Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 76, 24 September 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Oddfellows social and dance wui be held in the Feilding Assembly Rooms (not Foresters' Hall as Btated on the cards) on Friday evening next. The Minister for Lands says that during hig term of office disgraceful transactions in native lands by Wellington lawyers have come to hia official knowledge. Mr Walter Hunter, who was thrown from his trap on the Rangitikei Line on Thursday last, is lying in a semi-con-scious condition at the Hospital. Yesterday he had slightly improved, though he is not out of danger yet. — Standard. The Rev J. Munro, of Rangiora, who is touring the colony, lecturing on the Temperance question, will address an open-air meeting on Manchester Square next Sunday afternoon. Particulars will he advertised during the week. Local anglers will be pleased to hear that trout are reported to abound in the upper reaches of the Oroua and Manawatu rivers. From Danevirke we learn that splendid fishing can be obtained in the Mangatoro river. A sale of the furniture and effects of Mr N. Fletcher, of Colyton, who is leaving the district, will be held at Messrs Bramwell Bros.' store, at Colyton, tomorrow. Mr Chas. Carr is to wield the hammer, and the sale will be totally unreserved. The Government are negotiating for the purchase of the following areas of Native land: King Country, 780,000 acres ; Gisborne and Waiapu, from 5000 to 6000: Awarua Block, a balance of r 30,000 acres, outside that already purchased; and Wanganui, 200,000 acres, with smaller tracts of land elsewhere. A paragraph in a foreign paper states 1 that seeds sown in the evening, but not covered till the morning, either by drawing in the drills, harrowing and hacking, thrive better than those covered at the time of sowing. The seeds germinate a day or two sooner, the plants grow and mature more rapidly, and in the case of corn have longer ears and straw. The balance of revenue over expend!ture for the Post Office Savings Bank for the year was £50,792. The revenue increased by £25,918, as compared with that of the preceding year, while the in- ' crease of expenditure was only £15,309. • The deposits in the Post Office Savings Banks during the year ended j3lst March amounted to ±'2,386,089, and the ', withdrawals to £2,122,521. -Times. Mr W. Syms, who has commenced business as a chemist and druggist at Birmingham, has a» advertisement in our issue of to-day. Mr Syms has had many years experience in his p* ofession in other parts of the colony, and has done good service to the public in his capacity as a Justice of the Peace, a member of municipal bodies, and as a journalist. Ho should prove a decided I acquisition to Birmiiigbam.

Sir John Hall was a passenger for Lyttleton by the lonic, which arrived at Wellington last evening from London. At 1 p.m. to-day Captain Edwin wired : — Indications for strong N. to W. and S.W. winds, with rain, after 16 hours from now ; glass fall soon. The social committee of the 1.0. G.T. are arranging a good programme for the social and open meeting to be held in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening. The hearing of evidence for the defence in the case Cook and Turley v. A. L. Parr, which was to have been heard this morning before J's.P., was adjourned to Monday next. Mr Lowes, of the Birmingham Hotel, is about to add a billiard room to his premises, and Mr C. Bray, senr., has been instructed to prepare the necessary plans. James Tyson, the Australian millionaire, kept an account for 25 years of the profits he made out of the progeny of a brindled heifer which he had acquired by swapping a flute. The total, he says, was over £70,000. We regret to have to announce the death of Mr Donald Sutherland, which took place at the residence of his son, Mr Daniel Sutherland, at Makino, on Saturday night, after a brief illness. The funeral will take place to-morrow, leaving his son's residence at 1 p.m. for the Feilding Cemetery. Fair Play has the following : — " The other night He Hem Smith shouted out to the Government Whip, ' Don't put a padlock on us I ' He Hem doesn't want a padlock ; what he ought to have is a muzzle. He's becoming a perfect nuisance. ' Tommy rot from Taranaki is what the Hansard men call his speeches." A singular case of cruelty is reported from South Makara, Last week a dairyman named William Trotter discovered that seyeral of his cows had been shot at with wooden arrows, each of which had a wire nail at its end. One cow bad no less than five arrows stuck into it. Ihe police have laid informations against two bojs who are supposed to have been the perpetrators of t> c outrage. On Friday evening last two accidents occurred at the ford over the Kiwitea on Kimbolton road. A young man, whose name we have not been able to ascertain, was thrown from bis horse into the stream, but received no injury beyond a good wetting. The horse in its fright lashed out and kicked a horse being driven by Mr J. Matthews, who was also crossing at the same time, with the result that the buggy was overturned and slightly damaged. The art union of pictures, held under authority of the Colonial Secretary, took place at Mr E. Goodbehere's office on Saturday, as advertised. The drawing •was done under the supervision of Messrs Haybittle, Carr and C. Bray, junr. Following are the numbers of winning tickets :— l2, 14, 17, 18, 20, 27, 29, 86, 42, 44, 48, 49, 52, 57, 59, 60, 71, 73, 77. Owners of winning tickets can obtain their prizes on application to Mr E. Goodbehere. The remains of the late Mr William Benson were interred in the Feilding Cemetery yesterday afternoon. A very large number of settlers and others, from all parts of the district paid their last tribute to the memory of the deceased by attending the funeral, and this was an indication of respect and esteem which he was held by those who had made his acquaintance during his life. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. G. Grindley, of Halcombe. Nettle and party's recent find at Billabrotha, Yalgoo field, Coolgardie, is sensationally rich. The reef shows gold in the fractures of the reef in coarse lumps. It can be seen glittering some distance away. The reef is four feet wide. The prospectors pegged out 30 acres. Out of 1001 b of stone dollied a yield of lOOoz of gold was obtained. The prospectors discovered specimens which were so heavy that they could scarcely be lifted. Nettle has ordered a 10-head battery. Mr Byron de Winton, the famous medical botanist, who drove from Wan ganui yesterday, will give his opening address to-night in the Assembly Rooms entitled " Many have tried and failed," admission to which is free, without collection. Mr de Winton has been very successful since his arrival in the colony, some five months ago. In Wanganui, where he was for about a month, he drew large audiences, and was listened to with interest. He has travelled all over the world, and has had many extraordinary adventures. He has a striking appearance, and is reputed to be an eloquent speaker who can forcibly illustrate the various subjects on which he lectures. The Gaming Act, introduced fey Sir Robert Stout, came into force on Tuesday. The clause which effects the practice known as " tote-betting" is worded thus : — " Any person making or entering , into a bet upon tbe result of a horse race, or wherebj be agrees to pay to the other party to tbe said bet, if the latter ebould win the same, a sum of money tbe amount of which shall be dependent upon tbe result of tbe working of tbe totalizator on tbe said horse race, and any person, not being a person lawfully conducting or employed in tbe working of a totalisator, who sells or offers for sale, and any per son who purchases from him, any ticket card, or thing, entitling or purporting to entitle tbe purchaser or holder thereof to any interest in the result of tbe working of the totalisator on any horse race, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding three moaths, or to a fine not exceeding £20. or to both imprisonment and fine.