Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 68, 17 September 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets foi the football concert on Thursday next. Numerous additions are made to-day to the entries tor Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmers ton N. and Colyton sales. " Zere are two classes of beopla who sing. In ze vnn class La Sfencali — in ze ozzer all ze ozzer singers '.''—Trilby. There will be no practice of the Harmonic Society on Thursday next, as the Football concert will be held that evening. A plain and fancy dress masquerade skating carnival is announced to take place at the Excelsior Rink on Wednesdar, October 2nd. The KangitiKei Cycling Club (Marton) will open the season on the 25th instant by holding two road races — 1 mile maiden and o mile open. Messrs Stevens and Wood, of the Phoenix sawmill, at Awahuri, have an important announcement in our wanted column, of special interest to those about to build. The junior rep. football match, which was to have been played at Palmerston to-morrow between the Horowhenua and Manawatu juniors, has been postponed until the 2oth instant. We regret to learn of the death of the wife of Sergeant-Major McMillan which took place at Wanganui yesterday. We sympathise with the bereaved husbaud, and every volunteer in the district will join us in our expression of regret for his loss. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the Government inspection parade on Thursday next, and as Colonel Fox will pay his annual visit in a few weeks, it will be well for each member to avail himself of every opportunity of getting instruction in the new drill. We remind our readers of the Wesleyan Christian Endeavour anniversary to be held at the local church to-morrow evening. A glance at the advertisement will give assurance that a most excellent programme has been provided. Admission is free, a collection will be made. Christchurch Truth says:— 1 ' The villagers " idea who discuss matters at the parish pump (artesian, no doubt) is to tax the people "who keep two dog carts rather than pnt taxes on the necessaries of life. It is always " The other fellow " who should be taxed and •' not we ourselves." The Feilding Golf Club will send a team to Palmerston to-morrow, to play a match with the Manawatu Club. The following players will represent the former : — Messrs C. H. Coote (captain), W. T. Grant, H. P. Lance and A. Levett. These players will leave Feilding by the 11 a.m. train. In another column Mr F. Whitlock, of Wauganui, the well known manufacturer of all kinds of pickles, sauces, and cordials has an advertisement to which we direct the attention of our readers. We may state that everything turned out from the factory of Mr Whitlock is absolutely pnre in every respect. The totalisator in France last year returned £108,000 for the charities, and £104,000 available for the encouragement of the breeding of thoroughbreds A new machine has been introduced by which horses may be backed for either a win or a place, with automatic registers supplying one copy for the club and one for the Government auditors. We learn from the Mercury that Mr J. Harris has received from the Crown Lands Office the necessary documents enabling him to transfer his late son's section in the Marton F.H. Association to a bona fide purchaser. This was one of the sections forming the subject of the late enquiry of the Land Board at Marton. A correspondent writes : — A wellknown contractor passing Davis' cutting on the Waituna road, a place known as a menace to travellers and a reproach to the local body, offered to make an effective alteration of the grades for about i'3O. He would employ 15 men with 4 drays and ask that traffic be diverted via Wilson's for about 6 days. Surely this might occur to the members of the board. On the occasion of the sale by auction of the stock in trade of Mrs E. Parr, Mr Carr will also offer a valuable section in Denbigh square, the property of Mr John Saxon, on which there is a new dwelling house with seven rooms, outhouses, etc., also the three sections adjoining. No better opportunity of acquiring such a convenient and valuable building and laud has been offered for some considerable time. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening to strike special rates of Id and one-twelvth of a penny in the £ to cover the interest on the Feilding Borough's shares of the cost constructing the Kiwitea and Mangaone bridges respectively. The Councillors present were — Messrs G. W. Fowles, A. R. Allan, E. Goodbehere, W. A. L. Bailey, and the Mayor (Mr W. A. Sandilands.) The polls on the proposals to raise loans of £1750 and £650 for the construction of the Mangamako road and Otara bridge approach respectively were taken on Saturday last and resulted in both loans being carried by substantial majorities. This will be an indication to the Kiwitea County Council that the settlers interested are desirous that a bridge across the Rangitikei river at Otara should be constructed, and it is probable that body will take the necessary steps at once to accede to the wishes of their ratepayers. On the 27th instant a complimentary concert will be tendered to Mr F. W. Treseder on the occasion of his departure from Feilding to the United States of America. During bis residence here Mr Treseder has on every occasion given his services as a musician freely and willingly to every benefit concert at which he has been invited to assist, while his popularity with his audiences bas always been a marked feature. He is without exception the most popular amateur vocalist who has ever appeared in public it the district. A good programme bas been provided, and we have every confidence that a bumper house will wish " good speed " to a parting guest who has done so much to help others in well doing.

General Booth, of the Salvation Army, accompanied by Commander G. A. Pollard, Colonel Lawley, Major Walan, and Staff-Captain Heather, were passengers from London to Capetown by the Rimutaka. * There are few branches of sport in Feilding that excite and claim so much of the interest and support of the whole community as football, and further evidence will be given of the very hearty and energetic manner in which the local club's committee work for the game and the welfare of the Feilding Football Club. We refer to the concert, the programme of which speaks for itself, that is to be given here on Thursday evening and to which we can honestly recommend all lovers of good music and all those who have a kindly feeling for good sport to attend. The Law Times is watching New Zealand legislation, and apparently does not hold it in very high respect. It notices the Bill to forbid Judges commenting on evidence, and remarks that " New Zealand delights in legislative experiments. What its Legislature passes to day it sometimes repeals to-mor-row. Out of 5000 statutes, the aggregate fruit of its law-making, it has up to the present date repealed 4500, so that 90 per cent are but a printed monument of misapplied energy, or freetrade in legislative fads."