dLocal and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 95, 18 October 1895, Page 2

dLocal and General News.

The arrivals in the colony in September were 1518, and the departures 989. The Chronicle reports that the Union Bank of Australia contemplates opening a branch at Wanganui. The Manchester Rifles paraded in the Drill Hall last night and were exercised by Lieutenant Barltrop. Train arrangements for the M. and W.C. A. and P. Show, at Palmerston next week, will be advertised to-morrow. The usually fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge will be held in the Foresters Hall at 7.30 p.m. this evening. We understand that there are a number of wool buyers on the coast this year, and a grower was offered Bid per lb for his clip. — Chronicle. Our readers are again reminded of the concert to be given in the Assembly Rooms this evening in aid of the funds of the Feilding Cricket Club. We omitted m our report yesterday of the Wesleyan tea meeting to mention that Mrs Jannings and Mrs Groves provided tables at the tea. Anniversary services will be held in the Wesleyan Church, Birmingham, on Sunday the 27th instant, and a tea will be held on the following Wednesday. Notice is given that all accounts against Carl Marbach, of Halcombe, deceased, must be sent in to the executors care of Mr Schlapback, of Halcombe, before the Bth of November. Mr F. L. Ayson, curator of the Masterton fish hatcheries, was in Palmerston yesterday making arrangements for the distribution of 30,000 trout in the Pohangina and a similar number in the Fitzherbert streams. — Standard. Mr G. Revmgton Jones advertises that he has now for sale the famous Babcock testers. No dairyman should be without one of these useful and profitable machines, which are at the same time remarkably cheap. Yesterday afternoon the shareholders of the M.F.C.A. confirmed the resolution passed at a recent meeting declaring in favor of amalgamation with the Farmers' Alliance. Mr M. Cohen, managing director, presided.. — Standard. Notice is given by Mr Arthur E. Sutton, that in travelling from Cheltenham to Rangiwahia with a mob of yearlings, eight head, also of yearlings, joined his mob somewhere on the road. The owner can have same on paying cost of advertising. Two elopements have given New Plymouth scandalmongers an opportunity of enjoying themselves of late. One determined fellow ran away with the wife of an hotelkeeper, leaving a husband and five children rejoicing. The other case was that an amorous groom, who skipped by lunar light with an unblushing damsel, leaving a deserted wife and numerous progeny to mo,urn their loss. It is uudexstQod the Banks in Feilding will observe Thursday the 24th instaut as a close holiday, fcbajt being the second day of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Show, at Palmerston ». Given fine weather the visitors to the show from Feilding and the surrounding settlements will be far more numerous than on any previous similar occasion. WJiG3 Julias CaDsar conquered Gaul, wjhen Narjojie.og Buonaparte successfully navigated the Ah;-^ jun an open boat, when Wellington beat* jfffco Fronch at Waterloo, when the JEaope^oy V Germany doaned his first pair of panis— -aJJ j of these celebrated uiea may have f eit ! some self- gratification. But aoae ot them on the gre&& occasions mentioned could have experienced the glow of pride j which an ordinary man has after he has i^ad & tpoth pulled. They were not in it.

A great many ladies are going in for bicycilng in Wellington, among others Lady Dorathy Boyle and several Hospital nurses. Apropos of laßt Sunday's fatal gnn accident at "Wellington, Sergeant Sbiriey told the jury at the inquest that he found that on the average there was a fatal Sunday accident of the kind in the colony for every week in the year. — Post.