Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 142, 14 December 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr G. Wilks will lecture this evening, jn the Cheltenham Hall in aid of the X/heitenbtfm school fund: ~ ' li J. Darragh excels everybody in Feildr\ itfg for electro plate goods for quantity, \ aßalitXi and priceY Go and see for i

The annual competition for the Wanganui Education Board's scholarships will be held at the Boys' School, Wanganui, on December 17. 18 and 19. To-morrow night the Rev J. Cocker will preach upon "The Queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon," and he invites strangers to visit the church. " A notice from the engineer of the Eiwitea County Council, Mr C. Bray (junior), inviting tenders for public works, appears in our advertising columns to-day. The Grand Christmas fair of Mr Carthew will begin on Monday next and be continued until the end of the year. Fall particulars will be duly advertised on Monday. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams sale at Palmerston on the 19th instant are advertised to-day. Additions are made to the list of entries for the Awaburi sale of the firm. Mr Graham, formerly of the Kiwitea, who left this colony some few years ago for the silver mines in Tasmania, is now employed is Jobannesberg, South Africa, at a salary of i; 10 per week. " The way to reform women's dress is to cut 10 inches off the skirt. Think how many hundreds of tons of mud-bedraggled dry goods would then drop from the over weighted hips of womanhood." — North American Review. Mr John Cobbe has a new advertisement in to-day to which the attention of our readers is specially directed. For variety, quality, and general excellence the gcods in Mr Cobbe's establishment have established a record. By advertisement to-day Mr J. Clementson invites believers in Methodist doctrines and discipline, to attend devotional services at his private residence. Bowen street, to-morrow and each suet ceeding Sunday. Sportsmen will do well to note that under the Animals' Protection Act Amendment Act of last session " native pigeons shall not be taken or killed in any district during the year 1896, and there after during every 6ixth year." Nominations for all handicap events afc fcbe Manawatu Cycling Club's bicycle races, to be held in Palmerston North on New Year's Day, close with the Hon. Secretary, Mr R. P. Clarkson, to night. Mr F. Bailey, with his niece and nephew, arrived at Taonui yesterday on a visit to his brother, Mr W. L. Bailey, Mayor elect of Feilding. Mr F. Bailey, and his niece are from the Old Country, and are making a trip round the world. On the occasion of the breaking up of •the Feilding state school for the Christmas holidays, a concert will be given by the childreu in the Assembly Rooms on Friday the 20th instant. The distribution of prizes will be made the same evening. See advertisement. Mr S. Svendsen, boot arid shoe importer, Manchester street, has just opened ap some very Dice lines in ladies and gents' tan and canvas shoes, specially suitable for the present season. They have been marked at the very lowest possible prices for cash. Joseph Lampp has been convicted at Marton for most brutally illtreating a horse, by hammering it over the head, according to one of the witnesses, until the blood ran out of its nose and mouth. A tine of 40s and costs was inflicted by Mr Brabant, who occupied the Bench. The heavy and continuous rains of late have 6eriously interfered with the ootato crops in the Otaki district (says the Mail) and in many places the potatoes having rotted in the ground. So great has been the damage iv a few cases, that the crops are hardly worth the trouble of digging. Mr and Mrs George Hitchman are placing two memorial windows in St. Bridget's church, Feilding, in affectionate remembrance of their two daughters Eliza Mary, and Ellen. They are unquestionable works of art by Messrs Orr and Co., of Belfast. This will make nine memorial windows in the church. A correspondent writes :— lt is being proposed to float a company with .£600,---000 capital to develop the mountain of ironstone in Nelson. In Taranaki it is also proposed to get up an English company with a capital of a quarter of a million sterling, in order to utilise the ironeand deposited there so abundantly. What a recent visitor to Auckland says : — " Every other man is a mining expert, a company promoter, or a legal manager, and they are all liars. There are, however, degrees of fabricators, and they are placed in this order : the common liar, the awful liar, and the mining expert." Mr Beckley, of Sherborne House, is determined to keep pace with the times. In his replace advertisement which appears to-day, he intimates the dressmaking is now a specialty of his establishment, while the tailoring department is under the direct supervision of the enterprising proprietor. The Committee of the Feilding Athletic Club met last evening. Pressure on our space will not allow of a detailed report. The Committee decided that members' tickets should admit members and a lady to grounds and lawn ; that hurdles for the boys' race shonld be 2ft high ; and that H. Worefold <junr) should have the selling of the cards on Boxing Day. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the 1.0. F; was held in the Forester's Hall last evening, when there was a large attendance of members. Bro. A. Wilson, N.G., in the chair. Two new members were initiated, P.G. Bro Saywell acting as lecture master. Nomination of officers took place, and will be elected at next meeting. Mr Young, of the Farmers' Dairy Union, advises the farmers to go in tor winter feed and milk their cows during winter, when they would get a better price for their butter. He considers tbe best fodder crops to arrow for winter are cape barley, mangolds, and amber cane. The latter is easily grown, the same treatmeet as for cape barley being required. It can be sown broadcast, and may be cut down two or three times for feed. A school committee meeting was held IB the school house, Birmingham, last evening- Present— Or. Anyon (chairman) Messrs Palmer, Bainbridge, Harris and Morton, Secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. For prizes and picnic the head master reported that £9 11s bad been collected up to date. Besolved, That £7 be spent on prizes, the balance to be used for the picnic. Resolved, That the picnic be held on Friday, the 20th inst. If fine in Palmer's paddock, and if wet in the school ground. An intricate case was, in the Court of Sessioß, drawing its dreary length along before the late Lord-President Inglis. The clerk of court, who had been idly occupied for several hours, got drowsy, and it last went off into a pleasant sleep. The Lord-President desired to consult him, and leaning over the bench, be whispered, " Brown." there was no response. " Brown," repeated the Judge : but still the clerk slumbered. Reaching over and touching the drowsy official on the shoulders, the distinguished lawyer once more said, " Brown." Turning bis bead lazily to one side, Brown remarked "Well, dear, what is it?"