Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 67, 13 September 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Feilding Mutual Improvement Society wili meet this evening. A confirmation service will be held in St. John's Church, Feilding, on Wednesday afternoon, the 26th inst. They have a lady Mayor at Pleasanton (Kansas). She is 6ft 2in in her stockings. A grand concert and dance is to be held in the Pohaneina township tomorrow evening, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the school fund. A concert and coffee supper in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church will be held in the Cheltenham Schoolhouse to-morrow evening. Captain Edwin wired at 1.30 p.m. to-day:— N.W. to W. and S. strong winds; indications for colder weather and rain, and glass rising. A Christchurch telegram states that nineteen men left Lyttelton yesterday by the ejt. Tasmania en route to Coolgardie goldfields. A young man named W. McKee had his jaw fractured at Marton on Tuesday by a kick from a horse. He was taken through to the Palmerston hospital yesterday. Talking of the unsafe condition of railway bridges, Mr Morrison told the House on Tuesday that a deputation who went over a certain bridge to examine it were afraid to go back until it was shored up with sleepers. The blocks of land recently thrown open in the Waimarino have not been taken up so eagerly as was anticipated. Out of an area of 10,000 acces only 2000 acres have been selected so far. S^mc of the land is really first class. Notice is given to-day by the Secretary of the Feilding Branch of the Weilington Acclimatisation Society, Mr H. L. Sherwill, that licenses to fish tor trout or perch are fixed at 20s, and ladies' or boys' at 5s for the season. The concert to be given in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening in aid of St. John's Church fund is likely to prove one of the most successful of its kind ever given In Feilding. A novel feature will be the Japanese fan song, is costume, quite new to a Feilding audience. Major SotxKuerville, executive officer of the New Zealand Rifle Association, has issued a circular euj&odying proposals for placing Rifle Clubs /n the colony on a better footing than exists at present. Suggestions are solicited, and the result will be published when all ' reports are received. At a, recent meeting of the Blenheim Borougb C&Utt.cUt a Councillor proposed that a bye-Jaw be passed to prevent children being allowed iff tJje streets after 7 p.m. unless under the guQsrvisioi| of parents or guardians, such parents or guardians in the case of an infraction of the bye-law, to be liable to fl. penalty not exceeding £5. The propositiou was lost on the voices after a short discus' £iou.

The Manchester Rifles will be in- 1 spected this evening by Lieut.-Col. J Newall. The annual general meeting of the Sandon Hack Racing Club will be held in the Junction Hotel, Sandon, on Saturday, 22nd September. The Beaumont Company appeared in the Assembly Rooms to a very poor house last evening, the result of the show not being advertised. An association has been formed to take up land on the "Looking Backward " principle, and the members have selected the best portion of the Awarua Block. One of the first beneficial results - which wili follow the bank arualgama- j tion will be a reduction on the rates charged for discounts and other ad- , vances. ■ It is probable that the New Zealand Volunteers will be armed with the Martini-Henri rifles in the course of a few weeks. A supply of 2000 arrived in Wellington yesterday. The polling for the election to fill three vacancies in the Feilding Borough , Council was proceeding quietly up to the time of our going to press this afternoon. It is said that the lambs in the Kiwitea district this season are very forward, and of a fine healthy appearance. The mortality amongst them during the ■ recent bitterly cold and wet weather was not so great as was expected. ' The following tenders were received , by Mr James, architect, for the erection of Mr Peddie's house at Colyton : — W. Crump, i>29B: W. Heald, £434 (accepted); Hubner Bros., £442; C. Tarrant, £458 ; R. Heald, £457 ; Rimmer and Craven, £460. The usual weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. was held ou Tuesday, when songs and recitations were given and : parlor games indulged in. On Tuesday evening next arrangements will be made for the social to be held on the 25th instant. The Oddfellows' social committee met last evening, and it was decided to postpone their social and dance, which was to have been held on September 21st, to the 28th instant, owing to Mr Haybittle's string band being engaged for the former date. Several men have latety been engaged in cutting a channel through a gravel spit in the bed of the Makino stream in order to take the water at a straight run from the Manchester street to the Warwick street bridges and thus avoid \ the scouring out of property by the flood waters on either bank of the stream. A protection of willows has also been planted along the bank of tbe stream near the Warwick street bridge. The Cheltenham post and telegraph office was removed yesterday to Mr i Eveusen's store. Mrs Evensen will be appointed postmistress. Tbe sale of postal notes and proper supply of postage stamps as at larger offices, \\\W\ probably be arranged in a few days. A testimonial ' is to be presented to Mrs Clifton who has displayed considerable skill and courtesy in the management of the post office during the past twelvemonths. Mr Con way will present a petition asking for a grant of landjfor a eemetrey near 1 Ashurst, to tbe Manchester Road Board at its next meeting, the first Saturday in ' October. Any Pohangina resident jour- , neying to Ashurst is requested to call at [ the Post Office and sign tbe petition (if [ approved of- and a plan showing the position of tbe proposed cemetry is at* r tached to the petition. The Pohan?ina Valley Association Lands are without any ' cemetrey reserve from tbe Pcbangina to 5 tbe Oroua river. A large number of adults and children ' attended the Band of Hope meeting in 1 tbe Temperance Hall last evening. Mr i J. Greenwood acted as chairman. A r varied programme was gone through as i follows :— Song, Mrs J. C Thompson; , recitations, Miss Holmes, Jane Whisker, Eva Carthew, Phoebe Thompson, Geor- ' gina Gould, K. Hannett, Stanley Shearer, Reginald Williamson, Harold Eade ; 1 violin solo, Miss Ross ; piano and violin ' duet, Miss Kate Hamilton and Miss ; Ross. The meeting was in every way a I success.