Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 52, 27 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

On Sunday morning next the pulpit at the Feilding Presbyterian Church will be occupied by Mr Geo. Grant, of Palmerston North. Mr J. Cobbe has disposed of his Rangiwahia business, lately carried on by Mr H. Hickford, to two well-known Feilding tradesmen. We would remind the people of Feilding of Professor Cotching's brilliant eni tertainment to be given to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. At Danevirke suspicious are enterj tamed as to the genuineness of tbe alleged attack upon the bank official by a burglar. During the winter months weekly j dances have been held on Saturday evening in Mr E. T. Harrison's wool- : shed, Harbor Board Block. The dances i are a great success, being largely attended by both old and youug. Mr Willis told the House last Friday it was time that something was said on the side of the employers. He said that to hear some members talk one would imagine that there was no interest to be considered but that of labour. The funeral of the late Mr John Shaw, of Awahuri, was numerously attended yesterday. Besides a large number of vehicles, nearly ono hundred horsemen followed tlie remains of the deceased to the Palmerston cemetery. The Rev. Father Patterson impressively read the burial service. On Friday next, at the office of Messrs Halcombe and Son, a meeting will be held of dairyfarmers and others interested in the establishment of a creamery- in Feilding. As this is a most desirable work, we trust to sgo a largo attendance, both of dairyfarmers and business people, both being equally interested. Should the Government put an import duty on fruit even children in arms will protest against the new tax. To keep the people healthy there is no better means than the consumption of wholesome fruit, and it is notorious the Colony cannot grow anything like sufficient for the wants of the people. The reserved seats for Bessie Doyle's concert, to be given in tho Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening, are being quickly taken up, and those wbo have not already done so should secure their sittings at once. If the weather keeps hue the seating accommodation of the Assembly Rooms i 9 likely to be taxed to its utmost. A special general meeting of shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand will be held in the Exchange Buildings, Wellington, on September 26th, for the purpose of electing five directors in the place of the present directors, who are resigning in a body, so that a new directorate may be elected in accordance with the terms of the recent banking legislation. The Invercargill executive of the New Zealand Band Contest is concerned about the non-arrival of the contest music from Wright and Round, Liverpool, who advised, on the 12th July, as if the music had been despatched. It should come addressed to tho Mayor of Invercargill. Two mails despatched since the date of Wright and Round's letters have arrived, but no music. The following tenders wero received by the Kiwitea County Council ou Saturday last : — Culvert and six chains formation Pakihikura road — J. Madden, and Co., £53 (accepted) ; J. Cottrill, £'39 19s 3d ; B. Poole, £74 10s. Foot-bridge across Kiwitea stream near Oldershaw's -li. Lyon and Son, £129 10s (accepted); B. Poole, £130 ; J. Cottrill, £79 18s ; H. H. L. Bilderbeck, £142 10s ; T. Hanson, £143 10s. Says a London correspondent : — " Another great man not expected by his friends — or enemies — to live long is Randolph Churchill. Once more he has gone away on his travels, abandoning the idea of contesting Bradford. Lady Randolph accompanies him this time. They intend to explore Chicago first of all. Already people are saying ' she will marry again,' for sundry oi Lord Randolph's personal friends, but political foes, whom he entertained at a farewell dinner at liis mother's house before starting, declare, sadly, that they never I expect to see him alive again." We have to thank the publisher, Mr H. Brett, of Auckland, for a copy of a book entitled "Utu," a story of Now Zealand. It is by a Wanganui lady. Although there are, undoubtedly, faults tv style, yet the tho book is readablo and interesting, while some of the scenes depicted are very exciting. It would bave been better it tho French words and phrases, with which the pages are too plentifully bespattered, had been omitted ; and we trust, for the sake of the author, that when a second edition .s issued this grave defect will have disappeared. . The illustrations ate numerous and well executed. We need hardly remind our readers of ihe great musical festival to be held in Palmerston North early next month. The grand and popular oratorios " Messiah " and " Elijah " are to be rendered by a chorus comprised of 100 yoices, assisted by a very powerful orchestra, Several of the best soloists in the Colony have been engaged to take the leading parts, and an opportunity is to be given to the Feilding people to enjoy .a rich musical treat, as special trains will be arranged to run from Feilding on the night of the rendering of the " Elijah," and if sufficient inducement offers will also run on the second evening. Mr Tennyson Smith, the teetotal lee» turer, in addressing a large meeting (recently in the I own Hall, Daylesford. Victoria, is reported to have made personal reference to tbe councillors who kept or owned hotel properties'. Considerable offence was caused thereby, and Mr Smith's meeting the following night was in consequence very disorderly. Tlie lecturer several times left tlie platform to quell disturbances, and eveniually sent for the police. Mr Smith r-allng the officials some hard dudjos, saying that thoy were 1 ' loafers," and not worth threepence. | He called Nonstable Kogers a liar, and that officer threatened 8 summons for using insulting words. The meeting was most uproarious, part of the audience Binging " Rule Britannia," while the choir sang temperance hymns.

On Friday, September 7th, the San- I don and Campbelltown Wesleyan Choirs will give a concert in Feilding in aid of the new church building funds. j A special meeting of the Wellington j Land Board will be held to-day to enquire into an alleged case of dummyism in the Wairarapa district. The Government Printer reports that the demand for Hansard has been exceptionally^ large this season. The first seven numbers ai - e now out of print. We are very pleased to announce that Mr Edmund Goodbehere has consented to be nominated as a candidate for one of tho vacancies in the Borough Council. Captain Russell has received an invitation to deliver a political address at Feilding, but he does not intend to visit this locality till some time after the session closes. The meeting of the Debating Society for the consideration of the rules will be held to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock sharp, in order that members may hear Miss Bessie Doyle. A memorial service was held in the Wesleyan Church at Birminglrßm last evening, when the Rev T. R. Richards preached a sermon on the death of the late Mr A. J. Perry, of Kiwitea. There was a large congregation present, and the service was of a most impressive nature. The programme for Mr Herbert-Jones' last dioramic lecture, which takes place this evening, is an exceedingly attractive one. It includes 100 beautiful pictures and graphic descriptions of the whole of the North Island of New Zealand. Those who suppose they can learn nothing about their country from a visitor make a very great mistake, so far as Mr Herbert- Jones is concerned. Very few, if any, of us have seen so much of the country as this gentleman.