Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 14 March 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

* — . The Colonial Treasurer, Mr J. G. Ward is expected to arrive at Home to-day. To-morrow is the last day on which the burgesses of Feilding can lodge objections to their valuations. The Palmerston Gas Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent for the past year's business. A successful garden party in connection with the Wesleyan Church was held at Mr W. Carthew's yesterday afternoon. Mass will be held at Campbelltown next Sunday afc 8 a.m. and at Feiiding at 11 a.m. Evening services will also be held in Feilding at 7 o'clock. The Minister of Lands has promised that one of the two evaporators recently obtained by the Government shall be sent to Christchurch, and that an expert should accompany it for the purpose of showing the fruit-growers of Canterbury anotherplan of dealing with surplus fruits The cash statement presented at the March meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, showed : — General account, credit, £2789 19s 7d ; building account, credit, £2559 0s lOd ; building account, liabilities, L 2838 2s lid ; debit balance, L 279 2s Id ; Technical School credit, Llßl 6s sd. Mr Bertbelsen, overseer of the Public Works Department, is now in charge of the State farm at Levin owing to the accident to Mr A- L. Winterbnrn, who is laid up with fracture of the fibula, About 350 acres of bush were felled on the farm last winter, a good burn was obtained, and next week grass seed sowing will be commenced. The local agent, Mr T. Watson, has handed us an album of views of the Royal seed establishment of Messrs Sutton and Sons, Reading, England. The album contains a number of interesting views of the mammoth establishment of this famous seed firm. One of these shows one of the floors 250 by 60 feet, arranged and decorated for a Masonic banquet, attended by the most worshipful grand master, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The Survey Department are making arrangements for the disposal of the followin second-class lands on the optional , system : — 1781 acres in the districts of Onamatutu, Wakamarina and Orieri, Marlborough, 10th April ; 16642 acres in the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, 10th April ; 750 acres in the Tennyson Survey Districts Sounds, 32 miles from Havelock, 24th April ; 3747 acres in the district of Hokonui and Forest Hill, Southland, 11 miles from the Centre Rush Railway Station, Ist May. The law as to a publican's liability to receive dead bodies has at last been judically decided by the Nottingham County Court Judge. Mrs Wilkinson, a publican, sued Police Sergeant Wall for £15. She had placed a body (pending inquest) in an outhouse, but the sergeant insisted on removing it into the house, which greatly interfered with her business. The judge said tho police had been mistaken on this point, and by iiheir repeated action led publicans to believe they were bound to. receive dead bodies. A verdict for the full amount was given.

Mr John Duthie, M.H.R., arrived in London on Monday last. A private cable message states that Mr Jellicoe, the well-known solicitor, leaves Melbourne to-day for Wellington via Auckland. The Manchester Rifles, under Captain Kirton, went to Wanganui by the first train this morning to be present at the e&rexoDny of iaying the. foundation stone of the new hospital. Considerable interest is being taken amongst children attending the Feilding State school and their parents in the excursion which they make to-morrow to the Wanganui heads. A special train will leave Feilding at 8 a.m. Last evening as a boy named Smith was driving a horse attached to a dray along Derby street, and just before it came up to the bridge across the Makino it shied and capsized the dray over embankment into the stream. Smith and the horse escaped uninjured, but one shaft of the dray was broken. The Daily Telegraph's special correspondence regarding the Armenian atrocicities must be blood curdling reading. In the course of one of the articles the correspondent states that the Turkish soldiery in Sassoon, before killing their Armenian victims, sawed off their Jimbs, gouged out their e3 - es, and extracted their tODgues. A Masterton juvenile football clnb has unanimously adopted the following resolution :— " Should any member of the club be disabled through injuries received on the field a levy of 6d per week shall be struck on all members of the club, such levy to be handed to the injured member upon production of a medical certificate that he is unable to follow his usual occupation " In three years electricity has taken the place of 292 men in Carnegie's plant at Braddock, eight men now doing with that fluid what 300 were required to accomplish. Between the never ceasing inflow of men from foreign countries with labor to sell and this new marvel, rendering ever less muscle needed, the way of the earner of wages is not getting smoother. Yesterday afternoon, at the conclusion of the bicycle races on the Oval, a little boy about four or five years old, named Foden, and grandson of Mr C Bray, was knocked over by a horse ridden by a youth who was racing off the ground with two others. Fortunately tho child was not injured. On Easter Monday the prohibitionists in Feilding aud the surrounding districts intcud holding a great temperance demonstration on the Feilding Recreation ground, when addresses will be given by some of the leading men in the temperance movement. A large choir aud brass band will be on the ground to enliven the proceedings and doubtless this gathering will be quite as successful as that i held last Easter Monday. The Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on the Government loans to settlers, sa3 7 s the Board appointed under the Advance to Settlers Act are finding no difficulty in leading money to the New Zealand Settlers, but no one appreheuded they would. The doubts are respecting the repayment of the money. Government lending of any kind, whether of seed wheat to farmers, of land to free settlerg, oradvances to corporations must be hedged round very strictly, or the State will get the worst of the business. The anniversary of the local lodge of Oddfellows was celebrated with a social and dance in the Feildmg Assembly Rooms last evening, when about forty couples attended, and a moat pleaaant evening was spent. Between the dances a song was given by Mr Durant, and recitations by Messrs Bastings and Hewitt, while Mr Bastings, in aa address, pointed out the advantages to be gained by belonging to a friendly society. Messrs H. L. Jackson and C. Aitken divided the duties of M.C. in an efficient manner. Mr R. F. Haybittle's string band supplied excellent music, Roderick McKenzie (the escaped prisoner who recently created a sensation in the Masterton district) is only 20 years of age. He lived for some time at Waipawa and afterwards at Napier, where he was generally regarded as " a broth of a boy." It was at Napier that he was arrested on a charge of house breaking. He was ia gaol three months, awaiting his trial, and was sentenced to two years' hard labor in September last. Prior to that he had been convicted of larceny from a dwelling and did six months' hard labour.