The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1895. Local and General News.

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The death is announced iv Wellington of Mr R. Cross, chemist, from cancer of the stomach. The Directors of the Feilding Building Society will meet on Monday afternoon at three o'clock. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams sale at Palmerston on the sth inst are advertised to-day. The Oamarn Mail mentions that the Hon. J. M'Kenzie'e health is better than it has been for & long time. Visiting bowlers have pronounced the Feilding Bowling Club's green to be second to none in the colony. Miss Mason, of Masterton, has been declared bankrupt, her only liability being L 667 to the Bank of New Zealand. Jane Douglas Simpson, aped nine years, daughter of a fruiterer in Dunedin, was killed by falling through a skylight. Mr Charles Carr will sell by auction the privileges of the Feildiug Athletic Sports, in the Assembly Rooms on Monday next. Nominations for all handicap events at the Feilding Athletic Sports, to be held on Boxing Day, close on the 11th December. The school excursion train from Palmerston North reached Napier at noon yesterday, taking about 400 children and adults.— Standard. Mrs Fake, whose husband committed suicide after attempting to murder her at Wellington, has so far recovered that she is now able to leave the hospital. John Marshall's brewery at Woodhaugh (Dunedin) was destroyed by fire yesterday. Insurancec — L3OO on building, LSOO on stock and plant in the Alliance. A Wellington publican has been summoned for a breach of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act in failing to allow one of his barmaids a half -holiday. The Mariposa, with the English Mails of Nov. 2, left Frieeo on Nov. 14, due date. ' The Monowai, with the Colonial mails of Nov. 2, arrived at Frisco on the 22nd, a day late. The two arbitrators in the Midland Railway case have retired from the Commission, being unable to agree. The Hon E. Blake will preside at the commission alone. The Waipawa Mail reports a good shearing record. Recently at Blackhead 26 shearers shore 24,000 dry sheep in six days, an average of 400 per day, or 170 per man. The Committee of the Feilding Athletic Club met in Mr Sherwill's office last evening and transacted some minor business in connection with the forthcoming sports meeting. A Crown Lands notice appears today in which it is intimated section 45 Makaraweka Village Homestead Settle- I ment, will be open for application at a ' date mentioned in the advertisement. ! For the Wangauui Education Board's scholarship examinations, to be held in the Wangauui Boys' School next month, i there are 64 candidates entered, of whom j 24 compete for senior scholarships and 40 for junior. To-morrow morning Mr H. Field, the secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, will preach a special temperance sermon in the Primitive Methodist Church, and the Rev J. Cocker will preach in the evening, strangers invited. ' Yesterday when a farrier was shoeing a horse at Holland and Nissen's, Kiwitea, the animal became restive and fell on the man. The knife which the latter i was using was pressed into the arm cutting the flesh into the bone. The Ruapehu, which leaves Wellington this week, takes a large shipment, 4000 (100 tons) packages of butter from one consignor, 300 of which went from New Plymouth by sea. In addition there is a considerable quantity of cheese sent. An advertisement appears to-day in our wanted column notifying the lecture on the Temperance question in the Temperance Hall on Monday evening. Mr Feild is a popular lecturer and should have a good house, especially as there is no charge for admission. A couple of dogs were seen this morning worrying some fat wethers in a paddock on the Awahuri road, about a mile from the borough boundry, belonging to Mr C. Bull. As the dogs can easily be identified by the persons who saw them the owners of those curs should have them destroyed. This evening in the Assembly Rooms the performance of the Tableaux Vivants will be given in aid of the State School prize fund. As the cause is a good one and the bill of fare attractive, we confidently expect to see a bumper J house. There will be several important changes in the programme, which are i decided improvements. j Mr Harold Williams, who has been selected by the President of the Wesleyan Conference to fill the place of the Rev. W. H. Judkins, in the local Wesleyan Church, arrived yesterday afternoon. Mr Williams is a son of the Rev J. Williams, late President of the Conference, and is a young man of great promise. He ■will occupy the local pulpit at both services to-morrow. While an official was lately overhauling documents jn the New York District Attorney's office, he came across a box containing aearly 2000 indictments for all crimes in the category, including first degree murder. They were filed from 1863 to 1883, and none of thenj show i that the indicted persons were tried or called on to plea.d Some of the indicted persons are said to be conspicuous in New York life at present. A meeting ,of the Executive of the Wanganui Education Board was held on Thursday afternoon. A» application for a teacher was received from the Onga Road Aided School, and it was resolved to point out that the lowest salary for a. ' female teacher would be £50, and to ask to what extent they would supplement it. The Halcombe Committee wrote applying to have the inside of the schoolhouse, pained, and also asking for a set of models ; it was resolved to send the models and refer the matter of painting to the board. A letter from the settlers of Ruahine re the establishment of a school, was referred to the Board. — Chrenicle.