Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 125, 22 November 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The next meeting of the Wellington Land Board will be held on Thursday the 29th. instant. The Palmerstou Cycling Club propose holding another road race to Ashurst and back on Wednesday next. Yesterday 5000 trout fry arrived at Palmerstou from the Masterton ponds for liberation in the Tiritea stream. Mr W. L. Bailey, of Taonui, has left for Australia, for a month's tour round the colonies. At a sale of sections in Coolgardie 12 quarter acre allotments realised i' 0,278. A corner allotment in Bayley-street realised .£IOOO. Messrs Gorton and Sou will sell stock at Feildiug to-morrow. Some first-class draught ljorses will be offered on account ' of. Messrs Hock^n J}ros. Ratepayers in the Oro.ua Special Rating District aro reminded of the meeti'ug to be held iv the KjwiteaHall this evoking to discuss a XIOOO Joan proposal. Palmerston North is an up-to-4ato town, as it can boast of a lady cyclist, who displays great skill in tbo management of the two-wheeled machine. At the Bullh Court ou Tuesday, J. Harris was fined jBI and 7s costs and J. Botteher 10s and 7s costs for having sheep infected with lice in a public saleThose futeie^ted in tho formation of a Bowling Club iv Pejldjofi are reminded of the meeting to be held at Messrs, Halcombe and Son's office to-morrow evening at 8.30. Mr Chas. Carr will hold an auction at Mr Dugald Henderson's slaughter yards at Colyton to-morrow, when a number of pigs, timber, hides, etc., will be disposed of. TJic committee of the Feikling Footi ball £L/b met at Mr D. Ross' last even- ! ing. Present— Messrs Matheson (in the chair), W. Qiesci?, ; JW. if. l£f?lle}ier, O. Aitkcn, and A. Richards. — fte's^lyed, That the Hea,sou bo considered .closet}.— Resolved, That tho matter of ploughing the new football ground bo left ovoj? to a future, meeting.— Messrs Matheson, Saywoll, and Coombe were appointed a committee to decide what players should receive Messrs Bramwell and Fowler's medals, wUicii ,^rc for the best all-rouud player and the most'unsellish player respectiVely".

Mr T. P. Williams has been nominated for the Foxton Mayoralty. The case Cook and Turley v A. L. Parr has been settled on terms favorable to defendant. Captain Edwin wired at 1.20 p.m. today:— N.W. to W. and S. gales with rain and glass rise. The timber trade is reviving in the Mastertou district, and large consignments are being sent away by rail. China pheasants are breeding very fairly in the Pohaugiua valley, tho other variety may also be said to be doing very well iv that favored locality. Since the opening of the present season 1800 bales of wool have been sent away from the Masterton Railway Station. The Railway Commissioners, Messrs McKerrow aud Ronayne, passed through Fcildiug to-day on their way to Napier. They came overlaud from Auckland by the Main Trunk Line route. We have to acknowledge receipt of schedule of events at the next meeting of the N.Z. Rifle Association at Wellington on March 14th, 1895. The Wellington Garrison Band have determined to make another attempt to break down tho opposition of the City Council to their playing on the Basin Reserve on Sundays. A large majority of the officials iv the Post and Telegraph Department at Palmerstou have decided to support Mr J. H. Stevens, of Feilding, for a seat on the Board of Appeal. Half tho subsidy for the Pohangina telephone has already been subscribed, and communication with Ashurst will soon be established. Mr Oeorge Adsett has the matter iv hand. He was a moan mau. The dust iv the streets on a windy day gavo him a thirst which any decent person would value highly ; but he, in order to avoid this and the consequent expense — wore a respirator 1 There was once a man in Feildiug who had such a high estimate of his own abilities, that when he had smelled the cork of a three star brandy bottle, he believed he was well ouough up in the subject to expound on tho whole solar system. On account of the confusion of names the post office, now called " Pohangina township," will be altered to "Pohangina," aud that now known as " Pohaugina," will be designated " Palmer's." This is an alteration which can hardly bo called an improvement. In 1874 the deposited savings of the Irinh peopU were, L' 2.851,000 ; in 1881, L 3,625,000; in 1891, L 6.627.000 Railwajs last jeur earned L 557 per mile, and in shipping, both for foreign entries and clearings and for coastal trade, the figures show an increase everywhere. The Bohemian in the Press alleges that nt a military funeral in tho North Island the other day, the banas serenaded the colonel to his grave to the strains of the ' Dead March ' in ' Snnl ' On the return journey thej combined their forces and struck up the popular air, ' E dun no whero'e are.' Tho Christchurch Star snys :— " The shearing ddifficultt t at Mr Menlove's station, Windsor Park has ended, the owmr of that property having wisely decided to no longer attempt to enforce the obnoxious agreement which has been so widely condemned Shearing has commenced under the old verbal agreement." On Monday delegates from the various tnilk suppliers to tho creameries in the Manawatu district waited on the directors of the New Zealand Dairy Union and asked that the 3*B. test should be reduced to 3G. The directors promised to give every consideration to the matter and stated that if they could see their way clear to accede to the concession asked for they would do co. The Australian papers notice it strange coincidence. In Australia the same papers which contained the news of the assassination of the Emperor, Alexander 1 , of Russia, also announced the loss of the Union Company's Tararua, with 112 lives Thirteen years afterwards the same papers announced the death of Emperor Alexander 11., also hud the news of the loss of the Union Company's Wairarapa with 127 Jives. Here is something which goes to show that the alarming spread of cancer is due to diseased meat: -Mr H. Temperly at the Magistrate's Court. Blenheim, says that before he was appointed Inspector of Stock for Westland there was an average of fifteen cases of cancer patients in the three principal hospitals on the Coast, When he left a few months ago there was not a single case. While he was there he destroyed every animal coming under his notice that possessed the slighest taint of disease. The Grej River Argus sajs: — "The fact of the matter is that the colony has more coal mines than we know what to do with. It only a few dajs ago since the Maw)iera came back from Wellington with her main hatch full of coal, because there was no means of placing it, all the yards being full, while the Wainui also arrived in a similar predicament and yet the opening of new coal mines goes on apace, though every new coal mine opened practically narrows the scope of the coal market. Unless the coal market of this colony can be extended beyond its present limits the coal trade will soon be iv a rather bad way." T}je war Jn Corea has brought out prominently the control which England has over the submarine cable system of the world. English companies own lines haying a length of more than 150,000 miles which cost over 4?3O,OOO,OOO, and produce a revomia of more than iM,000,00i). The Government has done everything in its power to facilitate the laying of these cables by subventions and patronage, and the preliminary surveys havo been nearly all made by the naval authorities. In return the companies are obliged to give priority to the Imperial and Colonial Governments over all others, to employ no foreigners and allow no wire to be under control of foreign Governments, and in case of war to replace their servants with Government olHcials when required.