The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 27, 31 July 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1895. Local and General News.

Choral services will be held in StJohn's Church this evening. Some frosfc fish, sold by public auction at Levin, realised from 7s 6d to 12s 6d each. Additions are made to-day to Mr Chas. Carr's Feilding and Birmingsales. Leading matter and letters from correspondents are unavoidably held over owing to pressure on our space. Another of the popular Presbyterian socials will be held in the Assembly I Rooms on Friday evening. i The Rimutaka arrived at Plymouth yesterday with her frozen mutton in j good condition. Captain Edwin wired at noon today : —Glass further rise with S.E. winds and weather continue very cold. Dr McGregor has been instructed to inspect Mount Cook gaol, "Wellington, with a view to its being utilised as a lunatic asylum. The Craigieburn Station of 50,000 acres in the Sehvyn Country, will be put up for lease for a period of eight years by the Government on 28th August nest. A flock of pigeons was seen to fly past Feikhug about noon yesterday towards the West, apparently having been driven away from the ranges by the snow. Considerable credit is due to the local telegraph operators for the excellent work they performed last night in connection with the receipt of the Financial statement. Tenders are called in our advertising columns for additions to the Primitive Methodist Church, of which specifications may be seen at Mr Flavall's Tenders close on August 7th. Rev. Dr Cook of Boston, met the New Zealand Alliance at Wellington yesterday and stated that prohibition in the Prohibition States of America reduced drinking at least 80 per cent. The Pride of Birmingham Lodge, 1.0. G.T. held a very successful meeting on Friday last. Several candidates were initiated and others proposed. This lodge is adding rapidly to its roll of membership. A new outer sole is being tried on the boots of the German soldiers by direct order of the Emperor. It consists of a paste of linseed oil varnish and iron tilings, which is said to render the sole flexible and make it more durable than the new aluminium boot nails. The usual meeting of the Birmnigham Debating Society was held at Mr Toinpkin's residence last Wednesday, when there was a good attendance, the President, Mr T. A. Bryce, m the chair. The subject " Land and its tenure " wav, debated, every member taking part. At Pemberton on Monday morning snow began to fall very heavily after 9 o'clock and continued until midnight during which time more than six inches of snow had fallen. After midnight it cleared np and a frost sot in, Tuesday morning beiug cold but clear. This will be very severe on the stock especially on the lambs which are dropped under such unfavorable circumstances. Mr J. R. Montague, auctioneer, has received instructions from Mr Kilpatrick, of Ashurst, to sell without the slightest reserve the whole of his first-class stock of goods comprising drapery, groceries, crockery, cutlery, ironmongery, boots and shoes, and fancy goods, The sale is held to-day and to-morrow (Thursday.) An accident occurred at the Kereru sawmill on Friday, which nearly ended fatally for two men. The trolly on the tram line " skidded," and the speed increasing on the frosty rails the trolly ran into two horses, killing one and injuring another. The workmen who were in charge, T. Carter and Strang, were knocked about considerably, but soon recovered. The horse killed was the property of Mr T. Pollard, of Shannon (sa3 r s the Farmer) and was worth from £20 to .£25.