Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 8 October 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Parliament has now been sitting for some 16 weeks. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Wauganui Education Board commences this evening. We understand that steps will be taken at an early date to form a bicycle club in Feilding. We are informed that Mr B. Le Prou has disposed of his blacksmithing business at Colyton to Mr T. A. Smith. There will bo a meeting of the com. mitteo of the Feilding Benevolent Society at Mr Sherwill's office at 11 a.m. to-morrow. The Feilding Band will play outside the Assembly Booms to-morrow evening before the concert in aid of the Library Fund commences. Builders are requested to note that the date for receiving tenders for the erection of a Catholic Church at Campbelltown has been extended to the 18th instant. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of this paper. Birmingham residents are reminded of the visit to that township to-morrow of Mr Byron de Winton, who has been so successful in his treatment of all nervous, chronic and other diseases. Hours of consultation will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Mr Lowes' Hotel. To-day's N.Z. Times says: The Licensing Bill is to be again committed tonight. Ministers say they hope to get the Bill through, but the opinion amongst members, after the stonewall lasting till nearly 11 o'clock on Satnrday morning, is that there is no chance of its becoming law this year. We would give a final reminder to Feilding townspeople, and others, of the meeting to be held in the Foresters' Hall this evening, at half-past seven, to consider ways and means of assisting the local Fire Brigade out of their present financial difficulty. The object is a deservmg one, and we bone to see a large attendance. Last fi?e»ing Mr Do Winton preached in the Assembly Jioom.s to a well-filled house, the Crucifietjou and Resurrection of Christ being his text. While a ympath jb. ing with the various religious bodies he strongly condemned cliqueisui and the jealousy of one church towards another. He thought that, as all worshipped the same Divine Being, there should not be sectarianism. At the conclusion of the address a collection was taken up and the proceeds (£1 6s lid) will be handed to the Palmerston Hospital by Mr A, Parr, wbo took charge ot the money.

The Public Works Statement will probably be brought down on Thursday. A meeting is called bj Messrs W. Phju, M. Fitton, John Paul, and W. C. Cunningham, of Beaconsfield, to be held in the school house there to consider proposals for the erection of a public hall. Mr Jolly informs us that be has received advices of a shipment of new season's teas, which will arrive in the course of a few days, and although the market has been hardened on account of the war between the Japs and Chinese the various brands will be sold at the usual prices. The latest wires received with regard to the Rev. James Treadwell, of Wanganui, state that he is progressing favourably, but is very weak. The operation was performed at Christchurch on Saturday, threo doctors being present. — Chronicle. This morning Mr Goldfinch's dwellinghouse in Warwick street had a narrow escape from being burned. It appears that by some means a bed in one of the rooms took fire, with the result that the bedclothes were almost entirely destroyed, and the paperhangings on the wall were partially burned, before tho fire was extinguished. The Captain of the Fire Brigade, Mr A. Eade, gives notice that the firebell will be rung on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. The object is to ascertain if a greater volume of sound, travelling to all parts of the town , can be obtained. It is quite possible that the experiment will end in the bell tower being raised another twenty or thirty feet. Mr A. L. Parr has just constructed to the order of Mr D. Humphries, of Buunythorpe, a very serviceable baker's cart with the latest improvements. The vehicle is well finished, being painted in dark green, picked* with chrome green and straw color linings. It is a good specimen of the work turned out at Mr Pair's establishment. " How beautiful upon the mountain and how lovely on the plain " are those who pay their paper bills without requiring to be asked again and again. So sang one of the employes in Mr Stead's Ideal newspaper office. The poetry is not up to much, but it touches a sympathetic cord, whatever that may mean, in a good many people. Nomination papers for the election of councillors for the Pohangina County can be obtained at Pohangina, Pohangina Township, and Apiti Post Offices. The members of the Pohangina Road Board are five in number, but the County Coancil is to have seven members. The Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr H. J. Hayns as Returning Officer to conduct tho election, also as clerk of the Council for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting.