Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 237, 6 April 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

) The cbess match between BinningI ham aud Apiti resulted as follows : — . Apiti 6 games, Birmingham 2. I The cricket match, Lloyd's team v. i Feilding, was proceeding on the local Club's ground as we went to press today. A regular habitue of the Feilding Heading Room complains that the place is made somewhat unsavoury by the tobacco smoke which pervades the limited atmosphere. At the last meeting of the Tuapeka Farmers' Union it was resolved — " That the Government be asked to take over all the limekilns throughout the colony, and • supply lime at a price at which it could be used by all the farmers for agriculi tural purposes." An anonymous contributor " In the Master's Name " sent to an Additional . Curates Society £150, "to be repeated D.V. for the next four years," in order to provide one curate. If the two capital letters drop out the £lijO a year will cease. Mr Fred Pirani, M.H.R., was proposed as a candidate for the Wanganui Education Board by Mr A. Drew, of the Palmerstou N. College Street School Committee, a brother of Mr Drew, of Mr Drew, of Wanganui, who is also a candidate. The Chief Justice of Wyoming where women take their turn asiurors, says, " I have never, in my twenty-five years' experience in the Courts of the country seen more faithful, intelligent, and resolutely honest jurors than the women who have served in that capacity in my Court." The oldest emblem of Royalty in existence is the iron crown of the Lombards. The inner strip ofjiron, according to tradition, was beaten out of one of the nails used ac the crucifixion. Its most distinguished wearers have been Charlemagne, Charles V., and Napoleon the Great. Oddfellowship is doing grand work in England, as in a necessarily lesser degree it is doing in the colonies. Grand Master Diprose, speaking at a great gathering at Oxford, announced that the amalgamated funds amounted to £8,420,452 ; that one year's income had reached £ 1,167,087, and that the sick payments averaged The (Sse^Rarraoni£raWßi^HSssJ? Madden aud Co., claim £47 I3s^^ was concluded at the Feilding S.M. Court (before Mr Stanford, 5.M.,) after we went to press yesterday. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £46 18s Bd, with costs £1 10s, and solicitor's fee £3 6s, against John Madden, Eobert Merland, a.nd Collins. Mr Reade appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Rich, inond for the defendants, who admitted .£29 4s 3d of the claim. With the Presbyterian tea meeting on Monday next, which promises to be a large gathering, will begin a regular gala week for Feilding. A number of Volunteers will go into camp on Thursday night, and by Friday morning the whole of the visiting companies will be in camp. Easter Monday should see a large influx of visitors from the surrounding districts, for what with the Volunteer Review, Raceu, Temperance Demonstration, etc., there is an unusual wealth of attraction. After the service in the Church of England last night, and the congregation were wending their way homeward, a sarcastic man said to a member of our staff " Well, old follow, the Bishop said nothing about ncwsipapers when preaching hi« sermon." The mild reply was, " Well, the text was ' Be sure your sins will find you out,' and you evidently were thinking of our collector, who may be called tor the nonce ' sin, 1 because he always finds 'you out' ho Galls for your Hiib.scrijytion." A silence which could be fell; came o'er the scone. "Ye need a laug spoon to Hup kail with the de'il."

