Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 161, 10 January 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

+ Mrs W. Duncan will resume her music and singing lessons on Monday, January 20th. The Committee of tbe Feilding Cycling Club will meet in the Club room at 8 o'clock this evening. Mrs Angel, teacher of scientific dress cutting, has taken rooms at Mrs Tozer's, Manchester street, where she may now be consulted. A Wellington youth named William Wright baa been sentenced to three month's imprisonment for assaulting A girl who had jilted him. Mark Twain says the dress worn at the Sandwich Islands is chiefly nothings except on State occasions, when it is a plea■ant emiie and a clenr conscience. A- meeting will be held in the Cheltenham Hail to-morrow evening for the purpose of maiswg preliminary arrangements for lioldJJjg fifvarts there. A cricket match will be j^ayed at Birmingham to-morrow between ttw j?gi&ing and Birmingham Clubs, andgansoa and Pohaugina meet at Feilding.

A team from the Feilding Bowling Club will visit Palmeraton on Wednesday next. Mr James Manro, of the Flaxmill farm, Awahuri road, has for sale 50 acres of land, with a five roomed house and outbuildings, situated near Feilding. Particulars may be had by application in writing, or calling at the farm. We have received (per favor of Mr Sam Daw) from Mr H. Hickford, of Bangiwahia. a box of black currants, of large size and excellent flavor. They are far the best we have seen this season. They were grown by Mr Hickford, at Rangiwahia. The shearers' quarters at Brancepeth station, Wairarapa, were destroyed by fire at an early hour on Wednesday morning. The men had barely time to escape with their lives, and lost the whole of their possessions. How the fire originated is a mystery. Mr Fred. Pirani, M.H.R., for Palmerston, will address his constituents shortly at Fitzherbert East, Linton, Longburn, Kairangn, Taonui, Kelvin Grove, Stoney Creek, Bunnythorpe, Hiwinui, Palmer's, Ashurst, Pohanginft Township, Upper Pohangina, Apiti, Palmerstori, Colyton, and other centres. A polo match will be played at Feilding to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock sharp, between the Oroua and Feilding Clubs. Oroua will be represented by the following players— J. Strang No 1, B. Gower No 2, O. Robinson No 3, J. McLennan back. The following will represent Feilding -Lance No 1, Gorton No 2, Giesen No 3, Pickering back. The Feilding Brass Band will play the following programme of music to-mor-row, Saturday night, commencing at 7.30 p.m. :— March (Amazon) : ' Soprano Obligato ' ; Selection : ' Gems of Cambria ' ; Valse : ' Rippling Streams ' ; Quadrille : ' American Airs ' ; Selection : • Trafalgar ' ; Scottische : ' Italian ' ; Valse : 'Buds and Blossoms ' ; Selection : •Austral'; Polka: ' Zealandia.' 'God Save the Queen/ At the Borough Council meeting last evening, the Mayor, Mr W. A. L. Bailey, stated that owing to the holidays and other causes the sub-committee appointed for the purpose had not yet gone into the question of lighting the Borough with electricity. Mr Stevens had procured further information which he was willing to place before the Committee, who would meet immediately and go into the question fully. A heavy-headed Scottish carrier, falling asleep one night in the straw at the bottom of his cart, slumbered till bis welltrained horse Btopped at his own door, when his wife seeing nothing of her husband, unhitched and led away tbe horse, leaving the cart in the road. Sandy awoke a few minutes later, and, sitting up, began to soliloquise : " Noo, is this me, or is it no' me ? If its me I bae lost a horse ; and if it's no' me, I hae found acairt. The following words are by ft modern French writer : — When man learnt how to protect himself from wild beasts he made the first step in civilization. To-day man is learning how to defend himself from microbes; it is a step of equal importance. A day will come when in Berlin, in London, in Paris, man will not die of diphtheria, of typboid, of scarlet fever, of cholera, or of tuberculosis, any more than he dies in these cities to-day of the venom of snakes or of the tooth of wolves. At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Palmerston Hospital Board, held yesterday, correspondence was received from the Feilding Borough Council, forwarding claims amounting to £33 18s in respect of money expended in improving Manchester Square, which amount has already been paid. Also, from Mr E. Goodbehere, forwarding donation of £5 10s from Mr J. J. Williamson ; from Mr W. Masters, Bunnythorpe, forwarding donation of £1 Is ; from J. Mackay, Feilding, forwarding donation of £3 3s. By the last mail the Government have received information through the AgentGeneral, that a small parcel of hematite paint, from the Collingwood district, which was forwarded to England to be practically tested, has been used by the London and North- Western Railway Company in painting a viaduct. Tbe superintendent of the Company's locomotive department states that the paint works well, but that it would take some time before he could see whether it was an improvement upon the paint previously in use. — N.Z. Times. Mr Northover, who has been employed on the Rangitikei Advocate for about twenty years, for several years in the capacity of foreman in the office, has resigned his position, he having taken over the Railway Hotel atMarton. Mr Northover's successor as foreman in the Advocate office will be Mr A. H. Way, who is well known in Athletic circles on this coast, and who has been in the employ of the Abvocate for the past five years. We wish Mr Northover every success in his venture and congratulate Mr Way on his promotion.