Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 91, 11 October 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Train services for the Wanganui races ou the 18th aud 19th instants are , vow advertised. The Wellington Press states that a call on the Bank of New Zealand shareholders is in contemplation. A social is to be given in the Colyton Hall to-morrow evening, in aid of the Colyton organ fund. A good evening's amusement has beeu prepared. A young man named Mulligan is reported missing in Hawke's Bay. When last seen he was on his way to employment at Mr Gilmore's station at Mohaka. The largest oil-painting in the world is one by Tintoretto, entitled Paradise, It is thirty-three and a half feet in height and eight-four feet in width. Mr Buchanan, apropos of the new Bank President : *■ The salary of i? 2250 is a handsome one, but it is not too much, provided the Colony has secured the right man in the right place." We have to acknowledge receipt of ( complimentary tickets for the social in the Colyton Hall to-morrow night, and for the Manawatu and West jCoast A. & P. Association Show on the 24th instant. Nelson peoplo consider that tho inquest held at Foxhill on the Tophouse tragedy was most irregular, owing to tbe non-attendance of Mrs AVallis and Miss Wylie, tho Only persons capable of [ explaining. * The Secretary of the Hospital Board . desires to acknowledge the receipt of a Post Office order for £1 7s 6d from Mr A. Parr, of Feilding. The amount is the result of a collection taken at Mr De Winton's lecture on Sunday evening last. — Standard. The fall in tbe price of commodities i generally still continues. Tables based on the prices of 45 representative .commodities show since the beginning of * the year a fall of 5 per cent., since 1883 i a fall of 25 per cent., and since 1g73 a fall of oyer 60 per cent. The attention of pur readers is directed to an advertisement in to day's issue from the Manawatu Farmers-' £o-op 1 Association, Palmerston. New import--1 ations have just been received, and the ironmongery, furnishing, and other de- ' pa**ttnents are now replete with every household., farm, and station requisite. The usual fortuightly meeting of tho " Hopo of Apiti " Lodge of flood Templars was held last Friday evening i» $tr Guy's hall, Apiti. There was a good . attendance. Mr C. S. Potts, C.T., presided. After the usual routine business had been gpuo through, the Lodge prepared for the initiatiou #f tive new members, wbich brings the stre^tl' pf the Lqd^e up to 50— very strong, considering it was only started ip May last. After the .initiation ceremony the rest of , the ©yeuiflg was given to harmony.

The Government contemplate shortly offering a bonus for the best means of exterminating rabbits in New Zealand. The Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice that the balance sheets of the Borough of Feildiug are now open for inspection. The reserved seats for the performance ol " The Silence of Dean Maitland" by the Beutly Company to-morrow night are being rapidly taken up. The plan is at Mr Carthew's. A public tea and popular Concert will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church, Feilding, on Thursday, October 25th. Particulars will be duly advertised. A case occurred in Campbelltown last night where the wife of a settler horsewhipped a man who affronted her. Thero is a possibility that the affair will be ventilated in the S.M. Court. Dr McGregor, Inspector of Hospitals, is rough on the Wanganui Hospital. He says : " This hospital is so old, so badly constructed, and so badly drained that it ought to be burned," The Feilding Permanent Building Society has closed its first year's operations with a profit of 7 per cent, to the capital of shareholders and depositors, and a credit balance is carried forward. As the Society has actually been only eight months in operation, the result is deemed highly satisfactory. According to the population tables of the year, the Chinese Empire still leads the world with 404,180,000 people. Tlie British Empire comes next with 315,885,---0 then the Russian with 104,200,000 ; France and her colonies with 68,672,048, and the United States with about as manj*. Yesterday 2500 trout were liberated, from the hatchery at Aorangi, in the Oroua river at Menzies' bridge on the i Feilding-Ashurst road by Mr C. Wickham on behalf of the local branch of the Acclimatisation Society. To-day 1000 were forwarded to Mr A. Fergusson at Birmingham. A final rehearsal of the special music being practised by the local Wesleyan choir, assisted by the Sandon and Campbelltown choirs, to be sung at the opening services next Sunday, will be held this evening in the new church at 7.30. All members are requested to be present, and well up to time. What can be made out of a cow or two on suitable land has been exemplified by a working man at Inch Clutha, who holds just one acre and three-quarters of good pasture, on which he resides and keeps three cows. His wife attends to them while he works about, while tho milk is disposed of to tho Stirling factory. Last seasou those cows realised ±'30 to the owners, besides supplying the family with milk. The Novelty Entertainment now being given in the premises opposite the Library is very interesting and amusing, and at the same time inexpensive. The performing fleas are a wonder in themselves, and must be seen to be appreciated. The Galatea is a remarkably clever optical illusion, and has created a wonderful sensation wherever exhibited. A splendid opportunity is offered today by Mr J. B. Pringle, of Colyton, to persons desirous of acquiring a firstclass pieco of land all ready to carry dairy stock. There is already established a creamery on one of the sections, and another great advantage is that the land is within a mile of the Post Office and the State School. The terms can be ascertained on application to Mr Pringle, at Colyton. Some of the members of the House of Representatives are not in favor of paid advocates for the suppression of the liquor traffic. Mr Thomas Mackenzie said : " They had an interest in keeping up the state of agitation. These temperance agitators were the curse of the country, and had been the cause of men of the most undesirable class crawling to the front who had as much sympathy for temperance as his big toe." We would like to see that toe. To-day Mr de Winton left by the forenoon train for Palmerston North, where he will remain for about ten days or a fortnight at the Occidental Hotel. During his stay in Feilding Mr de Winton has made a host of frionds, and we have been assured by many persons who have submitted themselves to his treatment, that the benefits derived therefrom have been surprising. In a number of other ways Mr de Winton has done good, and his liberality in connection witb the Feilding Public Library will not soon be forgotten. He informs us that he will pay a return visit to Feilding in tho course of a few mouths, when the many friends he has made in the town and district will bo very glad to see him. In the evolutions proceeding tbe battle of Ping Yang the Chinese troops gained a number of minor victories, and General Yep. their commander, received several marks of Imperial favour. The China Mail of sth September states that — " An Imperial edict dated 29th August states that Her Majesty the Empress-Downger. being most solicitous about tbe health of the armies now stationed at Ping Yang, and as they have bad to endure the heat end various other hardships in fighting battles, desires that 40 chests of pills be handed to Li Hung Chang, who will forward them with the greatest despatch to Geueral Yep, for distribution among the army and orders the latter to carry out the wish of Her Majesty accordingly." Tho subsequent discomfiture of the army is not surprising.