The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1595. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 257, 3 May 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1595. Local and General News.

Twenty ouc estates, all of small value were placed in tbe hands of the Public Trustee duriug last month. James Wilson, cook at Tarras Station, Cromwell, has been killed through being thrown out of a dray. Mr Carthew's new advertisement will appear on Monday. His usual monthly case will be ready for issue on Thursday the 9tli instant. The funeral of the late Mrs Jas. Smith will leave her husband's residence for the Campbelltown cemetery to-morrow at 1 o'clock. If the person who took the plans of Mr Viles residence from the Star office does not return them at once legal proceedings will be instituted. The Old Country custom of celebrating the first of May was introduced at Cbristchurch on Wednesday, when the chimney sweeps organised a " Jack-in-the-Green " procession. The secretary of the Feilding Jockey Club, Mr E. Goodbehere, gives notice the course is now closed, and any person working a horse thereon will" be disqualified. It is reported by the Taranaki Herald that camelias and daphnes are already flowering in that beautiful district which is aptly termed " The garden of New Zealand." Candles are now becoming fashionable in the large towns in the colony owing to the advance in the cost of kerosene. The familiar slush lamp is already in evidence in the country districts. A London correspondent states that Mr John Duthie, M.H.R-, is suffering from an affection which troubled him in New Zealand, and has gone to Buxton or Ilkley for massage treatment. A meeting of ratepayers of the Awahou Riding, Pohangina County, will be held at Mrs Sangster's woolshed, Pohaugina on Wednesday next, at noon, for tbe purpose of considering loao proposals.

Capt. Edwin wired at 12.35 p.m. to-day : north east to east and south, strong winds and glass fall. The Manawatu Kilwinning Lodge, Palmerston North, meets on Wednesday the Bth May. The Otangaki Lodge, Ashurst, meets on Tuesday, the 7th of May. The steamer Perthshire, now at the Bluff has 160 Queensland live cattle on deck for the English market. The animals arc valued at £1000, and comprise the largest cargo of live stock yet sent from the colonies. Mr J. H. Fry, of Makino, supplies us with the following report of the rainfall for April in the years mentioned : — 1895, 8-45 inches ; 1894, 2-99 in ; 1893, 3-33 in ; 1892, 2-08 i n; 1891, 2-69 i n; 1890, 2-52 in ; 18S9, l-23in. A priyate wire received in town last night states that the Government in Cabinet yesterday approved of the spending of ±1092 for a bridge over the Rangitikei river at Otara. No doubt tenders will shortly be called for the work.— Mercury. It is stated that the Featherston milk suppliers of the Dairy Union are going to combine and test their position. At a meeting held on Tuesday evening it was reported that the detained cheques had been received but that the call due on the 20th was deducted. The Palmerston Standard says : — Last night a man named Horkins, a stranger in Palmerston, was caught in the act of going through the bedroom of a commercial traveller at the Eoyal Hotel. The man was given in charge and will be brought up at the Police Court to-day. At a meeting of farmers held at Messrs Abraham and Williams saleyards at Palmerston yesterday to consider Mr D. J. Nathan's scheme for the development of the frozen meat trade, those present were favorably impressed with that gentleman's views and answers to press criticisms, and he received a hearty vote of thanks. There wss a fair attendance at the Harmonic Society practice last evening considering the unfavorable state oi the weather when the cantata " Rose Maiden" wag practised. The Society have twenty one copies of this cantata on hand and are arranging for extra copies. The committee were unable to procure any copies of the cantata " Merry men of Sherwood " in' New Zealand or out. We understand that just previous to the departure of the Napier Navals from Feilding they were presented with a lovely banner, suitably inscribed, for Good conduct and drill. The presentation was made at Hastie's Hotel on behalf of the ladies of Feilding. The captain of the ' Hummers ' (the right section of the company) suitably responded. The banner will be on view at the drill shed for a few days, and is well worth seeing. — Napier News. In the near future smoking carriages — " for laties only " — will have to be provided on the New Zealand railways. A Wairarapa paper reports that some gentlemen had a curious experience the other afternoon. A lady well dressed and pretty entered the smoking carriage at Masterton, gaped haughtily at them, and then quietly took a cigar case from her pocket, cut the end of the cigar with a pearl-handled knife, and then lit it with the utmost gracefulness. She then opened the paper and read and puffed (without getting sick) like one accustomed from childhood to the situation, all the way to Wellington.