Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The income of Oxford University is slightly under £'70,000. The Ashurst people favor Wednesday for the half holiday. A ford has now been completed on Forlong's road to allow drays to cross the Kiwi tea stream. The game which decided the chess championship on Saturday lasted about four hours and a half. Government intend to effect a saving of some ±600 a year in the rent of offices used by the Railway Commissioners. Mr Chas. Carr held a successful stock sale at Rangiwahia on Saturday last, most of the lots submitted being sold. The total number of bankruptcies in the Palmerston D.O.A.'s district during 1894 was 51, as against 34 for 1893, the increase being 17. It is stated on the best authority that the law costs of the Loan and Mercantile Company's case will, reckoning in the final proceedings, come to about i-10,300. It will be to the mutual advantage of business men and employes to attend the meeting in the Assembly Rooms, this evening, to decide the question of the half holiday. A shunter named John Travers, at the Spencer street railway goods yard, Melbourne, was killed last week through getting jammed between the buffers of two trucks. Intending competitors at the Birmingham sports on the 18fcb, and the Halcombe sports on the 22nd, are again reminded that nominations close tomorrow evening. The Minister of Lands has informed Mr J. Stevens, M.H.R., that an additional £650 will be placed on next session's estimates towards the cost of the Otara bridge. The Mikado has conferred the Order of the Imperial Chrysanthemum on Kaiser William, in recognition of the services of the German officers in the military tuition of the Japanese. A man named Joseph Buchanan was arrested at Auckland on Friday on the charge of abduction of the daughter of a settler named Young, of Mangapai. The girl is under the age of 16 years. Owing to the establishment of the new mail service in Feilding, residents in the Waituna, Awahuri and Campbelltown districts now receive their English mail on the same evening of its arrival in Feilding. A fight has taken place in the Kimberley district, Western Australia, between the natives over some women. Several blacks, who died from their wounds received in the battle, have been eaten by their comrades. The total amount paid away in stakes at the Auckland Summer Meeting was Messrs L. D. Nathan, £698 5s ; Stead, £622 ss ; Kean, £508 ss ; Pere, £432 5s ; Major George, £190 ; and Geo. Wright, £133, were the principal win- j ners. We hear of a person in this district (says the Wairarapa Mail) who is of such a frugal turn of mind that he discharged all hands, boys included, until after the holidays, in order to save the few days' wages he would have to pay them. There was a good muster at the local tennis court on Saturday afternoon, but a shower of rain stopped the play. A tournament game between Miss H. Lewis (owes 30) and Miss Macarthur (owes 15 plus 2 bisques) was commenced, only one set being played, resulting in favor of the former by 6 — 3. We believe some effort should be made at direct shipments of wool and frozen mutton to America. The pastoralists should send a competent person there to study American requirements, and such an emissary might profitably extend his enquiries as far as Japan. — OtagO Daily Times. Mr Poad, of Levin, had a narrow escape on New Year's Pay. He was driving to the beach, when the wheel of his trap went into a deep rut, with the consequence that the vehicle upset. Mr Poad was not not hurt, but a six week's old baby was thrown under the horse's feet, and although no bones were broken, was badlj bruised. The Secretary of the Feilding Cycling Club has received a communication from the Secretary of the Wanganui Caledonian Sports to the effect that the bicycle events at their annual gathering on the 22nd instant will be run under the rules of the New Zealand Cyclists' Union. This will enable members of the Feilding Cycling Club to compete, and they should bear in mind that entries close to-morrow evening. The Ngaire swamp, 7500 acres in area, in the Taranaki district, has now been surveyed, and will probably be brought into the market by the Government for small settlement in a few months if the drainage operations are sufficiently advanced. Co.-operative labour is now being employe,*! in carrying out the main drain system, and in making rpadg into the block. It will be an excellent piece of country, and is within easy reach of the railway line, being only three miles distant from the Eltham Railway Station. Mr G. Say well, coachbuilder, of Feijding, has received instructions from a local gentleman to build for him a large waggonette or travelling caravan to accommodate three or four persons at night as well as carrying all the equipment 3 necessary for an outing say of three or weeks' duration. The gentleman who has given him the order is not long out from England, and lie considers New Zealand is a splendid country for such recreation as is contemplated, i.e., travelling by such means and camping alongside of our splendid rivers and streams, a^d. for a pastime engage in fishing,' etq.