Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 125, 25 November 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Feikiing S.M. Court will meet at 9 a.m. on Friday next. The Kiwitea aud Pohangina County Councils will meet on Wednesday next. Additions are made to-day to Messrs Abraham and Williams Pahnerston sale. There were 1487 arrivals, and 1063 departures in and from the colony last month. An advertiser wants some person to take care of a boy three years of age. Apply Star office. Train services in connection with the Feilding races this week, are advertised to-day. Mr Michael Davitt will be a passenger from Wellington to Napier by the midday train to-day. The body of Mrs Richard Roskruge, of Spring Creek, has been found in the Wairau river, near Marlboroughtown. Captain Edwin wired at 12.55 to-day : — Strong north-west to west and south winds, glass further rise. There will be Mass at St. Bridget's. Feeding, at 21 a.m. Ereu'iDg Service at 3 p-m. A special general meeting of the Feilding Cycling Club will be held to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, in the club's meet-ing-room. A meeting of the committee of the Manawatu Cricket Union will be hold at Light's Hotel, Feilding, on Saturday evening at 6.15 p.m. A year old child of Mr J. Anderson, of Carterton, fell out of a perambulator on to the floor and never recovered consciousness, dying a few hours after. Mr Whit Monckton, son of Dr Monckton, of Feildins?, was a passenger on board the schooner Myrtle which pickod up the survivors of an expedition to German New Guinea. We had quite a long spell of dry weather from about 2 p.m. j'estcrday to 8 a.m. to-day. People were heard sarcastically asking " How long will this drought last ? " This morning Mary Murray and William Harris were each fined ss, and 2s cost for being found drunk on the Kimbolton road on Saturday. Messrs Sherwill and Kirtou, J.'s.P. occupied the Bench. Both were strangers to Feilding. Outside horses have commenced to arrive in Feilding to fulfil their engagements at the Feilding races on Friday and Saturday next, when there should be some good racing, providing the weather is fine. Old Thames residents will learn with regret the death of Mr William Murdoch, owner of Block 27, one of the principal residential sections of the goldtields. The cause of death was blood-poisoning, arising from a carbuncle on the neck. On Friday last while a son of Mr S. Hirst, pf the Coal Creek Block, was playing near a cliff he fell over. Beyond a severe shaking and bruising the lad escaped without serious injury although the cliff was about fifty feet high. There is a prospect of the tableau party giving their excellent performance at/am on Saturday evening next with some changes of programme. They should have a full bouse, as the highest praise has been accorded them by all classes. We understand the entertainment will be given in aid of the school prize funds. The new plan of the town of Palmerston North compiled by Messrs Wyeth and Scott, authorised surveyors, is now completed and ready for issue. Mr C. H. Tomlinson has been appointed agent for Feilding and the surrounding districts which he will visit shortly. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government printer of the Acts passed last session, and from the Department of Agriculture of a copy of a report on the Prospects of Viticulture in New Zealand, by Romeo Bragato, Viticultural expert for the Government of Victoria. The "Feilding Tuis," among whom are several amateurs of recognised musical talent and ability as nigger delineators, will give a performance in the Assembly Rooms on Friday next in aid of the " piano fund " of the Feilding String Band. As the object is a really deserving one we trust the "Tuis" will be liberally supported, A man up New Plymouth way had a horse which would not eat straw. In order to overcome the objection of the animal to this cheap fodder, the owner provided the horse with a pair of green spectacles so that it now eats the straw greedily in the belief it is grass. We fancy we have beard this yarn before but it is new in Taranaki. Over thirty railway employee assembled at the Railway Hotel, at Palmerston, on Saturday evening to commemorate the election of Mr T. "Wilson to the Railway Board of Appeal and to present him with an illuminated testimonial for the services he has rendered to his fel-low-employes in the past. Mr Pirani, M.H.R., made the presentation. An important advertisement appears to-day from Messrs Gorton and Son, who, in thanking the settlers for the genuine support accorded to the firm in the past, now announce that in future they will hold fortnightly sales of stock in Feildißg. Ibe next sale here will take place on December 6th, for which entries are invited. To-day Mr George Thomas, of Arnott street, announces that on and after December Ist, he will open a milk walk in Feilding and suburbs. Mr Thomas has a first class herd of well bred milch cows with a strain of Jersey running through them, and be claims to be able to supply the very best quality of milk. Cream will also be supplied in any quantity. Our readers are reminded of the popular lecture entitled " Tom o' Jack's Lad " to be delivered in the Primitive Methodist Church on Wednesday next. At the close of thp lecture there will be a social gathering, the sole charge of which is in the hands of Mrs Richard Treveua. As the charge for the lecture and social is only one shilling, there ought to be a good attendance.