Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 1 February 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Italian thistle: has rua.de it appearance at Oamaru. It is as bad as tho Californicui thistle Mr T. Watson will refuse no rcasoifable offer for ten ncros land, house, outbuildings, etc., in Foildiug. At a meeting of the Trustees of tho Vv'esleyan Church held on Thursday last Mr S.S. Moore was appointed organist. Telegraphic communication between Feilding and Waituna will be completed on Monday next, when tho iirst message will bo scut through. The Hunterville Caledoniau Society iatend offering shortly a handsome medal j as a prize for a bicycle road race from Huntervillu to Marton. It is rumoured that tho publicans of Napier intend circulating a petition protesting against the issue of any further hotel licenses within the borough. The Fcildiug Masonic Lodge will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday next. Brethren are requested to note the alteration in the hour. Now that water tanks are_ becoming empty, those who desire to have pure water for domestic use, should acquire the Eureka filter, because they can now be fixed without waste of water. An oak tree of the average size, with 700,000 leaves, lifts from the earth into the air about 123 tons of water during the iive. mouths it is in leaf. The Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, invites tenders for repairs to the Warwick street bridge. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Council office . We have to acknowledge receipt of the report of the Government .Biologist for lyUl,"). Copies of this very interesting publication may be obtained free on application to any stock Inspector. An inmate of the Parramatta Asylum named " Gipsy" Loo died iv that institution a few days since, aged 102. He was a centenarian when ho entered, and arrived in New South Wales a convict 7f> years ago. Probably very few sons and daughters know that in using tho word Dad they are speaking tho purest Welsh. The opening words of tho Lord's Prayer in Welsh are "Ein Dad." At Lancaster Park, Christchurcb, on Thursday evening C. El. .Jones broke the quarter-mile amateur cycling record for the colony, doing the distance in '6'l 2-5 sec. Tho former record was 35 4 sth sec. The machine ridden was a Swift. The Wanganui Herald says : — Mr F. M. Spurdle was on Monday night asked to stand for one of the vacancies on the Education Board, but declined on the ground that the country committees were fully entitled to the present vacancies. "With to-day's issue we publish an inset from the local branch of the United Farmers Co-operatice Association drawing attention to a reduction in the prices of drapery in order to clear the balance of the summer stock to make room for new goods. Mr J. R. Macmillan, of Palmerston N., held a very successful sale of furniture and effects on behalf of Mr T. Hammond at Hinau, Pernberton/yesterday. All the lots were submitted without reserve, as Mr Hammond is leaving the district, and sold readily. Messrs Spence and Spence have removed their showroom goods back into their new premises. Tho carpenters am j painters will be finished early next week and the firm will do their best to have their new establishment in full working order by next Saturday. At tbe Wanganui Amateur Swimming Club's Sports on Thursday, there was a ladies' race, 50 yards. 'Jhere were three competitors— Misses Walehlyn, Buckrell and F. Hamilton — and o closely contested race resulted in the fair competitors finishing m the order named. The time was luiin 4sees. That the local branch of Te Aro House mean a complete clearance of all showroom goods is evident from tho fact fact that ladies fashionable and elegant summer hats, blouses and jackets are being quoted at exactly half the usual retail selling price. Remnants of every description have been enormously cut down iv prices. The expenses in the case of Grant v. Manawatu Road Board are very heavy. The Board has, according to a statement mnde at yesterday's meeting already paid £670 to which is to be added .£250 to settle the case, and sundry law expenses incurred since a verdict was obtained. Mr Grant has asked ns to state that his expenses are close on £800 toward the piyment of which he receives .£250.