The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY. FEB. 8, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 188, 8 February 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY. FEB. 8, 1895. Local and General News.

The Oroua river was very high last night. The Feilding and Palmerston Polo Clubs try conclusions at Palmerston tomorrow. Mr It. E. Beckett's Marton ram fair is advertised to take place on Friday, the 15th instant. Cases adjourned from the S.M. Court to-day will be heard by Mr Stanford on Tuesday next. Mr Mayo, of J. Mayo and Sons, the well-known nurserymen of Palmerston North, was in Feilding to-day. A cricket match will be played at Feilding to-morrow between the Birmingham and Marton clubs. A concert was held in Mr Guy's Hall, Apiti, on Wednesday, in aid of the Wesleyan Church organ fund. We have to thank Mr A. N. Hayne, local agent of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, for a neatly got up calendar for 1895. Association footballers are expected to muster in force at the meeting tomorrow night in Mrs Hastie's Feilding Hotel. There is likely to be some difficulty in Dunedin in keeping up the supply of ministers during the next few months for the Presbyterian Churches. Last week's gale played great havoc with the orchards in the South Island. What promised to be a capital fruit year has been entirely spoilt. The proposed loans for the Manga - pikopiko riding of the Pohangina County were lost. The L2OOO loan was lost by 16 vptss and the L 2349 loan by two votes. It is stated jfcho Nelson hopgrowers are talking of paying only 2d per bushel for picking this season. The hoppickers talk of a strike unless 2Ad is given. The Manchester Rifles held a Government parade last night. The corps was drilled in marching and company movements by Sergt.-Major Macmillan in Kimbolton road. There was a very good muster. A company parade is to take place next Thursday, and the muster p- trade on Thursday, the 21st instant. Ths Maoris appear to be good paymasters wtes they secure victor s. For steering Matia'ki tc yictory twice at Auckland, once at GisborrieV'acd jn the Wellington Cup, Taylor, the Auckland hurseman, received L 125 from Mr Kene Pere. Mr Coates, of Co/ifes aud Metcalfe, of Auckland, who designed a£d parried out the Palmerston water scheme, sz/ag a visitor to Feilding to-day on the subject of a "tifyUir supply for the Borough. He interviewed iq.h Mayor, Mr W. A. Sandilands. The programme of the RangiwahiaiPembe^ton Athletic Sports, to be held on Monday, March 18th, the day following St. Patrick's Day, spill be published early next week. There are twentythree events on the prpgramme, ana the total amount to foe giyen in prize nioney is about £40. The Chief Inspector of Telegraphs, Mr Logan, and Mr Robertson, officer in eiiatrge of the telegraph department, accompanied by Mr J. H. Stevens, local postmaster, wer@ pn a visit to Apiti today in connection with the application for telephonic communicatioa with that place. A correspondent who admits he does B,Qjfc know much about these things I writes jfco us suggesting that " as paper money is according to the ideas of some financiers, the panacea for all the troubles in the money mark^j:, jyhy not }fst each person wlio owes inoaey bis debfK in notes of his own making. They needntt baro ft gold backing, or t land, but they c£uld pass around like other votes." Our correspondent js not I .quite jc. " nioney crank V , yet, but he* W getting that way evuj&itfy.

"Dick Dead-eye " in the Napier Telegraph wants to know " about the Swiss family, the boot-tree and the rumshrub." If Dick will refer to his back numbers of Punch under the title of 11 Chicken Hazard " a burlesque of Charles Reade's famous novel " Foul Play " he will probably get the information he requires . The promoters of the Apiti Dairy Company are pushing on with the preliminary steps and 807 shares have already been taken up and the milk from 300 cows guaranteed. A meeting of the Directors will be held next Monday eyening when the registration of the company, and other matters, will be dealt with. If the political "parties" in Wanj ganui hated each other a little less, and loved the river a little more, that town could be made one of the most prosperous in the North Island. Unluckily, a Wangauui man generally considers that if the river is deep enough to drown his political enemy nothing further is required. Special services were held in the Salvation Army Barracks last evening, when Colonel and Mrs Dowdle, accompanied by Staff-Captain Edwards, conducted the meeting, which was largely attended. The Rev G. Clement, Primitive Methodist Minister, stationed at Feilding, also gave an address. The The Colonel will conduct another meeting this evening in the barracks, and should again attract a large attendance, as he is a very impressive speaker. The subject is announced in another column. The " reductio ad absurd urn " of the co-operative bungle has been realised. A number of " right-color " men were given work on co-operative principles at Cheviot. The prices were good, so that these "children of light " sub-let their job to a contractor. He made rates good enough to pay him and his horses and men, and the other gentlemen lay back, smoked their pipes, and subsisted on the difference between what they received and what they paid their servant the sub-contractor. — Napier Telegraph. Now that the nights arc " drawing in " we quote the following Bye-law of the Manchester Road Board for the benefit of whom it may concern : — " The driver of any light-wheeled vehicle travelling at a pace faster than a walk which shall be ou any road within the Road District, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, shall keep a light attached or suspended from each side of such vehicle so as to be plainly visible to the driver of any vehicle proceeding along such road in a contrary direction. Every driver who shall fail to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence."