Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 80, 1 October 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Thc Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The Borough Council meets on Thursday next. The directors of the Building Society met this afternoon. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a sale at their Waituna yards to-morrow. A social and dance will be given in aid of the Awahuri Public Library tomorrow evening. The Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles will meet in the orderly room tbis evening. It is stated that there are now over 50 brokers in and around the Auckland goldfields, all making a living. Thc following are the vital statistics for Paimerston North for September : — Births, 38 ; deaths, 8 ; marriages, 8. A lady asked " How can men be expected to understand women, when women do not understand themselves?" Michael Davitt intends to visit New Zealand about the end of this month, leaving for Home on tlio 30th November by the Alameda. Messrs Barraud and Abraham have received their usual supply of entry forms from the secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, for the forthcoming show. Intending exhibitors are reminded all entries close on October 10th. A man found guilty in London recently of obtaining goods by false pretences appealed tp the judge not to pass too light a sentence upon him, or he , the prisoner, woulcl be all the mor e severely dealt with on tho judgment day. To-morrow afternoon a match will be played on the Feilding Golf Club's links, the' local club against the Manawatu Golf Club. Feilding will be represented by Messrs C. H. Coote, H. Lance, W, Dickon and W. T. Grant. The match will start at 12.45 p.m. sharp. Messrs P. B. Burgoyne and Co. report that the imports of Australian wines into England for the seven months ending July last were 337,708 gallons, against 229,203 gallons for the corresponding period of 1894, showing an increase of 108,505 gallons. To-day Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise that on Thursday the 10th instant, they will sell at Paimerston N. under the instructions of the Public Trustee, administrator in the estate of J. S. Mansfield, a lunatic, a valuable section in the Kairanga Block, particulars i of which can be seen in the advertisement. Additions are made to the Paimerston stock sale of the firm to beheld on October 3rd. There was a fair attendance at the Band of Hope meeting in the Temperance Hall last evening. The programme was contributed to by the following : — Mrs Thompson ancl Miss Brunette, songs: recitations, Misses Cissy Gould and Hilda Spence, Masters Stanley Shearer and Harold Eade ; duet, Messrs A. Williamson and W. G. Shearer ; quartette, Miss Hamilton and Miss Gould, Messrs Williamson and Franklin ; pianoforte solo, Mrs Caldwell ; pianoforte duet, Mrs Caldwell and Miss A. Smith. Mr Wood occupied the chair. The following are the handicaps for the cycling road race to be held to-mor-row afternoon : - J. H. Mingins, scratch ; J. Watson, 75yds ; E. A. Feek, 125yds ; A.H. Way and C. Staffan, 150yds; A. Bailey, 180yds ; N. Bray, 215yds ; Jos. Gould, 300yds. The course will be from North street where it crosses the Makino road (opposite Mr Bagnall's) around by the English Church to Manchester street, finishing in Manchester Square. The race will start at 4.30 p.m. Mr Gapper will act as starter, and Messrs H. W. Davy and E. Mills as judges. In another column will be found a notico which should prove of more than usual interest to the owners of thoroughbred marcs in tbis district, the stallion Handsome Jack being advertised as at their service. This son of the celebrated horse St Leger has been purchased by Mr W. F. Mcßeth, of Kiwitea, who js now in Auckland and will arrive in Foild? ing iu a clay or two with his recentlyacquired horse. As is "well known to racing men, St Leger is sire of tho " crack " New Zealand horse St Hippo, now in Melbourne and odo of the favorites for the Melbourne Cup tobe decided on November s'sli. Handsome Jack's dam is Radiant, bis pedigree, therefore, being undeniable aiid be iri one of tho \jesfc bred horses that has ever been at tlio service of breeders in this district. Mr Mcßeth has some of the bost brood mares in the district, iucludiug the Traduccr nmrc Jenny Lind, Propeller, Perla and several others, ancl ho is to be eon--4>:?.t.nlatcd on securing such a well-bred lip.se foi* this district as Handsome Jack.

Mr Baker, Crown Lands Commissioner, and Mr Lundius. were in Feilding to-day. Mr Fry reports the rainfall at Makino for September, 1895 : — 3*Bo inches ; for September, 1894— 3 02 inches. The Napier branch of the Salvation Army collected j.58 during self-denial week. Last year £34 12s was realised, over £30 below Wanganui. Last week Miss Webster and the Misses Reid (2), who are about to take up missionary work in China under the China Inland Mission, left for their destinations. ! The wealth of the Rothchilds at present is estimated at L400,000,000. and is believed to have doubled within the past 20 | years. It is calculated that in 70 years more they willjpossess L15,000,000,000, an amount that can hardly be conceived. A Napier firm (says an exchange), advertising for an office boy stipulated that he must have passed the sixth standard. Two applied and on being tested were not able to do correctly a simple addition sum This is an indication of a hole somewhere in our education system. A special attraction for to-morrow's half-holiday will be the re-openiug services in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church. The service begining at 3 p.m., and will be followed by a public tea and meeting afterwaads. We strongly advise our readers to be present. We are (authorised; to state, on the information of Mr Blundell, the Deputy Inspector of stock, that the customers of Mr Norman, of Feilding, butcher, need have no fear of their being supplied with any meat tainted on account of the cattle ordered to bo destroyed at his slaughter yards. Every precaution was taken. The effect which Mr Ziman's enterprise is having on properly in the Reefton district, says ths West Coast Times, was amply demonstrated the other day. Some little time ago an hotel in Broadway was purchased for L400 ; a buyer now can be found for L7OO. In many other directions a similar rate of increase is noted. We learn that very satisfactory progress is being made with the model for the marble statue of the late Hon. J. Ballance. The Chairman of the Wanganui Committee inspected the work during a recent visit to Wellington, and reports favourably as to its merits. The pedestal is approaching completion also, the material being of polished granite. We request the attention of our advertisers and subscribers to a notice which appears to-day over leader. Many of these accounts are for very small sums which iu the aggregate make a considerable totai aud, also, many of them have beeu outstanding for more than a reasonable time. We request therefore that they be settled with all possible des- , patch, Messrs Spence aud Spence are now showing all the novelties of the season imported direct per steamers Gothic, Aorangi and Aotea. Tbe selection of new summer goods is the largest they have shown and for quality and style is unsurpassed. Ihe Bon Marche will be found quite up to date especially as regards millinery, prints, aud dress materials and blouses. No trouble has been spared to make the Masquerade Carnival to be held tomorrow evening at the Excelsior Skating Rink a pronounced success. We have been requested to state that the wearing of masks is optional. A large attendance is anticipated ancl as many of the dresses will be not only novel but beautiful the judges appointed to award the prizes will have no easy task to decide. The vital statistics of the Foilding district for this year to date are — Births, 135 ; deaths, 29 ; marriages, 16. Duriug 1894 to the same date they were— Births, 129 ; deaths, 17 ; marriages, 28. The birth rate is holding its own, but the bottom has fallen out of the marriage market. We may expect a resumption of the wedding festivities during this lovely weather. When the American line steamer New York arrived at New York lately, a paspassenger named Nystrom, who had travelled as a man, was found in reality to be a woman. She refused to allow the doctor to vaccinate her, ancl it was not until compelled to bare her arm for the operation that the discovery of her sex was made. She confessed that she had adopted the disguise in order to escape from her husband, who treated her with cruelty. The passengers got up a subscription to aid her which realised lOOdols. The pet vanities of men, says Mrs Lynn Linton, in the Idler, makes a large order, and she asks, " where do they end ?" " Where one gives his soul to neckties, another puts his salvation in pipes ; where one plumes himself on his form at golf, another prides himself v on his skill in saving his partner's hand, and drawing out his opponent's trumps. Some men are vain in their power of managing women. Generally these are tbe men whose women manage them — twisting them round their little fingers as easily as the Indian hero twisted round his waist the, ' one-edged sword that coils and bites.' "