The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 40, 13 August 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1894. Local and General News.

Mr .7. F. Douuelly, of Palmerstou North, hairdresser and tobacconist, has been adjudged a bankrupt. It is proposed to convert oue of the recently-closed country hotels iv Otago into a butter factory. A sturgeon weighing 5001 b was captured off the coast of Scotland, and was on view in London recently. Two well-known residents of Colyton leave this week to try their fortune at Coolgardie. We wish them success. The regular monthly meetiug of the Feildiug Masonic Lodge will be held at the Foresters' Hall this evening. There are 202 telegraph message boys employed in the colony, at from £"26 to £'36 a year each. Six years hence France will inaugurate the twentieth century with an international exhibition, which is to totally eclipse the World's Fair. The Government have received an offer of .£2.000,000 from Australia at 3 per cent., provided it be used for railway continuation. — Standard, There was no meeting of the Pohaugiua Road Board on Saturday, as no quorum was present at the appointed time. The business was adjourned till next Saturday. Mr Vicary, wardeu for the district, has been requested by the settlers in the Mangoira Block, near Apiti, to take steps to raise a loan to complete the roads within the block. It is said that the Minister of Eriuci tion lately stated that uulcs- the Educa tion Boards set up some such tribunal as a t acliets 1 C'lUrt of appeal, be would do so himself next year. Ontario now produces about 90,000,000 Iba of factory cheese, 3,000,0001 bof creamery butter, and about 00,000,0001 b of dairy bntter per annum. Canadian dair) r exports are yearly increasing. There was a large congregation at the Wesleyan Church last evening, when the Rev. W. H. Judkins delivered a very interesting discourse on " The Resurrection." Until the escort returns are published we decline to accept as true the sensational cablegrams forwarded to us day after day as to the wonderful gold finds iv the newly discovered Australian mines. A petition is being signed by anglers in Masterton for presentation to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society praying that the fishing season be opened on September Ist instead of in the middle of that month. The Mother-in-law, a journal for parents with married and marriageable daughters, is to be published in Paris. It will " defend the social interests "of mothers-in-law. It hlso intends to *' correct their faults as far as possible " by friendly but wholesome criticism. A gentleman complained to a Lambeth magistrate recently that a cock belonging to a neighbour crowed so persistently in the early morn that he had had hardly any sleep for a week. The magistrate smi the complainant's only course was to remove elsewhere. ! The Tasmanian has reported that about 110,505 cases of apples have been exported to England during the season just closed. Last year's shipments totalled 119,000 cases. The sample of fruit exported this year is admitted on all sides to be the best that ban ever left that colony. We draw attention to-day to a fresh advertisement from Mr R. J. Thompson, of the popular Cash Exchange. Mr Thompson is determined to greatly reduce his stock in order to make'room for spring shipments, and intending purchasers would do well to visit the sale which is now in progress. Farmers and others interested are reminded that a public trial of the celebrated Massey-Harris Cultivator will be held to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, at Messrs Lethbridge and Sous' property, adjoining Mr S. Millner's, on the FeildingHalcombe road. Trials of the MasseyHarris ploughs will also take place. At the iuquest on the little daughter of Mr W. Foulds, of Hampdeu, Hawke's Bay, who was drowned the other day in a well, a verdict of accidental death was returned. This case is a particularly sad one, as Mr Foulds lost a little girl in the bush some few years ago, and the mystery of her disappearance has never been solved. A series of temperance meetings are being held in the Temperance Hall, Campbell town, every six weeks on Sunday afternoons. The second meeting was held yesterday and was addressed by the Rev. Mr Keall, of Sandon, who gave a most interesting and elaborate discourse on this giant evil. It has been decided to aek the Eev. Mr Clement, of Feilding, to address the next meeting to be held in September. Mr P Moorhouse, the Wellington Ac. climntisat!on Society's ranger, is endeavouring to obtain some red deer fawns, front PurutaugHta, Mr J. Martin's estate near Martin borough. When obtained the fawns will be liberated on the Tararua ranges. The secretary of the Society has been instructed to write to the secretary of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society asking if they can supply roe deer. N Z. Times. The anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Church, Feilding, was celebrated yesterday. The Rev. Mr Quintrell, of Palmerston, was the clergyman for the day, and preached two oxcelleut sermons to crowded congregations. The choir, under the able leadership of Mr D. Simpson, rendered several beautiful anthems during the services. The Church, which had been decorated by the young people with evergreens and flowers, looked very nice. The annual tea and public meeting will be held this evening at six o'clock. Addresses will be delivered at the public meeting b> Revs. Quiutrell, Grindley, and the Ministers of the town. The choir will render a number of first-class anthems during the cYeaiflg.

Mr and Mrs Powell, of Campbelltown, met with a serious mishap while driving homewards from Palmerston on Saturday evening. In some manner the trap and occupants got capsized into the Kairanga drain, but beyond a ducking and the loss of some goods, fortunately nothing move serious happened. The Chronicle's Parliamentary correspondent wires : — It is stated that the Government have determined to take Colonel Fox into the service again, not as Commandant of the Forces, but as an ordinary military officer, at a salary of £700 a year, and £1000 will be allowed him as expenses for goiug to England. It appears from a return which has been laid on the table of the House that the following grants have been made to tho various Education Boards during the last four years for buildings and works : — Auckland, £25,800 ; Tarauaki, £4,020 ; Wauganui, £10980 ; Wellington, £15,390; Hawke's Bay, £9,380; Marlborough, £3,523 ; Nelson, £9,832 ; Grey, £3,890 ; Westland, £2673 ; North Canterbury, £21,575; South Canterbury, £6,265; Otago, £22,339 ; Southland, £9,688. On Saturday while Mr R. Borroughs, well kuown in Feilding, was bringing logs from the bush to the Cheltenham sawmill with a team of bullocks, a skid which was under the logs slippod and caught his right leg, fracturing it above the ankle. The sufferer was brought into Feildiug where he was attended to by Dr Johnston, and afterwards takeulto tho Palnieraton Hospital, where ho is doing as well as can be expected. The World's Trio aud American Novelty Company will give their farewell entertainment iv the Assembly Rooms tomorrow, instead of Wednesday evening, as previously announced. On this occasion " Sam Kees' Laundry " aud the " Burlesque Trapeze Act" will be given. On their first appearance here these two amusing acts were produced, and the house was kept in fits of laughter. The main road from Birmingham to Pembertou is still iv a wretched condition aud settlers living iv those districts arc put to uo end of inconvenience thereby. It is uext to impossible to get a vehiclo lightor than a dray through, aud then one requires a good team of horses. That piece of the road (?) from Birmingham to the cemetery is in a shocking state, and those who were observed returning from the funeral of the late Mr Perry yesterday, bore signs of having had a great mud struggle, as horses and riders were bespattered with sticky clay from head to foot.