Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 133, 4 December 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

" Mark Twain " was sixty years of age last Saturday. During November, 1886 persons arrived in the colony, 845 left. Mr N. MoFhee, has been elected Mayor of Danevirke, his opponent beiog Mr A. Mackay. Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold their nsnal stock sale at Palmerston to-morrow. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a special horse sale at their Feildiog yards on Wednesday, 11th inst. The sitting of the Native Land Court at Marton commenced yesterday afternoon, His Honor Judge Ward presiding. While driving home on Sunday last, Mr Venn, of Shannon, was capsized and thrown from his trap, receiving slight injuries. Captain Watt is to be appointed adjutant of the battalion, embracing the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and West Coast districts. There were no less than eighty-eight persons engaged in playing bowls on the Wellington Bowling Club's greens on Saturday afternoon. W. H. Harkins, of Sydney, who vron the Wheel Race, of £100, two miles, at the N.S.W. League's Cycling Carnival, is only 17 years old. A transfer of the license of the Endymion Hotel, Awahuri, from M. Drury to M. O'Reilly was granted by the Palmerston licensing bench yesterday. At the Daaedin Supreme Court, Benjamin Bern, for breach of the Bankruptcy Act, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, without hard labour. Members or the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the inspection to be held this evening by Colonel Fox and Lieut.Colonel Newall. The strictest punctnality is requested. A ribband fish, measuring over 11 feet in length, and 11 inches in depth, was found stranded on the Moturoa beach on Thursday afternoon. This is an exceptionally rare fish. The iron bark piles for the new bridge across the Kiwi tea, on Kimbolton road, have arrived in Feilding, and the contractor, Mr J. Saunders, will commence driving operations at once. Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Bulls on the 10th instant are advertised to-day. The privileges of the Summer Meeting of the Rangitikei Racing Club will be sold the same day. Professor Peart, of Fitzgerald Bros.' circus, made a sensational dive from the mast of the steamer Alamcda in Auckland harbour on Saturday afternoon last. The height is estimated at about 120 ft. It is intended that the opening of the Feilding Bowling green will be celebrated with considerable eclat, and bowlers from all parts of the colony will assist at the ceremony. " Victor " iv the Wanganui Herald says : — The trophies for the two amateur races at Feilding will be valuable ones, and large fields should face the starter. The Wanganni Club are expected to be well represented in both the 100 and 440 yards. The other Sunday morning a man was seen at Port Melbourne sitting dangling his legs over the side oi a email craft. When asked what he was doing, he said, ••Taking a bit of a breeze." He then coolly folded his arms, allowed himself to slide into the water, and was drowned. Mr A. Laing has just had completed a very convenient coach, capable of seating eight passengers inside and three on the box, for use on the road between Birmingham and Feilding. It is very comfortably finished and should be ap- | preciated by passengers on this line oi ooaches. I The annual statement as to the Glasgow building trade was made last month by the Lord Dean of the Guild. The number of buildings erected was the largest for 20 years, while the total value j of the bnildings authorised was .£1,467,- --! 235, being £191,790 more than for the previous twelvemonth, and the highest for 18 years. For the convenience of passengers to and from Plimmerton arrangements have been made with the Wellington-Mana-watu Railway Company for the trains (No 5) to stop when required at Plimmerton to put down passengers from north of Longburn only. On Saturdays the train (No 5) will stop there to put down and take up passengers. At Yaldhurst on Friday morning (says the Christchurch Truth), Sternchaser savaged his attendant, E. Donovan, catching him by the arm and inflicting severe laceration. The horse, which has long earned the character of being of evil disposition, was observed to throw Donovan down, and the probability is that if assistance had not been at. hand, the sufferer would have received a worse mauling. Now that rhubarb is in season the following receipt for making rhubarb wine should be welcomed. It is copied by an Otago exchange from the book of one of the leading ecrdialmanufacturers of Dunedin: — To every 91b of crushed rhubarb nse one gallon of warm water. Soak in cask for one week, then draw off into fresh cask, and add 3|ib