Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 300, 24 June 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Wellington Land Board meets on Thursdaj' next. The Kiwitea County Council will meet on Saturday next. Additious are made to Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmerston and Pohaugiua sales. A Christchurch medical man, duly qualified, advertises advice aud medicine for 2s 6d cash. The Good Templars Lodge hold a social in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening commencing at 7.30. We have received from the author a pamphlet entitled " The Good Times Coming," by W. Harker, of Christchurch. Colonel Fox received a gratuity of £2000 from the Imperial Government on his retirement from the Service last year. A notice appears in our advertising columns calling for the supply of fifty cords of rata or maire firewood. For particulars see advertisement. Mr Larnach is asking whether officer 8 in the service of the colony are allowed to hold seats as directors of public and other companies. He considers the practice should be stopped. The number of deaths in Wellington from typhoid has, says Mr J. Doyle, Inspector of Nuisances, steadily decreased since the present systomof scavenging came into force, despite the large increase in the population. — Post. Quite a number of letters have reached us lately with insufficient stamps thereon. As tli6 additional postage and fines amount to a respectable total during the year, we must request correspondents to be more careful. The briskness of the timber industry is shown by the fact that local mills are still running day and night (says the Auckland Star.) At Mercury Bay mill a contract has just been given out by the jmauager Mr Edwards, on behalf of the Kauri Timber Company, for the cutting of 20,000,000 feet of timber. This mill is now well lit by electric light, as it is running night and day. Over eighty hands are employed in the mill itself, aud fully two hundred in the mill and bushes. On Thursday next Messrs Spence aud Spence commence a monster realisation sale of their entire stock of winter goods. Besides their own stock, which has all been re-marked, Mr Spence has just returned from the markets, having, owing to the great depression in trade, secured numerous lines at less than landed cost. These will bo submitted for sale without reserve on Thursday next and followiug days at the Bon Marche. A well-known American lawyer was defending a young fellow for larceny, the evidence against whom was only circumstantial. He urged that circumstantial evidence ought never to convict a man. " Why," said die counsel, " when I was a boy' I remember a playmate of mine, who, while his parents were away, went to the pantry and nearly devoured a big custard before lie thought of the pnrental strap. When he did, he looked round for some means of hidin/r the traces of his guilt. He suw the family cat in ihe corner, nncl taking pivs by the neck, he (•artfully siuenred her paws with the enstnrd, tool; iho guilty cat our, into the yard and bhot her. As the gun shot rang out the boy observed to me with a chuckle, " There goes one more victim of circumstantial evidence." The jury disagreed.

To-day Mr Milson received a consignment of new books and periodicals. Additions are made to Messrs Gorton and Son's Feilding sale. A meeting of the Feilding Bowling Club will be held in Light's Hotel on Wednesday evening. A meeting of the friends of temperance will be held in the Temperance Hall to-morrow evening to elect delegates for the Colonial Convention. Captain Edwin wired at 12.20 to-day : — N.W. to W. and S. gale, with more rain ; glass further fall, but rising after 12 hours from now. The members of the Gladstone Farm Association are notified of an important meeting in the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening next. Tine auction sale of timber at the Feilding railway station this morning, held by Mr Carr. was very successful aud all the lots offered were sold. Owing to the improvements inaugurated by the present Supcrintendant of Telegraphs, Mr J. K. Logau, some fifteen less operators are required at Blenheim. On Saturday next Messrs Gorton and Son will sell, from the orchard and nursery of J. Mayo and Son, a splendid lot of fruit trees and ornamental shrubs, a few of which are mentioned in the advertisement. Notice is given to-day that all accounts due and owing to the estate of the late W. E. Chamberlain, must be paid by Friday the 28th instant, or they will be placed forthwith in the hands of a solicitor for collection. Thirty years ago a law was passed in Germany under which any mother or nurse who slept with a child under two years old was punished with imprisonment. Since that law came into force infant mortality has greatly decreased. Messrs Abraham and Williams report -.—The entries for the horse sale on Saturday was not large, the quality bciny second rate. Bidding through the sale was on the whole dull, but eventually the bulk changed hands. Prices were without alteration. Mr Pirani is introducing a Counties Act Amendment Bill in the House to enable counties created where Road Boards havo been abolished to collect the rates struck by the Pioad Boards and still unpaid. It would have a special application to Pohangina and Kiwitea. No appointment of liquidator or receiver to the .Lougbnrn Freezing Company has yet been made. A number of the shareholders and creditors are sign ing a requisition asking that Mr Macpherson, the secretary to the company, be appointed to the position. A sad accident is reported from Stanway. Yesterday Alfred Ncilson, aged 16,"was out shooting in company of a younger brother, when his gun accidentally exploded and shot him (Alfred) through the heart. Death was instantaneous. No further particulars arc to hand. We regret to have to announce the death of Edward Harold, infant son of Mr H. Stubbingtou, Avliich took place at his parents' residence, Cheltenham Cross road, yesterday. The funeral will take place to morrow, leaving his parents residence at 12 o'clock for the Feildiug cemetery. An exchange says a dentist at Christchurch got a surprise the other clay. A lady with a vinegar visage, who had seen fully seventy summers, before inhaling the gas, said to the tooth extractor : " Y r ou will promise faithfully not to kiss me while I n n unconscious, won't you ? " He promptly promised. The following were the tenders for cutting timber for the Eketahuna-Wood-ville railway works : — Mangaone Reserve, John Henry, £3964 (accepted) ; Chas. Gardener and Co., £4245 : Thomas Price, £5420; Alex. Strachan, £5920. Mangahao Reserve— H. Carlson, £2478 (accepted) ; G. Gardiner, £2677 ; Owen Mcllroy, .±2518 ; Alexander Yule, £2985. There was a large attendance at the Excelsior Skating Rink on Saturday evening and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves with this favorite pastime. The Feilding Brass Band, under Mr R. F. Haybittlc, played a number of musical selections and thereby assisted to make the evening's amusement enjoyable. We have been requested to state that as the manager, Mr Thos. Howcll, was unable to be present, the shortcomings noticeable on the opening night were unavoidable under the circumstances. The rink will be open again on Wednesday afternoon specially for ladies and children from 2 till 5 p.m., when the manager -will be present to personally attend to the wants of patrons, and in the evening from half-past seven till ten. The faults inseparable from an opening night will be fully rectified on future occasions, therefore the public may now rely upon being able to spend an enjoyable evening's amusements without undergoing the slightest inconvenience.