Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 102, 24 October 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

— ♦ In order to give our employes a chance to visit the Palmerston Show to-morrow (Thursday), the Feilding Stah will not be published. A practice will be held on the local cricket ground to-morrow. Tho annual meeting of tho Feilding Athletic Sports Committee will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The Pohangina Couuty Council invite tenders for 322 chains of road formation and metalling in four contracts. Tenders close on Friday, Novembor 2nd. The members of the Failding Fire Brigade are invited to meat at the belltowor, in Manchester Square, to-morrow morning to assist in the erection of tho engine shed. On tbo Rangitikei line of road large poles have been placed on the banks of the Oroua river at Awahuri for the guidance of those who are riding or driving to the Show at Palmerston N. Tho river is very low at present. Tbe new Bishop of Wellington is to be consecrated on the 25th January. The function is to be a very imposing one. The Bishop of Salisbury (Dr Wordsworth) and all the New Zealand Bishops are expected to be present. An oxtra magistrate is to be employed ou tho North Island iv cousequence of the rapid spread of settlement in the WeUington, Hawke's Bay, and Tarauaki districts, and bis salary, £700, bas been voted on the Supplementary Estimates. Shearing by machinery is rapidly growing in favour in Hawke's Bay. Great improvements have been made in the motive power by Mr Wj Nelson, who bas just finished shearing 15,000 sheop in 104 days witb sixteen shears, half the shearers never having worked a machine before. A public tea and concert will bo held in the Primitivo Methodist Church, Feilding, to-morrow. Tea will be placed on the tables at 6 o'clock. The concert which takeß placo afterwards should be a very good one, as some of tho best talent in the towu has been procured to take part in it. There was a largo attendance at tho weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge last ovening. After tbe usual routine business the lodge went into harmony, wheu Bros. F. Bray and Elliott gave a duet, Bro. Foster a song, Bro. Edwards a recitation, and Miss Valentine a pianoforte solo. The election of officers wiil take place next week. At Birmingham this afternoon, Mr David Howie was united ip the bonds of matrimony to Miss Alice Lowes, second daughter of Mr T. Lowes. The Rev. T. R. Richards, Wesleyan Minister of the Kiwitea Circuit, performed the pleasing ceremony in tlie presence of a large number of relatives and friends of the contracting parties. We wish tlio happy couple every happiness and prosperity in their wedded life. A meeting of tbe committee appointed to arrange for the reception of General Feilding was held in Mr Owen's office last night. Mr Giesen presided. The Address Committee handed in their report with a draft of the address, wbich were adopted and approved. It was decided that the address be presented in the Assembly Rooms immediately after tbe arrival of General Feilding, and that the banquet be hold the same evening. To-night the very clever MontagueFredo Company will give a grand farewell complimentary performance for the benefit of the babies Bubbles aud Lar iv the Assembly Rooms. We bave already pointod out the merits of this Company, but wo omitted to mention that as a ventriloquist Mr Montague iB singularly gifted, in fact he may be said to occupy the head of his profession. We hope to see a hamper house tbis evening, because the performers are each aud all of tbem well worthy of patronage. The Company played to a very fair audieuco last evening. Our readers will doubtless remember that not long ago in tho Transvaal tho mama boers got up a protest against the employment of barmaids in saloona, because the latter tempted the young boermen to spend their substanco in lager beer and othor sinful fluids. Well, since thou the movement has been further extended and the papa boers have got up a" subsidiary agitation " against the employment of good looking young men in the drapers' and milliners' shops, because they tempt the yppng boerwomen to spend their papabocra' substance is dress finery and other things which tempt the soul to sin. j There is pompensatiou i© thipgs whon

Very often what people call their irinciples are only their prejudices. All the business places in Feildiug, ixcept the Post and Telegraph Office, srill observe a close holiday to-morrow. _ Mr Lambert, at one time station- -• master in Feilding, was a passenger in * the Rodondo recently wrecked on the * Australian Coast. \ There will be no afternoon delivery 1 of letters in tbe town to-morrow, but • the 9 a.m. delivery will take place as usual. It is rumoured, says the local Daily ( Times, that frilled shirts will be the < rage in the Wairarapa for men in the . comiug winter. The windmill for raising water to ' supply tbe Feilding Hotel will soon be completed, aud we understand that the good example of Mrs Hastie is likely to be followed by other residents near Manchester Square. Says the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette :— " Although many Dunedin hotels have been closed by the Prohibitionists, tho local brewery output for last quarter has exceeded that of auy previous quarter." This is very suggestive. Mr W. Stevens only received £100 insurance on his building in Manchester street recently destroyed by tire, and uot £200 as was stated in error. Mr Stevens estimates his actual loss at £150 apart from the insurance. " Tbe trail of the serpent is over us all." A youngster, so young as to be merely on the border land of breeches, fell over on his nose the the other day and knocked a lot of bark off. Ono of our staff sympathised with tho lad, who smiled and said, " You can put my nose in the paper if you like ! " A farmer Bent a dollar for a lightning mosquito killer, which he Baw advertised in a paper. And received by return mail, two blocks of wood, and directions printed upon them as follows : " Take this block, which is No. 1 in the right hand ; place the mosquito upon No. 2, and preai them together; remove the mosquito and proceed as before." A special meeting of the Manawatu County Council will bo held at Sandon on November 14th to confirm a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Council held on October 10th re striking a rate on several sections in the Mount Stewart Riding. Full particulars will be found in the advertisement iv another column. A four-roomed house at Terrace End was destroyed by fire shortly after 9.30 last evening. Mr J. Bolstad, junr, occupied tho house, but ho and his wife were away at tho time of tho outbreak attending a religious service, and nothing was saved. An insurance of £100 was on the building. The reflection of tho flames was distinctly visible in Feilding. An old miner named Dennis Sullivan waa found dead in his hut at Goldeborough West Coast, the other day. The hands were folded across the breast and from the appearance of the body it would seem that he passed away in his sleep without a struggle. Sullivan was an old soldier, a Crimean veteran and poat-essed several medrtle. He had been mining for many yenrs. Mr John Jones, nn old and well-known Wangansi resident, returned from Coolgnrdie yesterday, where for the past few months he has been representing a local syndicate Mr Jones holds a high opinion of the prospects of the field, but considers it is not one for poor men. Large num bers oftnen were destitute, with little or no hope of bettering their circumstances. An accident of an extraordinary eharac ter occurred at the Wesleyan Church in Keroit, Victoria, rcsaliing" in Mr Alfred s>kilbeck, of Yangery Grange, sustaining a aovere wound on the head. An owl was observed flying about the building during service, and shortly afterwards in passing over one of the rafters, which are at a considerable height, the bird brushed off a heavy screwdriver which was lying there, and the instrument falling with the sharp end downwards, struck Mr Skilbeck on one side of his head near tbe crown, and glanced off after inflicting a painful wound. No person has been in the upper part of the building since tbe church was completed, so that the screwdriver must have been forgotten by the carpenters and lain on the rafter for nearly 25 years.