Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 205, 28 February 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

• — Among other new crimes created by the Shop Assistants Act is that of " sly tobacco selling." A special meeting of the Manchester Eifles will be held in the Assembly Rooms this evening at 8 o'clock. The stallion Carbine, who is to be shortly shipped to England, has been insured for £10,000, at a premium of £700. Mr Sainl. Brooking, Returning Officer for the City of Auckland, died on Saturday morning at the Auckland District Hospital, from typhoid fever. An advertisement in reference to the sales of the townships of Mangaweka and Taihape, in the celebrated Awarua Block, appears in another column. The fire bell is to be rung at 5.30 this afternoon in order thai the gear which has been attached for ringing the bell from the ground, may be tested. Tenders are invited by Mr Bray, the engineer of the Manchester Road Board, for public works as detailed in the advertisement. Tenders close on Saturday next. A meeting of those interested in the formation of a Bowling Club for Feilding will be held in Messrs Halcornbe and Son's office at 8 o'clock this evening. A good attendance is expected. The Waipawa Mail states that the sheepfarmers in the Makaretu, in order to put a stop to the sheep-stealing there are now offering a reward of 1100 for the conviction of the thieves. At the Marton S.M. Court yesterday, H. H. Marshall, J. A. McCrea, A. Calvert, and T. Whittington were fined 20s and costs 7s for having sheep infected with lice in a saleyard. The Pollard Lilliputian Opera Company will open in Feikling on Monday, March 11th. Mr Holtom was in town to-day making all necessary arrangements. The Secretary of the Feikling Cricket Club is arranging matches with the Pohangina Club, a team from the Kiwitea district, and also a team selected by Mr Lloyd, of Palmerston, and late of Awahuri. After the races had concluded on Tuesday a trial of P. J. Murtagh's starting machine was held on the course. It worked exceeding well, and experts pronounced the machine to be a first-class invention. — Manawatu Times. The Tapauui Courier understands that only two settlers on the Pomahaka estate are likely to pull through and meet their engagements. The rest must go or get their rents considerably reduced. It is alleged that a cure has been found in kerosene for pleura>pneumonia. It is administered by thrusting a sponge saturated with the oil into one nostril and holding the other tight, so that the animal must inhale the remedy with its breath. Perfect success is claimed for the new remedy. A meeting of the Rangitikei-Manawatu Cricket Union will be held in the Manchester Hotel, Feilding, on Saturday, March 2nd, at 7 p.m., to make arrangements for the match against Wanganui, to be played at Feilding on March 9th. The General Manager of Railways has given instructions that when the steamer at New Plymouth misses the ordinary train, passengers can come on m a special carriage attached to the goods trains on Tuesday and Friday nights. According to the Insurance Times of New York the largest fire insurance policy in existence is that covering the property of the Santa Fe Railway Company, issued by the Phoenix, of London, for the sum of 17,000,000 dollars (£•3,541,666 13s 2d) carrying a premium of 170,000 dollars (£35,416 13g 2c i). The Feilding Polo Club will only send one team to play a match with Warrengate on Saturday, as the members of No. 3 team are unable to get away. No 1. team will be represented by Strachan, Gorton, Giesen, Pickering (back). The team will leave forFordell by the first train on Saturday morning. The social held in the Foresters' Hall last evening was fairly successful, about thirty couples attending. During the evening songs were given by Messrs A. Eade, J. W. Treseder and J. S. Milson, and a recitation by Mr Sherlock. Mrs Garlick, who presided at the piano, supplied the music for the dancing, and Mr Petherick acted as M.C. Lord Onslow, in a letter from India, which he has jnsfc visited, writes thus to a friend in Auckland :— ". . . . If someone were to devote themselves to picking out and matching horses in pairs in New Zealand for export, they would realise high prices iv India The only way the Viceroy's stable can be supplied is by giving him the first choice of all horses that come over for remounts for the Army. . ." Says the N.Z. Times : — The attention of the Minister of Railways has been drawn to the occasional overcrowding of sheep and cattle while beiug transported in railway trucks. In order to prevent this in future he has decided to give the stationmasters the power of determining when a truck may be considered to be reasonably full. Hitherto those who engaged the trucks squeezed in as many animals as they pleased. The handsome monument sent out by Mrs Ballauce has been erected over the grave of the late Premier in the Wanganui Cemetery. It is composed of black polished granite, and presents a very rich and massive appearance. The inscription reads— "John Ballance, Prime Minister of the colony. Born in Glenavy, County Antrim, Ireland, 27th March, 1839, "died in Wellington, 27th April, 1893." "To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die." Mr J. O. Shorland, of the ChristGhurch Bicycle Club, left Napier at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night with the intention of breaking the cycling record between that place and Wellington, a distance of 240 miles, and arrived in Wellington at 9.40 last night, the time occupied being 23 hours 40 minutes. He met with receptions all along the route from cyclists, several riding parts of the journey with him. Shorland was none the worse for the exposure he underwent. The following letter appeared in the Palmerßton Standard of yesterday in connection with the lawn tennis match : — " Sir, — I was surprised to see by your local this morning that the Palmerston Tennis Club, in their return match with Feiiding, were going to play a lady who is not a member of the club, having resigned at the beginning of the season. It is manifestly unfair, and an unnecessary slight npon the ladies of the club to " ring in " an outsider for an interclub match. — J. am, etc., Vantage." A meeting of a lively character was held in the Levin Town Hall a few evenings since for the purpose of protesting against the proposal to remove a publican's license from Manukau to Whereroa. There were about 300 persons present, both jbhe prohibition and opposite sides being fully represented, and much " talking " was done, but owing to continual interruptions none of the several speakers were given a fair hearing, and eventually tlie chairman closed tho meeting amongst great disorder. The question is to be decided by the Licensing Committee which sits at Otaki on Tuesday nest, and #s decision will be anxiously looked ton,

A man built for himself a sod chimneyi but as he was new to the business the first gale of wind which arose blew it down. In the morning, when gazing on the ruin, he saw several gold coins imbedded in the turf, and on going to the place where he had cut it from he dis- ' covered sufficient money in gold to . remove him from poverty to compara- • tive weath. ! The Band of Hope meeting, held in the Temperance Hall last evening, was largely attended by children and adults. The Rev. W. Dawson presided, and during the evening gave an address suitable to the occasion. Recitations were given by Misses Shearer, Lilly Fidler, Bertha Spence, Phoebe Thompson ; song, Viene McKenzie ; piano solos, Miss Ranger and Miss Kate Bishop, duet by the Misses Carthew, violin solo by Miss Boss, and an action song by the children in Miss Brunette's class at the Skate school. In a recent issue we (Chronicle) referred to an exceptionally smart bit of shearing that had been recorded by a gang of seven men at Mr H. Lethbridge's Wangaehu station. It will be remembered that the average all round was good, but the capital performance of the "ringers," No»h Garner and Teke, is worth v of further mention. These men in the 8J hours worked put through 176 sheep each The i merit of this performance will be recogn ised that every sheep had to be caught, shorn and turned out in a fraction under three minutes.