Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 121, 17 November 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Major Steward has written a poem Iv memory of Miss Macquaid. A meeting of tho members of the General Feilding Reception Committee will be hold in Mr Frank Owen's office on Monday next, at 8 p.m. On Wednesday last Mr W. Stanton, of Pphangina, was married to Miss Dinah Burae, »l C^r^arvon, at the residence of tho Rev. G. 8. Havp&f &Jj § andou. The public are invited to attend a great temperance meeting, at 3 o'clock on Sunday next, to hear Mr Geo. Grant, t*ia popular preacher and locturer, in the Temperance IfsU» It is stated that the consignment q{ horses on board the Wairarapa were for Mpssi'? Paterson and Co., of Auckland, and as they were uninsured, the fivtu

The Rev. W. H. Judkins 1 subject for to-morrow evening is announced. Mr Freeman R. Jackson was yesterday nominated for the Wanganui Mayoralty. We have authority for stating that a bowling club will be started in Feilding forthwith. Mr W. A. Sandilauds was to-day returned unopposed for the office of Mayor of the Feilding Borough for the ensuing term. Says Sydney Truth: "The political cry of tho Maoriland women is • Down with drink.' The men do the deod, and dou't make much noiso about it." Inspector Emerson was a passenger by rail to Napier j'esterday. Ho came down from the Moawhanga district, and apeaks in glowing terms of the Awarua block, part of which is shortly to bo opened for settlement. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr J. H. Baker, was a through passenger from Wellington yesterday en route to Pipiriki, up the Wanganui river, where some difficulty in connection with a road through Native property has arisen. At Three Log Wbaro on Thursday a man named Abel Illiug, of Hunterville, was jumping from a truck whilo in motion, when ho slipped and fell on tho rails, tho truck passing over one of his legs', which was badly fractured. It is said that greyling and whitebait are so plentiful in tho Grey river this season, that the Chinese are netting them to grow cabbages with — in other words, abusing these delicious fish by turning them into manure. Some persons who have just returned from Coolgardie request us (Standard) to warn people against going over to the now field. They say there are 80,000 people on the ground, and about 500 aro making a living. At a meeting of the Woodrille Farmers' Club recently Mr T. C. Crosse oxpressed tho opinion that it was impossible for the farmers to make money at growing boot or anything of that kind when the laborer would work only eight hours a day. At the Palmerstou Police Court yestorday John Knight was fined os and 7h costs for having offered sheep for sale which were affected with lice. Harry Hill, charged with a similar offence, was fined 10s and costs 7s. The first iustanco of an appoal in a criminal case uudcr the Act passed last session must be credited to Hunterville, when on Thursday the solicitor for an individual, sentenced to a month's imprisonment for larceny, gavo notice of appeal against tho conviction. After the hoalth of the Queen was proposed at the Christchurch Show tho J band lost their bearings and struck up " Daisy Bell," whereat the officers got very excited, but before the tune could be changed to " God Savo the Queen " the next tpast was in full swing. A Southern shearer named McKay, who wont over to Australia, met with an accidont in one of the sheds, and was turned adrift. Ho had to walk to Sydney ; thevo he got a passago iv tho Wairarapa, and was drowned. Hia widow and four children are in Christchurch, in need of help. The Maoris believe in taking full advantage of the laws of the country. We notice that up Taranaki way a native woman has filed her schedule, and in this district a caso in which a native woman charges her husband (also a Maori) with desertion will shortly come bofore the Court. Enquiry is made by relatives in England, through the Agent-General's Office for information respecting two young men named William and Eldon Jenkins, nephew's of Admiral Jenkins, who came tp New Zealand a few years ago, and have since been knocking about at various stations, and, it is alleged, were recently in the Wairarapa. It is the intention of the Kiwitea County Council to alter the course of the road running through the Mayfield property known as Taylor's Road. Plans of the proposed deviation are open to public inspection at the office of the Council, Feilding. Any person objecting to the proposed alteration must lodge their objection in wrjtipg at the Council's office within four weeks from 25th October, 1894. Mr J. O. Shorland left the Chrintchurch Post Office on a bicycle as tho clock was striking 10 on Thursday night week, and arrived at Dunedin next night, Friday, at 23 minutes past 10, thus lowering Mr J. C. Duff's record by 1 hour 42 minutes. He had several falls on tho way. At one place nearly half an hour was lost through the wrong road being taken. A peculiar difficulty has arisen in the sinking of a pipe at Danevirke with the hqpo of obtaining artesian water. The contractor has got his apparatus down to a depth of about i{so feet, but here he has met with an unlooked for destination, viz., a quicksand. Strange to say, this olement proves to be of an extraordinarily repulsive charactor, and tho progress at this point is extremely difficult, Sergeant Wakelin, of tha Christchurch City Guards, who went Homo to fir a at Bisley, has returned. The meeting was greatly interfered with by bad weather. He does not think » Now Zealand team would be able to hold its own in the team matches at Bisley. Tbe Lee- Met ford rifle, Bays Sergeant Wakelin, it far in ad vance of the Martini-Henri for accuracy, but of course iti great feature is its long range •hootinr'- The Voluntegri at Home are, it his understood, to b« armed with Lee-Metfords next year.