. The following are the statistics for the month of June in connection with the Palmerston Hospital : — Inmates on June Ist, 11 ; admitted during the month, 17 ; discharged, 11; died, 8; inmates on July Ist, 25. An exchange says :— No less than 16 harmoniums, 443 organs and 1868 pianos were brought into Hew Zealand )aac year. Of the latter, 919 came from Ger many, valued at j£ 18.674, and from England the same number (919), the value was declared at £23.270. John Stacey, a Waterloo veteran. Hying at Mex borough, Yorkshire, recently walked to London and back to induce the War office authorities to grant him a more liberal allowance than the lOd per day which he is now rrceiym^ as a pension. He was born in 1797, and was discharged from the army in 1860. Tenders will be received by the Engineer of the Pobangina Road Board, up to 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 14th, for 228 chains of formation and metalling in 5 contracts in No. 2 Ward. Plans and specifications to be seen at Mr Palmer's store, Pohangina, and at . Engineer's Office, Palmerston North. < An Act has been introduced by the Premier authorising the closing and abandoning of the Taonui Branch Railway which was opened originally for the purpose of conveying timber from the Government totara reserve. Authority will be taken to sell or otherwise dispose of the land forming part of the said railway. Professor Theodore Lichtwark advertises to-day that he will give an exhibition of horsemanship in the Carbine Stables on Thursday evening next. The Professor lias received numerous testi- [ monials from pupils and others who have witnessed him exercise his skill, and exchanges also speak well of his success. A patent and useful improvement in harness will also be exhibited. The following are the vital statistics for the district of Palmerston North for > the month ending June 80th : — Births, ; 44; deaths, 12; marriages, 19. The < births in the Borough numbered 80, and j those -in the country 14. The greatest ] number previously recorded in the Borough in any month was 28, and in the ( country 8. r A meeting of the Feilding Library 1 Committee was held last evening. Pre- 1 sent — Messrs Stevens (in the chair), ' Cobbe, Allan, Fowles and Reade. The ] Librarian reported the number of books 1 issued during the month to be 194 and 1 14 new works received. The Treasurer < Reported the balance in hand to be £6 Ks 4d. Mr Fowles was instructed to with the Librarian re, the skylight to the Borough Council. A was passed to Mr J. t his munificent gift of papers, y the Feilding State School t Pre- 1 Haybittle, a Taylor, 1 c absence, d

We (N.Z. Times) are glad to state that the Hon. Mr Ward had greatly improved in health yesterday. La grippe is so prevalent at New Plymouth that it has been found necessary to close the public school. We have received from Mr F. Towler some very sweet apples, well flavored, grown from seedlings. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket to the 1.0. G.T. Social, in the Foresters' Hall this evening. Work was begun to-day towards the erection of the telephone wire to Makino. The office will be on the premises of Mr j Cowie, the Postmaster. The Napier Telegraph commences an article thus :^-" The breakwater is at present in everybody's mouth." Bad for the breakwater ! The funeral of the late John Kitchen took place this afternoon, and was well attended. The Rev. A. Innes Jones officiated at tbe cemetery, and Mr A. Eade was the undertaker. G. W. Woodroffe, J.P., and a number of Masterton burgesses, petition, through Mr Hogg, for a redaction in the size of their borough from 4811 to 1200 acres. They describe themselves as burgesses of " a huge ill-advised borough, .... chiefly sheep, cattle, and agricultural farm lands." The Shop and Sh«p Assistants Bill provides that all shops, except fish mongar*, fruUc-rees, coffee-hou-es, restaurants and eating-houses shall be closed on one day each week after] p.m., and employees (amongst whom are moluded hotel assistants) shall have a half- holiday. Chemists' shops shall dose, bu' may re_ppon in the evening from 7 to 9, and maj supply medicine during the afternoon if it can be proved that it is urgently re quired. Mr W. Dixon, of Palmerston North, has prepared two very neat illuminated addresses, which are to be presented to Messrs S. Waters and W. L. Meek, of Wellington, in recognition of their gratuitous services as truitees in the estate of the late Mrs Joseph Dixon. The addresses are lettered on opal and handsomely framed. They are the joint gift of tho members of the deceased lady's family, and they will no doubt rank amongst the valued possessions of the recipients. — Manawatu Times.