Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 258, 4 May 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

# The rates, tithes and land tax in England take thirty per cent of the gross annual value of farming land. Mr Milson has a notice in our wanted column of interest to the person who removed the blinds from his shop windows on Wednesday night. To-morrow the Rev. J. Cocker will preach in the Primitive Methodist Church morning and evening. In the evening last Sunday's subject will be continued. At Christchurch, the inquiry into the best means of dealing with the dog nuisance has led to the adoption of the plan of sending a cart round the streets, hoisting into it all unregistered canines and taking them to the slaughtering yard. We direct attention to a fresh advertisement from Mr R. J. Thompson of the Cash Exchange. The present is a splendid opportunity for all to secure ulsters etc. at their own prices. Ladies may rely on receiving every satisfaction in the millinery department which is under the supervision of a first-class milliner. Another of those Band of Hope meetings that attract such crowds of young and old will be held in the usual place on Monday evening. First-class singing and music is expected, and amongst the most interesting items will be a dialogue in which six young girls will take part. At the annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society it was shown that the new business was represented by ten thousand and twenty-three policies, assuring i-2,810,919, and yielding an annual revenue of i-94,796. Claims amounting to 4498,343 have arisen under 991 policies by the death of 658 members, and 285 endowment assurances have matured amounting to £113,931. The Australian Star has issued a supplement setting forth in the form of a half star a detailed pedigree of the veterau Carbine. The plan is unique and a complete genealogical tree. It shows over 2000 ancestors and traces back for a period of 157 years. The plan contains Carbine's pi.cture and supplies his performances and those of his ancestors. The Lyttleton Times says : — That the capacity of the Manawatu district is recognised by some of our shrewdest businessmen, is indicated in our Palmerston exchanges. Messrs Hannpck and Company, of this city, are calling for offers of eligible sites tar a branch soap and candle factory in or near Palmerston, Mr .Claude Revans, so well known here in connection with Messrs Sclanders' firm, being appointed their local agent. A member of 1 the firm, just returned from -a visit to the district, says that after Canterbury, it is the finest part in JJew. Zealand., ' The Passion Pl*y W? it is &> be presented by Mr Bentley 'in. the- ■' Assembly Rooms on Monday the J3th ingtant, has. certainly varied attractions, firstly in the shape of the splendid elocutionary talent of the lecturer, the vocalisation of Miss M. Best, the ''possessor of a fine iffr pi-ane voice, in such favorite nuembers as the "First Palm ' Sunday," "Calvary," and " The Holy City,"fand lastly but not leastly the pictorial jdisplay, said fco justly consist* of works of : art; It is not a matter for surprise therefore that Huch a combination : liag> .^trapfced jnimeDse audiences in tlieSoutUJsJancl..

Campbelltown items are unavoidably held over till Monday, The bankruptcy of W. Steinmuller, tobacconist and hairdresser, of Marton, I is notified. The Examiner states that Mr Crabb, the temperance lecturer, is taking proceedings against Mr Kimbell, a Danevirke hotel keeper, for alleged slander. Mr G. Wheeler was the only person nominated for the vacancy in the Manchester Road Board, No. 3 ward, and was therefore declared duly elected. The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for the district of Palmerston will be held in the Magistrate's Courthouse, in that town, on the 4th of June. To-day M. A. C. Jackson gives notice of an intention to apply to the Kiwitea County Council for a license to slaughter great and small cattle. At the Goulburn Anglican Church Synod a motion was carried deploring j the growing antagonism between labour and capital, the dearth of employment, j and the spread of gambling. A meeting is called by advertisement to be held immediately after Mr Carr's stock sale on Friday, May 10th, to consider Mr Nathan's proposals on the Frozen Meat Trade. Flannelettes are all the rage now. Messrs Spence and Spenoe have a mag- i nificent assortment of these goods with | the embroideries to match. Ladies should inspect the stock of flannelettes at the I Bon Marche. The Marton Cycling Club are holding two road races — a 5-mile maiden and 10---mile open— on May 24th. Members of the Feilding Cycling Club, who intend nominating for these races are requested to forward their names at once to the secretary of the Feilding Club. The local branch of Te Aro House is in receipt of some very special lots of drapery and clothing, to which we would specially direct the attention of our numerous town and country readers. All departments are now heavily stocked for the winter's use, direct from the best manufacturers in the world. