Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 160, 9 January 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Pohangina County Council will meet on Saturday evening. Messrs Gorton and Son will bold a sale at their Feilding yards to-morrow. Mr Hartley, of Pohangina, whose cheese factory was recently destroyed by tire, is erecting a new factory. Mr Fred Bright, of Eketahuna, has drawn Bluecap in Tattersall's sweep on the Carrington Cup. A Masterton family developed symptoms of poisoning after partaking of tinned fish. A southern paper announces with regret that £'200 worth of beer went into Cheviot last month. Cheviot is a " prohibited " district. Tenders for the privileges in connection with the Feilding Cycling Club Sports close this evening with the secretary, Mr E. H. Fisher. A new advertisement will appear in morrows issue from Alford's Novelty Depot drawing attention to a recent shipment of new books just opened up. A meeting will be held in the Cheltenham Hall on Saturday evening for the purpose of fixing a date and making preliminary arrangements for holding sports at Cheltenham. The Manchester Rifles will be paraded this evening for Government inspection. Punctuality is requested. A meeting of the shooting committee will be held after the parade. The Foxfcon Herald gives currency to the rumour that the Prohibitionists purpose running a very prominent local politician in the Manawatu County for the Ofcaki seat at the next general election. The following birth notice appears in the Danevhke Advocate :— " Drinkwater. —On the 7th inst., the wife of H. Drinkwater, of twins, both girls. This makes 14, all alive and well." A London tradesman, the well-known proprietor of the Boa Marche, died on November 30th, leaving a fortune of more than £1.200,000. His name was Peter Robinson. The caterpillars are making serious depredations on the grass seed up the Pohangina valley and one settler estimates his loss from this cause at £500. the caterpillars having gone through his crop of cocksfoot grass seed. The chief officer of the Star of New Zealand was fined five shillings and costs at Napier for a breach of the harbour regulations by firing rockets and burning blue lights without permission from the Board. As a resuln of the signals the pilot boat and the steamer Ahuriri put off to the vessel only to find those on board having a jollification. The chief officer undertook to pay all expenses incurred by those ashore. At the adjourned meeting of tbe Dairy Union, held at Wellington on Tuesday, the report and balance-sheet were adopted as,d it was resolved that the deficiency of of L4G2B I,§B 8d be made good by a reclamation on all suppliers of season 1894-5 to be calculated on milk supplied during the months of November to May^ payments to be spread over two seasons for those who are now suppliers, but in the case of those who have discontinued supplying the reclamation to be now due and payabW At Gore (Ofcago^ Jaefc week Mr R. S. ; Hawkins had before him an affiliation case, in which the rfeputed fattier of an ; unborn child was asked to find sureties | that be would provide maintenance for ' tbe child. The JftagistEate in writing the the order eaid it was a most cpwardly thing in a caso like that before him for a man to try and clear out. Such things of course would happen, and tbe ffirl had always to bear all the trouble. The best thing defendant could do was to marry the girl. If he (Mr Hawkins) bad hia wHi he would get them tied up straight &K£JV raen now-a-days were altogether tee* sel^&L, £>£ long as they could get their beer and 'toiae^y/ihoy were always ready to leave the woc&a ,*# jsl^ift for themselves.

The Feilding Borough Council will meet this eyening The Pohangina river was very high last night, but went down this morning. A movement is on foot to form a mounted rifle corps in Marton. Mankind may now be divided into those who ride bicycles and those who dodge them. The Wanganui Herald hinta that the Hon. Richard Reeves may be favored with a portfolio. The regular rnontnly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board will commence on Monday next. The committee of the Feilclin£ Athletic Club will not meet again until notified by the Secretary. Madame Angel arrived iv Feilding today to make arrangements for future visits, particulars of which will be duly notified. Mr L. H. Goldfinch, of the Feilding stables, advertises that the owner of a bay gelding may have same on paying expenses. Owing to the war - tension between England and Germany, the sausages named after the latter are no longer used as an article of food in England. The German princelet pensioners only will be allowed them in their daily rations. Councillor Morton and Mr C. Bray (iunr.), engineer Kiwitea County Council, have accepted Joseph Shapleski'a tender for torming, culverting, and bridging Junction road at .£166. Another tender was received for i'lß6. The City Council dog-cart is a newlyestablished institution in Christchurch. It perambulated the town the other morning with one of the inspectors, Mr Massey, and a couple of men, and by means of a stick with a running noose at the end, nine or ten unregistered dogs were ensnared. The following new books have been added to the Feilding Public Library : — 'Social Evolutions,' Kidd ; 'Borrows of Satan,' CorrelJi ; ' Chronicles of Martin Hewitt,' Morrison; ' Other Worlds than Ours,' Proctor; ' Stories for Mignon,' Zola; 'The Days of Auld Lang Syne,' J. Maclaren. During the storm on Tuesday last a large tree at Aorangi was struck by lightning and shattered to splinters, some of the pieces being scattered for a distance of two hundred j'arda. A sheep was also killed. We regret to learn that yesterday when Mrs McLeod, of Makino, was closing a gate the wind drove it violently against her, and inflicted some severe bruises Dr Sorloy is attending the injured lady, who ia progressidg favorably. Tho Southland Times says -It will interest many, nnd it is satisfactory to know, that Mr Wurd fully intends to revise the recent telegraphic alterations, with the object of meeting the public convenience as far as it can be done without tending to block the wires at particular times of the day. He is also in communication with the Government of other colonies with the view of having the postal conference postponed until February, and the cable services included among the subjects for discussion.