Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 202, 25 February 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

A social and tlauce will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Wednesday evening. A meeting of the Feilding Sports Com - mittec will be held this evening at Mr Sherwill's office at B o'clock. News has been received of the death in London of Dr Maunsell, formerly a resident of Hokitika and Duncdin. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentai'3 7 ticket for the farewell tea to the Rev. G. Clement ou Monday next. We regret to learn of the death, at Waituna on Saturday morning, of Mr Anthony Bracelin. The cause of death was syncope. There will be a meeting of the Feilding Cycling Club at the club rooms this evening, when the balance sheet of the races will be presented. All members are requested to attend. In a letter to a friend at Hokitika, Mr Seddon emphatically contradicted the rumour to the efiect that he intended to contest the Palmerston North scat at the next general election. Lord Roberts deprecates strengthening the Navy at the expense of the Army, and says that England is as open to invasion now as it was at the time of Napoleon the Great. The Premier by invitation addressed a crowded meeting of settlers at Annat, Selwyn electorato, on Friday evening. A vote of thanks to the Premier and confidence in the Government was carried unanimonsly. " Peggy," said a Wairarapa school master to his faithful housekeeper. " can you give me a thorough cure for un cold ?" "Oh ! yes, sir," replied Peggy. '" Just take some good hot gruel, with a good glass of whiskey in it, and go to bed and expire."— Wairarapa Times Once during the term of office of the Dibbs Ministry, at a time when a critical division was pending, the late Premier, who was strolling about the main lobbv smoking, thus delivered himself: "It we're licked, I'll sling politics and take up pig and poultry farming. There's more to be made out of tbat, without the worry." Many an honest newspaper man even has felt just like that. The mortal remains of the late wife of Mr A. Paine., of Cheltenham, were intered in the Kiwitea cemetery on Saturday last. A large number of settlers joined in the procession as a mark of respect to the memory of deceased lady. The Rev. A. Innes Jones officiated at the grave. At Birmingham this morning, Mr F. Biggerton, of Wanganui, was married to Miss Lucy Richardson, second daughter of Mr Geo. Richardson, of Birmingham. After partaking of a sumptuous repast, the happy couple left en route for Wanganui, where they will reside. The Rev. Father Patterson performed the marriage ceremony. The funeral of the late Mr William Wood, who died on Thursday from the effects of drinking cold water while in a heated condition, took, place yesterday morning. A large number of relatives and friends of the deceased followed his remains to their last resting place. The Rev. G. Clement read the service at the grave. This morning a horse driven by Mrs Height, of Aorangi, took fright, owing to the blinkers becoming loose, and bolted into Feilding. Mrs Height pluckily stuck to the reins, and the horse, turning into the yard between Messrs Dunlop and Bishop's premises in Kimbolton road, was brought to standstill No damage ■was done to horse or vehicle. A stupid report was spread abroad in Feilding on Saturday to the effect that every person found smoking tobacco (true or alleged) on the premises of an hotel would be required to make an affidavit before the local Inspector to the 1 effect that such tobacco (true or alleged) had not been purchased in that or any other hotel. In the Wairarapa some two or three years ago Dr Hosking introduced the golden bronze turkey. These beautiful birds in ordinary condition weigh — the gobbler 40 to 42lbs and the hen 20 to 22lbs when full grown. Young birds (the gobblers) weigh 281bs and the hens lolbs. The slightest strain of the bronze has a wonderfully improving effect on the ordinary turkey. A draper in Germanv, is being prosecuted for having announced tbat he was selling off a large stock of goods, which he could sell remaikablv cheap, as they had been procured for him bv a staff of seven teen thieves engaged by him to steal them from the shops of bis comp-titors. The draper pleads th->t the announcement was only a trade puff, and that th« seventeen thieves had no existence outside his own imagination. Our " deadhead " system iiaa a lot to answer for. The other day Sir J. P. Abbott, an Australian politician, pastoralist, and solicitor, and a knight of two gears' standing, was " deadheaded ' over the lines, ( d helped along generally at the expe»s© of this bleeding country. Yet when lie got Uome he, for " political " reasons, felt it to be his duty io abuse New Zealand top, bottom, sides and interior. Now, had he been compelled to pay hie railway fares and other ex's he would have thought niore of tho country, the business capacity #£ its I rulers ai>d governors, and the drink. Onr ginger ale ,soj4 "on the nod '-' out of the tight .'bottle: was *99 fflffPb for hipji— • be bacMo pay ''foe ! ifc

The barquentine Grace Dent went ashore at the Wanganui Heads on Saturday evening. All hands were saved. A special meeting of the Manchester Rifles will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday night to consider 1 matters in connection with the new { dvillshed. . Messrs Biamwell Bros., storekeepers, j of Feilding and Colyton, have a replaco , advertisement in to-day's issue. They , have a large assortment of the best i tested seeds on hand, suitable for autumn sowing, while in barbed wire, hardware, ironmongery, etc., they are , heavily stocked. Large supplies of Cooper's and Little's sheep dips are kept in stock. The Harvest Thanksgiving Services held in the Birmingham Wesleyan Church yesterday were a great success. The Church was decorated by fair and loving hands in a most tasteful manner with foliage and flowers of the season. The morning and afternoon services j were c^uducted by local brethern. In qhe evening the Rev. T. Richards preached from 14th chapter Jeremiah, drawing a contrast between the state of the people suffering from famine in the Prophet's time and our own prosperous condition. The Misses Hicks and Laiug sang " Where has thou gleaned to-day." Mrs Palmer (organ), F. Fanthorpo (violin) and F. Barlow itlute) supplied the music. >