Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 56, 31 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mass will be held at Campbelltown on Suuday morning at 11 o'clock. The Wanganui Freezing Company last year was the means of distributing some i'6ooo in wages. 1 Steps are being taken in England to provide a corps of lady medical voluu--1 teers, to attend to the sick and wounded in war. San Francisco haa the greatest proportion of divorcee to marriages of any city in the world. For every 10,000 marriages there are 2232 divorces. A Warrnanibool (Victoria) butcher claims to possess a purebred shorthorn bullock that weighs 27861b5, or just 141bs short of 1£ tons. William Balfour, the station manager at Mohaka, Hawke's Bay, who committed suicido by shooting himself, had his life insured for £3000 in the Government office. '■ It was said that a woman should not vote because she could not fight, but a woman risked her life every time a 1 soldier was born." — Maloney, M.L.A. ] (Victoria), in support of his Woman's J Suffrage Bill. On Tuesday next an enquiry will be held before Mr G. M. Snelson, J.P., into ' the recent fire at Waituna. Mr Snelsou will act instead of Mr Linton, coroner, because the latter is agent for a Fire Insurance Company interested. Mr Sandilauds has been instructed to appear on behalf of the Imperial Insurance Company. To-morrow, at 2 p.m., Mr Chas. Canwill sell by auction at the Manchester Hotel sample rooms, iv the estate of J. D. Valentine, section 85, Warwick street, with buildings thereon. A sulky and harness and other articles will also be disposed of, without reserve. The latest thing in automatic machine' is ».n automatic gallows. The rondemned j criminal stops upon n enrtnin place "( the scaffold. His weipht releases a flow ot water, which releases a spring, which in its Jurn permits the drop to fall. Thirty four executions have taken place by its moan* to Colorado, but the people of Connecticut object to its introduction on the uround that th« Slate has no right to make a man commit suicide. If Mrs Yates has reason to complain of want of respect on the part of her own Councillors at Onebuuga, says the Post, she cannot do tho same as to the Executive of the Muncipal Association, •whose meeting she attended. The Lady Mayor was introduced by Mr Lawry, M-HJ2-, and the moment she made her appearance all present sprang to their feet and remained standing till she was seated ill the h»gc Mayoral armchair which had beeu specially reserved for her. Gentlemanly fellows fchpse. The well-known Australian stud horse Megapbone, bought by Mx Robert Jioss, Wanganui ; the stud horse Harere, by • Malua-Norma, purchased in Australia by Mr J. Gleeson for Mr Robert Stevens, Palmerston North ; the racing mare Balm, by Dunlop Frou Frou, also bought by Mr Gleesou, and another purchased by Mr Ross, a two-year-old brown colt by Prodigal— Prairie Bird, were landed in Wellington on Wedues<3av. Mr Ro-w' purchases were taken through to Wangwilii by the mail train yesterday. An English Magistrals. »l Chester, has established a valuable precodoufc by binding over an elderly ppiiiKter in tlie sum of £10 not to flint; in church any more According to 'he eynlonce the lady had a high, gritty voice, <w>d never by any chance struck tho ri^'ht June, and, moreover, she wi9 gen^'ully two or three notes in arreur. W""" *'»a sung the choir had to stop and laujjb, an<\ then the npinster l><»..i ed nw>iv by herself and miterly demoli hed tho organist. The most vigorous remonstrances wouldn't in duce be* to 1"V- iff ningine, so she was brought betoie 'he P ••lie*- Court with thG »boYo-moatioo©4rg'SUlt.— Truth.

Miss Manson, of The Pines, Feildiug, eft yesterday for a trip to Melbourne. It is understood the new Licensing Sill will not be proceeded with this sesiioil. The Gazetto announces the disbandnent of tho Rangitikei Cavalry Volunieers. Mr A. R. Allan lias been nominated as 1 candidate for one of the vacancies in uhe Feilding Borough Council. A requisition is iv course of signature isking Mr Sandilands to stand for the Mayoralty of Feildiug for the next term. The quarterly meeting of the Primitive Methodist Church will be held at Campbelltown on Monday next, when a, tea will also be held. lhe Manchester Rifles paraded last night, but there was only a small muster owing to the inclemency of the weather. Some useful work was done, however. It is rumoured that Mr Pirani, M.H.R., will not have a walk over for the Palmerston seat at the next general election, as an influential candidate who will stand against him is already in the field. A meeting of ladies connected with the Primitive Methodist Church, Feildiug, was held in the Parsonage yesterday afternoon, when arrangements wero made to hold sewing bees to prepare for a sale of work and gift auction to be held in December. Socials will bo held in the vestry of the church in connection with the sewing bee, and the first will take place on Wednesday, September 12th. Mr Donald Grant, who returned from Wellington yesterday, informs us (Mima* watu Times) that he has retained the services of Mr W. B. Edwards, of Wellington, solicitor, and instructed him to issue a writ on the Manawatu Road Board claiming substantial damages in respect of tho alleged overflow of water from the Board's drains on to his property in the Kairanga. The case will be beard at the Wanganui Supreme Court sittiug iv October. An interesting nnd instructive return showing the number of women on the rolls, nud tho number who voted at the general olrctiotj in November la.vt year, haa just been presented to Parliament From it wo learu that (hero were 109,461 women on tho electoral rolls and no less lh;iu 90,200 iGcnrdeii their v.^tos on polling clmv. It mu.«t bo ni'tert, too, that of the 16,000 nun voers, upwurdsof 400 ' wore, owing to umoMte.-Jo'l election*, net giren the oj-pormnity to go to tlie |ot!s. The local branch of the Salvation Army held a tea and social in the Barracks last evening. Admission was by invitation, aud a large number attended in response. The provisions were all given and the tables were attended to by Mesdames Tolbert, Biooruheld, G. Watts, Douglas, Lucas, Wildbore, Misses Thomas, Jorgenseu and others. At tho social short addresses were given by Staff-Captain Edwards, Captains Cater, Rattray, O'Callahan, Kerr, Lieut Bailey, Mr W. Carthew, and several members of the local corps. A number of musical items were given by the officers, and a pleasant time was spent. During the evening the StaffCaptain announced that Capt. O'Callahau bad been appointed to the Ingle wood station, and would farewell on Sunday. Captain Renshaw will bo Captain O'Callahan's successor.