Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Mayor elect, Mr W. A. L. Bailey, will be installed at the Borough Council office at noon to-morrow. Several parents were fined 2s 6d and costs at Foxton for neglecting to send their children to school. j The Rev Innes Jones will bold service next Sunday at Birmingham at 11 a.m., and at St Agnes', Kiwitea, at 3 p.m. We have to thank Messrs Ratliff Bros, local agents for the National Insurance Company of N.Z. for calendars for 1896. A brake will leave the square to-mor-row afternoon at 1.30 for the fete at Mr Fry's. Makino. Mr George Fisher, Mayor- elect of Wellington was on Saturday night last presented with an address and purse of sovereigns. The conceit to be given in the Assembly Booms on Friday evening by the school children promises to be very interesting. A garden fete in aid of St John's Parsonage enlargement fund will tie held at Mr Fry's to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2 o'clock. Nominations for all handicap events at the Apifci Sports, to be beld on New Year's day close to-morrow. Entries from Feilding should be posted today. The dressing of the windows at Mr J. Cobbe's drapery establishment is exceptionally artistic and tasteful, and compares favorably with aoy we have Been in the colony. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company bold their second auction sale of wool at Wellington on January 17th. The catalogue will close on the evening of Wednesday, January 15th. An "inset" appears to-day drawing | attention to the various lines offered for sale at Alford's Novelty Depot, re- ! cently opened with a stock of fancy goods, stationery, electro plate ware and cutlery. A replace advertisement, quoting Christmas prices, will appear from 31essrs Spence and Spence to-morrow. Men's and boys' clothing isbeiug sold at noticeable redactions by this enterprising firm. The Oval presents a lively appearance every evening with athletes preparing for the forthcoming Sports to be beld on Boxing Day. The track is in very good order, and will probably be better than it has been for some years. The Public Works Committee received two tenders for the removal and alterations to the firebell tower, and considering them too high decided not to accept either, but to call for fresh tenders for the removal only. The General Manager of the Bauk of New Zealand, Mr H. MacKenzie, notifies by advertisement that the Birmingham sob. agency will from this date be worked as an agency, opening daily under the charge of Mr A. C.-Matbeson. The dead body of a newly born infant was found near the Public Library, Wellington, on Sunday morning by a man named Alfred Yates. The body was wrapped ud in a flannel petticoat and a piece of calico, and tied up with tape, and was much decomposed. ' When shopkeepersstopgivingcredit,' said a solicitor in a Melbourne Insolvency Court, ' this Court will dissappear.' 'It would be the best that could happen for Victoria if it did, and I bad to go toCoolgardie,' replied Judge Molesworth. By advertisement a meeting of burgesses and others interested in the Fire Brigade will be held at the bell tower, Manchester Square, tomorrow afternoon, to consider the advisableness, or otherwise, of removing tbe tower from | its present site. Mr Edmund Goodbehere, an ex-Mayor of the Borough, has consented to preside. Mr Peter Thorn! son is the convener of the meeting. j This week Te Aro House will have a I tremendous display of lovely new Xmas I millinery. Exceptionally cheap and stylish, with presents given away on all purchases amounting to 10s and upwards. The men's and boys' ready made clothing department is full stocked with goods of reliable make with presents given away on all purchases of ten shillings and up. To all who want real good value Te Aro House offers extraordinary opportunities this week. The death has taken place, in his ninety -third year, of the Very Rev, Thomas O'Reardon, first couein of Daniel O'Connell. He was formerly at the bar, where he had a large practice, and on taking orders be went to America, where he worked laboriously among his fellowcountrymen. Oa his return to Ireland in his eightieth year he took up bis residence at Killarney. his birthplace, where for years he had given hundreds away to the poor, living himself in the simplest > manner. Referring to the recent Kucheng massacre, the Rev Geo. Nicoll, of the China Inland Mission, at present on a visit to New Zealand, states that it is a delusion to believe that the instigators of that outrage were members of the Vegetarian Society. He states that the Vegetarian Society is composed of the best men and women in China, who abstain from animal food on principle. Many of his best native friends are members of that Society. Mr Nicoll's opinion is that the i j assassins took the name of Vegetarians either to cover up their nefarious plot, or to bring discredit on the Vegetarian Society. The Napier News thus refers to some of the Legislative Council appointments: — We should be false to our people it we were to do other than condemn the appointment of Mr Reeves, of Inangahua. It is inexcusable and improper, and we can only marvel at, while we condemn it. Mr George Jones will make an excellent Democratic member of the Legislative Council. He is a shrewd, hard-headed man, one who is not afraid to make sacrifices for his opinions. To say as some have said, that Mr Jones has to thank bis sub-editor for bi9 grammar is a grossly untrue statement. Mr Jones is a man of culture and a very smart pressman. The Prohibitionist party should rejoice at his promotion, as he is one of themselves. A meeting of suppliers to the Bunny - thorpe creamery was held on Saturday last, when dissatisfaction was expressed at the manner in which the Dairy Union business was conducted and resolutions passed to the effect " That the Bunnythorpe secretary inform tne secretary of tbe Dairy Union that the suppliers refuse to continue to supply milk at the present price, viz., 2£d per gal. 3.6 test. Further that if at a meeting of Directors properly constituted, they cannot see their way to rise the price of milk equal to other creameries then the suppliers will refuse to supply the creamery after the Ist January, 1896." A committee was formed to make arrangements for opening a private factory in the event of the Directors' decision being unfavourable, i