The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 6 March 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1895.

Local and General News.

« A Female Court of F oresters has been established at Wanganui. Twenty-two cases of diphtheria were reported at Gisborne last week. The Inspectors of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand are now in Feilding on an official visit. Slarrem grass, a valuable sand binding plant, is to be tried in tbe public reserves in Cbrisfcchurch. Tbe railway freights in Victoria for the carriage of live stock have beeu reduced 10 per cent. We haye received the initial number of " The New Zealand Typist and Shorthand Typewriter JJesys" published inj Auckland.

Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Pohangina sale, to be held on Tuesday next, will appear to-morrow. Appearances indicate that a measure conferring the right of suffrage on women may pass the Californian Legislature this session. The annual Congress of the New Zealand Medical Association was opened at Christchurch yesterday. The President, Dr Jennings, delivered an address on bacteria and bacilli. A bill was introduced into the Californian Legislature in January last making football unlawful, on account of the physical injuries received by the players in the game. Count Tolstoi has written a moral opera, entitled " The Distiller," with the object of curing the Russian peasant of his fondness for the distiller's drink. Thomas Flower, flourmiller, of Bulls, has been adjudged a bankrupt. A meeting of his creditors will be held in the Courthouse, Bulls, at 10.30 o'clock on the 12th inst. Mr Carr, by order of the Public Trustee, will sell— after his stock sale on Friday the Bth instant — stock, horse, trap, harness and various useful sundries in the estate of William Benson, deceased. Says the Blenheim Express :— " Penny dreadfuls," " sixpenny horribles," and " shilling shockers " are very much in evidence among schoolhoys just now. Teachers should be ou the look out for this demoralising literature, and parents should consign the stuff to the flames. Captain Rundell, of the Salvation Army, will deliver a lecture in the Army Barracks this evening, the subject being " The Life of Mary Gott." The narration of the history of this woman gives striking evidence of the Salvation Army rescue work. Mr H. Price, of Wellington, who won the second prize in Tattersall's sweep on the Newmarket Handicap of 1891, has z-eceived news from Brisbane informiug him that he had drawn the third horse (Idolator) in this year's consultation of the race. The prize is worth about JE6OO. Mr McKnight, one of the most popular and efficient officers in the employ of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, who has for some years beeu stationed at Palmerston N., lias been promoted to the Blenheim branch of the Company. Messrs Speucc and Spence, the popular ready money drapers, keep well to the front in the matter of variety and choice as well as price. The Bon Marche holds a large stock, aud will always be found up to date. The following players will roi^resent the Feilding Polo Club in the match with the Manawatu Club, at Feilrling, on Saturday next: — No. 1 team — Gorton, Giesen, Strachau, Pickering. No. 2 team — Elkingtou; Cooper, Matheson and Saxson. The match will commence at 2.80 sharp. The Directors of the Feilding Permanent Building Society met yesterday afternoon. Several advances were granted. The Society is well in funds and can entertain proposals for loans for a considerable amount. Persons desirous of erecting dwelling houses for themselves should note this. A concert, which promises to be a very good one, is to be given in the Sanson Town Hall this evening, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Campbelltown Church of England building fund. Several jjroniinent musicians and vocalists of Feildiug are to take part in the concert. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Mr Carr's Feilding sale. Amongst the entries is a line of 20 Eomney rams, and 350 two-tooth Romney ewes bred by C. Pharazyn, Esq., which should attract keen competition as the qualities of the sheep from Mr Pharazyn's flocks are well known throughout the district. The secretary of the Feilding Cycling Club has received two handsome silver medals, presented to the club by Mr G. W. Fowles. One of them will be presented to J. H. Mingins, as first prize for the road race won by him on December 14th, 1894, the medal promised for that race not having been received. The other medal will be given as a first prize for the three-mile race to be decided ou the Oval on Wednesday next. " Truth " tells the following story of a Christchurch tradesman who is reported not to be above " stretching a point " to induce a customer to buy his goods ? — Old Lady— "ls this a genuine alligator bag '? " Tradesman — " Yes, Ma'am ; I shot that alligator myself." Old Lady — " It looks rather shop-worn." Tradesman — " That's where he hit the ground when he tumbled off the tree, ma'am." Old lady makes purchase, and exit. Mr P. McConnell wishes us to correct a statement alleged to have been made by him in his evidence in the case Oldham and Monckton against Waugh heard at the last sitting of the S.M. Court. The report read that he had said " the fire seemed to have caught on the side of the roof facing Waugh's fire." This should have read "he thought the fire caught on the roof, which had partly dropped in when he got there." Wellington is slowly but surely becoming the commercial centre of the Colony. The Head Quarters of most of the principal Banking and Insurance Companies, and Mercantile houses doiug business in New Zealand are already established there, and now we are informed that the Bank of New South Wales, which is admitted to be the most powerful and best managed financial institution in the Southern Hemisphere, whose Head Office is at present in Christchurch, will be removed to the Empire City in May next. The usual weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. was held last night in the Forester's HalJ, Bro. Bloomfield, C.T., in the chair. After the usual business was gone through, a committee was formed to make arrangements re Bro. Crabb, the Grand Lodge lecturer's visit to Feilding on Friday night. A committee was also formed to confer with the Temperance bodies in the district re the Easter demonstration. The Lodge then went into harmony and after a pleasant evening had been spent the Lodge closed in the usual manner.