The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1895. Local and General News.

The Feilding portion of the San j Francisco mail arrived yesterday afternoon. Tonders close for painting the Feilding Primitive Methodist Church on Monday next at 5 p.m. j Mr Brent, cabinetmaker, received the eoutracfc for supplying six Aoaen Austrian chairs for the new Volunteer Drill Hall. The twelve months old child of a Thames resident named Dix fell on a broken glass bottle, and gouged one of ita eyes out. Entries for Messrs Abraham ancl Williams' Palmerston sale, and additions to the Awahuri sale of the firm, are advertised to-day. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society is sending away a consignment of 5000 brown trout ova to Waipiro Bay, on the East coast. At a recent social gathering in the United States the chairman proposed this toast: — " Woman ! — once man's superior, now his equal." Two hundred designs have been received for the new issue ol postage stamps. The Board of Experts consider them on Monday next. A woman went to the Police Court in Dunedin the other day, and asked to be locked up, as she had no home and no place to go to. Tomorrow night the Rev J. Cocker will conduct a memorial service in memory of the late Mrs Wise, he will take as his subject the Fading Leaf. The Standard says:— A movement is on foot to get the Key Mr Judkins, of Feilding, to take charge of the Palmerston Wesleyan circuit during tbe Hey W. Lce"s absence in Englaud. (Mr Judkins has also been invited to go to Wellington). At the Counties Conference Mr You Reden said that several station holders in the North Waiiarapa had eacii given as many as 2000 meals to swaggers in the course of a year. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Cricket Club will be held in Mrs Hastie's Hotel this evening at 7.30 p.m, Members and intending members arc requested to roll up sharp. A new advertisement appears to-day from Mr A. Paterson, tailor, of Wellington, whose significant motto is, " Persevereuce, industry and skill" in his business, and " Value, quality andjstyle " in his work. Who shall successfully compete with the Victorian butter maker? " One big Victorian dairyman employs on his estate about 30 men, mostly Italians and Chinese, at wages varying from os to 10s per week. The Hon Mr Larnach thinks Government should borrow i.'5,000,000 to push on public works. Financial rest, he says, means financial decay, financial senility and financial rot. Just so, but what does fiuaucial plunging mean *? That Mr James Smith, of Tc Aro House, is determined to clear out all surplus wiuter stock is apparent judging of the extraordinary low prices quoted at his great winter sale now briskly going on at the Feilding branch. A troublesome epidemic has been lately taking hold of several children in Nelson. The complaint takes the form by violent vomiting, pains iv the stomach, and in some instances sore throats. A few solitary cases have been observed in Napier. Napier News. A woman auctioneer has made her appearance in Loudon. The avocations that were heretofore monopolised by mau are now being gradually invaded by the fair sex, and the time does not seem to be far distant when man and woman shall meet on a strict equality iv every walk in life. We are informed that what are known as gum boots, those worn exclusively by diggers and seamen, and which have hitherto been free of duty, are now charged 2y per ceut duty ad valorem. This is an absolutely prohibitive addition to the price of articles of this class. —Post. Our (Standard) Pohangina correspondent writes : — The School Committee have had a fine large sheltcished erected, and the grounds cleared up. The improvement is very great. — There is to be a dance in the Hall on Friday, 30th August. It commences at 7 p.m. and lasts till 12. Admission, one shilling, ladies free. The proceeds will be devoted to the building fund. Mrs Mackay, the wife of a furniture maker, attended a skating carnival at Bendigo, on July 24th, ancl on leaving the hall about midnight trod on a lucifer. She was dressed in light clothing, representing the character of " Snow." and it immediately took fire. A constable threw his overcoat over her, extinguishing the flames. She was badly burned about the arms chest and face. ' Twelve months ago last June a Mr Scott, employed oa a plantation at Vuva, Fiji, purchased one ticket iv the Van Dieman's Liand Bank Lottery, and won prize five. This is a farm of 1121 acres arable land on the Huon River, Tasmania, with an orchard of 42 acres attached, and is valued at £*6,500. Mr Scott, it appears, has been in Fiji for 18 months, and is going to claim his windfall, but iutends to return and reside in Fiji. A few years ago he won .£'l2o in one of Tattersall's sweeps. The Colonial Treasurer is a little late in taxing horses arriving from Australia. According to letters received from (Sydney horses have risen there by from £4 to £5 a head, and the supply has greatly fallen off. At sales afc Carnperdown lately, unbroken draught colts brought up to i; 19 10s, a rise of £5 a head ; and when to this is added £1 a head duty, it brings the cost of landing them here beyond the value of our own stock. Only five arrived by the Wakatipu this trip — for Haggerty Bros,, of Dunedin. Space had been booked for 30, but the rise in value and the duty prevented them being shipped.— Post. The City of Melbourne Bank, "which figures prominently just now, owing to the fact that efforts are being made to reconstruct it a second time, illustrates forcibly that the Australian colonies ! have not washed themselves clean of the banking crisis of 1893. The run on the banks and their inability to cope with the peremptory demands of depositors, compelled no less than thirteen monetary institutions to temporarily close theii* doors and reconstruct: Bah k ■ ing institutions are not the only ones that are subject to sudden depjands, other establishments find themselves unexpectedly called upon to meet a strong demand, and instance of this is afforded by the Empire Tea Company, which exults in the fact that during the past three or four months, there has been a welcome run on its blended teas. Consumers, however, have no occasion to be alarmed, as there is not the least chance of the supply running short, nor of tlie quality deteriorating. The Empire Tea Company, unlike a banking institution, heartily appreciates the i*H» on its teas. '

To-morrow's services in connection with the Wesleyan church aro announced by advertisement. Iv the evening tbe Rev W. H. Judkins will continue the subject that he has lately been considering at the evening services. We have to go abroad to learn strange facts. The Imperial Institute Journal for June, contains the following ;— " The Imperial Government having conceded to New Zealand an extension of the Coinage Act, that Colony will, it is expected, undertake the coinage of its own monej'. Messrs Reid and Gray have forwarded to Mrs Steward (wife of the unfortunate man who was recently shot by Keown, of Balfour) a cheque for .£25. It was while performing his duty as bailiff in a case in whicii Messrs Reid and Gray were interested that Stewart was shot, and the firm in question have expressed in this substantial way their sympathy with Mrs Stewart at the unfortunate termination of the affair. — Taieri Advocate. __™„____~n-_