Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 8 December 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

a The ordinary meeting of tho Pohaut gina County Council is being held this afternoon. S A well is being sunk near the junction of Manchester aud Grey streets for tho use of the Fire Brigade. A meeting of the Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles will be held at the Manchester Hotel on Monday evening next at 7.30. Mr W. G. Shearer has niado some very good sticks for the use of tho Feilding Polo Club, quite equal to the imported ones. Mr J. Cobbe has kindly lent a piano to Mr McLean's committee for use at " the concert, to be held on tho 14th instant, in aid of the Firo Brigade funds. The have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for tho next meeting of the Raugitikei Racing Club from the courteous secretary, Mr C. W. McLean. Some of tho orchards in Masterton, which were badly infested with the woolly aphis early in the season, have been completely cured of the blight by tho use of ordinary tar. According to the New Zealand Times the seats in the stalls of the Opera House, Wellington, aie numbered, apparently, with figures drawn in ordinary coal tar. Tho Feilding Fire Brigade met at the I Foresters' Hall last evening. Only a small number of members attended. The usual routiuo business was transacted, and accounts passed for payment. ! Mr Gordon Campbell, who has been ! selected to act temporarily as commercial i ngent in London for Victoria, is a man of independent means. Australian born, and I does not receive any salary, but is alI lowed his expenses. ' Horace Hewison, aged 19, son of Mr Hewieon, shipping agent, Newcastle, was attacked by an enormous shark while bathing Ho aud his brother drove the BharkofT, but the lad's arm had to be amputated. I A youth named Norman Battyre was bitten on the foot by a snake whilst snipeI shooting at Forbes, New South Wales. I A htpodermic injection of strychnine was I administered and the patient recovered. ! The alteration in the contract arranged botween Messrs Nelson Bros, and the shippers through the Wauganui Freez- ' ing Works is a reduction of £d per lb, 1 and nothing but prime sheep to be sup--1 plied. Through traffic was resumed yesterday ou the Palmerstou-Napier line. It is alleged that tho accident was duo to the tender being in a dofective condition. An inquiry will be held by the department. MrG.M. Snelson, who claims to be the oldest established auctioneer in tho Wellington province, has decided not to apply for a license thin year. Mr Snelson has held a license continuously for 20 years, during which time he has contributed i; 800 by way of licenso foes to the Borough funds. — Standard. Tho Ministry have made a discovery. Iv reply to a deputation at Auckland the Premier said he recognised that overseers for building work needed to be men with practical knowledge of such work. The implication is that men of the " right color " havo been appointed to positions, as to the duties of which they knew nothing. The Mayor of "Wellington says that the Government veterinary 6urgeon has not tet come across a case of true cancer amongst cattle in the colony, and further that there is no case on record of cancer being communicated from a beast to a human being. Tuberculosis, also is not so prevalent as popular rumours would lend one to believe Mr J. II Fry, a member of the Wanganui Education Board, visited ihe Feilding State School yesterday with Messrs W. Car the w, 11. Worsfold, R. J. Thompson, and W. G. Hajbittle, members of tho School Committee. Tho visit was made with reference to the Committee's application for a new and larger school, which application will be considered at the next meeting of tho Board. There is au urgent neeossity for more room for scholars, and until " this is provided it will be impossible to enforce the compulsory clauses of the Education Act dealing with r regular attendance. J

Sir Robert Stout will deliver a lecture on Prohibition in the Town Hall, Bulls, on Monday night. A certain Feildiug man is called by his intimates " Pons Asinorum " because he is so " hard to get over." Tenders arc invited (labor only) for the erection of a drill shed for the Manchester Rifles, by Mr Charles Bray, architect. Tenders will close on Monday, 17th instant. On account of the Feildiug Firo Brigade concert being held on Friday next, the usual weekly practice will be held on Monday, when all members are requested to attend. Sir George Grey (writes a London correspondent on November 3) is still in London and does not seem yet to have definitely made up his mind when or whether he will return to New Zealand. At the Thames Police Court recently two bakers were fined Is and costs for conveying bread out for sale in a cart without being provided with proper scales for weighing the same. Tenders are invited by Mr Chas. Bray, junr., engineer of tho Kiwitea County Council for public works, as detailed in the advertisement. Tenders will closo on the 15th instant. It may seem paradoxical, but it is a fact nevertheless (says a correspondent to tho Otago Daily Times), that while sawn timber from the West Coast is sold in Dunediu at| 5b 4d per 100 ft, in Westland it costs from 8s to 12s. It is reported that one or two of the elder girls at the Masterton school have been punished for seeking shelter under certain trees in the schoolground. Their parents havo in consequence withdrawn them from the school, and there is likely to be a rumpus. The Rev. Geo. Pratt, pioneer mission nry at Samoa, and with tho exception of the Rev. J. B. Thair, of St. Arnaud, the only survivor of the early band of Satnoan missionaries, died on 24th November, after a long and painful illness. He died at the ripe age of 77, leaving a widow and 11 children. Ou Wednesday next Mr J. H. Worsfold will open his now refreshment rooms and boarding-house in Manchester street which has been erected on tho site of the old Buckingham Palace— a popular and well-known establishment — which was recently destroyed by fire. Following up his enterprise, Mr Worsfold has had the new building erected on a much larger scale than the old oue, while the comfort and convenience of boarders has been studied in every way. With his reputation for keeping a good table, and his general popularity, Mr Worsfold will, we feel sure,|be patronised by his many friends and old customers in this district, with whom wo join in wishing Mr Worsfold every success on his recommencing business.