of sugar bo every gallon you draw out. Let stand in open cask for a day, then put into cask to ferment through the bunghole. Be sure and have enough to fill the cask and keep a little extra to refill the cask as it is fermenting, which it will do for a fortnight. An easy method to crush the rhubarb is to put it through an ordinary wringing machine. New Zealand has ' whipped creation ' iv its treatment of banking problems' It has first made the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand feel, to the direct extreme, that they have no interest in the colony but to pay up the subscribed capital in f uli. It has then enacted that the depositors of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand sball be deprived of the absolutely sure security they possessed in the assets of the Bank, supplemented by the shareholders' liability of £1,600,---000, and shall have only the guarantee of the Bank of New Zealand partially supplemented by that of the Government, an inferior security as it seems to us. The Government of New Zealand has trampled alike upon the right of shareholders to control their own property »od upon the right of depositors to retain tbd security ctpou which th&y ventured to lead their money.—Melbourne Argus. The "Feilding T«is" are going to repeat at Colyton their programme as recently published in oar columns. The songs, jokes, and pranks, of the darkies both in the opening circle and also £p the concluding farce are as funny as caa be; and as they have been secured by Mr Friberg on behalf of the school funds a, full house should greet them. Owing to the Colyton Hall not being provided wsh scenery pr curtain, Mr Friberg (in the entertainnietti $ome time back) had to procure these at considerable expense. So, although there is more mo#ey in hand, than will be needed fo,r prices, ►there is noh qniio enough to provide for the pfcuie too. Novf it is proposed to devote the $et proceeds of this entertainment to the picnic fund and to improving the school playgrounds. 'There should be a hamper house, .©specially as afc' the dance Which follow^ refreshments wiil'be piovidod, anff tbß music wijl-be supplied by Haybittle Bros.' band <jf three uufeoiaent*. ' - .-■ -

- Nominations for all handicap events at the Feilding Athletic Sports, on Boxing Day, close on the 11th inst. Mr Tanner's Romney ram "Lion," bred by Mr W. Akers, this year clipped 24lbs. He was shorn last year in October. Notice given that an election to fill the vacancy in the Borough Council made by the election of Mr Bailey as Mayor, will be held on the 11th instant. The candidates are W. Reid, H. Woolven and J. C. Thompson. Those interested in the forthcoming timber sale ah Mr Wattle's mill, Ashnrst, will please note the alteration in the date. The sale will b 6 held on Friday, 13th inst., instead of Wednesday, 11th, as at first notified. In connection with the illegal operation case, another indictment ban been preferred in the Supreme Court against Brown and his wife, in reference to an operation which it is alleged they have performed npon another young woman. — Post. Arbitration is not always the best way out of a difficulty, says the Shannon Farmer. The case of Mr Kebbel's claim against Mr Jillett is an example of this, as Mr Kebbell was awarded £84 damages, and the costs (to be divided between the parties) amounting to more hhan £167. Mr Ronayne, general manager of the railways, has returned from his visit to the South Island. Mr Ronayne says that the crops are looking splendid ih every part of the South Island that he visited, and that there is every prospect of a heavy harvest. Grass is good everywhere, and stock is looking well. Shearing operations, however, have been delayed by the recent wet weather.— N.Z. Times. The Wellington Post states that just as Mr Martin, S.M., was leaving the Bench on Monday morning, a fisherman named John Cooper hailed him from the back of the Court, and, rushing up, enquired if his Worship would grant a prohibition order against him. He said he was "going to,the devil," and could not keep away from the drink, but would be alright if he got an order against him. His worship granted the order, which is to apply to Wellington and suburbs for 12 months. The tunnel under the Thames which the County Council is constructing at Blackwall will not be opened till the spring of 1897. Nevertheless, tbe most difficult and the riskiest part of tfae work has been accomplished. This is tbe part of the tunnel below tbe river, which has 1 now been completed from bank to bank, being a distance of 1200 feet. There is stiJl a great deal of work, and the banks and approaches to be executed, on which upwards of a quarter of a million sterling has still to be spent before it can be opened to the public.