Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

— , « . An advertiser wants a situation as a governess or companion. The Feilding School Committee will meet this evening. Whitebait are already being taken in the Canterbury streams. We have to thank the Traffic Manager, Wanganui, for a copy of the railway time table for the current month. The Palmerston people will observe to-morrow, Arbor Day, as a public holiday. In Feilding there will be the usual half-holiday. Our Colyton readers* are reminded of the school concert in the Colyton Hall this evening. The concert will be followed by a dance. The funeral of the late Mrs Thomas Smith will leave her late residence for the Feilding cemetery at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mr Fetch, who has been inspecting the schools on the West Coast (Middle Island) returned to Feilding on Saturday last. Two hacks were sold out of the Feilding pound yesterday by Mr C. Carr, on behalf of the poundkeeper, and realised .£lO 5s and £1 13s 6d respectively. A social and dance will be held in Mr Manson's woolshed, Stanway, to-morrow evening, commencing at 8.30. Tlie funds will ho devoted to the school library fund. The inhabitants of the Makino district are promised a treat on Friday next in the old fashioned sing, by old fashioned singers. One advice is, be sure and be there. The Debating Society will meet in Mr Bray's office this evening at 7.30. Subject; " Should the liquor traffic be abolished or more directly placed under State control." We are authorised to state that Mr Walter A. L. Bailey will be a candidate at the next Mayoral election. Mr Bailey has already been promoted a large share of support. The whiskey drinkers in Dunedin are debating this question : — Whether they will have to drink twenty per cent more or twenty per cent less, in order to get level with the new tariff. At present the sides are even. Two men named George and Benjamin Gordon, while working on Mr Atkinson's new building at Rangiuru - by • the - sea (Otaki) yesterday, fell from the scaffolding, receiving concussion of the spine. Both the unfortunate men are in a dangerous state. There was a large attendance at the Band of Hope meeting in the Temperance Hall last evening, when the programme was provided by members of the local Good Templar Lodge as follows : — Pianoforte solo, Miss Kate Hamilton; recitation, Mr W. Downey; songs by Miss E. Mackenzie, Miss McKeague, Miss Mackenzie, Mr Simpson, Mr Greenwood and Miss L. Mackenzie ; recitations, Mr W. Staffan and Miss E. Mackenzie ; violin duets, Bros. Staffan ; occariuo solo, Mr C. Wickham ; duet, Mesdames Jackson and Mackenzie ; the members of the lodge also sang a couple of solos. Mr J. Greenwood presided. The Library Committee met last evening. Present— Messrs J. H. Stevens (chairman), A. R. Allan, J. Cobbe and L. E. Reade. The librarian's report showed a slight increase in subscribers and books issued. Twelve new books were added during the month. The balance on hand was .£ls, with outstanding liabilities amounting to £6. Messrs Allan. Cobbe and Watson were appointed a sub-committee to report on the present condition of the library and the best means of effecting improvements, the chairman to obtain information from Wanganui, Marton aud Bulls librarians for their assistance. In the old days in New Zealand the substitute for socks was a piece of rag, calico, or old flannel shirt — blue serge was tho best. This was neatly wrapped round the toes and foot, like a surgeon's bandage, and afforded abundant warmth and protection. It is confidently affirmed by many working men that owing to the now tariff thoy will havo to go back to first principles in this respect, and discard the manufactured article as a too expensive luxury. J.u this connection a gentleman from tho Emerald Islo was heayd to say yesterday : " This is my only pair of boots, and they will have to last mc untihthere is a change of politics, for till then, Lord help mo, I see no .chance of getting a new pair." Yet he was not oug of ' tho unemployed,' I

The debate on the Finanial Statement commences in the House this evening. A meeting of the Volunteer Ball Committee will be held in the Drill Hall this evening at 7.30. A number of the settlers of the Harbour Board Block were kept busy yesterday planting trees at the Nikau school grounds. Detective Kirkby, who has been investigating the Woodville cattle stealing case, has a clue which he is confident will lead to Gower's arrest. We again learn with regret of the very serious illness of Mr Charles W. McLean, of Bulls, his conditiou being viewed with the very greatest anxiety by his many friends. Mr Alex. Robertson, representing Messrs F. W. Niven and Co., of Ballarat, Victoria, is at present in Feilding, and will wait upon the business people with a view of getting advertisements for one of their well known chromo-litho pictures of Feilding. The Alameda, with English mails of 13th Juty, left 'Frisco for Auckland on 25th July, due date. The Mariposa, with colonial mails of 13th July, arrived at 'Frisco from Auckland on Ist August, due date. A Press Association cablegram published by us yesterday, from London read : — " Mr Charles E. Enson has been appointed commander of H.M.S Orlando." It is probable that this is Mr Anson, brother of Dr Anson, of Wellington. Tenders are invited for the book debts in certain estates as enumerated in the advertisement over the signature of the D.O.A. Other particulars will be supplied on application to Messrs Ratliff Bros., Feilding. The erection of stockyards at Makino station, for which Mr Stevens, M.H.R., has been asking would only, the Minister of Railways says, benefit a few largo owners, and as there is another fully equipped station near, he does not consider the erection of yards justified. On Wednesday, August 14th, a fancy dress skating carnival will be held at the Excelsior Skating Rink, when two valuable prizes will be given, 'namely, the lady wearing the best fancy dress will be presented with a gold bangle, aud the gentleman wlio wears the best fancy dress, with a gold scarf pin. The prizes will be awarded by independent judges.