The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 171, 23 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896. Local and General News.

i ♦ — Several Napier bakers haye been fined . LI each for selling bread short weight. Members of the Manchester Rifles are i reminded of the Government parade this evening. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Colyton sale. Rumoured that Mr Guinness will be appointed Attorney-G eneral, and Mr Joyce Chairman of Committees. The other day a young man named Albert Sucide died suddenly at Mudgee from eating green fruit. The Bank of New Zealand has arranged to lend the Danevirke Borough Council J875.000 at 5 per cent. Should the weather be unfavourable to-morrow the Church of England picnic will be held in the Volunteer Drill Hall. Mr A. Holder, the well known Wonganni athlete, has been reinstated as an amateur by the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. We understand that the Wanganui Bowling Club will send down a couple of teams to Feilding to play a friendly match in the course of a few weeks. . The marble clock, accompanied with •tfoe .^jtifieafce of second place in the tClaess tp'u^aam^nt, won' by Mr O. C. .PJewwHjftj^y^^FejUding today.

Additions are made to Messrs Gorton and Son's Sanson sale. Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —Glass rising and strong N.W. to W. and S. winds. A clever caricaturist, Mr Perrin, has sketched some amusing cartoons in connection with the Feilding Cycling Club sports, which are now on view in Mr T. A. Howell's window. A replace advertisement will appear in tomorrow's issue from Alford's Novelty Depot drawing attention to the up-to-date price for styles and quality in the fancy and useful articles offered for sale. As Mr A. Richmond was driving up Manchester street yesterday afternoon in his buggy with his wife and two children, the horse dropped dead. Beyond breaking one of the buggy shafts no damage was done. On Wednesday, the 29th inst, Messrs Gorton and Son, under instructions from the Executrix will hold a clearing sale at Kellyrnoon, Bulls, of the sheep and cattle in the estate of the late C. W. McLean, and Mr Wm. Green. Luncheon will be provided. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, John H. Baker, notifies certain sections in the Salisbury Farm Homestead Settlement, Hunterville No. 1 Settlement, each containing 200 acres will be open for application on terms detailed in the advertisement. The following team will travel to Feilding on Saturday next to do battle for the Palmerston North Cricket Club against Birmingham :— Andrews, Cooke, Crump, Eyre, R. Eyre, T. Fairbrother, Fitzherbert, Hodder, Malcolm, Matheson and Wither. The Library Committee will meet at 7.30 this evening when the Librarian will be elected by ballot from among the candidates, of whom there are about a dozen. The Librarian will be required to enter on the duties to-morrow. The result will appear in our to-morrow's issue. The Salvation Army Band will give a concert in the Town Hall, Cheltenham, this evening. The programme is a lengthy one, and some really good concerted pieces will be played and sanf. The proceeds will be devoted to the augmentation of the Band fund. Our readers are reminded of the great clearing sale to be held by Mr J. R. Montague tomorrow on the premises of Messrs A. R. Allan and Co. All the goods are new and good and as they will be sold entirely without reserve great bargains are sure to be available. At about 11 o'clock this morning Mr F. J. Kuox fell down in a fit in the Public Reading Room shortly after he entered it. Dr Johnston was sent for immediately by Mr F. Flavall, who happened to be in the room, and attended to Mr Kuox, who recovered after stimulants had been administered. A Wellington publican writes to the Post as follows— The only way lean suggest by which prohibited persons may be made known to hotelkeepers is to take the person round to every publican in the prohibited districts, and make the latter sign a book certifying that he has seen the person. I have about 25 prohibition orders in my bar and I know about three of the persons they refer to. I may be serving the other 22 every day. A sample of fruit grown in the Pohangina valley has been left at our office by Mr J. L. Durling, who devotes his attention to fruit growing. It consists of the early silver peach, morepark apricot Marguerette strawberries, Himalayan blackberries and golden gooseberries, all of which samples are large and wellflavored varieties of their kind, and is another proof of the fertility and capability of the soil in the Pohangina valley. In accordance with their usual retiring disposition, the majority of the bookmaking fraternity in Sydney quietly ignored the request to make the income tax returns. The Government failing to appreciate this display of modesty, caused consternation in the camp of the layers of odds by issuing a circular demanding that every bookmaker should supply a detailed account of his earnings and expenditure, and be prepared to produce their books when required. The returns should prove interesting and instructive. The Sunday School picnic in connection with the Presbyterian Church was held in Mr C. Bull's paddock on the Awahuri road yesterday, there being a very fair attendance, but not quite so large as the previous year. The usual games -were indulged in and everyone enjoyed themselves. The Salvation Army also held a picnic in one of Mr S. Turner's paddocks and several private picnics were held in various parts of the district. Mr H. Jolly met with rather a painful accident at Mr McGregor's Orangapuna saw mills on Tuesday last. It appears that he was in the act of removing with his foot some debris which had gathered around the bearing of a shaft while the machinery was in motion. The toe of his foot was cavght by a revolving set screw attached to a movable collar at the end of the shaft, and his big toe was smashed. He come down by train yesterday to Feilding and was attended to by Dr Sorley. At the Wanganui Caledonian Sports yesterday there was a fair attendance, and the weather was splendid. The following are some of the results : —100 Yards— A. Wilson 1, Jarret 2, W. Corby 3. 220 Yards— A. H. Way 1, Jarret 2, P. McDonald 3. 440 Yards— Wixcey 1, P. Webster 2, Beasley 3. Half-mile— Jarret 1, Shaw 2, Palmer 3. One Mile —Shaw 1, Halligan 2, Daley 3. 120 Yards Hurdles— H. N. Beasley 1. H. Henderson won the three bicvele events, (amateurs), and G. A. Holder the 220 and 440 yds (amateurs) ; P. Tingey the 100 yds (amateur).