Local and General News,

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 247, 22 April 1895, Page 2

Local and General News,

The annual election of school committees takes place this evening at 8 o'clock. Easter services were held in St Johu's Church yesterday ; there was a large congregation in the eveniug. The church had been decorated for the occasion. At the meeting of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and F. i\.ssocia,tkm it was resolved to discontinue holding ram fairs under its auspices or management. The cyclist who picked up a ladies' silver watch on Makino road yesterday afternoon is requested to leave the same at the Star office. The shooting competition.'; — Martini and Snider — will be resumed on Wednesday next at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Ranges - Martini, 300, 000 and 600 ; Snider, 200, 800 and 500. At the Druids sports, in Wellington, on Saturday C. Blair won the Easter Handicap, E. Woon Half-mile, E. Cameron won the 220 yds Hurdles, and A. Rives the mile. Before Lieutenant-Colonel Newallleft Feilding he called on Mr Bastings, of the Manchester Hotel, and congratulated Mr Bastings on the excellent manner in which he had carried out his contract for the canteen at the Easter encampment here. A little girl named Eliza Wood, nine years of age, died in the Wellington hospital yesterday morning from the effects of burns, which she received at the residence of her brother, Mr Joseph Wood, a settler residing at JManakau, on Saturday afternoon. Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, chairman of the Manchester Road Board, went to Wellington this afternoon, and while there he will interview to Premier to ask for a Government subsidy towards re-erect-iug the Maaawaiu Oorgc bridge, which was destroyed by the recent Hoods. A narrow escape from fire occurred in Manchester street on Saturday night, when fche oil in a kerosene larup hautfiug in a shop window became ignited. The door of the shop being locked Mr A. Eade promptly burst it in, and quickly extinguished the flare. The many friends of Mr Washington Wheeler wiil regret to hear of his death at Matahiwi, Bulls, yesterday. Mr Wheeler arrived in the colony about 40 years ago and has resided in the Rangitikei district and at Awahuri ever si»co. Hb was 69 ye*ars of age, The funeral will leave liis late residence for the Parawanni cemetery at 12.30 tomorrow and pass through Bulls at 1.30. At a meeting of the Committee of the Foxton Racing Club, held on Friday evening, it was decided to postpone the date of the Club's Autumn meeting to Wednesday, May loth. This course has been forced on the Club owing to the break in the railway communication while the necessity of avoiding any clashing with other meetings rendered the somewhat lengthy postponement unavoidable. At a deputation to the Premier at Palmerston on Sunday Mr Park asked tho Premier's advice in reference to the best method of raising the funds for the Borough Council's contribution towards the Awahuri Bridge, and explained the difficulties the Council had encountered owing to the " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act " not applying to the borough. The Premier suggested that the money should be borrowed from the Sinking Fund Commissioners in the same way as the Rangiora Drainage Board had recently done. The following is a copy of a note received by W.C.T.U. President from Sir Robert Stout in acknowledgement of her reminder to him that he had been invited to be present at the Temperance Demonstration which was to have been held in Feiiding last Monday : — "Dear Miss Dalrymple : The terrible storm prevented me from visiting Feilding on Monday, and, I presume, prevented you from holding your fete. I hope, however, that on some other occasion I may be able to visit your district. — Yours etc., Robert Stout, Colonial Exchange Buildings, Wellington, April 17th, 1895." In Manchester Square this morning there was an exhibition of really good horsemanship. A young man named Port was riding a smart looking black horse when the animal commenced to buck near Mr Petherick's shop in Fergusson street, and fell with its rider, hurting him somewhat severely. However, the latter was in the saddle agaiu before the horse was well on its legs, and the fun commenced again in tho Square. After a hard tussle the rider was the victor by sheer honest horsemanship. It was a fair battle fairly won without the slightest cruelty. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt and expressed here at the want of publicity given by the Railway Department to the school excursion train arranged to run from Palmerstoii to Wanganuion J Wednesday next. A large number of adults and children connected with the Roman Catholic Church in Feilding, and others, have made all their arrangements to go but they have no knowledge as to the fares or when the train will be at the Feildiug station. We are indebted to the Rev Father Patterson for the information that the fares from Feilding will be 2s for adults and Is for children, and the train Avill leave Palmerston at 7.45 a.m., and will therefore be at Feilding not later than 8.15. As the Railway Department has already discovered that these excursion trains are very profitable, they should encourage the public to take advantage of them by judicious advertising.