The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, NOV. 5, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 111, 5 November 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, NOV. 5, 1894. Local and General News.

Captain Edwin wired at 12.35 p.m. to- ] day— Glass further rise. j This is Guy Fawkes' Day. A few I lads were out with effigies of this morning, ancl did good business. The Pohangina school will be removed during the Christmas holidays from the present site to the township. The Birmingham creamery will be opened to receive milk to-morrow morning. Our Wanganui Herald exchanges have been coming to hand very irregular of late. On Saturday Mr E. Goodbehere left by the afternoon train, cv route for Christchurch. The adjourned meeting of the Athletic Sports Committee will be held iv Mr SherwiU's office to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at eight o'clock. Owing to pressure on our space wo are compelled to hold over a letter from " Salutaris," "A visit to Beaconsfield," and ■• Campbelltown Notes," On account of the numorous picnics to he held on November 9th, tho Wesleyan Church havo decided to postpone tho picnic announced to he held on that day on the Oval. There being uo half-holiday on Wednesday next competitions of the Manchester Rifles will not be held on tbat day. If it can be arranged Class A will fire on Friday. The following aro the Palmerston Hospital statistics for tho past month : — Number in institution on Ist October, 1893, 23; admitted during month, 14; discharged during the month, 14. A Bulletin moral : When the state does not control the railways, therailwav companies (as in America) control the state He who controls locomotion controls the nation. Mr A. Wilson, in another column, tenders his thanks to the members of the Fire Brigade and others for assisting to protect his premises at the fire in Manchester street last Saturday evening. The first public trial trip of the Wangauui river steamer " Manuwai " will take place next Thursday. She will leave the wharf early in the forenoon and run about forty miles up the river. After the salo of racing privileges on Saturday, in the Assembly Rooms, Mr Charles Carr will sell &\ really first class Collard and Collard rosewood piano. This is said to be ono of tho best instruments ever seeu in Feilding. In Christ Church, Wanganui, yesterday morning, Colonel Fox unveiled a soldiers' memorial tablet, in commemoration of the services rendered by a number of officers and men of the 58th and 65th regiments who fell during the Maori War. Mr F. W. Bunting, photographer, opened liis branch business, next Star Office, to-day. Mr Cobbo has had tho building renovated ancl made suitable in every way for the business, aud we have no doubt Mr Bunting will receivo a fair share of public patronage, especially as his work is second to none iv the colony. An Otago paper p'ously remurks that : Trnancy has become a conspicuous and is notoriously a growing evil, and in the interests of the community requires to be resolutely stamped out. Truancy must inevitably lead to larrikinism, developing vice and crime. " Satan finds 60me some mischief still for idle hands to do." This morning a little girl narrowly escaped being ran over by a timber waggon in Manchester street. She was playing along tho road whilo on her way to school, and not looking where she was going got betweon the wheels and was knocked down, but fortunately fell clear. No blame was attachable to the driver. Messrs Abraham and Williams report prices as follows at their Palmerston horse sale on Saturday :— Best backs, £14 to £14s 8s ; medium, £8 to £10 ; others, £5 to £6 ; second-rate unbroken colts and fillies, £2 5s to £3 17s 6d ; heavy draughts, subject to trial, £20 to £21 10s ; unbroken light draughts, £11 to £11 10s. Tho local tennis courts wore opened on Saturday last, when a good gathering assembled. The ground was in very good condition, but not much play was indulged in owing to the fact that many of the ladies did not coming down prepared, thinking, no doubt, that the courts would bo overcrowded, a mistake which usually happens on tho opening day. Tho following tendors wore received by the Manchester Road Board on Saturday last for trimming and inctalliug 140 chains of Forlong's road : — T. Young, £1 8s 6d per chain (accepted) ; R. Lyon aud Son, Ll 13s 6d ; Mcllroy, Ll 7s 6d ; A. Mauagh, Ll 15s 6d ; P. Rink, Ll 6s ; J. Belfit, L2 9s; B. Poole, Ll 14s 3d; F. L. Bckrendt, Ll 16s ; Doherty and Jackson, Ll 12s 6d ; J. O'Connor. Ll 9s. The day after the shooting match between the Martou Royals ancl tho Manchester Rifles last week a telegram was sent from Feildiug as follows : " Beat Marton yesterday by eleven points," when the message was delivered at its destination it read thus : — " Bett Marton yesterday by eleyetf-pounds." The startled recipient returned tbo document to the sendor with the reproachful senteucc ; — " Thanks. It is of course very wrong of you to bet; with Marton aud win eleven pounds." It has transpired that the formality of taking polls will havo to be gone through again by the Kiwitea and Pohangina County Councils, both of which local governing bodies sprang into existence this year, for loans which have been carried at the polls, but wero not applied for at the time the Counties Acts relative to the bodies mentioned were brought into force. Thero appeared to be some doubt as to whether the money for such loaus as referred to could be obtained or not, and a few clays ago Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R. for Palmerston, while in Wellington, interviewed the Colonial Treasurer on tho subject, and was informed as above. This unfortunate delay will keep numbers of settlers i» the back blocks without roads for an indefi. nite period, and they will have to be content with wading through the mud or scrambling through the bush to their sections at the risk of life, for in some cases they aro even without bridlo tracks.