Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 299, 22 June 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

■■ ■■ -■ ■ ♦ Certain alterations have been made in the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Feildiug sale. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Pohangina sale on the 26th inst. are advertised to-day. Rev. G. Grindiey, of Halcornbe, -will conduct the services in the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow. The Rev. Charles Clark, the famous lee* turer, will make another tour of the Australian colonies next year. The ground is now nearly completed for the Feilding Golf Club and the season will be opened almost immediately. A very enjoyable private dance was held in the Assembly Rooms last night, when Mrs Hastie entertained a number of young friends. We hear that Mr Alexander Bell, of Makino, near Feilding, has had his stock of sheep depleted to the extent of fully 600. The Public Trustee has a notice in today aneut the administration of the estate of Jeremiah Sullivan, of Birmingham, deceased. Caprain Edwin wired at 11.55 to day : — Glass further rise but fall again alter 16 hours from now, with strong N.E. to N. and W. winds. We omitted to mention in our report of the special meeting of the Borough Council held last Thursday evening that Cr T. R. Chamberlain was absent owing to ill health, he being coufined to his room and not able to get about. According to the North Otago Times a Dnnedin miller is said to have netted 416,000 by his wheat speculations— that is, he will net that amount if the present price holds till he has milled and sold his present stocks. Clara Louise Kellogar, whose sweet voice once charmed two continents, is living at New Yoikin comparative poverty. Once she was worth 1,000,000 dollar?, but it has all been swept away ly unfortunate ventures. Another of 1.0.G.T. popular concerts will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Tuesday evening next, when several favorite vocalists outside the lodge have promised to contribute to theprogrammc. and this concert should be more enjoyable than its predecessors. Tenders/ arc invited by the Kiwitea County Council for stumping and clearing SO chains of the Rangitikei Valley road. Specifications can be seen at Messrs Ransom and Sou's store, Waituna, and at Mr Bray's office, Feilding. Tenders close on Saturday, June 29th. The Southland Times states that the the writ was served on Friday at Napier in the case of the Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Export Company v. Nelson Bros., for £80,000 damages, for breach of contract in engaging in the frozen meat trade in Southland in alleged contravention of an agreement beween the parties. A Wellington resident writes to a friend in Feilding as follows : — " The building trade is very brisk in Wellington. I never remember so much work going on in the town as there is at the present time ; but still all the business people are complaining of money being tight. The secret of this, in my opinion is that the low price of produce is stopping country orders from coming in." Mr Harvey, the working manager of the New Zealand Oyster Company, will leave for the South in a few days for the purpose of bringing up about 100,000 Stewart Island oysters, which will be placed in the beds at Pahautanni. There are now over 600,000 locally grown oysters on the Company's property, and it is thought that the supply can be drawn on for market purposes about this time nest year. A record was achieved by the Telegraph Department in the transmission of His Excellency's speech. The Wheatstone automatic instrument was used, and the whole of the speech, containing 1918 words, was sent through in 10 minutes. It is reckoned that the copy -was being handed to the papers in Christchurch almost as Lord Glasgow uttered the last sentences in Wellington. — N.Z. Times. A story is ' current at Mieldlemarcb, which is not a bad one of its kind. A well known character in that district was giving evidence in that district in a. court case, and his evidence was of such a doubtful nature that one of the presiding magistrates looked gravely at . him and said, " Witness, do you know the nature of an oath '?' "Oh yes.,' he gaily replied. " It means that if you cell a lie jou must stick to it." . We have not been informed what were the magistrate's comments upon this novel explanation as to the nature of an oath . — Taieri Advocate. An opportunity is now being offered by Mr John Cobbe, draper and clothier, to residents of Feilding and surrounding districts who are desirous of purchasing good winter drapery at a reduction on ordinary prices. Mr Cobbe, who imports extensively from London, is desirous of clearing out the whole of his winter goods in anticipation of a heavy importation of spring goods now being ordered, and a perusal of his advertisement, which appears today in another column, and also an "inset" published with today's issue, would well repay those who arc on the look-out for bargains. The Rev W. Worley willprtach in the Wcslcyan church to-morrow morning and evening. In the afternoon lie will deliver the lecture on " The Hymns of the Christian church, their history, place and power." which was to have been delivered on Friday evening, but which was postponed to Sunday afternoon on account of theinclemency of the weather. As the hour is a convenient one, a good opportunity will be given to all to atattend. The lecture has been delivered in other parts of the colony with much kuccohh, and those who have heard it spoak of it an being a rare treat. The lecture will bo illustrated with choral selections. While Mr J. Stevens, M.11.R. for Rangitikei, was in Fcilding yesterday, the Mayor (Mr W. A. Sandilands) waited on him with reference to matters of interest to the Borough, and asked Mr Stevens to support Ukj applications of the Council for a resident Clerk of the Court, a covering over the platform at the railway station, and, also, that ho would support the application contained in a letter to the Premier asking for a £ for £ subsidy to provide the unemployed in Fcilding with work. If this ; s granted it is proposed that tbo money should be spent in improving Manchester Square. About .£42 has already been collected by private subscription for this purpose, aad we hope the Gov- i eminent will sec their way clear to grant this request, for we do not think \ a penny of Government money has yet Jbceu spent within the Feilding Borough.

Writes our Birmingham correspondent : — ln my report of a meeting held in Mr Lowes' Hotel recently, I omitted an important matter, namely, " The idea of the meeting was to metal Edward street, where at present formed and form to Mcßeth's line, also, to junction of the Lower Kiwitea road." The Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr R. L. Stanford, during the sitting at Otaki, said that the time of the Court was continually being wasted by" parties to. cases or their solicitors " happening to be absent from the Court " just when their cases were called. He'had made up his mind that, for the future, such cases would be struck out and all applications for reinstatements refused. At the meeting of the Borough Counon Thursday night to consider tenders for the Municipal buildings and during the discussion on the power of the Council to erect a building without brick or concrete parting walls, CrGoodbehere pointed out the Council had no power to suspend its bye-law as the resolution intended and he voted against the motion which left the contract, on this ground. There seems to be a difference of oj)iuiou between the Councillors as to the power of the Council, in the matter of suspending the building byelaws, and it is probable the point will be further discussed at the next meeting of the Council, because it appears singular to say the least of it, that the Council should evade a well cousidered regulation just when it suits them.