The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwtea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 240, 10 April 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwtea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1895. Local and General News.

Notice is given that the law offices in Feilding will be closed from the 12th to the 16th instants, inclusive, for the Easter Holidays. The services in the Catholic Church on Easter Sunday evening will be held at 3 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. as previously mentioned. The meeting of the Temperance Demonstratiou committee will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church this evening instead of the Hall. Messrs Miller Bros and Prince Bros. of Apiti, give notice that a)) persons trespassing on their several properties, with dog or gun, will be prosecuted. Informations have been laid against several young men in Masterton for alleged stealing of sheep from the yards of Messrs Lowes and lorns, The Easier services of the Church of England are notified by advertisement to-day. In accordance with custom the Easter offerings throughout the district will be handed to the Vicir. A service will be held in St. Agnes' Cbm-cb, on Good Friday, at, II a.m. ] A sixpence gilded over to resemble a half sovereign was passed on a publican, in the square on Monday night, the culprit receiving a glass of schnapps and I bitters and Ua 6d change for his po r nni> ' tion of Coolgardie metal. Tradesmen | should take warning. — Standard An effort is being made by persons interested in horse dealing in Wellington to have import duty put on Australasian horses. The Government has been approached on the subject, and the Tnriti Commission is also to be moved. Daring the past season the area cropped with wheat in Victoria was 120,000 acres less than the previous year, while the total \ ield was about 4,000,000 bushels less, the average being '/"05 bushels tier acre below that of last season. At the sitting of the Assessment Court at Cheltenham yesterday, the S.M., Mr Stanford, gave it as his opinion that farm properties should be valued for rating purposes according to their productive and noc selling value. The prices of admission to the grnncl concert to be given by the Wellington Garrison Band in the Assembly Rooms on Good Friday night, have been altered to 2s Gd, 2s and Is. A capital programme has been arranged, which will appears in to morrow's issue. A New Yord syndicate have asked, that the Broken Hill Silver Mine be placed under offer to them until the 15th August for £150,000, with £3,000 deposit, which is to be forfeited if the contract is not completed by the date mentioned. The shareholders will shortly consider the proposal. During the Easter Holidays, ample preparation has been made at the Telegraph Office here to meet the extra work which will be entailed on the officials by the races and the Volunteer Encampment. An extra operator will be put on, and an extra messenger has already been engaged. Mr Diamond, the counter clerk, has gone for a well deserved holiday, and his place has been taken by Mr Heron, from WelYmgton. A meeting of the Bowling Club was held in Kimbolfcon road last evening, about a dozen members being present. As there was some misunderstanding about the key, entrance into the place of meeting was unavailable, and after passing an unanimous resolution to the effect that immediate steps be taken to secure the proposed ground the meeting adjourned. The canvassing committee reported that they had been fairly successful in obtaining subscriptions. The adjourned meeting of creditors in the estate of Edward Browning, ofCatnpbelltown, was held yesterday afternoon. An offer was received from the bankrupt's wife to the effect that if the creditors paid her .£2OO they could have the property mentioned at the laat meeting, and she would pay all the debts. Another offer was made that if the creditors paid her £50 they could have the property, provided that they paid the debts and that none of the property was sold in the meantime. The creditors asked for a fortnight to diseu?s the matter. — Standard. The bicycle race which was to have taken place this evening between the i two novices, "W. Giesen and Clark, eventuated last evening, the contestants being so eager for the fray that they could not> permit auothcr. twenty- four hours to pass by without " having it out.' Considerable interest was taken in the race, and opinions were pretty evenly divided as to which would prove the better man. The result showed that there was not much between them, as from an even start the pair raced to within a short distance of home " neck and neck," when Clark gradually drew out and won. The cMi'ractor for the erection of the Awahuri bridge expects to have it open for trafiic within five weeks from date. They have been detained somewhat by the difficulty in procuring the very long pieces of totara timber required. The chairman of the Board stated to day that unless ihe other local bodies interested pud their share of the bridge construction at once the work would have to be stopped. The lioard hnd already advanced i'Boo more than its share, and any further advance wns out of the question. The Board adjourned for a week to wait replies from the Palmerston Borough Council and the Manchester Koad Board. — Manawatu Times. Last evening the Feilding Brass Band held their first practice in their new room, recently erected on a piece of land purchased by them from the Corporation in Stafford street, when the acoustic properties of the hall were found to be all that could be desired. The building is 30 by 20 feet with matchlined roof, covered with corrugated iron. We must cocaplitcent the band on tbe forward step they nave taken, and express the hope that the members will attend assiduously to practice, and once more regain their old form. After the practice last night Mr Hay bit-tie read a circular emanating from Mr Higharn, bandmaster of the flawera band, suggesting that a conference of delegates be held at Wanganui for the purpose, of forming a "West Coast Band Association and arranging a smaU contest between thn bands existing between Wood vi He and New Plymouth. It was decided fcbagith.e Feildjng band aprse.to the proposals, and will send a delegate who will bring forward several suggestions calculated to bring tbe matter to a siic^cessful issue.

There are rumours of a breach of pro- ! mise case in WoodviUe, Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. to-day, indications for frost to-night. There is nothing a sarcastic man dreads so much as sarcasm. Bank clerks and policemen aro allowed £1 a week extra for living at Coolgardie and the Murcbison. The year 1849 was the square of 43. We had not a square year, so to call it, before then since 1764 ; and the nest will not occur until 1936. A new trial has been applied for in the case which Sir Walter Buller sued Jillet for £100 damages done to the Papaitonga Estate by fire. Mr D. Bennett took possession of tbe Colyton Hotel to-day, he having purchased Mr C. A. W. Hunts interest in the premises. The Mauawatu Herald expects the volunteers from Marlborougb and Nelson will arrive in Foxion on Thursday morning and be conveyed to Feilding by a special train. Old West Coasters are quite elelighted with tbe appearance of tbe camp, tbe snow white tents, of which remind them of the good old times of " Canvass Towns" of their youthful days. By the adoption of tbe standard zone time, the Australian colonies, in relation to Greenwich time, are in the following sequence : — Wellington eleven hours ahead ; Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, ten hours ; Adelaide, nine ; Perth, eight. A good healthy drink first thing in the morning— a fresh egg beaten up in apJass of fresh milk, to which is added a teaspoonful of sugar, and a little ground nntmeg -usg a brown shelled egg if you have it for this drink, it is rich, and will turn the milk to a golden colour. Try it ! The cabled news of the arrival in excellent condition of the Buteshire's shipment of live sheep fro2_ Port Chalmers to London will naturally Htinmlate growers to make further consignments. We (Times) hear of three further early shipments to be ''made from Timaru. These will consist of specialty selected sheejj iv lois oi' 600 each.