Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will be a special meeting of the School Committee this evening at 7.30. The business is of importance. Mr J. H. Stevens, postmaster, who has been absent ou leave, returned to Feilding on Saturday, and resumed his duties this morning. Tho welcome showers of raiu which fell last night aud to-day will bo of almost incalculable value to farmers who have put iv cereals or root crops. It is understood that a call to tho a vacant pastorate of Knox Church, . Duuedin, is likely to be addressed to Professor Harper, of Melbourne. The gentlemen interested in the reception and banquet to General Feildiug are requested to meet tbis evening at 8 o'clock in the office of Mr Frank Gwcn, C.E. t In Paris you can sco hundreds of ) women cyclists in the Bois and in the - streets, and as for the divided skirt and 3 the prim kuickerbocker, they aro taken 3 for granted, and no oue thinks twice about them. Archdeacons Fancourt and Towgood, and the Rev. Mr Waters, have been • elected as the three clerical represeuta- ; tives for the Welhngton Dioceso for the Geueral Syuod to be held early next ' year at Nelson. The Herald learns that Mr W. Brown of Pahiatua, who lately left that town- • ship to visit Coolgardie goldfields, died on the way to the fields. The intclli--1 geuco was received by a cable from Mr J Burke, who left Pahiatua with the 8 deceased. The rates of interest on fixed deposits have beeu reduced by the Colonial Bauk *g of New Zealand from to-day (the 19th a instant) to 2 per cent, for three months, 3 per cent, for six months, and 4 per cent, for twelve months. This is a reduction of one-half per cent, all round. i At the morning service iv the Catholic Church at Feilding yesterday £2 3s Gd was collected in aid of the Wairarapa ' relief fund, wliich, with the amount taken last Sunday, makes a total of £4 1 4s. The amount has been handed to • His Worship the Mayor, Mr W. Carthew, by Constable Tuohy. A speaker at a meeting in tho Mcl--3 bourno Wesleyan Church caused a scusation by stating that "It was apaipftd circumstance to contemplate that the principal sweaters in the boot trade in Melbourne wero prominent Churchmen." ■ There might well have been a sensation, for it is a fact. l The head-quarters staff of the Bank of . New Zealand is now being shifted to Wellington, all the arrangements for tbe purpose being complete. In Auckland the stall' numbered about GO, and 25 of these officers are being translated to this city. In fact some of them came dpwp a short time since, two more reported themselveß - yesterday, three others are to arrive to» day, and the balance are expected on Friday next.— Times. r A question having arisen as to the legality .of yotes recorded by defaulting ratepayers at a Mayoral election, Mr F. , Martin, solicitor to the Municipal As.sociation, has giveu tho following bpißiqn, " Reading the Act as a whole, and also in view of the extremely loose language generally in section 72, I have no hesitation in advising that the word rate- » payers ooGtirj.*ij)g in that section should be read as burg-asses," i The father of the lato Miss McQuaid has written to the Otago Daily Times deprecating the raising of funds for a testimonial to himself and wife. While fully appreciating thn spirit which prompts the action, he says the terrjble calamity which robbed them of tfieij: daughter has infiicted a loss upon so ■ many familios that the money intended . for the proposed testimonial would be better applied in relieving tho distress of others. Though no testimonial could . over bo hotter placed, still the abovo sentiments do the highest honor to tho t bereaved parents of the noble heroine of t the Wairarapa, and are iv fitting accord l with the spotless self devotion of ono of - tjjv gwudost dvatb* oi the tvutiuy.

At 1.28 pm. to day Captain Edwin 1 wired— E. to S. and S.W. gale with rain, and glass rise. There was a good attendance at the Temperance Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Mr G. Grant's temperance lecture. The Returning Officer, Mr G. C. Hill, notifies that William Alfred Sandilands, Esq., has been duly elected as Mayor of Feilding for the ensuing term. Abraham Lincoln, Gladstone, Tennyson, Darwin, and Oliver Wendell Holmes wero all born in 1809. Of all these notables only one remains— Gladstone. A meeting of the Directors of the Feildiug Permauent Building Society will bo held at the office of the manager, Mr E. Goodbehere, to-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Notice is given by Mr Cox, clerk to the Manawatu County Council, that Boness' bridge, ou the Awahuri road, will be closed for traffic from Wednesday next until further notice. Mr G. Travers, leader of one of the gaugs of men employed under Mr Snow, of the Survey Department, road-making near Apiti, fell over a cliff last week with a steel bar in his haud on to some broken papa about 70 feet below, but escaped unhurt. Notice is given to-day, by tho clerk of the Kiwitea Couuty Council (Mr E. Goodbehere), that a meetiug of ratepayers in the Special Rating District, Oroua Riding, will be held in the Kiwitea Hall on Thursday, the 22nd instant, at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of discussing a proposal to raise a loan of £'1000. At New Plymouth on Saturday morning a daughter of Mr H. Goodacre was severely burned through her bed catching fire from a lighted caudle which sho left near it. Her father's hand was almost roasted in extinguishing the flames, aud Mrs Goodacre also received a severe burn aud hurt her side iv carrying her daughter downstairs. That portion of the maiu road from Apiti to Rangawahia which leads into the Marton Small Farm Association, Blocks Nos. 1 and 2, will be ready for traffic by Christmas. The men uuder the charge of Mr Snow aro to start almost immediately making the conuation of the Cross road cast down to Coal Creek. It will be continued from thence to the Pohangina river, so as to give the selectors of land in the Salisbury Block a road. An American cyclist named Lyman Parkes, living at Indiana, lost his eyesight recently by tho explosion of the pneumatic tire of his bicycle. Ho was en route to Cordydon, twenty five miles distant, when in some manner tho inner air tube of his wheel exploded. After liaving adjusted a new one, Parkes commenced to inflate the tube, aud this exploded too. Fragments of tho tire struck Parkes in both eyes, from tho effects of which he has become totally blind. Tho usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellow's was held in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening last. A large number of members and visiting brothers were prcseut, two new members were proposed for initiation, aud accounts of sick pay were passed for payment. After the usual business was done, the meeting went into harmony, when songs and recitations were given. Tho meeting closed at 10 o'clock, after a very enjoyable evening had been spent. In future the meetings will commence at 8 o'clock instead of at 7.30.