The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, FEB. 11, 1895.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 190, 11 February 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, FEB. 11, 1895.

, JLiocai ana (renerai news. «. The annual general meeting of the Mangaone Public Hall Company will be held at 8 o'cj,pck this evening. 1 At the shooting match on Saturday, I the Palmerston Rifles defeated the Mounted Rifles. The regular monthly meeting of the t . Feilding Lodge will be held this evenAt the iGcai liennis court on Saturday, Miss A. H. Fry beat Mrs Barton, 6—l and 6 — 2, in the ladies' championship singles. Thfi first lot of timber cut at Messrs Lowes and Jarvis' new sawmill on the Apiti side of the Oroua river was taken r into the township on Saturday last. ' \ It is probable a special train will be i run froni Pajmerston to Feilding on the . 20tli instant, to enable Palmerston .residents to attend the b'icjele .sjaprts,

Only one of every thousand married souples live to celebrate their golden svedding, aud that couple invariably make enough fuss to do for all the others. A number of vehicles were being driven in Feilding last night without lamps. The Constable has been specially requested to make a raid next Sunday night. The Bruce County Council have decided to reduce the wages of surface men to 5s 6d per day, and the men are satisfied because they dread the lack of work which appears likely to exist in the coming winter. We are ver y glad to hear that business in Auckland has recently shown sigus of marked improvement in nearly every line. Business people are becoming more confident, and the spirit of enterprise is beginning to appear in many ways. The Uuited Farmers' Alliance have now on hand their new season's seeds, comprising all the varieties in grass, clovers and turnips, and the shipment is a very superior one. Farmers should send for samples and quotations, which will be immediately forwarded to them. Mr H. Waldegrave's residence at Awapuni was destroyed by lire at 3 a.m. on Saturday. The occupants had barely time to escape and save a few articles of clothing. The building and furniture was insured in the New Zealand Office for L7OO. Polls were taken at Birmingham on Saturday on proposals to raise loans of .£685 and 1928 for the construction of work in the Birmingham Block and portions of the Apiti and Ougo ridings of the Kiwitca County respectively. The former was carried" but the latter loan was lost. A girl named Alice Muir, who was staying at the Panama Hotel, Wellington, took poison yesterday morning. After seeing the girl a policeman at once sent for Dr Parkes, who, after administering an emetic, ordered her removal to the Hospital. The girl is progressing satisfactorily. A polo match was played at Hokowhitu on Saturday last between teams representing the Manawatu and Feilding Polo Clubs, resulting in a win for the former by nine goals to eight after a most interesting contest. Manawatu No. 1 team scored six goals to their opponents' two, and Feilding No. 2 six goals to their opponents' three. The Feildiug scores were — Gorton '2 goals, Gieseu 4, Elkiugtou 1, Spiers 1. The case Grant v. Manawntu Road Board has been definitely set down for the 20th inst. A special sitting of the Supreme Court will be held in W.-tnganui, presided over by Mr Justice Richmond. The case will be heard before a special jury. After the case is decided Mr Grant intends to visit his native country, and he will probably stay there a few months. — standard. lv the dominions of the British Kmpire aloue some 3000 individuals vanish every year without leaving any indication' of their whereabouts, or ever appearing again. Every one of them leaves one or more newspaper proprietors to lament their disappearance and regret that they arc not even given the chance of writing an obituary notice. Amongst other loans which the Pohangina County Council intend raising is one of £904 for the purpose of constructing and metalling the balance of the Apiti road from Pohangiua Valley road, at junction near Makawakawa or Diggers' Creek to boundary of scctiou 53, Block 111., Pohaugina, beiug 220 chains. The Cafe de Paris, one of the most convenient, comfortable, and nicely furnished hotels in Palmerston, has changed hands, and is now under the management of Mr Mauson, late of Kaiwarra. As this house is situated immediately opposite the railway station travellers will find it very convenient, and in addition a first-class table is kept, Mr Scobie McKen;<ie at the Burns anniversary at Dunedin :— " How is so extraordinary a popularity (Burns') to be accounted for. 1 was arguing the matter out with a man not very long ago, when he said to rae — " After all, Burns is only popular with the Scotch, and the reason he is popular with the Scotch is because he was a Scotchman. They hang together likeEnghsh thieves.' 7 — (Laughter.) In the Auckland Cemetery a beautiful white cross has been erected "In loving memory of Laura, Captain in the Salvation Army, beloved daughter of Frederick Flavall, who was drowned in the wreck of the Wairarapa, aged 27 years." It also bears the inscription: " When thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee," the last words she addressed to her friend and comrade, Miss Paul, who also holds rank as a captain in the Salvation Army. A unique establishment which has lately been commenced in Wellington, aud which is very largely patronised, is that known as the " Trocadero Dining and Supper liooms," situated in Willis street. On visiting these rooms one is astonished at the elaborate and comfortable character of the interior, while the tables, which arc resplendent with luxuries of every conceivable kind, are very similar to v.'h^.t is to be met with iv the first-class hotels iv 'Frisco and oth'ir large cit-.es. Residents of tuis district, when visitiog the Empire City, should not fail to call at the Trocadero. We have received the juitial copy of "D.iy break," written "'by women for women about women'" published in Wel-'intltou. It is vvull written and pro niscs to be well advertised. It has vor decided political principals and advocates an increase in the land tax (bsc vise, no doubt, it is one of the arti : es of faith of townspeople to bleed the country folk) a decrease in Customs dutns, the" betterment principle, old age pen-ious the State finding work for the une:iip!ovi-d, absorption of rnouopolie?, etc- vlfogether it promises to be a vor. .-i editable addi:ion to the news-