The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 59, 6 September 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1895. Local and General News.

Tbe Banking Bill yesterday received the Governor's assent. The Feilding S.M. Court was sitting this afternoon as we went to press. The Manchester Road Board will meet to-morrow. There are 151 women in charge of railway stations in Victoria. At a sale of greyhounds in Melbourne one dog was withdrawn at 210 guineas. Some very heavy showers of rain fell yesterday afternoon. For a few minutes the down pour was almost tropical. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows will be held in the Foresters' Hall at 7.00 this evening. _ A public debate will be held in the Assembly Booms on Tuesday next between the Palmers,t9.n and Feilding Debating Societies/

Mr T. Watson will deliver his popular lecture " From Savannah to Rapabannock " in the Kiwitea Hall this evening, commencing at 7.30. No fewer than 500 meals to unemployed men were given at the Napier Salvation Army barracks in July and August, and 208 found a night's shelter there. Practical Christianity. To-day Mr Hamilton, florist, received at his establishment, next to Mr Carthew's, some really splendid magnolias, camelias, filberts, chestnuts, walnuts, etc., all ready for planting out. We are requested to state the great sale of drapery now going on at Te Aro House will positively close in a few days. Meantime the purchasing public are reminded of the great sale of remnants which are clearing out rapidly. An ex-Victorian settler of considerable experience has taken up a section of land on the Main North Road to Auckland, at a distance of 50 miles from Stratford, and intends growing medicinal plants, for which the soil and climate are admirably adapted. In another column of this issue appears a replace advertisement from Mr J. B. Beckley, proprietor of Sherborne House, in which particular attention is drawn to the fact that he has engaged a practical dressmaker, who will be prepared to execute orders with promptitude. Satisfaction in style and fit are guaranteed. The following are the results of school examinations. Sandon— PreseDt 109, passed 84. Standard VI., presented 4, ] passed 4 ; Standard V., presented 12, passed 9 : Standard IV., presented 27, passed 12 ; Standard 111., presented 24, passed 21 ; Standard 11., presented 29, passed 26. The percentage of passes was 79. According to a return laid on the table of the House, of 24665 convictions for drunkenness during 1894 only 421 of the persons convicted were New Zealand born Europeans, while of a total of 565 prisoners now in gaol 135 are New Zealanders, being equal to 24 per cent. At the census of 1891, ont of the total population over 15 years of age 33-89 were New Zealand born. The N.Z. Shipping Company's R.M.S. Ruahine sailed from Lyttclton yesterday for London, via Monte Video, with a full cargo and a number of passengers. Included in the cargo are 52,000 carcases of mutton. 1850 carcases of lamb, 25,000 bales of wool, 80 bales of skins, 390 bales of leather and basils, 1028 sacks of grass seed, 500 boxes of butter, 399 cases of gum and 7 boxes of gold. Yesterday afternoon the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr G. Caiv,on, met the Fcilding School Committee and discussed the matters which caused the friction between the head master of the school and the committee. After discussion between the parties an amicable solution of the difficulty was arrived at, Mr Hill on the one side aud the committee on the other agreeing to let bygones be bygones. The Pohangina County Council invite tenders for the following works, up to noon on September 15th .-—Small bridge. Awabou vidiug; 10 chains formation, Tamaki riding ; plans, etc., at Palmer's store, Pohaugina ; approach to Oroua bridge, 98 chains sidling Main Ridge road, (in two contracts), plans, etc., at Mr Tompkins, Birmingham ; 30 chains formation and metalling, 112 chains sidling (in two contracts), metalling Mangapikopiko road, plans, etc., at Mr Guy's store, Apiti. All plans and specifications may be seen at the Engineer's office, Palmerston North. By private letter received from Parramatta, N.S.W., we (Mercury) learn that Mr W. F. Downes, manager of the Wanganui branch of the Bank of N.S.W., is still on the invalid list, but writes cheerfully to the effect that he hopes shortly to return to Wanganui. Medical examination has proved that the patient is not suffering as was first supposed from cancer, but from an internal growth seriously affecting the digestive organs and necessitating the most careful treatment. The many friends Mr Downes has throughout the colony would be indeed pleased to learn of his restoration to health. __