Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 281, 1 June 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Library Committee will meet on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. The Feildmg State School Committee will meet on Monday evening at 7.30. The Feilding Debating Society will meet in Mr Bray's office on Tuesday evening next at 7.30. Subject : " The Anglo Saxon under the Southern Cross." Members of the Golf Club are reminded of the meeting to be held at the Feilding Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. A large attendance is requested as the business to be transacted is important. At a meeting of the directors of the Longburn Freezing Company ou Thursday, it was unanimously decided that tlic Company be wound up. A copy of the resolution lias been forwarded to the Supreme Court. The name of Grestown South (Otago) has been officially changed to Allanton, and the name of Oxford (Auckland) to Tirau. The County Council of Wairarapa North is required to find a new name for Hawerain the Forty Mile Bush. The action of the Auckland Coroner, Dr Philson, at the recent inquest on the remains of Mr Grubb is severely commented upon in Auckland. A post mortem examination having been made, the Coroner ordered the heart of the deceased to be brought into the jury-room, as it "would be interesting to see." Some of the papers denounce this proceeding as an outrage, and demanded Dr Philson's retirement. Princess Helene, of Orleans, may after all be married at Stowe House, Bucks. The Priuccss is regarded as one of the loveliest women in Europe. She possesses a wealth of golden-brown hair, with dark blue eyes, black eyebrows, and long black eyelashes. She is very tall and a splendid figure. Her affianced husband the Duke of Aosta, a nephew of the King of Italy, is also described as being remarkably handsome. The following is from the Nelson Mail : —One of the Central School boys, who lives at Port, picked up a piece of stone ou tho foreshore, near low water mark, close k> the Marine Baths, and being struck by some glittering particlea, he submitted it to Mr Worley, one of the masters. Mr Worley who has been connected witli the School of Mines crushed the styno and was astonished toiipd that it revealed splendid indications of gold. So rich, indeed, was tho crust) ing, that every effort will be made to discover where this stray bib of stone cauie from.

An orchardist in Taranaki picked 800 dozen of good oranges last season. Evangelistic services will be held at the Gospel Hall to-morrow and following evenings. The Bowling Club will meet at the Manchester Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. Staff-Captain Edwards will conduct the services in the Salvation Army barracks to-morrow. The Marton Mercury intimates to its subscribers that the paper will be published as usual until otherwise announced. Mr E. B. Gichard, formerly of Fcildin#, now residing at Pahiatua, has been adjudged a bankrupt. A meeting of the Band of Hope will be held on Monday evening in the Temperance Hall at 7 o'clock. Music, singing, dialogues, recitations and addressos as usual. Iv the Primitive Methodist Church tomorrow night the Rev J. Cocker will preach on " The woman in the house of Simon the Leper." Strangers are specially invited, and all seats are free. We have been informed that a paper mill is to be erected on this coast, and it is probable that Shannon will be the site. The cost of building and machiuc/y is estimated at £50,000. — Farmer. Bax, the Blenheim athlete, who receufcl}- established an Australasian record as au Indian club swinger, is going over to Sydney, with a view to attempting to lower the world's record. The Oddfellows Lodge held their regular fortnightly meeting last evening, the attendance being very good. Bro G. Saywell, N.G., presided and the usual routine business was transacted The entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's stock sale yesterday were very large. There was a great improvement in business over recent sales, and the prices obtained showed a slight advance. The richest man in the American Congress is said to be Paul Sorg, of the Third Ohio District. He is worth ten million dollars (£2,000,000) and has au income of nearly .£200,000 from the sale of plug tobacco. A one-legged man named Henry Thompson has been arrested in New Plymouth on a charge of soliciting and receiving alms. lie was going round collecting subscriptions for the purpose of buying a cork leg. Au employee at the Tahoraitc sawmill met with a strange accident the other day. He was walking through the bush, carrying an axe over his shoulder, when he slipped, and the axehead severed one of his ears from his head. The Druids half yearly concert and dance takes jilace on Friday next iv the Town Hall, Birmingham. Given favor« able weather it should be a decided success. A good programme has been arranged aud a number of tickets have already been disposed of. At Napier yesterday, Isabella Laws, who had been arrested in Sydney, was charged with forging two receipts for £110 aud £211, by means of which she procured money belonging to the Good Templars, of which her husband was secretary. Accused w r as committed for trial. Mrs Matheson will hold an evening cooking lesson iv the Glasgow Temperance Hall on Tuesday evening next, when the subject for instruction will be, " How to make a Wedding Cake and finish it off." This lesson ought to interest every lady in Feilding — old and young, rich and poor, are all interested in weddings and cake. Mrs Matheson hopes the ladies will attend, as she desires to give them information about the cooking classes in general. What is Life ? Jerusalum has no clubs, no bar-rooms, no beer gardens, no concert halls, no theatres, no lecture rooms, no places of amusement of any kind, no street bands, no wandering minstrels, no wealthy or upper classes, no mayor, no alderman, no printing presses, no book stores — except one outside the walls for the sale of Bibles— no cheerfulness, no life. No one sings, no one dances, no one laughs in Jurusalam ; even' the children do not play. So writes a traveller who visited the Holy City recently. In our wanted column there is a notification that there will be a tea meeting held in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday, June sth, to welcome the Rev. Mr Judkin's return to Feilding. As the rev. gentleman was very popular when fulfilling his ministerial duties in Feilding and diitrict before his health failed, which necessitated his retirement for six months. We have no doubt but what this meeting will be a great success. He will resume his duties in this circuit by preaching in Campbelltowh to-morrow morning and in Feilding in the evening. Mr J. E. Richie returned yesterday from an official trip to the Auckland district. While there he took occasion to visit the- Government plantation at Wairangi, in the Waikato, where 500 acres have been planted with wattles. The trees arc thriving, and another 200 acres are to be similarly planted in October next. On his return overland Mr Ritchie visited the experimental farm at Momohaki, near Wavcrley, where experiments in the treatment of sheep are being carried on. The live stock on the West Coast is so healthy that it is a matter of difficulty to procure any diseased animals to operate on. — N.Z. Times,