The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 33, 7 August 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1895. Local and General News.

The Excelsior Skating Kink will be open this evening. The contractors in the Coal Creek riding of the Pohaugiua County are pushing on steadily with the road formation. The Bulletin says there is some likelihood that Dean and the woman who tried to hang him will " Kiss and make friends."' Men are such fools. The members'.of the Manchester Rifles are reminded that the corps will be inspected to-morrow evening by Lieut.Col. Newall. Messrs Gorton and Son's next stock sale at Bulls will be held on Tuesday the loth inst. The entries will be advertised to-morrow. It is stated that the Directors of the Campbelltown dairy factory are going to pay 4d per gallon for milk during the present month. News from Suva states that a white man named Thos. Belling, aged 70, wellknown in Lavuka and Suva, ha 3 been murdered under mysterious circumstance?. He was found with his head smashed in by an axe. Messrs 11. G. Smith and \V. M'Callutu, two amateur wheelmen of Wellington, have put up a cycling record for the colony, having ridden tandem from Pc tone to Masterton and back to Wei lingfon, a distance of about 1-30 miles in one day. The Directors of the Feilding Permanent Building Society met in the manager's office (2>lv E. Goodbehero) yesterday afternoon and dealt with a number of applications. This society is now doing remarkably well. The widow of Vincent Wallace, the composer of " Maritana," is over eighty years of age, and is living in poverty in England. She was well known as a brilliant pianist under her maiden name Heleue Stocpcl. It seems that many people in San Francisco save up their dead all the week in order to have the funeral on Sunday, as a ministers meeting was held recently in order to protest against the practice. Notice is given to-day that at the next Licensing meeting to be held at Marton, on September 10th, Mrs M. Oliver will apply for a transfer of the license of the Empire Hotel, Feilding, to Mr W. Corby her lessee. Mr George Rankin, junr., has a notice in to-day stating he has taken over the business of Messrs Rankin and Son, at Apiti. As Mr Rankiu has the reputation of being a thorough good tradesman he is certain to be liberally patronised. The following books have been added I to the Library : " Troy Town," by " Q ;" " Seven Little Australians ;" " The Ivory Gate," by W. Besant ; " Briar and Psalm," by H. Sergeant ; " The Greater Glory," by M. Martin ; " A Daughter of the King," by G. Allen. The following players will represent Colyton in a footbail match against Pohangina, to be played next Saturday : — Corkery, Smith (2), Bailey, Henery, Gibson, Dunn, Stewart, Crichton, Evans, Turner, Ivess, Gledhill, Greig ; emergencies, Lankshear and Evans. Preparations are being made to hold a temperance demonstration at Birmingham on Sunday, September Ist, when it is expected the Good Templar Lodges at Feilding, Apiti, and Rangiwahia will be represented. A concert in connection therewith will bo held on September 4th. The Police in Palmerston North are determined to put down Sunday trading or supplying liquor after hours. One hotel keeper was fined £5 for the latter offence, and a similar sum for allowing the "gentle game" of Yankee grab to be played. This ought to be?a broad hint to those interested. The Tivoli Specialty Company will give one of their popular entertainments at the Assembly Rooms to-night (Wednesday) and to-morrow evening (Thursday). This will be the company's farowell appearance in Feildiug, and an entire change of programme is announced for Thursday evening. A new advertisement appears in another column of to-day's issue from that well known and popular firm of drapers and milliners, Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, of Wellington, who announce enormous reductions at their great semiannual sale now being held. For further particulars see advertisement. We have been shown a pair of gent's tan boots, with tops fifteen inches high, made to the order of a local resident for the fancy dress carnival at the Excelsior Skating Rink, on Wednesday, 14th inst. The boots arc made of the best material and are well finished, reflecting credit on the manufacturer, Mr H. L. Jackson. The Birmingham Debating Society held its usual meeting on Wednesday last Mr Morton's house, when Prohibition v. State Monopoly was discussed, the society being all but unanimous that State Monopoly would remedy many of the grosser evils caused by drink. "Is Party Government a failure " forms the subject of next debate. We have received a copy of the sixth annual report aud balance-sheet of the Wellington Meat Export Company for the twelve months ended, June 30th, 1895, to be submitted to the meeting of shareholders to be held in Wellington on Tuesday the 27fch insfc. They show the company to be in a flourishing condition. A dividend of six per cent will be paid. It is with much regret that we have to record the demise of Mr Thomas Smith, who departed this life at about one o'clock this morning, after a brief illness, three days — to the hour — after the death of his wife. The deceased and his family came out to the colony under the auspices of the Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation, in the " Waikato," in the year 1874, and were therefore amongst the first settlers on the Manchester Block. Mr Smith and his sons were actively engaged in contracting for road making for several years and did much good work. In early life Mr Smith served in H.M. 14th Rogiment of Foot, and was stationed for some time in Canada. He was a native of Wiltshire, in England. The deceased couple bore a high character for probity and have brought up well a family of four sous and one daughter who are all in comfortable circumstances. We have been requested to intimate that the funeral of the late Mrs Smith, which was to have taken place to clay, has been postponed until to morrow at 2 p m. so that they they may be laid together in their last resting place. General sympathy has j been felt and expressed for the family , in their bereavements. '

Mr F. Flavall has been appointed Inspector under the Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880, and the amendments thereof. Mr Carr's Birmingham sale yesterday was largely attended, and the entries of stock were fair. The prices realised were well up to recent quotations. Long, the hangman, who services will shortly be required in connection with the execution of Mrs Dtan, has been duly escorted to Wellington from one of 1 his usual back-block retreats. Refering to the notice affixed to Mr Carr's Feilding sale, Mr Booking has requested us to state that he will be glad to meet as many nockowners as possible and hopes they will bring a few sheep for his examination in each case privately. This is au opportunity everyone interested should take the fullest advantage of. A meeting of the Bnnnythorpe School Committee was held on Monday evening and a good deal of routine business was transacted. Mr Espiner complained of the irregular attendance of some of the children, which is of course trying to the teachers and bad for the progress of the scholars. Rumour is already busy with the probabilities of the late Judge Richmond's successor. Amongst the names mentioned are those of District Judge Ward, Mr B. C. Haggett, of Dnnedin, and Mr Theophilus Cooper, of Auckland. The present Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Buckley) is also considered a likely man for the position, especially as the Disqualification Act would not apply to his case, but so far nothing is definitely known. During the public examination of Mr Albert Barns, auctioneer, in the District Court at Wanganui, the bankrupt admitted that he had not kept a " Trust account," as required by the " Auctioneer's 4ct, 1891," tieetiou IU. His Honour remarked that the provisions of the Act should certainly be enforced unless it was to become a dead letter. Section 27, of the Act provides that, should any auctioneer be convicted of a breach of section 19, his license shall be ipso facto forfeited. The Debating Society meeting' last evening was largely attended by members and visitors. The subject discussed was " Should the liquor traffic be abolished or placed more directly under State control." Mr S. Andrews led the debate and spoke in favor of prohibition. Mr J. Black opening in the negative in support of a modification of the Gothenburg system of State restriction. Messrs J. C. Thompson, W. G. Shearer and the Rev H. M. Murray in favor of prohibition aud tho Rev Lines Jones, Messrs Cooper and J. 11. Stevens in favor of State restriction.