Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 229, 28 March 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

O Yesterday afternoon a lady cyclist honored Feilding with her presence. This Colony's export of wool for 1894 was the largest on record — 144 J t million lbs, valued at L 4,800,000. The Hon. Mr Reeves will deliver a political address at Wanganui to-morrow evening. We have to thank the Agricultural Department for Leaflets for gardeners and fruitgrowers. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the Government parade this evening in the Assembly rooms. There are seventy thousand lawyers but onl3' thirty thousand barbers in the U uited States of America. It is rumoured that the Pahiatua County Council have over-run the constable, and may be obliged to suspend contracts and discharge roadmen. The Manawatu Kihvinning Lodge of Freemasons, Pahnerston N., meets on Wednesday, April 10th. Installation of W.M. Messrs Abraham and Williams have been instructed by Mr Wavne to sell at his Pohaugina mill 8(J,000 feet of building timber. A special notice appears today relative to the splendid arrangements which have been made at the Fcildiiig Hotel for Easter week. Mr Edward Trejreor is imported to have stated m rhe Supreme Court at Wellington on Monday that a matp.i tree 3ft through may be regarded as bcini,' about 400 jears old. Roman Catholics are reminded that Mass will be celebrated at St. Bridget's on Sunday next at .S and 11 oYlock a. in , and afternoon devotions at o o'clock. Now that the emancipated woman has taken to smoke alleged tobacco, many of the youths in public schools in England have forsaken the weed because it is so " unmanly.' 7 At the last meeting of the Foxtou Borough Council a resolution was passed thanking the proprietors of the Fejldish St.w; for supplying copies to the I'ubu'c Reading ICooui at Foxtou. Intending contractors for the Encampment arc informed that the L2O deposit required with tenders does not refer to paragraph ~> in the conditions, but only to the rations paragraph No. 2 A general meeting of the liingitikei Liberal Association will be held on Saturday next, 80th inst., for the purpose of considering the advisability of asking the Premier to give a political address in Marton at an early date. — Mercury. Tenders are invited by the architect of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr A. Atkins, F.R.J.8.A., for additions to the Foilcling and Marton schools. Plans for the FeihYmg school may he sceu afc Mr Sherwill's, and for the Marton one at Mr Tennant's Pahiatua County for the past season produced 2,u70 bushels of cocksfoot, 191 bushels of rye grass, and 20 bushels of other fodder seeds. The quantity of oats £i'own was £,490 bushels; peas, 330 busheJs ,• beans, 160 bushels ; wheat and barley nil. The estimated crop of potatoes is 1742 tons. Caterpillars are destroy ing the pasture and vegetation at Te Horo, so much so that farmers are obliged to look for other feed for their stock. In one paddock of ciOO acres every vestige of grass has disappeared, only clover remaining. This is universally a result of crusades against smr\t( birds.— Fost. i Messrs Gorton and Son have received instructions from Mr T. Munt, near Birmingham, to sell by public auction on Thursday, April 4th, several valuable sections of land, and a number of pure bred Ayrshire milch cows and heifers, horses, pigs, etc. Full particulars are detailed in the advertisement. Mr D. Sutherland, butcher, of Makiuo, hay a notice in to-day to the effect that he ouly supplies his customers with the very best wether mutton, ox beef, and dairy fed pork. Mr Sutherland visits Feikling every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Terms may be arranged. Arrangements were made by the Rev. Father Patterson, yesterday, with Mr Bnxtou, the manager of the line at i Wanganui, i'cv a, picnic for the children of his schools, and friends in Palnicrston, Bunnythut-pt;, Feeding and Halcombe, on Wednesday in Easter W'lok, Fares, :js adults, and Is 6d children. We arc informed that Constable Tuohy intends to make examples of some of t)ic persons who .so persistently drive vehicles at uight without lighted lamps. Ho will be espociaily pn the watch next Sunday night. The nuuititous complaints made on this growing evil has had the desired effect so far. Bro. H. D. Bell, Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand, and the Rev. Bro. Ronaldson, the grand secretary are now in Christehnrch, and are engaged in important business connected with the ranch -hoped-for recognition of the New Zealand Grand Lodge by the Grand Lodge of England. There has been some talk of a New Zealand Exhibition to be held in Weilington, and the Government have disclosed an inclination to assist. The trading community however are rather hanging back because the hngers of some of them have not got cool since the last Exhibition there. We would like to point out th&4> the comparative failure of such shows in thw Empire City is largely owing to the fact that they are too " local," not sufficient inducements being held out for either jcojqitytry exhibitors or for country visitors. Ifc will be &e*m i^^.t Mr Knotfc, the popular Temperance lbciui'e^ j.s to be afe the Assembly Roomff qu Frs#y nfghfc ? when, in addition to his lecture '' Ten Nights in a Bar Itooua," he will show tt forgo number of views of all parts of fche Colopy. Mr Knott has a horse and vau and trayels tho colony, taking photographic vipvys jof alji pI#QPS of interest. Hy making ijj,H|iern transparencies of them, he lias thus got & most complete panorama of New Zealand. He will fchow Feilding under the lime-light, ; the portraits of all the school children, i etc.