— Standard. The nations may threaten war and mutual destruction but they .can never obliterate from the scroll or historic fame the excellence of Suratura Tea, which now occupies such a high place in the opinion of every self respecting housewife. " Why do the heathen rage ? " has often been asked. The reply is because they have never had their rugged natures soothed by the gentle influences of Suratura Tea. Mr J. P. Covde, of the Makino store, notifies that he is offering the whole of his store of drapery at considerably re duced prices as he desires to relinquish business in this particular line. The goods are all new and good and Mr Cowie is not merely offering a few lines as a draw but intends disposing of the whole | of the drapery on hand. He will continue to conduct other branches of bis business as usual at the lowest possible rates for cash and -will make a specialty i of boots and slxoes. We congratulate Mr Downey on his marriage and wish the bride and bridej g&oom many years of happiness. Mr 1 Dowjuey h#s been a resident for about i four year's in Feilding, where lie is crn- : ployed by Mr Car.ihe,w, the well-known • bookseller. Mr Downey left on a holiday : tffip to Auckland about three week's 3,39, ( amS before he departed a social gather- . . ing was held. q,t Mr Woolven's residence . to give faina a. lieaptv send off. On this Q&@&sio# Mr P,o.w«ey. wasp^eoflnied with ■ a Y(it .y {fa.p4aQ.nie p&i>' of earners neatly ' packed iv a, Bi'lfc-iwed £as,e. $lr J^fney i suitably thanked the dpn-ops -&V $V!sr ! gift, and the kindly expzcwSJOiSS whi&k [ accompanied it. Mr Downey wa« waifried in Auckland on the 27nd January ' to Miss Agnes Smerdon, of Coromandel, ' ana returned to Feilding on Thursday '' M(A when he and his bride -wore cqrdi- • aky W^corned by tbe.inany friends and ■■■:■ x." .v ■:•.•■■ ■■■ € -'.: v ,r~ '•" •■ ' •:,-;■: •..

Entries far Messrs Gorton and Sou's J sale at Feilding on the 7th instant are | advertised fco-day. Mr Mouatt, Inspector of Machinery, died in Wellington at an early hour this morning. James Jones, second officer of the barque Coromandel, was washed overboard and drowned ou the voyage of the vessel from Newcastle to Wellington. Twenty Eton boys have boen expelled from the school for vicious practices. The English papers are silent on the | subject with two exceptions. The subject j of vice in public schools deserves attention, undeasant though it may be* Tho following team has been selected to represent the, Manchester Rifles in their match against the Martou Rifle Club, to be fired on Wednesday next at Feilding :— Lieuts Bray and Barltrop, Sergts Aitken and Parker, Vols J. Scott, Saywell and Richards. i Amongst the handicaps for tho Hunterville sports to be held on February 12th, appears the followiug: — A. Wilson, 5 yards iv 100 yds event, 15yds in 220, 17 in 440, 15 iv Bracelet, and 35yds iv j tho half-mile ; A Richards, 10yds iv 100. 20 iv 220, 30 iv 4-i(), aud 18 in Bracelet. A picnic was held at Waituna yesterday in connection with the State. School being the first held iv that locality. There were between 120 and 130 adults and children present, lunch and tea being provided by the settlers' wives. Games of various descriptions were indulged iv and everyone returned home delighted with the outing. A middle aged man named E. HSymoas was arrested by Constable Mino£ud yesterday iflor»ir>£ for soveyaJ cbar^ep of fulso pretences in tho Feilding district. It iy iillejjuii ihat the accused hus been victimising the Natives at Awahnri and other places by representing himself as a uative interpreter and Government official. — Standard. The late Professor Blackie once presided at fv meeting of tpoiotallers, and won-cki-cul why lie was in thuf position, as well he might, for he, said — " 1 cannot understand why lam asked to bo hero. 1 am not a teetotaller, far from it. If a man asks Rie to dine with him, and does not givn me a glass of wine, I say he is neither a Christian nor a gentleman. Germans drink beer, Englishmen wine, ladies tea, fools water." A meeting of those interested in the establishment of the Church of England at Birmingham was held last evening, The Rev A. Inues Jones presiding. Mr Jones explained that such a step wonld require the appointment of an assistant curate for this parochial district and that, they would require to find -£150 to pay the necessary salary. Of this amount i'OO had already been promised iv t,he Fcildiug portion of the district and i.'4o at Ilaicombo. which would leave £(;0 a year to he found by the Birmingham, Apiti and Rangiwahia districts, where- an assistant curate would principally labour. It was resolved that Messrs Morton, Jacob and Dick be a committee to canvass the district and ascertaiu what support would be forthcoming aud report at a meeting to be heldou February 22nd, when Archdeacon Fanconrt would visit the district aud attend the meeting.