Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 55, 30 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

An advertisement drawing attention to the Elijah- Messiah concerts to be given in Palmerstou on September 10th and 11th appears in another column. Special trains will be run from Feilding. The funeral of the late Mrs Knyvett took place yesterday at Kiwitea. There was a large attendance of friends and relatives from all parts of the district. The Rev Innes Jones officiated at tho church and afterwards at the cemetery. Mr A. Eade was tbe undertaker. At the annual dinner of the Foxton Racing Club several of the speakers commented Btrongly on the proposal to take one of the two days' racing from the club, cons dering the fact that racing has been continuous in Foxton for the last 40 years, and the present club, during 12 years, has spent about £6000 iv stakes, and I*2ooo in improvements. The Factories Bill is a gem in its way. It is designed to protect the working man and it M protects " him by reducing the amount of wa^es he can earn in a week. Under its provisions a weekly half holiday is made compulsory. No factory hand objects to this. But when the proviso is added " that employes shall not be paid for the half holiday " the working man may well exclaim "save me from my friends." — Waipawa Mail. Speaking on the second reading (Kays the N.Z. Times) on the Factories Bill, Mr Jenkinson said he had hopod tkajfc there would h tve been a clause inserted in the Bill prohibiting girls from selling newspapers, a practice he considered as disgraceful and disgusting. Sir P. Buckley: " Where is this done ') I have never heard of it!" Mr Jenkinson replied that it was done in Wellington. He also thought that Hallelujah Lasses should bo stopped from going into all sorts ol d@&s to sell the War Cry.

The Earl of Harrington (says Modern Society) has lately taken to selling greens. Captain Edwin wired at 12.34 p.m today : — W. to S. and S.E. gales with rain and glass rising. Mr J. C Thompson has been nominated as a candidate for one ol the vacancies in the Borough CouncilMessrs Shallcrass and Nicoll, Inspectors of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, are at present on an official visit to Feilding. There will be a meeting of the Committee of the Feilding Cricket Club on Saturday, September Ist, at 8 p.m. in Mr H. L. Sherwill's office. At the conclusion of the parade of the Manchester Rifles this evening, each member will be supplied with a copy cf the now regulations in connection with musketry drill. Mr L. E. Reade, solicitor, is one of the latest victims to la grippe, having been confined to his house for the past few days. He ie on the mend, and hopes soon to be about again. The Petitions Committee of the House recommend that the case of C. Blaramberg, Palmerston North, who complained of unfair treatment from the Wanganui Education Board, demands diligent enquiry. In another column Messrs Halcombe and Son notify that, as agents for Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., they are prepared to make advances on shorn or growing clips of wool. For other particulars see advertisement. During the funeral service over the remains of the late Mrs Knyvett in the Kiwitea Church yesterday, there was a tremendous hailstorm, and the noise on the roof was so great that the service had to be stopped until the storm bad ceased. At Melbourne recently a servant sued her former mistress for i! 150 damages for alleged libel. It appears that the mistress had accused her of stealing some jam bottles, within the hearing of some one else. The jury gave a verdict for £5 damages. The residence of Mr J. Troy was burned down at Hunterville on Tuesday night. Nothing was saved. Mr Troy was absent from home at the time in Palmerston. The building was insured for £175, but this amount does not cover the actual loss by at least .£IOO. It is said that Mrs Yates, the lady Mayor of Onehunga, is so charmed with what she has seen of Parliamentary life during her visit to Wellington, that she intends to contest one of the Auckland seats at the next general election. We wish her every success. There are two rumours which have been circulated and contradicted so often that people are actually beginning to believe there is something in them. The first is that anent the amalgamation of the Bank of New Zealand and The Colonial Bank, and the second that the Government intend to commence business as Fire Insurers. A war in Corea affects even us in remote New Zealand. Rice the other day cost the citizen 3d per lb. To-day it costs him 3£d, and the price will continue to ascend as long as China stops the export. Our respected grocer has a good excuso for sticking it on now. What would our esteemed baker not give for such a pretext ? — Napier News. We are informed, says the Christcbarch Press, that it is probable that there will shortly be a I rise in wages among: the men engaged in the various trades coo nected with building. Arrangement have already been made by tbe plastering trade which it is expected will prevent excessive competition among sub-contractor*, and ensuie a higher rate of wages to the men Other trades will shortly meet for the purpose of discussing a similar line of action. Says the Bu«h Advocate: — Rumour bae been bu»y in Daneyirke for tbe last day or two in connection with the attempted robbery at the Bank of New South Wales So far, however, thera are no definite developments to record, and no arrests h ive been made The police are busy working up the case. Their inquiries have not justified the arrext of any person, but a clue ha* been discovered which oiay lead to interesting developments later on. A most interesting return has been prepared, showing the proportion of police to the population, and the cost per inhabitant in each of the Australasian Colonies. In New Zealand, the proportion to population is 1 to every 1472 inhabitants ; in Victoria, 1 to 791 ; in New South Wales. 1 to 687 ; in South Australia, Ito 898 ; in Queensland, Ito 575. The cost of police per inhabitant is shown to be as follows : —New Zealand, 2s 7fd ; Victoria, 4s s£d ; New South Wales, 5s 2£d ; South Australia, 4s 10£ d ; Queensland, 7s. The Kiwitea County Council gjlves notice that it is its intention to raise a £710 loan for the construction of the following work in the Birmingham Block, being part of the Apiti Ward of the Kiwitea district, viz., forming, culverting and metalling 180 chains of Mcßeth's road from tho junction of Junction road to junction with TapuaeKiwitea road. For payment of interest at 5 per cent, for 26 years on the above amount it is proposed to levy a special rate of 2sd in the £ on various sections within the said Birmingham Block. Members have had enough of Monday sittings, and so were determined to clear the Order Paper of Local Bills last night. In celebration of the fead of clearing off 16 Local Bills before midnight, the mem bers subsequently held a jollification at Bellamy's. The Hon, Mr Larnach presided, and each member who was success tul in getting through a Local Bill was required to sing a song. The Hon. Mr Ward had to do his share for his good offices to the Wellington Reclaimed Land Bill, which be had so graphically explained as " a rao£t important Bill to deal with a technical objection." The celebration was kept up till the atnall hours.— Post A meeting of dairy farmers and others — convened by Mr F. Y. Lethbridge — is to be held at Messrs Halcombe and Son's office, Feilding, to-morrow afternoon, at 3.80 p.m., to consider the establishment of a creamery in Feilding. This is a matter of vast importance, not only to the dairy farmers in this district, but also to business people, and it is to be hoped, therefore, that the meeting will be large and representative, so that the matter can be thoroughly discussed. Mr Corpe having decided to take no milk at his Makino factory during the next season it will mean that should a creamery not be erected in Feilding a great many milk suppliers will have to journey a great distance in order to reach a factory, and this would prove anything but profitable. Talk of the equality of man (said Mr Buchanan in the House the other dav) ! Talk of classes, and wh«t do' ! what is K that creates the widest division betwe- n j class Q.nt} cla.-s ? Is th^re anything, wealth or the tyapt of it. that can create such divisions between man and man as educutum on thp oue hand and w»nt of it on the other ?— Mr J McKenzie • Soya- . reigus can do it ! — No ; 1 altogether di9iigree with tho honourable gentleman. I say that a m^n with a good sound educa tiou ie Iq.t ttud away above the honorable gentleman a gold. Qold can buy a good deal, but it cannot buy the mental possessions <>f an educated, cultivated igaa. I venture to suv there is no honorable gentleman in (his House who, it he had In* hovhnod back again, would fail to make much better use of his educatioaal facilities.