Camp orders will be published in our issue of Monday. A meeting of the Red Star Football Club will be held in Mr F. Bray's room on Monday night, at 7 o'clock. Mr T. Hall, of Kimbolton road, has a splendid crop of pumpkins. We were shown one this morning which was grown by him, weighing almost SOlbs. We (Paltnerston Times) regret to learn that Mr Donald Grant, who is now in the hospital, is suffering from typhoid fever. There are several other caae3 of a similar nature in Palmerst.m. Cr. J. P. Cowie's name was accidently omitted from the names of those present at the last meeting of the Bp rough Council, in our report which appeared yesterday. At a meeting of the Directors of the Apiti Dairy Company, Mr Vicary was requested to visit the cheese factories in Tarauaki, and report on their construction. Wo are glad to know that the Bishop of Wellington was very much pleased with his reception in Feilding, and he has spoken in the highest terms of the place and the people. The Bishop of Wellington left by the 10.53 train this forenoon for Manak au ' on the Wellington-Manawatu line, wh ero he will consecrate the new Church. T uc ceremony will take place to-morrow. Mr G. Grant, of Palmerston, has consented to take the chair at the Easter Temperance Demonstration in Feildiug. In addition to the speakers already announced, Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., will be present. A party is being formed at Shannon to prospect the ranges duriug the Easfcer holidays. Tne Farmer says that some time ago a piece of quartz was brought into Shannon in which a speck of the precious metal was observable. At the Otaki Court on Wednesday judgment was given against two bicylists for the sum of £8, being the amount of damage caused to plaintiff's horse and trap owing to the negligent ridiDg of the " bykers." The annual tea meeting in connection with the Feilding Presbyterian Church will be held in the Church on Monday Dvenma next. Then usual public meeting will be held after ttie tea, when visiting clergymen and others will give addresses, besides which musical selections will be given by the choir. The funeral of the late Mrs John Aitken will leave Ashurst to-morrow, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and arrive at Manchester Square at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, where Feilding friends arc respectfully invited to join the cortege which will then proceed to the Feilding cemetery. Messrs Rimmer and Craveu, of Ashurst, are the undertakers. In the published list of New Zealand wool importers for 1894, we find that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company occupies the first place, with 38,905 bales ; Dalgety and Co. being next wich 33,154 bales, and then Sanderson, Murray and Co., with 27 825 bales, and the Bank of New Zealand, with 25,269 bales. In all 76 houses are listed, the smallest import being three bales. We are informed that Mr Harry Woolven, who has many friends in Feilding, will, on Monday next, com mcijce his duty as manager of the property of James Mackay, Esq., on Kimbolton road. Mr Woolven has had ten years' experience as a farmer, both agricultural and pastoral, and we are certain he will do well for Mr Mackay. Mr Woolven's family will continue to reside in Eeilding. This day week the wresting match for the light-weight championship of New Zealand will take place in the Assembly Rooms The match is the one topic of conversation amongst those interested in athletics, and the qualities of the contestants are being very thoroughly discussed. From what one hears, Mr J. Sutherland seems to be a warm favorite, but we have great hopes of the local man, but we must leave time to show which is the better man. The reserved seats are almost all taken. One who has been had writes as follows I to a Chrisbchuvch paper : — Sir, there is a swindler going round to the smaller shopkeepers in the vicinity of Christchurch, and his mode of swindling is that he asks tor a packet of cigarettes, tendering half a sovereign in payment. After the storekeeper produces the 9s 6d change the stranger finds he has a sixpennypiece and he adds that to the 9a 6d change and his own half-sovereign •' If you have a note you would oblige by letting me have it, as I do not care about carrying change about me." The storekeeper sometimes fails to see the trap, and is thus robbed of 9s 6d and a packet of cigarettes. The Wellington correspondent of the Wairarapa Daily says : — Mr C. H. Mills, M.H.R., is now in town ; and lam told he is more firmly convinced than ever that the convict Chemis, who is now serving his life sentence in Lyttelton gaol for the murder of Hawkins, is an absolutely innocent man. Strange things have happened ere now in the history of criminal cases in this colony, amonpst which the trial and conviction of Tricker for the murder of Raynor, of which he was afterwards proved to be entirely innocent, is a striking instance that circumstantial evidence is anything but infallible. The many dramatic attitudes struck by Mr George Hutchison duriug the delivery of his speech at Wanganui (says the Herald) would have been very effective only for their staginess, and it was with difficulty at times that the risibilities of the audience were kept under control. After having given due ■^ffect to one well turned point, he placed his right hand over the left portion of his waistcoat, and with head erect and one small foot neatly drawn back, he remarked in stentorian tones — " Honesty is the best Policy 1" That broke the audience up entirely, and it was some moments before the astute politician could proceed, owing to the laughter that reigned supreme. The episode was decidedly Hutchisonian and worthy of Walter Bentlev. Service was held in St. John's Anglican Church last evening, when the Bishop of Wellington preached his first sermon before a Feilding congregation, the Church being literally packed. A strong choir was in attendance and some capital music was rendered. The Rev. Irmes Jones took the first portion of the service, His Lordship the Bishop reading the lessons and afterwards preaching the sermon. Taking his text from the 32nd chapter of the Book of Numbers, and the 23rd verse, " Be sure your sins will find you out," — the Bishop delivered a most earnest and impressive discourse. His Lordship, who has a capital delivery, has a clear and pronounced way of conveying his meaning to his hearers, and he keeps their attention riveted on his discourse throughout. His Lordship made a most favor, able impression, and the occasion of his next delivering a sermon in Feilding will be eagerly looked forward to.