The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 180, 3 February 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. Local and General News.

There will be Mass at St. Bridget's, Feilding, at 8 a.m. on Sunday next. Tbere are a dozen cases of typhoid fever in the Cbristchurch Hospital at present. Mr Carthew's usual monthly case of English books and periodicals arrived to-diy. We have to thank Mr Towler for a package of very excellent plums, very large and full flavoured. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams sale at Palmerston N. on the 6th inst are advertised today. It has been decided in Sydney to form a regiment of Irish volunteers in connection with the defence forces of the colony. Sydney suburban aldermen ate ra^cfr distressed at the action of billposters ia , displaying tbeir printing on local property. Several councils have given, instructions te have the offenders prose■■"jwj^jf^f'■■'"'"'■'''''■"'■"'■'-■ '■•'.''■■'"

The Masonic Lodge will meet this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr Milson received bis usual consignment of books and periodicals to-day. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Pobangina sale are now advertised. The Cheltenham Sports Committee have decided to hold the sports on Wednesday, Marcb 11. Mr Stevens, M.H.R., will address the electors to-morrow night in tbe Assembly Booms. A boy named Campbell died recently in tbe Gunnedah Hospital, New South Wales, from lockjaw, the result of a sting from a fly. Tbe following are the vital statistics for the district of Palmerston North for January :— Births, 33 ; deaths, 4 ; marriages, 12. Tbe annual general meeting of shareholders of tbe Mangaone Public Hall ComDany will be beld in tbe Hall, Colyton, tbis eveniug at 8 p.m. Tbe Brisbane suburban police are being mounted on bicycles. We have not heard whether tbe New Zealand police are to be treated the same way. Tliere will be a special meeting of Good Templars to-morrow night to make arrangements for the district meeting to be beld in Feilding on the 19th of tbe present montb. Owing to the lack of support tbe Auckland Freezing Company have issued a circular to sheep owners stating tbat tbey are reluctantly compelled to Btop freezing for export. At the Aldershot the other day Private Pugb, South "Wales-. Borderers, was watchJDg a football match, when be laughed so heartily tbat ha burst a blood vessel and expired immediately. We are indebted to Mr J. H. Fry, of Makino, for tbe following register of rainfall for the month of January : — ln 1896 3*67 inches of rain fell during 20 rainy days, and in 1895 3*76 in fell on 14 days. The following are the Hospital statistics for the month of January :— ln the Hospital on tbe lst of January, 21 patients ; admitted during month 22 ; discharged, 17 ; died, 3; patients in Hospital February Ist 23. The rabbit pest in tbe Jerilderie district, New South Wales, is increasing to an alarming extent, and landowners are considering the advisability of having tbat part of tbe country declared rabbit infested. A pure merino flock of Booborowie, S.A., shore 51,705 grown sheep for an average of 91b 15)-oz wool per head, and 15,509 lambs for 31b lloz per head ; a general average on the total mixed sheep and lambs of 81b 3^oz. On Wednesday next the Colyton Primitive Methodist Church anniversary tea will be beld, the public meeting will presided over by Mr R. Pudney and addresses will be given by the Revs J . Cocker, G. Grindley. Mr Williams, and other friends. The following notification appears in the Missing Friends column of Lloyd's Weekly :— Edward Thomas, "William, James, and John Sexton are sought by their sister Polly, John left Walbrook for Brooklin, New York, 24 years ago ; others went to Feilding 20 years since. Says the Napier Telegraph : — Mr R. Donald of the Lower Wairua, farmer, has begun an action against the Bank of New Zealand for £5000 damages. The plaintiff declares that the Bank of New Zealand had forced Mr Donald into bankruptcy, and defamed his character. During tbe past few weeks large numbers of dead fisb, particularly eels, bave been cast up on the Tabautanui beach, and there is every reason to believe that they bave been poisoned by tbe sheep dip wbicb many settlers bave thrown into the creeks after treating tbeir flocks. —Post. Tattooing is becoming all the rage in London, especially among society people. A member of Parliament recently took his wife and five children to a professional tattooer, and bad them " decorated " with tbeir names and address. The object is to facilitate indentification in case of accident. The Newbury- Spada Operatic and Musical Festival Company will appear in the Feilding Assembly Rooms on Thursday evening next. Tbis is one of tbe best companies of tbe kind which has ever been advertised to play in Feilding. For particulars see advertisement and future notices. Mr Sawers, Government Dairy expert, bas written to the Directors of the Apiti Cheese Factory Company, that the 116 cases of cheese shipped by tbe s.s. Ruahine, has been classed as first grade, which must be highly gratifying to all interested in tbe factory, while at tbe same time it speaks volumes in favor of Apiti as a good district for dairy farming. Kops Ale, the new Temperance beverage, is a remarkable production. Made from the best Kentish hops, and in colour and taste as like Bass' ale as it is possible to be, it is, nevertheless, absolutely uon-iutoxicating. It is proved by official analysis to be without a particle of alcohol, yet it is an unrivalled appetiser and stimulant. Mr T. Watson has it on sale. On Monday, February 10th, a section containing 2 acres, 31*88 perches, being subdivisions 4 and 8 of section 12 A, subdivision G of the. Manchester Block, will be sold by auction in tbe Assembly Rooms, Feilding. This section is situate in a central position in a good district, being at the corner ofthe FeildingAshurst and Taonui roads, opposite the Colyton Hotel, and contains a very convenient* sbop suitable for carrying on a country trade. For other particulars see advertisement. A well known bishop tells a story of a clerk at a village church who deliberately took half a crown out of the plate as he brought it up to the communion table, and slipped it into his pocket. "I saw him take it," eaid the bishop, " and I intended to charge him with it at the end of the service, but carried away by the service, forgot all about it. .Next day I remembered the circumstances, and spoke about it. Oh, sir," said tbe clerk, " neyer you worry about that. That half a crown has donegood service for many yeare. 1 keep it to put down first, and then the gentry, seeing a poor man like me put halt a crown in the plate, can't for shame give less." On Saturday last a deputation consisting of Messrs McNaught and Furguson (Wanganui), J. E. Baltbrop (Feilding), Harrison and Wood (Palmerston North), Hugbes, Gamble and Remington (Marton), waited on tbe Rangitikei Council re bye-laws as to bicycle-riding on the roads, and asking tbe Council to rescind tbe same as being to a large extent prohibitive to cyclists. Mr R. E. Beckett who introduced the deputation, suggested tbat if the words, "if required " were inserted in the 3 clauses of the bye-laws bearing on the matter, it would meet the question as was evidently intended when those clauses in the bye-laws were framed.! After several Councillors had spoken on tbe matter, the chairman stated that if the Cycling Clubs sbould submit any modification of the bye-laws in force the Council would be quite willing to consider tbe same. It was decided that the matter be left jn abeyance as suggested by the cbair-ipg-n.