Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 69, 18 September 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

A telephone exchange is being started in New Plymouth. The Excelsior Skating Rink will be open this evening. To-morrow will be the commencement of the Jewish year 5656. Mr O'Riley has purchased the Awahuri Hotel and takes possession at once. The Oddfellows social and dance will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Wednesday, September sth. Mr E. Fcek, hairdresser and tobacconist, has several interesting notices in out wanted column to-day. The Feildmg Football Club's concert ■will be held in the Assembly Rooms tomorrow evening. Additions are now made to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Colyton sale. We hear that Mr C. A. W. Hunt, late of Colyton, has leased the Provincial Hotel at Napier, and takes possession on the 24th instant. There will be a partial eclipse of the sun to-morrow morning, commencing at 6.26 a.m. The middle will be at «.14 | a-m. and the end at 9.59 a.m. Only five appointments will be made to the Legislative Council, and Sir Geo. Grey will be one of the nnmber should he return to the colony. The Paraekaretu Express says " Mr Ward is not a heaven-born financier, even in the eyes of the hitherto obedient and subservient followers of the Ministry." A Vie. lawyer the other day explained that for the last two years he had lived on articled clerks. Five at a premium of £200 each was a good lift in dull times On the voyage of the ship Westlancl from Liverpool to WeJliDgtOD, in two days several hundred ships were passed, all bound Home. In one watch alone no fewer than 62 ships were passed. A well known Feilding man said today, " Well, if I pull through the eclipse of the sun to-morrow morning, I'll pay my subscription to the paper, the very next instant minute ; see if I don't." The rates of interest on fixed deposits has been reduced by the Bank of New Zealand to the following :-Three months li per cent ; six months, 2£ per cent : twelve months, 3|. Mr J. Cobbe, direct importer of drapery and clothing, has a replace advertisement in to-day, which should prove of interest to buyers of good spring and summer clothing. Mr W. Hodren's replace advertisement anent that king of table waters Biaris will appear to-morrow. Mr Hodren is agent for the famous Puriri and Te Aroha mineral waters. The mortal remains of the late infant son of Mr T. H. James were interred in the Feilding cemetery yesterday afternoon, a number of local residents joining in tbe cortege. The Rev Inues Jones conducted the burial service. j Yesterday afternoon, Georee Harry, infant son of Mr E. Adams, of Taonui, succumbed to an attack ol bronchitis, at the age of ten months. The funeral will leave Mr Adams' residence for the [ Feilding cemetery at 10.30 on Friday j morning. To-night the anniversary of the Wesleyan Christian Endeavour Society will be celebrated. Delegates are expected to be present from societies in all parts of the district. An excellent programme has been arranged, particulars of which are given in advertisement. The poles to connect Waituna with Feilding by telephone are being put on the ground, but as the men employed by the Government for this work are busy it is not expected they will be able to commence erecting them until towards the end of October. It is estimated that up till 1892 English capitalists were accustomed to invest £30, 000,000 yearly in America, chiefly in railway stocks. Tbe uneasiness caused by American monetary system checked this investment, and this is said to account for the vast accumulation of private deposits in the Bank of England. The committee of tbe Feilding Debating Society met yesterday afternoon and arranged that the next meeting of the Society should be devoted to readings and recitations, and that on October I3th, there should be a debate on tbe question " Should museums, art galleries and public libraries be open on Sundays." The Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, advertises notices relative to a special rate of one twelfth of a penny in the ponnd to pay interest on portion of loan for the erection of a bridge on the Feilding-Ash-urst road, and of one penny in the pound to provide interest on half the post of ! constructing a bridge over the Kiwitea stream on a deviation of the KimboltoD road. The fifth ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company will be held on Wednesday, September 25th, at 7.30 p.m. The business will be to receive report and balance-sheet, elect two directors in lieu of Messrs Bruce and Buchanan, who retire by rotation but are elegible for reelection, to elect auditors and general. A special meeting will be held after the above to confirm resolutions making alterations in the Articles of Association. The Nelson Colonist says;— There are a great many in Nelson who will be sorry that Mr E. J. Barltrop is about to leave Nelson. Ma E. J. Barltrop is a native of Nelson, and for a number of years he has held a clerkship in, the offices of Messrs Adams and Kingdon. Outside of his actual work he has taken much interest in Volunteering and in Friendly and other Societies. He is now Lieutenant in the Nayal Artillery, and before obtaining his commission, fi,e worked up through all the grades. We understand that from a large number of applicants Mr E. J. Barltrop has been selected for a position of trust in the of- ; fice of Messrs Good bebereand Richmond, a firm of solicitors in Feilding, and we heartily wish him success in his new sphere.

Richardson, the crack Surrey bowler, in the coarse of an interview has expressed the belief that the Englishmen would secure fairly easy victories over the next team of Australian cricketers to visit England. Mr Wilson has given notice to ask the Minister for Public Works if be will exercise his powers under clause 12 of the contract of 1882 entered into between the Government and tbe Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and give the Company notice to reduce their freight rate on sheep to that at present in force upon the Wellington and Masterton Railway. Emperor William in said to have no love for Americans. It was noticeable that few, if any, received invitations for the Kiel Canal celebration. Confirmation of his dislike is said to be shown in an autograph letter inviting an English nobleman wikh whom tb» Kaiser is intimate to be bis personal and unofficial guest. Tbe letter ended with tbe phrase, " There will be no Americans present, them." ' A Shareholder' in a letter to the Southland Times, says -.-"From a careful study of the share list of this bank (New Zealand) I find there are 3234 shareholder?. Of these 1137 are in New Zealand, 776 in Australia, 964 in England, 257 in Ireland ; 285 esquires, 371 gentlemen, 208 widows, and 68 ministers— Wesleyan and Presbyterian ministers seem in large proportion. It so appears that 1137 live in New Zealand, and 1997 out of it, and of course not subject to laws made by the New Zealand Government,". No fewer than 16,000 free railway passes and miners' rights have been issued to so-called unemployed in Victoria during the last two years. A singular rush of applicants for these documents to enable the holders to reach Echuca and Swan Hill occurred lately, and no new rush having been recorded from these parts the Minister for Mines became suspicious. Ho had some thirty , of the applicants into his room, aud discovered that they were bound across the border for the shearing. Free railway passes have, therefore, been stopped for a time.