The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazetee. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazetee. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1894. Local and General News.

The Land Tax is payable next month. Hitherto it has not been due until Decem* bea. The Feilding Debating Society will meet in the Foresters' Hall this evening at 7.30. Messrs Gorton aud Sou have very large entries of slieep and cattle for their Bulls sale to-morrow. Several of the Volunteer corps which Colonel Fox recommended for disbandment have since disbanded voluntarily. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the tea and sacred concert to celebrate the opening of the Weslcyan Church at Apiti. The twenty-first anniversary of the falmorston Weslcyan Church was celebrated yesterday. The Rev. W. Lee preached appropriate sermons. The Press says it is rumoured that Mr Warburton, the Public Trustee, is to be appointed President of tho Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand. In the English Church this morning Mr A.. Elkington was married to Miss Reid, of Wangauui. We wish the newly married couple every happiness and prosperity. The Mariposa with London mails of 16th June left Frisco for Auckland on the 28fch ult., time-table date. The Monowai with the Colonial mails of 16bh ult. reached 'Frisco on Saturday last, two days late. The following tenders were received by the Mancl:ester Road Board on Saturday last : — For making a diversion of the Makino creek on Forlong's road - C. W. Marshall, 8d a cubic yard (accepted) ; F. Rink, lid; W. Allan lOd; T. A. Wigg, Is. At the Wellington Divorce Court today suitß were ruado absolute in the following cases:— Skinner v. Skinner, husband's petition ; Rowe v. Rowe, husband's petition ; Kitchen v. Kitchen, wife's petition, the petitioner to have charge of tho children; Gallyhawk v. Gaily hawk, husband's petition. Our local Mrs Partingfcon says : " Well, we lives aud we learns tho further we get along. When I was a girl we were all young and no body was ashamed of it, but now we get old we are a drinking and a gambling people all the tiino. I I do wish there was no Parliament so as we could all get moral and sober again " and the dear old girl pensively chewed a peppermint drop. It ig reported that in Victoria that many palaces founded as temperance hotels are now taking steps to obtain licenses to sell spirituous liquors in order that they might be enabled to pay their way. The Grand Palace Company was in this predi* cameot, but the only waj the company could obtain a license whs by Act of Parliament, or by purchasing a license from a smaller hotel. The fees proposed to be paid to jurors, according to the Coroners' Inquests Bill, are: -Each juror who has travelled more than two miles, 6s for every day of more than four hours, and and 4s 6d for every day not exceeding four hours; each juror travelling not more than two miles, 5s for every day of more than tout: hours, and 3s 6d for every day not exceeding four hours. The following epitaph appeared on a gravestone in Norwich, England: — Stop traveller and cast an eye, As you now are so once was' I. As I now am so you will be, Therefore prepare to follow me. The traveller did stop, and added the following lines : — To follow you I'm not content, Unless I know the road you went. A southern contemporary says : "In the early days of the colony duelling was not unknown. One was f ought near Wellington, in which Dr Featherston and Colonel Wakefield were not passive spectators. The Colonel fired wide, but was pinked in the arm by his opponent." Of course this story may be true or not, but old settlers know that in the " forties " challenges used co fly about Wellington in a most reckless manner. Oulj r one fatal duel was recorded. In Auckland during the native troubles when arge numbers of troops were stationed there, several meetings were known to have taken place, and it was said that several young officers died of wounds not received in battle. A paragraph in the Standard of this morning; commenting on the PirateI'eilding match which took place on Saturday afternoou, says tho behaviour of the spectators was disgraceful. Our reporter states that tho sounds of disapproval were not raised against the Palmerston players, but against the decisions of the referee. It was a mistake on the part of the officials in allowing so many of the public inside the Oval, as they not only interfered with the players, and obstructed them, but prevented the more orderly of the spectators who remained outside the fence and on the lawn from obtaining a good view of the game which they were quite as much entitled to. We may also state that the principal offenders were young lads who knew no better, and who look on " barracking " as a delight. On Friday next there will be presented to the Feilding public one of the most j interesting programmes? which has ever been performed since the inauguration of the settlement. In Wellington, j?al. mer3ton, Feilding, in fact in every " town and village hamlet " on the coast, the members of the Haybjttle family have iudMdua,Uy earned an excellent reputation, not paly for their musical and dramatic abih'ty, but £o* thje readiness with which they have placed fchpi* undoubted talents at the disposal of the organisers of all charitable and popular entertainments far the general good. But their crowning effort wjll be given iv aid of the new Wesljeyan Church building fund in Feilding, when the whole of th© members of this really clever family TyiJj combine and giye an entertainment which will not only be excellent in itself, but to help au excel* lent object. Iv another column we pub» lish the programme which possesses a variety that should bo very attractive, and we trust that the people of Feilding and the surrounding districts will assist " The Family " in the work they are en4e#youriug to do.