Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 183, 6 February 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Feilding Borough Conncil will meet this evening. There will be no meeting of the Feilding Cycling Club to-morrow evening. Mr J. Stevens, M.H.R., will address a meeting at Birmingham this eveningIt is understood that the Government propose taking the Maori census in about a months' time. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce bhat they have for lease a tine property at very low rental. Mr J. Stevens, M.R.R-, has accepted the position of patron of the Cheltenham Sports. The finder of a lost skirt will be rewarded on leaving the same at Mr Foster's store, Kiwitea. A meetiug of those interested in the success of the Baud of Hope will be held to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reraiuded of the parade this evening and the volley firing to-morrow morning. The programme of the fourth annual Rangiwnhi.i-Pemberton Sports Meeting, to be held on March 17, will appear in tomorrow's issue. Additions are made to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Pohangina sale. Also those of Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Bulls. Probably the largest sheep killed in New Zealand, weighing 1901 b dressed, was lately in view at the shop of Mr Horwell, Victoria-street, Christchurch. Mr C. Atkinson's whare at Pakihikura was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon last, property to the value of about £60 or £10 being destroyed with the whare. A sheep farmer not a hundred miles from here, in order to make one of his woolbales look large and shapety put a box in and packed the wool on that. The effect was very pleasing. Travellers arriving in Dunedin from Central Otago report the remarkable occurrence that within the past few days the Taieri Lake has so completely dried up as not to contain a drop of water. It is reported that the Government has purchased for settlement purposes the Ngapairuru, or Manawakaitoe Block, situated between Mangatoro and Webster, the block has an area of 56,000 acres all first class farm land. On Sunday the Primitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary service will be held, the preacher will be the Rev J. Cocker. In the afternoon addresses will be given by friends, there will be special singing by the scholars. The following represent Campbelltown against Pohangina at Feilding on Saturday : — Penny, Bishop. Bowater, Askew, McMurray, Robinson, Harrison, Gorton, Hathaway, Opie, Edwards, Harper, Emergencies — Davis, Arthur, Edwards. Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, the popular and well known drapers, of Wellington, are advertising an extraordinary sale at considerable reductions for cash. The goods are all of high class quality and will be offered at the reduced prices until February 22nd. The Cheltenham Sports Committee met last evening when the programme was arranged and prizes to the amount of about £30 will be given away. The programme contains eighteen events, including a polo pony race, pony race and jumping competition. It was decided to offer the privileges for sale. Sarcastic par from thePahiatua Herald : - Parents are cautioned not to allow their children to sit on the large lumps of metal lying about in the main Street. The Borough Council wishes it to be distincly understood that the metal aforesaid has been left scattered about for ornament and not for use. Some of the good people in Wellington object to placing a battery on a site in or near the Botanical reserve, because by firing the gun a few window panes would probably be broken. They don't appear to reflect that if a ship of war from an enemy appeared in the harbor, the said enemy would laugh at any request not to fire for fear of breaking a few windows. On Monday, February 10th, a section containing 2 acres, 31-88 perches, being sub divisions 4 and 8 of section 12 A, sub- division G of the Manchester Block, will be sold by auction in the Assembly Rooms, Feilding. This section is situate in a central position in a good district, being at the corner of the FeildingAshurst and Taonui roads, opposite the Colyton Hotel, and contains a very convenient shop suitable for carrying on a country trade. Foi* other particulars see advertisement. To-day Mrs Noy and Miss Martin, who have taken the Sample Booms, at the Manchester Hotel, advertise that they are teachers of tbe " Elixir " system of dress cutting, the most simple in the world. Both ladies posses numerous testimonials as to their several merits from ladies in all parts of the colony. In Marton Mrs Noy was presented by her pupils with a valuable gold brooch as a token of their appreciation of her system and the painstaking manner in which she had imparted it to them. '£ii& Colyton Primitive Methodist Church Ati^iyersary services were held on Sunday last, «he preachers being the Rev J. Cocker and Mr Q, Jgrant. The church was full at each service, festerday the anniversary tea meeting was held, there was an attendance of about 186 s.t the tea. A good prqgramine was gone tturG^gh in the after meeting which was presided o^ by Mr R. * Judney,addresses were giv f en ,by J£ep<fiG, Grindley and J. Cocker, Mr William's, ani 3, Gould and J. C. Thompson, some gootji was given ,by the choir under the aMe leasersh£p pf Mr Pearce, yores 'of &anjkß ,clo?e.d $U,e .meetiag. <We are not atote |fco giye the aa'mes oX a^l ladies whe pwwided at the tables, hut t^ey did their work well and kept their good nanje for being able to provide a go°d toft'