Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 293, 17 June 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Miss E. Evelyn Moore; one of the staff nurses of the Wellington Hospital died at that institution on Saturday. Messrs Wood and Judkins request the person who inadvertently overpaid an account at an auction sale recently to call upon them. The Rangitikei Masonic Lodge, Bulls, meets on Wednesday, the 24th June, at 7 p.m. Installation of W.M. and investiture of officers. The Fire Engine was removed this afternoon from the shed in Manchester Square to the new shed next the Municipal Buildings in Stafford street. A gentleman well known in financial circles in Wellington is understood to have made about _MO,OOO in Auckland mining investments during the past two years. Mr John Cobbe has a replace advertisement in to-day which notifies he has just purchased some wonderfully cheap lines from overstocked warehouses, which he is selling at fabulous reductions. It is estimated that this season fully 2000 more travellers visited Rotorua than was the case the previous Christmas season— a proof of the steadily increasing flow of tourists traffic to the Hot Lakes district. Mrs Coppen, of the Fancy and Art Needlework Depot, in Fergusson street, advertises that the latest productions from Paris can now be obtained at the establishment with all requirements for executing the work in the shape of needles, patterns, wools, and stamps. In order not to interfere with the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, to be celebrated on the 18th instant, tbe presentation to the Hon R. J. Sedden on tbe occasion of his 51st birthday will not take place until Monday, the 22nd instant. The Duke of Wellington died in 1852. A farewell supper will be given to Adjutant and Mrs Drew on the occasion of their taking their departure from Feildmg for Hastings. As both Adjutant and Mrs Drew are well respected not only by their friends in the Army, but by the residents, a full attendance is anticipated. A Bill has been drafted with the object of authorising the setting apart of tbe Mount Egmont Reserve and the Ponakai and Patua ranges as a national park. A fine not exceeding i-20 is provided against taking away or destroying birds or animals, birds' eggs, shrnbs, etc, but a saving clause allows of prospecting for minerals. Ministers are to be asked to father the measure. The directors of the Dalefield Dairy Company, in Carterton, have engaged for the coming season Mr Dumbleton, who was in their employ m 1894 95 as cheese-maker, and under whose management the cheese gained a deservedly bigh name 'in the markets of London and Glasgow. He will engage his own staff of assistants, and is to turn out tbe cheese at an agreed upon price per lb. This is the principle in vogue in Canada, and is recommended by our chief dairy expert, Mr J. B. MacEwan. The Hon Mr Steward's Elective Executive Bill is a measure almost identical with that of last session, and it is perhaps heedless to *say that it has a fairly substantial following. There, is a pleasing Democratic sound in Elective Executive, and the -'Major's " hopes of ultimate success are^ high. A meeting of members 'favourable to the principal enmodied iv the Bill was held this morning, about 15 being present, with the proino-er in the .chair, when* ;matters ; were arranged in connection with the second reading debate. :y*m yyy

Dr Newman is bringing in a Bill for j the admission of women to Parliament, j Mr C C. Barron, late chief of the Hansard staff, is entitled to LI4OO compensation, or a pension of L 250 a year. Mr C. Chamen has disposed of his section at Peep-o'-day, through the agency of Mr E. Sandeman, of Fowlers. At Sydney, Hedley Vicars Howe was suspended from the roll of solicitors for six months for unbecoming conduct as a member of the profession. The Premier is reported to have said he did not think the readjustable work of the electoral boundaries would be completed in time lor the general election. We (Standard) regret to record the death of Miss Mabel Finnis at the early age of eighteen years. Much sympathy will be felt for Mrs Finnis in her trying time. At a meeting of the Feilding Prohibition League last evening, the Rev J. Cocker and Mr W. G. Shearer were elected delegates to the Temperance Convention to be held in Wellington on the 24th and 25th inst. Messrs J. C. Thompson and J. Greenwood were appointed to represent the Band of Hope at the same conference. Say 3 the Nelson Colonist : — "Captain Moore, whose death resulted from an accident at Lyttelton, was the mate of Capt. Levy in 1865, when on the 12th of March they rescued the Rev. T. S. Grace, from Opotiki by means of a boat. There was £1000 reward offered for the rescue of the reverend gentleman, but neither received a shilling of that amount." The Chronicle states that owing to the indisposition of Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M., who is suffering from a severe cold contracted in the temporary court premises at Marton, Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M. will take his magistrate's work at Hawera this week, and leaves for that place to-day. On Friday Messrs Kettle and Brabant leave for Wellington to confer with the Justice Department relative to certain proposed changes in the judicial arrangements on this coast. A meeting of members and adherents of the local branch of the Presbyterian Church was held last evening for the purpose of electing a minister to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Rev. H. M. Murray. There was a very good attendance considering the unfavorable state of the weather, and the Rev. W. Thomson, moderator of the Feilding session, presided. The names of the Rev. F. Stubbs (of Napier) and W. O. Kobb (of Blenheim; were submitted to the meeting, but as a unanimous decision as to which should receive the call could bG arrived at, it was decided to leave the financial selectiou to the presbytery, a meetiug of which -.vill be held at an early date to decide the matter. Many old residents on this coast will learn with regret of the death of Mr E. Bellve, which took place afc his residence, Feilding, this morning, at one o'clock. Mr Bellve's career was an adventurous one. Born in Spain, in his youth he followed the sea. He found his way out to California in the early days and saw some very wild life in San Francisco. He passed several years there and in South America. He was a miner on the Australian and New Zealand goldfields, and had the usual amount of good and ill fortune. After leaving Otago he came to Turakina, and from thence to Feilding about seventeen or eighteen years ago, where he has resided ever since. He leaves a widow and large family to mourn the loss of one wbo was always a kind husband and an affectionate father. __——_————_—____■■—_—-