Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 281, 3 June 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Excelsior Skating Kink will be open this afternoon and evening. Mr T. Watson has a large quantity of pig and other potatoes for sale cheap. Additions are made to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmerston sale. Entrie« for Messrs Gorton and Son's Bulls sale to be held on June 9th, are advertised to-day. The following are the vital statistics for Palmerston N. for May ;— Births, 22 ; deaths, 8 ; marriages, 1. Times are very dull in the Wairarapa. The Daily Times says only two dcanks were arrested iv Masterton last month. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce that they will sell on Wednesday next, the furniture and effects of Mrs Toy, of Camden street. Mr Robert Davidson, an old resident of Oarnaru, is dead. He was suffering from a disease called 'bronze,' by which the skin becomes copper colour. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket to the Pemberton Rifle Club ball to be held on Friday, June 12th, in the Rangiwahia Hall. Mr J. Stevens, M.H.R., will address his constituents at Cheltenham to-mor-row evening and at Waituna on Friday evening, at 8 p.m. on each occasion. To-day Mr James Trewin has^a business advertisement in another coiumn with reference to his well known Public Benefit Boot Factory. A full description of the premises will appear to-morrow. Notice is given to-day of the dissolution of the partnership hitherto existing between Messrs Howell and Clayton as proprietors of the Excelsior Skating Riuk. Mr Howell will pay all outstanding liabilities. Messrs Stevens and Wood, the well known sawmillers, who formerly carried on business at Ashurst and latterly at Awahuri, have recentty commenced business at Mongatera, in the Hawke's Bay district. The other day a deer that had wandered from the Peninsula, Hawke's Bay, on to the Mahia road, made things lively for some travellers. One man had to take shelter iv a tree to escape the pugnacious animal. Messrs Gorton and Son advertise today that they will hold a clearing sale of 1 farming implements on behalf of the Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation, at Strathendrie, Halcombe, on Wednesday, June 10th. A detailed list appears in our advertising columns. . The annual meeting of members of the Feilding Fire Brigade will be held at the Brigade station on Friday evening next for the purpose of electing officers and general, when it is to be hoped there will be a large attendance of business people as this organisation is for their benefit. The pipe organ recently purchased by the trustees of the Feilding Wesleyan Church has now been placed in position in the Church and will be used for the first time on Sunday next, when choral services will be held. The instrument stands 9ft 6£ inches in height and presents a very handsome appearance. Prescott, the capital of Arizona, boasts that it is the nearest approach to the New Jerusalem, as described in the Bible, as its streets are being paved with gold. The granite used for pavement contains four dollars in gold and twenty cents in silver to every ton, so^ that in time, when less expensive methods of reducing ores are used, it may pay the city to tear up and crush its street pavements. According to a Sheffield correspondent a lady teacher in one of the local Board Schools, who has recently given her pupils some lessons in anatomy, with special reference to the evils of tight-lacing, has received the following indignant protest from the mother of one of the girls :— Dear Miss Blank, — Please don't tell our Lizzie anything more about her inside. It is not nice and frightens her. Besides, it's rude."— Manchester City News. The authorities at Home deal heavily with tradesmen who endeavour to poison the public. "A sausage maker named Ptobinson was charged at the Worship street Police Court with having diseased meat in his possession. The judge fined him LSO. The meat was then traced to a butcher named Harington, who had previously sold the meat to Robinson. The judge sentenced him to three years' imprisonment without the option of a fine." A genuine working hand on a farm np Turakina way complained bitterly to his employer of the "swagger nuisance." He said " I won't work for them any longer, for that's what it means. I had eight pounds of my wages in my clothes and some of these loafers to whom I gave food and lodgings in my whare " went through " them and took the lot, although they must have known I could ill afford the loss." This was abominable ingratitude. A short time ago a prospector, Mr R. Eliotte, was despatched by a local syndicate to search the Tararua ranges for gold. In a few weeks Mr Eliotte obtained specimens from several promising reefs, and these were forwarded for an assay to the Thames School of MinesMr Pirani, M.H.R., has been furnished with the following copy of a telegram received by the Minister of Mines from the Acting-Director of the School of Mines : — " Assay value of bags of quartz practically nil. The stone is too poor to treat further." This report cannot be considored as of an encouraging character, but Mr Eliotte is sanguine of finding a payable reef.— Standard.

Mr C. Carr will hold a sale at his Feilding yards on Friday and Birmingham on Tuesday next. Several interesting letters to the Editor on the electric light question are held over until to-morrow. We remind our readers of the dance to be held in the Foresters' Hall this evening. We have to thank Mr A. W. Parker' secretary, for a calendar of the 1.0.0. - Manchester Unity, for the current yearMembers of the newly-formed Feilding Quoits Club will hold their first practice in the Corporation reserve, opposite Fergusson street, this afternoon. Three members of tbe Marton Club have notified the secretary, Mr L. E. Reade, of their intention to be present. At the meeting of householders at Beaconsfield on Monday night, the following gentlemen were elected a school committee for tbe ensuing year : — Messrs Corpe, Phyn, Paul, Woodman, Bismark, Irwin and Ross. No Chairman has been elected yet. A splendid lot of Norwegian slippers have arrived at the New Zealand Clothing Factory. They comprize ladies', gents' and children's sizes in good designs and at a very cheap figure. At this season of the year this article should be very acceptable. The Land Purchase Board under the 1 Lands for Settlements Act, consisting of Messrs J. C. McKerrow, W. A. Fitzherbert, Percy Smith and J. H. Baker, were passengers from Wellington to Shannon yesterday, en route to Foxton where they intend te inspect the Motoa estate with a view to consider the advisability of recommending the Government to purchase it. — Standard. One of the largest land owners in the Oamaru district (says the North Otago Times) told a friend of the Hon John McKenzie's the other day that his land was ready tor the Government as soon as the Government was ready with the money — glad to get rid of it perhaps. Many people are under the impression that the Minister for Lands and the large land owners are sworn enemies. They are nothing of tbe kind — the Minister is the best friend that the land owners have. At about half past eleven last night a four-roomed cottage near the Makino railway station was destroyed by fire. It was owned by Mr John Hubuer and occupied by Mrs Bismark, who was away at tbe time of the lire. Nothing was saved from the building as the fire had a strong bold before noticed. Several members of the Fire Brigade turned out promptly when the alarm was given, but the fire being so far away they did not deem it necessary to drag the engine to the scene. At the invitation of Mr J. G. Wilson, a number of flockowners and others attended at the Rangitikei County Council Chamber yesterday afternoon, to hear an address by the convener upon the frozen mutton industry of New Zealand, and its development at Home. Mr Marshall, chairman of the Raugitikei County Council, presided and about thirty persons were present. At the conclusion of Mr Wilson's address several gentlemen discussed the suggestions, and a committee was appointed to consider the question.