Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 287, 10 June 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

« — The Excelsior Skating Rink will be open this evening. Scarlet fever is spreading in the Vie. torian district. The last session of the present Parliament will open to-morrow. J The Skating Rink will be opened at Cheltenham to-morrow evening. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a sale at their Feilding yards on Friday. The Wairatapa Daily Times reports that diphtheria has appeared in Featherston. Now that the new woman is ' topside,' wedding rings for men are coming into fasbion. The death is announced of Mrs Dransfield, wife of Mr Joe Dransfield, of Weilington. Victorian butter, analysed after ten months' storage in London, has been found unchanged. Mr Hooper, dentist, wishes us to announce that he will not be in Feilding on Saturday next, as is usual. At Perth recently a batch of 48 immigrant servant girls who arrived by the steamer Port Phillip were all engaged in one day. It is not generally known, but we believe it is a fact, that the losses by fire in New Zealand total up to about £350,---000 per annum. To-day Messrs Abraham and Williams make additions to the entries for their Palmerston sale and publish entries for their Awahuri sale. Tenders are invited by the Official Assignee, Mr G. J, Scott, tor the equity in the Perpetual Lease of section 20, Block XII, Hautapu, an asset in the estate of E. T. Geange. See advertisement. Mr A. E. Ratliff advertises to-day that he has a one-acre section, on which is erected an 8-roomed residence and other conveniences, for sale on easy terms. Also twenty one acres of land near Feilding. There is a probability of horse breeders in New Zealand finding a market for some of their best products in Japan, as it is the intention of the Japanese Government to improve their island breed, especially for the purposes of cavalry , and artillery. The Secretary of the Apiti Dairy Com- 1 pany reports that the stock of cheese in the factory suitable for local requirements is rather low as the excellence of the article has already excited a profitable demand. It is a pleasure to know that this institution is on the fair way to success. Mr Fred Pivani has given notice to move at next meeting of the Wanganui Board of College Governors that the Government be asked to introduce an amendment to the Wanganui Education Endowment Act to allow of surplus funds being spent in the establishment of secondary schools in other parts of the Wanganui Education District. Also that the Board establish four scholarships of £60 each for girls in the Wanganui Education District who cannot take advantage of the free tuition offered to those who qualify for Education Board scholarships.— Standard. A social was held ou Saturday, 30th May, in connection with tne Apiti Good Templars, in aid of the new piano. About one hundred people were present. The following items appeared on the programme :— Overture, Mr Tortensen ; song, " Bonnie Banks of the Clyde," Miss R. BucUmftn i song, "The Old Log Cabin in the Dell," Mr F. A. Miller; songj ;.'• The Old Church on the Dell," Mr C. Goldring; song, "Old Adam was Father of All," Mr H. Bennett ; recitation, " Tho vLasit; i^Shil]ing,M Mr Field ; song, Green 'Snore/'; Mr Me., Innes ; sbng,: !' Lakes' of Killarney," Mrs Stan ; 'Vjig >? - Mr H. Osborne ; song, Mr; Field ; recitation Mr W. Moore; song, "Hen Convention," MrF.'A. filter;; /song, "Good- bye, my Boy, Goodie,"- < Mis»B.Buckman. ' .

A lady's sunshade, found yesterday, has been left at this office. The Gear Meat Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent for the year ended 31st May. Judge Ward and Mr W. B< Edwards are spoken of as " eligibles," for the vacant judgeship. The Hon F. Arkwright, M.L.C., has consented to move the address in reply in the Upper House. On dit that Government intend introducing a Bill providing for the election of Justices of the Peace. A procession of women to the Sydney Treasury is threatened, in order to ask the Premier for work for their unemployed husbands. On Friday next, commencing at 11 a.m., Messrs Wood and Judkins will sell without reserve, the whole of Mr A. Alford's stock of stationery, fancy goods, etc. Through the upsetting of a lamp at North Melbourne, the twin daughters of Mr Thos. Trenear were burned to death. Another argument in favor of electric light. Mr H. Miller, of the Wellington Post Office, drew Hindoo, the second horse in the Randwick Stakes, in Tattersall's Sweep. The amount of the prize is about £250. j No less than five football players have been admitted to the Dunedin Hos- j pital — four of them with broken collarbones, the fifth case with a dislocated shoulder. Cycling is becoming quite common in ' Coolgardie, knicker-bockered ladies may be seen bowling along in great style over , the streets of the city of galvanised iron and hessian houses. A very bad case of sweating has been ventilated in Cbristchurqh — that of a young woman, 26 years of age, who after working three Weeks received pay at the rate of 2s 3d per week. A farmer, after having tried several suggested remedies ineffectually on a young bull that was badly affected with the troublesome pest, hco, tried rubbing him over with raw onions and quickly rid him of the vermin. There can be no mistake about the nationality of Sir Maurice O'Rourke. In his speech at Manakau he said " Ministers were giving Councillors rope enough to see whether they wduld not proceed to dig their own graves." This is good. A correspondent writes to the Ofcago Daily Times as follows: — "On dit that a gentleman who occupies a high position in connection with education in Otago is taking advantage of his official position to get at the State school teachers in connection with the Bible-in-schools movement." At the Palmerston S.M. Court; yesterday C. J. Erenstrom was fined £5 and costs £"2 3s on a charge of driving a horse suffering from open sores. The horse was driven by a boy in the employ of defendant, who pleaded that he was unaware of its being used. Geoffrey Potts was fined £4. and costs 16s for offering for sale two cows which w&re diseased. The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government inspection tomorrow evening. Afterwards a meeting of the social committee will be held to make final arrangements. The officers, non-commis-sioned officers and men of the Manchester Rifles have been invited to attend the 33rd Anniversary ball of the Eoyal Rangitikei Rifles, at Marton, on the 3rd of July. " I worked for you for 2s 63 a day," cried an inter jector at Sir Robe t Stout's meeting at Napier last Friday night, when the speaker was showing the effect that the disastrous policy of the Seddon Government had had upon wages. " I know some men who are not worth eighteenpence a day," replied the speaker, and the questioner subsided. — Napier Telegraph, We can go round the world and touch on British territory all the tray — viz., from England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, across Canada to Vancouver, across the Pacific to Hong Kong, thence to Singapore, Penang, Mauritius, Cape Town, St Helena, and England ; or from Penang to Ceylon, Bombay, Aden, Perim, Malta, Gibraltar and Home. There is a " sea connection" that no other nation in the world possesses. We remind our readers of the sale of fruit trees, choice plants, ornamental trees, etc., to be held by Messrs Wood and Judkins at their mart to-morrow. The lots to be offered are of extremely choice character and are well preserved, including some of the choicest kinds of camellias. Among the lots will be the barbery thorn, which makes one of the finest cattle proof fences that can be used. Particulars are given in the advertisement. At a committee meeting of the Feilding Bowling Club held last evening, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the members of the Wanganui Bowling Club for their hospitality to. the members of the Feilding Olub who went there to play the inter-club match. It was de* cided to accept with thanks Mr Benefield'a kind offer of shrubs for planting around the green. A vote of thanks was also passed to Mr Spurdle, of Wanganui, who offered to get sufficient sand to topdress the green loaded on the tracks at Wanganui. The green has been officially closed for the season.