Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 185, 5 February 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

.» The Directors of the Feilding Building Society met this afternoon. Lady Glasgow and suite are at present the guests of Mr F. Arkwright, of Marton. Steady light rain has fallen in this district for the last thirty-six hours and has been very welcome to settlers. No Chinaman is capable of enthusiasm in the sense it is understood by Europeans. Even the Americans say " John can't enthuse worth a cent." Sir Henry Parkes has no faith whatever in the conference of Premiers, because he considers the members thereof "as mere unfortunate accidents of circumstances." Mr John Prior, solicitor, gives notice that for the present he has taken rooms in the building occupied by Mr Greenwood, dentist. A tone is given to the House of Commons by the presence of ten newspaper editors, six printers, and three stationers. The next monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodfe will be held in the Foresters' Hall, Bowen street, on Monday next*. In the United States when electrocution does not finish the criminal the post mortem examination does all that is needed. A cricket match was played at Marton on Saturday between the Marton and Waituna Clubs. The former proved victorious by 46 runs. At a meeting of the Hobart unemployed it was stated, that numbers were starving on the west coast of Tasmania, while men were being imported by contractors from Victoria. A resident of Gympie (Queensland) whilst walking along one of the streets picked up a boulder containing gold valued at between £50 and £70 More than one perion had been tripped by the same boulder on dark nights. Things must be pretty bad in Christchurch, says Truth, when you find the young fellows shaving their moustaches so that they can smoke their cigarettes shorter. This is economy with a vengence; no wonder the Customs revenue is falling. lt has been observed, with regret, that the branches of several of the trees planted on Arbor Days in Manchester Square and Kimbolton road, have been wantonly broken down. This is a useless piece of vandalism, and the perpetrators deserve punishment of some kind. A minute measurement by the Napier Caledonian Sports Committee of the 440 yds course on which the hurdle race, won by A. W. Watts, of Feilding, and which a record time was put up, was run, disclosed the fact that it was one foot short of the distance. In connection with the muster parade of the Manchester Rifles to be held on Thursday. 21st instant, members are to bear in mind that " every man, every rifle, and every belt " must be produced clean and in good order for the inspection of Colonel Newall. The corps will ho "J a Government parade on Thursday ne-.L, the 7th instant, and as that earns cap -tion a full muster is expected. S.ioUatarianism has not yet reached Curt iv the Murchison district of Western Australia. Sunday, says a local paper, is pleasantly passed in tennis, cricket and football, which the law of Western Australia allows to be pursued on the Sabbath, making up for its leniency in that way by being especially severe with publicans who sell on Sunday, and with sly grog sellers. A farm house owned and occupied by Mr H. McKay and family, at Gamtown (Auckland), was struck by lightning on Thursday last, and was considerably damaged. The roof was much shattered and scorched, the brick chimney demolished, the oven in the fireplace twisted up apd useless, and the stone hearth split open. Mrs McKay was rendered insensible for some time, the l onlie» occupants escaping injury. ' An I adjoiuing wire fence of three chains was | .uteri} destroyed. The wooden portion . as *plit up to matchwood. Au Auckland colonist who recently reMiruud trom a visit to England, via tbe suez route, passed through Melbourne I -ud Sydney. He states that be was par* ' icul»rly struck witb the change in Meloourne, and of the poverty wbich bad Bet in Hinong a class formerly comfortable. iiders, he says, do not know what i-iress means, when they talk about de-..r-st-ion. He saw people sleeping in tbe t ...rks who, before the " boom," and the i subsequent faiure of the banks and build- ! ing societies, were in comfortable circum ■ s ances. The acute mental and physical i misery of sucb people is simply lndescribab f The turning of the worm. The North Otago Times reports that a bank official had rather a lively experience with one of his bank's customers in Dunedin the other day. Some difference of opinion had arisen between fth£ ban)*; and the customer, and when the oflhjjal spited on the customer he was greeted wi*jfch a blow between the eyes which, a_ the small boy would say, " Weeded his nose." He held his head oyer to allow the blood to run ..clear of his shirt front, when another blow was deposited on $be top of his head. The war between China and Japan was nothing to this, and the teak official beat a --Beat,

The usual monthly meeting of the 1 Kiwitea County Council was held today, our report will appear to-morrow. The report of the Ram Fair which was held to day, by Messrs Gorton and Son, will appear in to-morrows issue. It is estimated that upwards of 4000 bales of wool havo already been sent away from the Feilding Station. The rifle competition to-morrow for General Feilding's trophy and Dr Charlton's medal, will take place in the afternoon only, commencing at 2 o'clock. An inquiry is shortly to be held into the cause of the recent fire which resulted in the destruction of the Mana. watu County Council Chambers at Sanson. J. H. King, the Sydney sprinter, gives it as his opinion that he has never broken lOsec in the 100 yds in his life. Asked for an explanation of the fast times with which he was credited for, King states he has often gained fully 4yds before the sound of the pistol reaches the timekeeper. If he could break lOsec he would not be in New Zealand to-day — Mercury. A bicycle road race, to be held under the auspices of the Feilding Cycling Club, is to take place to-morrow evening, the distance being from the Spuare to Ley's Line and back, a distance of about four miles. The race will commence at 5.30 p.m. Eight riders have entered, and as they have been well handicapped the race is likely to prove a very exciting one, and a close finish may be looked for.