The Feilding sTar, Okoua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 120, 16 November 1894, Page 2

The Feilding sTar, Okoua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 1894. Local and General News.

One of the Melbourne shop totalisators paid £98 for 5s over The Harvester for the Caulfield Stakes. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge will be held in Foresters' Hall this evening. Mr S. J. Thompson, of Raugiwahia, has sold his interest in his farm thero to Messrs Bosher Bros. A brick yard has been started at Waituna by Mr Smith, of the Sandon Small Farm Block. Members of the local Firo Brigade are reminded that a practice will be held this evening. A meeting of the Red Star Football Club will be held at Mr F. Bray's hairdressing saloon at 7 o'clock this evening. The attempt made by Mr Malcolm Ross to reach Mount Cook summit was a failure iv consequence of the terrible ■weather. An old JRceftou man, Mr George Mcßac, has turned up in the Corean fight as an officer of one of the Chinese gunboats. Tne North Otago Times hears that the Government have arranged for the purchase of 1000 acres of the Ardgowan Estate for settlement purposes. Tho ten Martini -Hcuri rifles received by the Manchester Rifles will be served out to the members of A Class for use in matches with other corps or rifle clubs. If an Agricultural and Pastoral Show is held in Feilding it will be during the autumn mouths, becauso cattlo are in much better condition then. Notice is given that Mr Allan Cameron, the selector of section 1, Block XVI, Survey District of Apiti, has applied to transfer the same to C. A. W. Monckton. Mr E. A. Barton, manager of tho Feilding branch of the Bank of Australasia, accompanied by his wife and family, left Feilding to-day for Napier on a three weeks' holiday. Mr Dyer is now in charge. Ifc is stated that Mr J. Gardiner has selected 12,000 acres of the Hautapu Valley for tho co-operativo labourers, and it is now being cut up into sections for them. Nominations of candidates for the offico of Mayor during the ensuing term must be handed in to tho Returning Officer, Mr G. G. Hill, before noon tomorrow, A incetiug of Campbolltown mombcrs of the Church of England will bo held in tho sclioolhouse this evening to make final arrangonients for the erection of a church. At the Wellington A. and P. Show on Wednesday the Cheltenham Dairy Factory was awarded first prize for its exhibit of butter. The Sjlverleys Dairy Factory (Palmerston North) took first prizes for cheese. We have been requested to ask owners cf dogs to keep their animals off tho polo grounds when play is proceeding. They are a source of both annoyance and clanger to the players, and in future it is intended to destroy these animals. Mr Wollerman, of Palmerston, who has just returned from a trip Home, says that wool is brought into Germany from London and traded off as New Zealand wool, which is not the New Zealand article at all. He is going to send Home some of the real stuff to show them what it is like. There are some pretty enterprising people down South. A thief stole a leg of mutton tho other day from the larder of a Gore parson, sold it immediately afterward at the house of another religious dignitary for eighteenpence, -winding up by spending the money in beer. Mr Geo. Grant, of Palmorston North, who is a well-known and eloquent temperance speaker, will address a public meeting in the Temperance Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tho acknowledged ability of Mr Grant will doubtless draw a large audience to hear him. A boy ten years of age, whose name the Christchurcb papers do not disclose because he is respectably connected, took a horse, trap, and harness from stables in Armagh street, and sold the harness for 22s to a second hand dealer The boy who had only recently been in Wellington Collage was convicted and ordered to ooiiie up for sentence when called upon. Mr Camplin, in complimenting those speakers at Beaconsfield the other night for urging on all who had in their hands the training of children the importance of inculcating a taste for flowers and j music, said they should go further, and teach the youngsters how to grow berries j and other small fruits. The taste for eating strawberries was a natural one, but the taste for fheir cultivation was acquired only by precept aud example. Mr P. Bartholomew, of Levin, is now turning out some splendid white piue. It is intended for the Melbourne market, and it is expected a largo trade will be opened for this class pf timber. The now band saws at Bartholomew's mill (says tho Manawatu Farmer) are working splendidly, and particularly adapted for this special class of work as they cut with little or no waste, and tho wood is clean and smooth. The Court of Appeal now sitting in Wellington allowed the appeal in tho Clutha Liconging Citse, McKen^io v. Hogg. The Court held, on a view of tho wholp of the Licensing Acts of 1881 and 1893, that section 14 of tho Act of 1893 does not apply to M-holesale licenses, which may therefore be granted in a district notwithstanding tho local option voto is in favour of prohibition. Costs wcxe allowed ou thu middle scale. Mr A Gillies, of Harnpden, menliont to the Oiioaru Moil that an ex fireman of the Wairurape, resident jn that district, advances, as an explanation pf the vessel's being po far out of bpr track the statement that the Wairapapa would make an extm half knot an hour in a head sea. He said that it is well known to the firs men that she could and did make 14 knots regularly in a head sea, when only sup* posed to be going 13 or 13^ knots. It is announced in another column that Mrs M. l\- Robertson, who for time earriod on a private bciiool jn Warwick street, has now secured a more ceuera.l position in Bowen dtreet,' off Kimbbltpn road, and is now prepared to accept boarders in addition to day scholars. As Mrs Robertson, has had 21 years' experience In tho State schools of New Zealand and Australia parents who entrust their children to her care way rely on them receiving a thoroughly sound and careful education. The annual tea to" celebrate the anniversary of the Wesleyau Churuh was held on Friday last, and was as usual a very pronounced success, the tablos boing filled up several times, and the abating p&paeity of the church was KeveroTy jt'axe^ a$ tho meeting iv the evening. Rev. W. &co pegged, and some excellent addresses were givei}' fey the Rev. Judkins and Messrs Grace, Poolo, Dixou and Collis. Tho Treasurer, Mr J. Dixon, read the annual report, I which was satisfactory, showing a balance iv Uaod pf over tlivj pouuifo,

