Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 20, 24 July 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

In all probability the Financial Statement will be delivered this evening. A meeting of Church members will be hold at Awahuri this eveuing. The public examination of Maurice L'ronin, of Palmerston North, hoteliieeper, in fixed for Thursday, August 2nd, in the District Court. A draughts match for ioO and the -hanij)ionship of New Zealand will comnouce at Duuediu on August 20th bcxvcen J. A. Boreham (champion of North Otago) and D. A. Brodie (chainiiou of Dunedin). According to the Gazette, His Excelciicv has been pleased to accept tho resignation of Lieut. Burlace, of the Manchester Rifles— not tho resignation nl the Manchester Rifles as this morning's Chronicle puts it. A young man named Gillet, son of ohe well-known surveyor, and one of a party engaged in surveying a block of and near the Upper Turitea, was lost in the bush there from Friday evening uutil Sunday morning, when, in the last stages of exhaustion, he managed to work his way out and reach a settler's iiouse. He had a terrible experience, being soaked to the skin the whole of the time, and without anything to eat. It will be seen on reference to an advertisement in another column that a Government publication entitled " Tho Journal of the Department of Labour," can be obtained on application to the Government Printer, Wellington, or by order through the principal town and country booksellers. The journal contains an amount of news concerning labour in different parts of tho colony, in addition to articles w-ritten by some of tho most clever English and American writers of the day. We would direct the attention of guilders, contractors and others, to an advertisement which appears elsewhere from Messrs G. A. Gaminan and Co., proprietors of the Poiherau saw and plaining mills, Danevirke. Prices are quoted at which the proprietors are pre]iared to delivor timber in trucks at tho Feilding Railway Station, and it will be seen that they compare favourably with prices now existing in this district. As Messrs Gaminan and Co. are cutting from a splendid bush customers may rely on being supplied with first-class timber.

Six boxes of gold (containing 25,000 sovereigns) arrived in Wellington yesterday from Sydney for the Dunediu branch of the Bank of New Zealand. The members of the second fifteen of the Feilding Football Club are requested to meet this evening at Ross' at eight o'clock, to form a committee to select a team to play against the Kea Kaba II on Saturday next. The meeting of the Bunnythorpe Small Farm Association, which was to have been held on Saturday last, was postponed until next Saturday, at 7 o'clock. The weather prevented the members from attending. The sale of fruit trees, etc., from the nursery of Mr Mitchelson, New Plymouth, which was advertised by Messrs Gorton and Son for to-morrow, has been postponed. The date of the sale will be duly notified in the Star in a few days. On Saturday afternoon a boat containing five young men capsized in Wellington harbour. Two of the occupants swam to shore, some three-quarters of a mile off, the other three sticking to the boat. Fortunately they were rescued by a passing steamer. There was a large attendance at the Feilding Debating Society last evening. The question discussed was : Does capital possess undue advantage over labor in their present relations ? It was decided that for the future the Society meet at Miss Goodbehere's schoolroom. Farmers and others will be glad to hear that Messrs Gorton and Son have made arrangements for sheep to cross the Kiwitea stream by means of a temporary footbridge, so those who attend their Feilding stock sale on Friday next will experience no difficulty in getting their sheep over the stream. The Commissioner of Crown Lauds notifies by advertisement to-day that various areas of Crown lands, situated in the Waimarino Block, Waikauao Valley, and East Puketoi Block, are now open for application. There are a number of people in this district interested in the Waimarino Block, and theyshould not fail to read the advertisement. I The Longburn Slaughtering and I Freezing Company cleared out the last of the frozen carcases on Friday. They have been shipped by the Gothic. Ar- ! raugements are now being made for closing down all business until the next sea on commences. We understand that the Company has had a successful season.— Manawatu Times. ! According to the New Zealand Herald the last song that Mr Turner, the noted tenor, sang was " Let me like a Soldier fall." He was very ill, but insisted on playing Don Cresar in " Maritana." By a supreme effort he sang so well that the audience loudly demanded a repetition, but he was so exhausted that he craved their indulgence, and went home to what proved his death bed. The following jurors have been summoud to attend the next sittiag of the i District Court to be held at Palmerston J on August 2nd : — Feilding — J. Wells, j R. fHeald, J. Toy, J. Bishop, junr., H. W. Davy, A. Churcher, W.-W. Corpe, D. Downes, C. Fitzherbert, H. L. Sherwill S. Svendson. Campbelltown — A. Butcher. Sandon— T. Gifford, T. Verry, W. Ellerni, P. McNab. Carnarvon— W. Penny. A statement has been prepared showing tbe prices during the 11 years from 1892 inclusive, of tbe principal articles of ex port from \ew Zealand Wool has fallen from 10 5 Bt(>sd in 1883 to 8 1 Bthd in 1 893 ; *,">!<], from £i to £3 19s lid ; grain from 3s lOd to 2s 4sd ; flax, from £18 5s to £17 8s Td ; butter, from lOd to 6 3-B' b?d ; cheese, from sjd to 4 o-Sthsd ; frozen meat, from 26s lid to 245. Kauri pum has risen from .£sl 13s in 18S3 to £'61 8s 3d in 1893. In 1874 a total of 2069 tons of kauri gum was exported valued at £79,986 as against 8317 tonß in 1893 valued at £510,775. On Arbor Day, August Ist, the local Wesleyau body intend holding a celebration which will be one of the features of the public holiday. In the afternoon the ceremony of laying a foundation block will be performed, and the members present will then proceed to plant ornamental trees in the church grounds. In the evening a monster tea, which will surpass all other similar efforts in the past, will be prepared, and this will be followed by a public meeting. The programme will be supplied by strangers to the town, and will consist of a few short speeches and a large number of excellent concert items. The celebration promises to be a great success. The proceeds will be devoted to the church building fund.