Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Issue 158, 3 January 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr John Ruscoe, a very old settler of Wanganui, died on Sunday last. There will be mass in St. Bridget's on Sunday next at 11 o'clock. The Palmerston Racing Club made a profit of .£303 over their Summer Meeting. The election of Mr John Peters Cowie as a member of the Feilding Borough Council is announced by the Returning Officer, Mr G. C. Hill. The resignation of Mr W. Murray as Inspector of Schools for the Taranaki district takes effect on March Ist, when Mr Spencer will succeed him. The iron bark piles required for the Awahuri bridge have been received from Newcastle, and pile driving is now in full swing. A little boy scholar at a Sunday school in Feilding was asked " Where is Jerusalem ? " He replied, proudly, "Up the Wanganui River." In our advertising columns Mr J. P. Cowie, of Makino, states that he is a candidate for the vacant seat in the Borough Council, and solicits the suffrages of the burgesses. The Auckland Star says that of every hundred tons of produce which ought to havft be^n carried over the railways, proba • % not 10 tons have been so carried during the regime of the Commissioners. At thejAuckland bicycle sports on New Year's Day, S. Thacker and R. P. Clarkson, of Palmerston, were successful. The former won tbe two tnile race, and the latter carried off the three and five mile evouts. Tbe funeral of the late Mrs M. M. Browne took place yesterday afternoon, a large number of relatives and friends joining in the procession. The remains of the deceased were interred in the Feilding Cemetery, the Rev Innes Jones Ljlnciating at the grave. A large number W wreaths were sent by sympathisers. ■ffhe Timaru Herald hears that the have sent a man to Waia property belonging to the Estates Company, near to prepare a valuation and a view to its subdivision. contains 18,132 acres, which at £79,864 on the land tax and in

of gentlemen who have been spending their holidays in the Ruahine ranges returned to Feilding to-day, bringing with them some very fair specimens of copper oreSeveral Feilding people have been staying at Plimmerton House, Pliinmerton, during the holidays, and they speak in the highest possible terms of that place as a summer resort. The representative of oue of the oldest families in England and heir of one of the oldest estates in Staffordshire has created a sensation by marrying a young factory girl. Mr E. G. Wilson, the Feilding Stationmaster, will leave to-morrow for his usual annual leave of absence, and will be away about seventeen days. His temporary successor is Mr Couper. Notwithstanding the fact that the New Zealand Times says the Easter Encampment will be held near Wanganui this year, we are in a position to state that the site has not yet been decided on, and it is within the limits of possibility that one near either Marton or Feilding will be chosen. The dairy produce shipped by the Kaikoura from the colony for London is as follows : — Butter Dunedin, 29 tons; Auckland, 23 tons; Lyttelton, 24 tons ; Wellington, 274 tons. Cheese - Dunedin, 161 tons ; Wellington, 133 tons. Totals : Butter, 350 tons ; cheese 294 tons. The shipments of fruit which arrived in Wellington last week from the Islands and Sydney were 3300 cases. Of course the season is earlier in these places than with us ; still, the importation of fruit goes on more or less all the year round. It is about time our fruit growers woke up. The projected visit of the Hon. Mr Ward to England will probably entail some temporary adjustment of deparmental work among Ministers. The Premier is likely to undertake Mr Ward's Ministerial duties until his return, and the Hon. Mr Carroll to relieve the Premier of the work connected with the Native Department. In Brisbane the other day, the solicitor acting for an insolvent called a meeting of creditors, held proxies for all the creditors represented, took the chair and then moved, seconded and carried resolutions granting the insolvent a discharge from all Ins debts etc. He was the only person present. The Supreme Court when ap pealed to, held that the proceedings were strictly legul under the Insolvency Statute, aud blamed Parliament for passing such a statute. In this case the persons in fault were surely the creditors, who were so unbusinesslike as to send their proxies tc the insolvent's solicitor. At the Wellington Caledonian sports on Tuesday, T. Walsh won the mile in 4min 39sec from 70 yards, J. Dcrungs second ; the four-mile bicycle handicap was wou by L. T. Herbert (100 yds) in 12mins 27 l-sth sees ; 100 yds handicap by J. Pike ; 120 hurdles, S. McDowell, 24sec ; 2203 T ds handicap by H. R. Woou (10yds) in 23sec ; 440 yds handicap by Humphreys ; half-mile by H. li. Wood (15yds) ; the five-mile bicycle handicap was won by Herbert in 15min 52 4-sth sees ; J. Roache ran third to Harley in the 220j 7 ds amateur handicap, the time being 23 1-5 sec.