The barquentine River Hunter, with a cargo of timber, sailed from Wanganui for Sydney yesterday morning. Captain Edwin wired at 12.20 p.m. today : E. to N.E. gales with heavy rain after 16 hours from now. Glass fall soon. So far this season 1000 bales of wool have been forwarded by rail from FeildI ing, and it is estimated that fully 7000 ! will be trucked from hero bofore tho season closes. Some very handsome bronze and black marble clocks have just been imported direct from the makers at Home by Mr James Scott, jeweller and watchmaker. Without exception they are the best ever seen in Feildiug both as regards taste of design and utility as timekeepers. The Premier of Victoria has received an intimation from the Military department of the Indian Government that 1464 remounts will be required during 18951896. Of these 735 are to be delivered at Calcutta, 317 at Madras and 285 at Bombay ; that being the limit of the requirements as far as Australian horses are concerned. The average price is<£xed at lAS. It is intimated by advertisement that Geueral Feilding will arrive hero ou Saturday, the 24th instant, aud will be entertained at a banquet in tho Foresters' Hall on the following Monday, at which he has expressed a wish to meet as many of the settlers as possible. The tickets for the banquet may be obtained at either the Star or Corporation Offices. Wo understand that Mr Horace Bastings has undertaken the catering, which is in itself a sufficient guarantee that everything will be arranged in a manner satisfactory to both the guest and the entertainers. Tho Manchester Rifles held a daylight parade yesterday afternoon in the Kimbolton road. All the officers and a full compliment of non-commissioned officers and men were present. Captain Kirton, Lients. Bray and Halcombe drilled the corps in company movements, and Color.-Sergt Milsou and Sergt Pethorick in tho bayonet and manual exercises respectively. A letter was read from Mr C. L. McLean inviting the officers and members of the corps to patronise a concert in aid of the funds of the Feilding Firo Brigade. On the motion of Vol J. Scott, seconded by Vol Dr Charlton, the invitation was unanimously accepted. The parade was then dismissed.