Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 124, 21 November 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will be mass in St. Bridget's next Sunday morning at y o'clock. We have to thank the Secretary, Mr Sherwill, for a complimentary ticket for the Feilding Athletic Sports. Messrs J. J McDonald aud J. Sicely have been nominated for the Martou mayoralty. The Wauganui Meat Freezing Company is now iv full work, and (says the Herald) killing is going on at the rate of 500 per day. A Nelson provision firm is now experimenting with a uew process for preserving eggs, which, it is anticipated, will keep them in a sound state of preservation for three years. The Secretary of the Wanganui Girls' Collego notifies that parents wishing to enter their daughters as boarders should make early application as the vacancies aro being rapidly filled up. Ratepayers in tho Kiwitea County Special Rating District, Oroua Riding, are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Kiwitea Hall to-morrow evening to discuss the proposal to raise a loan of XIOOO for the construction and deviation of Hayne's road. Mr W. Carthcw, bookseller, has received the Christmas number of tho New Zealand Graphic. It is beautifully got up, and very suitable to send Home to friends at this season of tho year. The Christmas numbers of the London News and Pears' Annual arc also on hand. An important timber sale will take place at Messrs Stevens and Woods' mill, Awahuri, to-morrow, when Mr J. R. Montague, auctioneer, will dispose of 100,000 feet of first class building timber, both rough and dressed. This will be a favorable opportunity for carpenters and others to procure a supply of really good timber. The weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge was held last evening. The attendance was fair about thirty members being present. Songs were given by Bros. Foster, Lawler, Elliot, Bray, Noble and Sister Valentine, pianoforte overture Sister Valentine, violin solos Bros. Staffon am] F. Foster, and duet by Bros Bray and Elliot. Notice js given to-day by the Clerk of the Kiwitea County Council, that a meeting of ratepayers within tho Makjno Special Rating Diutriot will be held in the schoolhouse at Cheltenham ou Saturday, tho 24th iust., at 8 p.m., for tho purpose of discussing a proposal to raise a i;a00 loan for the Makino Riding. Mr J. Doyle, tho City Registrar of Dogs, visited the Dog Show, taking with him his registrer, ana purchased a cata? logue. Of the foreign exhibits Mr Doyle took no note, but of the local exhibits he found that a largo proportion had not been registered. Of these ho made a note, with a view to proceeding agaiust their owners should they not register hem forthwith. — Post. Says the Review of Reviews : — Not a ow signs seem to show that the wave of feeling in favour of prohibition, which was apparently sweeping over New Zealand, is losing volume and force. The danger of recoil is always the chief peril in a moral reform of this character, but it will be curious if tho first Parliament which has beeu elected on women's suffrage should prove less resolute in temperance reform thau a House elected by male votera only. In reference to the article wo published recently referring to the mysterious death of a New Zealauder named John P. Mullius at Uutte. Montana, U.S.A.; Mr W. Ryan, of the Phcenix Hotel, informs ; us (Standard) that tho deceaseju' was fornierly a resident of Palnierston Nprth, aud was well-known. He worked on the railway formation between Ashurst apd Palmerston for a considerable time. About two years ago he left Pahiiersfcon, and nothing waa known of his whereabouts until the information of his death was lately forwarded to New Zealand. Among others, Mr T. O'Learju--of-tHe" Railway Hotel, was acquainted with the deceased. Iv a Gazette notice, fixing the sittings of the Supreme Court in fchp Wellington provincial district, it is stafcod fchat " sittings for the trial of criminal ant} civil cases, and of ca«e« uudcr tho Divorco and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867, will be held at tho Supreme Courthouse, Wauganui, to commence on following clays at 11 a.m. : Tuesday 26th March, Tuesday 21th September. Such busiucsK in Banes and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may \jq disposod of in the course of these sittings,' ai sue]} days and hours as the Judge may appoint." At Napier the Court will commence itu tiittiu^ tm Tuesday l'ith Feb. ruary, Tuesday, lltii Jur.e, apd Tuesday, 10th September. The Wellington dates are:— Criminal business: Monduy 4th March ; Monday 3rd June ; Monday sth August'; Monday ISth November. Civil business: Monday 4.1 h February; Vpn. day 4th March; Monday 3rd June ; Won. dav Oth August ; Monday 18th Koyeniber^

Victoria will under the bonus system, 1 export £1,000,000 worth of butter this season, as compared with i-28,000 five years ago. A correspondent writes to the Melbourne Age that he looks upon New Zealand as one of the richest of the goldproducing colonies, and that it only I wants Victorian enterprise to be put ] iutb its affairs to make it go ahead. i A Sydney paper says: — "The frantic | leaflet, full of blood, dynamite, ami f . sudden death, which was lately circulated in the alleged interests of the ' Queensland shearers, is said to have ' been written by a Maoriland lady, one 5 of the lights of the woman suffrage * movement." j The Post learns that Sir Robert Stout j will return to Wellington at the begin- j ning of next mouth, and that shortly , thereafter he and his family will take up ( their residence here, as he finds that po- ■ litical obligations to his constituents, ( and professional engagements, conspire ( to make this change necessary. ] To-day is the first anniversarj r of the : opening of tho Palmcrstou N. Hospital, i During the twelve mouths 188 patients < have been admitted into tho institution, and the visitors havo numbered 32-17. ' The matron, Miss Doherty, and her assistants have to bo complimented on the ! excellent manner in which the hospital * has been conducted. At a sitting of one of the criminal courts lately, the convicted one was asked if ho had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Addressing the judge the criminal said, " I hope you will bo lenient with me, sir ; I have a good many dependent on me for their support." Children? queried the judge. " No," was the reply. " The police, Yer Honor 1 " Wo (Chronicle) understand that buyers are very numerous and eager for wool this season, a sure indication of the approaching effect upon prices through the abolition of American wool duties. Already sales have been made at up to B'Jd per lb for greasy wool iv Hawke's Bay, and coming nearor home, 7}d per lb is said to have been freely offered for Lincoln wool iv Raugitikei. This news is gratifying to us as portending a substantial addition to the value of the colony's staple product.