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows was held last night. There was a large attendance of members present and after the usual routine business the lodge went into harmony, songs being given by Bros. Spence, Durrani and Hewitt. One new member was proposed. It was decided to have a church parade at an early date. Notice is given in our advertising columns that a poll of the burgesses of the Boiough of Feilding will be taken at the office of the Couucil on Wednesday, the 15th of May, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ou the proposals to borrow a sum of £900 for the erection of Municipal Buildings. The victim in the recent Sydney poisoning case, Mrs Dean is still an inmate of the North Shore Hospital, and very little improvement has taken place in her condition. She is in a very emaciated state, and her hair is falling out. There are sj'mptoms of inflammation of the nerves, with paralysis of the extensor muscles, especially of tiie feet. William Barber, a settler, married and residing at Fowlers', got his left hand jammed in a plaining machine at Lowes and Jarvis 1 mill, Apiti, on the afternoon of the 3rd instant. He was attended to by Dr Mussen who ordered him to the Palmerston Hospital, which he reached last night, being driven by Mr Laing, of Fowlers'. Three fingers of his left hand have had to be taken off. A poll of ratepayers in No 6 Ward of the Manchester Road district was held at Ashurst yesterday for the election of a representative on the Road Board, the candidates being Alexander Conway (the retiring member), and Edwin C. Sanders. The poll resulted in favor of Mr Conway with 113 votes against his his opponents 62, being a majority of 51 votes. One informal vote was recorded. There is a good chance now for those who keep bees on a large scale to make some money (writes a Home correspondent) as owing to the French war in Madagascar the large supplies of honeycomb usual available thence, are running short and will soon stop. This is sending up the price by leaps and bounds and there is " money in it," if any New Zealanders are prepared to "take the tide at its flood." There was a fair attendance at the social in the Primitive Methodist Church last evening, held as a welcome to the Rev. Mr Barnett on his first visit to the town. The Rev. Mr Cocker presided. Songs were given by Miss Linton and Mr Lucas, two violin solos by Miss Ross, a recitation by Mr Sherlock, an address on " Development " by the Rev. Mr Grindley, and another on " Atmosphere " by the Rev. S. Barnett. Refreshments were handed round during the evening. The annual meeting of the Feilding Mutual Improvement Society was held in the Primitive Methodist Church last evening, the Rev. Mr Cocker presiding. Tho election of officers resulted as follows : — President, Rev. Mr Cocker ; vicepresidents, Messrs J. Gould, J. C. Thompson, and H. Jolly; secretary and treasurer, Mr J. Trewin. These gentlemen were also appointed a Committee to draw up rules and prepare a syllabus. The next meeting will be held at the same place on Thnrsday evening. At the meeting of the Borough Council held last evening the question of the £6000 loan raised in 1883 was discussed. The Mayor pointed out to the Councillors that the accumalated Sinking Fund now amounted to £1577 which was invested on mortgage and was producing from 7 to 7i per cent interest ; that the Sinking Fund was accumulating by nearly £400 a year, and that by the year 1903, when the £6000 loan falls due, it was confidently anticipated that the then accumulations of such sinking fund would be sufficient to pay off the whole of the £6000 loan as well as the amount required to erect the Municipal Chambers. Mrs Matheson's cooking class at Glasgow house yesterday afternoon was well attendad, about double the ijuniber of ladies that were present on the previous occasion having attended. All the ladies present expressed their delight at the instruction given, several new dishes being introduced. The lessons will be continued on Friday afternoon next at 2.30 when instructions will be given in making table jellies and other delicacies ladies are fond of learning how to make Those who intend -joining these classes should do so next Friday as they will only be continued for a short time. If ladies wish to have an evening class it is imperative that their names should be handed into the Star office by Friday next, and twenty must be received or Mrs Matheson will not be abte to form such class. A meeting of ratepayers willing tp assist the "Borough Council in carryirigintq effect the proposal to raise a' loan tq £900 tp erect Municipal Buildings in Feilding, was held jn the CounpiJ Chambers last evening. Present— The Mayor (Mr Sandilands), Crs Chamberlain, Saywell, Cowie, Worsfojd, Bailey, Fowles, Gould Allan. Messrs B. J. Allen, F. Y. Lsthbridge, P. Thomson,' J. C. Thompson, J. Cb'bbe, F, Knox. Thoso present were fanned into a, pornmittee to make a syqfcetnatie panyass of th<3 Borough 3,' rid it was decided to have the poll on Wednesday, May 15th. Tho Mayor sai<j there were 346 voters on the roll with 461 votes and of these numbers there were 91 absentee voters with 97 votes. For the poll to be successful they would require 179 voters to racord 231 votes,"