Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 19 March 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

«, Several letters to the editor are uuavoidably held over. Mr Pirani, M.H.E. went to Binning-, ham this morning on his " byke." The annual meeting of the Union Football Club will be held in Mr Ross' rooms on Wednesday evening. The dates ou which the Assessment Court will sit in Feildiug and Cheltenham are published to-day. The potato crops in the Kiwitea and Pohaugina districts have been very prolific and escaped pests which have done so much harm in other parts of the colony. The local polo players had a good prac" tice on Saturday afternoon. A match has been arranged between the club and Oroua, to be played at Carnarvon on Saturday week, March 80th. The Lyttelton Tim6S says that a recent report from Mr Freyberg, the Government timber expert, contains information that there will possibly be a keen demand for wood pulp in Great Britain. A gentleman from Blenheim is now in Nelson, entrusted with a commission to buy 800 cats, which are to be taken to a Marlborough station for the purpose of killing rabbits. Mrs Mary H. Hunt is quoted as saying that " That the liquor traffic is so protected in Siam by England and America, that missionaries do not dare to put the American flag over schoolhouses lest the natives think they are saloons." The Oamaru Mail states that it having been ascertained from the department that no breach of the law will be committed, the merchants of Oamaru intend closing on Thursday as before and reverting to the old day (Saturday) as market day. Later particulars of the drowning of Mr McKay, at Napier show he was fishing with another man named Hunt, who acted very strangely in the boat. He threw the oars overboard, and began rocking the boat till it upset. McKay only appeared on the surface once. His body was recovered. The meeting of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club took place at Auckland last Saturday, 6000 people being present. The following were the principal events : — l2oyds Handicap — W. E. Young, 8f yds, 1 ; Freeman, B^yds, 2 ; Buchanan, B«.yds, 3. Time 11 2-sth sec. Half-mile Handicap — J. Bradburn, 30yds, 1 ; Astley, 35yds, 2 ; Sutherland, 24yds, 3. Time, 2min. 2secs. 300yds Ladies' Bracelet — Buchanan, 17yds, 1 ; Freeman 17yds, 2 ; Youug, 17vds, 3. Yesterday Mr F. Pope, architect and builder, showed us the plans of a new building he is about to erect in Bowen street for Mr Robert Loudon, of Sydney N.S.W., but formerly of Feilding, where he still owns landed property. The house will front on Bowen street. There are six rooms and outhouse, including bathroom, scullery, etc. The ground surface is 38ft by 28ft front elevation 12 feet wifcb verandah. The house will be a very substantial one and an ornament to the street. In a " Leaflet for Farmers" on the bot fly, Professor Kirk remarks:— There seems little doubt that we have at least two, if not three, species of horse-bot in this colony, but that common in the North Island is undoubtly Gastrophilus equi, a comparison of New Zealand specimens with types received from England revealing no difference whatever. To the practical farmer, however, the specific variations are of small interest. It is sufficient for him that no variety of fly will deposit eggs on a horse whose coat has been rubbed with a solution containing carbolic acid*

Mr McEwen, Canadian dairy expert will address a meeting of milk suppliers and others in the Cheltenham school house on Friday the 22nd inst. The Rev. J. Cocker, who succeeds the Rev. G. Clements, Primitive Methodist minister, in Feilding, arrived here today and was met by several members of the congregation. The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Cheltenham Co-op-erative Dairy Company, Limited, will be held in the school house on Wednesday , March 27th, at 8 p.m. It is stated that both the legs of a Miss Eva Dooley, of Boston, were amputated at the knee recently to save her life. They were poisoned by the dye in red stockings which she had been wearing. The fifth annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors took place last night in the Exchange Buildings, Wellington, the president (Mr H. A, Gorton) in the chair. At a meeting of the vestry of St* John's, Feilding, it was decided to give public reception to the Bishop of Wellington and Mrs Wallis on the occasion of their first visit to Feilding on April ; the 4th. A daring attempt was made last night to rob the till of Mr T. Uridge, confectioner, Wellington. Two men named Charles Henry Perry and John William Spead were arrested and they will be charged with the offence at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Several complaints were made to us yesterday on account of their being no special train from Huuterville for the Marton sports or Sandon races. Certainly something might have been done to enable those residing in the upper portion of the district to attend the sports or races — Mercury. A wrestling match for L5 a side, same styles as appeared on the programme of yesterday's sports, has been arranged to take place at Marton, on Saturday next, between J. Sutherland, middle-weight champion of New Zealand, and W. Hillsden, of Upper Tutaenui. A correspondent, writing to the Standard, says: — "In renaming Palmerston it is cssontial that the name chosen shall be one that will involve the least amount of confusion. The proposal to call it " Manawatu " is absurd, as this will lead !to the greatest confusion. For instance a letter addressed say " Thomas Snooks, Manawatu, New Zealand," would be apt to travel all over the county of Manawatu before reaching its destination. Why not re-namc Palmerston " Greenwich " or as your city is destined to bei come an important railway centre, why ! not call it " Swindon."