The New Zealand Shipping Company has reduced the passage money from London to New Zealand for steerage passengers' open berths to 10 guineas. Mr W. T. Robinson, the representative of Messrs Arthur Cleave and Co., of Auckland, is now visiting Feilding on business connected with the publication entitled " The New Zealand Craftsmen." Mas Sidey, wife of the Rer David Sidey, senior minister of St Paul's Presbyterian Ohurch, Napier, died at her residence on Sunday. The deceased who came out from Scotland in 1872, had been ailing for some time. Mrs Sidey was 65 years of age. In to-day's issue Messrs Gorton and Son announce a sale of Mr "W. Reid's dairy cows and heifers. Mr Reid obtained the highest average last season for quality of milk supplied to Mr W. Corpe's Makino Dairy Factory, which in itself is sufficient guarantee of the excellence of his cows, and we feel sure they will command a ready sale. A meeting of the Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles was held last night at Mr Bastings' Hotel. Present Lieut. Bray (in the chair), Sergt. Petherick, Corpl. Parker, Vols. Scott, Evans and Wilson. Vol. Wilson was elected secretary, and Vol. Scott ammunition custodian. It was decided to have the trench at the butts cleared out, all necessary repairs effected, and the new targets put in position. The classes will remain the same as last year, the conditions of shooting to be unaltered. The season will be opened on Wednesday, 19th September, with an alphabetical match, the teams to be picked from A to M and N to Z. A meeting of ratepayers in the Mangoira Block, No. 6 ward, in the Pohangina district, was held at the Apiti Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, the object of the meeting being to consider the best means of getting the roads in the block completed. Mr R. Burton presided, and Mr Vicary (warden for the district) pointed out the advisability of the Mangoira Block being formed into a special rating district in order to raise a sufficient loan, under the Loans to Local Bodies Act, to form and metal the whole of the roads in the block. The engineer's report was read, estimating the cost of completing these road at i' 1713 19s. It was resolved, That a loan of £2500 be applied for to complete the roads in the block, as specified in the list read by the chairman. The meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Mr Burton and Mr Vicary.