The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 282, 3 June 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1895. Local and General News.

Ml- W. A. Lloyd has joined the firm of A. N. Hayno and Co., as a partner. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Sandon sale. In Consequence of the rise in the price of flour the price of bread has been raised by the bakers in Masterton. Mr Charles Carr advertises a sale of fruit trees at Mr Goldfinch's stables on Saturday next. Messrs James and Heaps, architects, invite tenders for the erection of Municipal buildings in Feilding. Entries for Mr C. Carr's Feilding sale on the 14th and Birmingham sale on the 11th insts. are published to-day. CD. A. of Wanganui wants to rent with a purchasing clause, four or five hundred acres. Sec advertisement. We have received a very amusing brochure, from Apiti but as the writer has omitted to forward his name we cannot accept it. Burmythorpe residents are reminded of the meeting to be addressed by Mr Fred Pirani, M.H.R., to-morrow evening in the public hall. A peculiar fatality occurred at Foxton on Friday. A child named Bowes, two years' old, was choked to death with catiug a piece of carrot. A petition has been forwarded to the Waugauui Harbor Board from the Pohaugina settlers, asking to have all the Board's unsold sections put up for sale. The Hon John McKenzie's health is still so unsatisfactory (says the Oamaru Mail) that he is compelled to seek absolute rest, and to abstain from the transaction of business. Constable Hallett died rather suddenly at Tiiaaru on Friday after a few hours' illness. He had been o4 years in the Colony. He joined the Armed Constabulary in IS6B and the police force in 1575, and saw three years' service in the Maori war. A young man met with a shocking death at Melbourne. He was caught by some machine belting, which was revolving at a high rate of speed, and before the machinery could bo stopped his body was literally torn to pieces. At the meeting of the Manchester Road Board on Saturday, Mr Pcarce, a member, drew attention to the encroachment of the Oroua river on the western bank to the north of the railway bridge at Aorangi, and suggested that the attention of the railway authorities should be drawn to it. The Standard says ;-Mr T. Moffatt, of Eangiwahia, waited on Mr F. Pirani, yesterday, in reference to the establishment of a school in that township, and explained the merits of the question. Mr Pirani promised to do what he could to help the settlers at the next meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. A large number of retirements from the Bauk of New Zealand service are being made throughout the colon}'. The latest announced is that of Mr G. Kevans, for many years connected with the Napier branch. Mr Atkinson, who has been stationed in Feildiug for some time has also left the seryice and returned to England. The Lyttelton Times reports that a Cheviot settler, who has lately had a sum of money left to him, came into town for a holiday, and thinking that it would be advisable to take a partner to share his good luck, he called at a local Matrimonal Agency, and after a few minutes conversation proposed to the agent herself and was accepted. Tattooing has, at the moment, a certain vogue among many ladies of light and leading, partly from its decorative aspect, Lady Randolph Churchill is one of the pictorially punctured — a finely tattooed serpent being traced on her arm — whose presence is usually concealed by a broad gold bracelet. The tattooing was done by a soldier on a return voyage from India, and the sj^mbolic snake is coloured in red, green, and blue. On Friday night as the train from Palmerston to Wanganui was approaching Waugaehu a passenger named J. Botton a resident of Wanganui, fell from the platform of a carriage. Two College students, who saw the accident, gave the alarm, and the train was stopped at Waugaehu while a platelayer on a trolly was sent back to look for the man. He was found where he fell off, and conveyed to Wangauui, where a doctor was in waiting. Strange to say, with the exception of a severe shaking he was uninjured. Writes a London correspondent : — Mrs Yates of Onehunga, lias a serious rival in Mrs Yates, of Springfield, Ohio, who, like the Onehunga lady, claims to be a first-rate mayor, or, I should say, mere. Mrs Yates, of Springfield, has twenty-four children, including no fewer than five pairs of twins. I should think this would be just the right sized family for Mrs Yates of Onehunga to sit upon, or, rather, to preside over. What a glorious miracle it would be if these two ladies could be blended (like whisky) into one perfert personality. The liabilities of Edward B. Gichard, of Pahiatna, total £810 17s Bd, assets £I' 6 ss. The local liabilities are : — Palmerston North — Cohen, j;9 7s6d; Miller 10s Cd; Father Patterson, .£l2 12s. Feilding— W. Reardon, £1 16s 6d ; J. Stevens, 18s 6d : J. C. Morey, £2 16s 6d ; S. Thompson, £22 12s 6d ; Brandt, £2 10s 6d ; A. Foster, £'d 11s 6d ; Mrs Hastic, £2 10s ; Kirton and Curtis, £5 12s 6cl. Birmingham — Salter, .£1 lls 6d ; Burns, £3 10s ; Simpson, £1 ; E. Ranger £1. Rangitikei — Colonel Gorton, £50 10s. Woodvillc— Quinlivan, £3 18s. The Wesleyan Church was crowded last evening, notwithstanding the fact that the weather was wet and unpromising, to welcome the Rev W. H. Judkins on his return from his home in Victoria, where he has resided since the beginning of the year, he having been compelled a few weeks previous, to relinquish his duties in connection with the Wesleyau body in Feilding owing to his health having failed. At the conclusion of the service Mr Judkins referred in feeling terms to the sympathy he had received, and expressed the pleasure it gave him to be able to return to Feildiug, where he had experienced so much kindness from the people. Mr F. Pirani, M.H.ii., recently communicated with the Postmaster-General in reference to the sale of postal notes at Apiti and Colyton and complains as to the occasional difficulty of getting stamps at Colyton. In reply the acting Postmaster-General writes : — " In reply to your letter of the 2nd inst, I have the honor to inform you that arrangements have been made for the sale of postal notes at the Apiti Post office. I regret that as the Postmaster, Colyton, is not prepared to give the necessary bond required from country postmasters entrusted with the supply of postal notes, the concession cannot be granted in the case of that office. A supply of postage stamps has been forwarded to the postmaster and there should now be no cause for further complaint in this direction."—Standard.

Constable Grey, at Ofcaki, telegraphed to Inspector Thomson yesterday that he had that day arrested at Manakau Joseph M. Foggan, who escaped from the works at Mount Cook on the 9th of May last. Mr William H. France, eldest son of Mr John France, of Picton, died last week of blood poisoning. He cut his hand in opening oysters, and as he was an amateur photographer it is supposed that some of the chemicals got into the wound. Deceased was only 28 years of age. We are indebted to Mr J. H. Fry, of Makino, for the following meteorological register for the month of May 1595 and 1894, viz.— 3-01in of rain fell in May 1595, against 7-42 in in May 1694 ; there were sixteen rainy days in May last, the same number as in the previous year ; and there were six frosty nights against one in May 1895. Mr Astor, the American millionaire, whose wife died recently in England and was buried in America, has ordered a New York florist to place over her grave a daily mantle of violets and lilies of the valley for a whole year. As these blossoms will have to be forced the cost will be about .£2OO a day.