Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 61, 9 September 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Pohangina County Council will meet on Saturday next. Mr C. Carr will hold his monthly stock sale at Birmingham to-morrow. The annual dance in connection with the Birmingham Football Club will be held on "Wednesday eyening. Mr Haggen has resigned the position of Mayor of Woodville as he has changed his residence to Wellington. There was a good attendance at the Excelsior Skating P.ink on Saturday evening. General Booth will pay another flying visit to the colonies this year. He is already en route. A general meeting of members of the Feilding Fire Brigade will be held this evening at 7 sharp. The annual meeting of the Birmingham Cricket Club will be held to-mor-row evening, at 5 o'clock, in Mr E. Sandcrnan's office. The proprietors of the Evening Post have accepted a tender of L7OOO for the erection of a new building in Willis street. The lambing season at Campbclltown promises to be good this year. One farmer has already an average of 10G per cent. A public debate will be held in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening between the Pakncr.ston and Feilding societies. Notice is given by the Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, that all Borough rates outstanding at the end of the current mouth will be sued for. We have to thank the courteous secretary of the Rangitikei Hunt Club, Marton, for a complimentary ticket for the race meeting on Wednesday and Thursday next. In order to put travellers on land on the same level with those who go down to the sea in ships, it lias been suggested that "Fire drill" should be held in every hotel in the colony at certain intervals. The idea is worthy of consideration. W T e are sorry to have to announce the death of Margaret Jessie, a daughter of Mr and Mrs W. G. Haybittle, which took place j'esterday after a long illness. We sympathise with the parents and relations who have been unsparing in their kind attention to the little one, in their bereavement. The funeral will take place te-morrow at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when the cortege will leave the residence of Mrs John Bartholomew, senr., Kimbolton road. The Frances Ross Dramatic Company will arrive to-day, and appear to-night at the Assembly Rooms, in the great sensational drama " Queen's Evidence," of which we gave a full plot in Saturday's issue. Mr Angus, the possessor of a sweet tenor voice will sing " My Sweetheart when a boy," and •' My Pretty Jane." Mr Blake, the popular barritone of the company, will sing " Queen of the Earth*" The Palmerston press speaks highly of this performance and we trust to see a good house. Very many residents in this district will learn with deep regret the death of the wife of Mr William Park, recently Mayor of Palmerston North, which took place on Saturday last after an illness, caused by a trap accident, which extended over a year. She leaves behind her husband and a family of ten children to mourn her loss. We sympathise with them most sincerely. The deceased was a most estimable lady, distinguished for her amiability, charitable disposition, and sincere piety. The funeral will take place at Palmerston North to-morrow afternoon. With reference to the re-erection of the Manawatu Gorge bridge, Mr Couway at Saturday's meeting of the Manchester Road Board, suggested that a meeting of ratepayers should be held at Ashurst with a view to pushing on the work. The chairman (Mr Lethbridge) agreed to the suggestion and said he understood from Mr Piraui, M.H.R., that the Government would grant a subsidy of £ for £ towards its erection. It was ultimately arranged to hold a meeting of ratepayers at Ashurst on Monday, September 16th. As to the proposed bridge atHokowhitu, Mr Bray, senr., said that he had laid off a road from the proposed site to Fitzherbert at an estimated cost of 11400. Now that a good road could be made on the other side of the river some of the settlers interested would probably support the construction of the road in preference to the bridge. Another of the founders of the colony has died. The Hon Walter D. D. Mantell, M.L.C., expired at his residence, Wellington, on Saturday night aged 75 years. Mr Mantell left England in 1839 iD company with Mr Molesworth and many others who took a prominent part in the early history of the colony, and arrived here in 1840. He founded the settlement of Wanganui for the New Zealand Land Company and was a commissioner appointed in 1848 to settle Native titles in the South Island. Mr Mantell, too, was in Otago in the early days. Deceased was Minister of Native Affairs in the Fox Ministry of 1861 and also in the Weld Ministry in 1874. In 1862 he was Postmaster-General and Secretary of Crown Lapds under Mr Domett. He was for a time member of the House of Representatives and in 1866 was nominated a member of the Legislative Council. He had attended at his place iv the Upper House almost every day this session, and his somewhat sudden demise was due to failure of the heart's action.