Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 31, 5 August 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr C. Carr will hold a stock sale at his Birmingham yards to-morrow. The Feilding State School Committee will meet to-morrow evening in place of to-night. The good folks of Foxton are advertising in Wellington for a doctor, with the munificent guarantee of ±100 a year. A successful promenade concert and dance, in aid of the school funds, was held in the Pohangina Hall on Friday evening last. The dates of meetings and practices of the Feilding Fire Brigade for the month of August are notified in onr advertising columns ; the first practice being to-night. Ratepayers of the Knvitea County are requested to pay their rates before the 20th August. If not paid by that date, instructions have been given to the Clerk to sue for same without further notice. The postmaster imforms us that the " time " signal given at the local post office afc 9 a.m. to-morrow will be specially sent from the sidereal clock, Wellington, for the purpose of rating chronometers. Members of the New South Wales Ministry not only travelled throughout the electorates addressing meetings during the elections the other day, but members of the Upper House took a prominent part against the Government in the elections. Mr F. Berry, of Makino, notifies today that he having leased his butchery business to Mr J. Bishop, junr., all accounts due to him must be paid by August 30th. He also desires to thank customers for past favors and trusts a continuance of such patronage will be extended to his successor. ! The Tivoli Specialty Company auI nounce to-day they will pay a farewell visit to Feilding on Thursday and Friday next, when an entirely different programme will be produced. It will be remembered this Company played here a few weeks ago, when their witty jokes and amusing songs created considerable amusement. Daring the month of July, 39 estates were placed in the Public Trustee's hands. The largest estates were- -Isabella Wilkie, Auckland „£10,500; James Petherick, Wellington, .£lG00; Louisa E. Reid, Wellington, .£OOO ; S. Rody, Melbourne, £500 ; Joseph 11. Walker, Christchurch, .£3SO ; Janet Grubb, Wellington £325 ; Ann Cook, Upper Moutere, £3000 ; H. A. Rosenberg, Cspe FonJ wind,. £3oo. The Eltham correspondent of the Hawera Star writes : -For some time past farmers and drovers in and around Stratford have repeatedly lost cattle, and been unable to account for their disappearance, many being under the impression that i here was cattle lifting going on. This idea was more forcibly impressed in Stratford on Wednesday when information was brought into town that out of a herd of 150 cattle in a paddock on the Pemb roke road, and belonging to Mr. Okey. of New Plymouth, over 60 were found missing, and no traces of them could be found.

Tbe Feildiug S.M. Court will sit on Friday next. A concert aud dance will bo held at Stanway on Wednesday evening. The Pohangina County Council will meet on Saturday next. A dauce will be held iv Mr Johnston's woolshed, Cheltenham, on Friday next. The Band of Hope will meet in tbe Temperance Hall at 7 o'clock this evening. Tbe Manchester Rifles will be inspected by Lieutenant-Colonel Newall on Thursday next. The Debating Society will meet in Mr Bray's office to-morrow eveniug at 7.30. Non-members are invited to attend. The name of Wire te Kaahu, the Waitotara wife beater, in English means " Willy the Hawk." He is well known. The Directors of the Feilding Building Society will meet to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock, at Mr Goodbehere's office. Mr R. E. Beckett will soil, at his Hunterville yards, on Saturday next, a large quantity of stock aud produce on behalf of Mr W. G. Thompson. At their meeting on Saturday last, the Rangitikei County Council decided to call for tenders for additions and repairs to the Onepuhi bridge. The children attending tho Colyton school will produce the comic operetta " Little Boy Blue," in the Colyton Hall to-morrow evening. Mr M. Belfit, saddler and harness maker, has just completed a very useful and well-finished set of silver mounted waggonette harness to the order of a local resident. We regret to have to announce the death of another of Feilding's earliest settlers, namely, the wife of Mr Thos. Smith, of Camden steet, who succumbed yesterday morning after a jn'olonged illness, at the age of 67 years. The funeral will leave her late residence on Wednesday afternoon for the Feilding cemetery. Tbe man Henry Egerton Whitmore, whose disappearance from Kauroi with two boys caused a sensation a few days ago, is to be brought up at the Wanganni Police Court on charges of having committed unnatural offences. Mr. M'Qneen, chairman of the Southland Freezing Company, whose signature is appended to the document complained of by the Colonial Treasurer, has relieved his fellow directors ol all responsibility in regard to the libel action for £10,000 damages commenced by the Hon. J. G. Ward. Wo have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for tbe concert and dance in aid of the cemetery funds, at Apiti, on Friday next *, for the operetta in the Colytou Hall to-morrow evening ; aud for the Primitive Methodist Church anniversary tea on Monday evening next. Mr Ziman, a capitalist of Johannesburg, bas applied to the Government for the sole right of prospect of six areas of country betwecu Marina and Matakitaki in the Nelson district. He is willing to deposit .£SOO with the Government as surety for going on with the work, and guarantees to expend in two years _910 per acre on the prospecting areas mentioned, wbich means an expenditure of £40,000. , Keown (who shot the bailiff at Balfour) is" an unusually strong-built, powerful, determined looking fellow, standing 6ft, high, and gave his age as 49. He is a native of the North of Ireland, and is a married man with a family. He is said not to be in very straightened circumstances, notwithstanding the recent occurence would indicate such to be the case. Ho was known to be possessed of a very violent temper, but was not, it is alleged, under the influence of drink when he committed tbe crime, and be spoke freely and often of tbe affair to a constable in whose charge he was travelling. Owing to the band contests in New Zealand invariably being held in the South Island, thus entailing great expense and loss of time to bands attending from the North Island, coupled with the fact that the Southern bands are much stronger, more efficient, and better equipped than their Northern brothers (thus makiug it almost impossible for a junior band to win a prize) the idea bas beeu mooted by Mr Highain, of the Hawera band, to form a North Island Band Association with a view to holding second class contests on this coast of such a nature tbat bands in tbe small country districts may compete, and have Home chance of beiug -placed. The idea is a good oue and we hope it will be carried to a successful issue. The first meeting of delegates will be bold at Wangarmi on Friday next. Mr R. F. Haybittle will attend on behalf of. the Feilding baud.