Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Feilding and Bulls sales.. We have to acknowledge receipt of the timetable for the New Zealand railways from July Ist, 1896. It is stated that the Opposition has already selected sixty candidates for the forthcoming general election. A Chinese gardener in Masterton has cleared £174 during the past year in sel. ling vegetables. " Cabbages, cabbages, everywhere, bnt not a drop of beer." To-day the great winter sale at the Bon Marche commenced and we are snre Messrs Spence and Spence will have a busy time of it for the next week or two.

All qualified persons should see their names are on the electoral roll. The snow on the Ruahine and Tararni ranges is now very low down. Mr W. W. Corpe is now in charge of the Makino post and telephone offce. . Lig Kum, a Chinaman carrying on business as a storekeeper at Hunterville, was adjudged a bankrupt. The liabilities amount to L 62 5s Id, while the assets are nil. The Oddfellows' String Band assembly, last Tuesday, passed of very successfully, there being a very good attendance and the music (supplied by string band) was faultless. Mr J. P. Cowie gives notice to-day that he has made arrangements with Mr W. W. Corpe to comtinue the sale of the balance of his stock in the post office store until the 25th instant. The search for the late Mr J. I. Law-

son's body is being continued with unremitting vigilance. Yesterday several charges of dynamite were tired at the Pohangina Bridge but without result so far. His wife (reading a Sunday paper) : •• A propos of Hamlet, they say here that you and Shakespeare represent the very opposite poles of the dramatic Act ! " He : "Ah, that's a nasty one for Shakespeare ! " Punch. John Cobbe has purchased from the Colonial representative of an English firm his entire set of ladies hosiery samples. Included in this lot are some really beautiful goods, which have been marked considerably under ordinary prices. On Wednesday afternoon a chess match will be held in Palmerston between the Palmerston and Woodville Chess Clubs. The following players will represent the local club :— Messrs Connel, Sim, Bagnell Dr Satchel], Elliot and Hayna.— Standard, The members of the Feilding Harmonic Society will meet for practice in the Foresters' Hall at 7,30 this evening, when all are expected to attend in preparation for the coming concert. Those taking part in the Octett will meet half an hour earlier. There appears to be very little doubt that the Legislative Council, in setting up a Banking Committee, will eliminate from the order of reference that portion of it giving power to carry inquiries as far back as 1888, and that the Committee will be chosen by ballot. It is reported, says the Wanganui Herald, that a lady who has taken a prominent part in the Wanganui Women's Political League will be a candidate for the House of Representatives at the next general election, should the Bill to admit women to Parliament pass. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce that on Saturday next at 1 p.m they will sell at their mart, in addition to produce, a quantity of household furniture which is in excellent order. The goods will be sold without reserve. Particulars are given in the advertisement. The adjourned public meeting to arrange for providing ammusement for the youth of the town during winter evenings will be held at the Council Chambers instead of at Messrs Wood and Judkins auction mart, as the mart is full of goods. The meeting will be held at 7.30 p.m. Thus the Wanganui Herald : — lt was rumoured in town yesterday, that a well known business man had got into monetary difficulties of a serious nature, involving breach of truth and possibly criminal proceedings. The ascertained extent of his defalcations are reported to amount to about LSOO. Yesterday afternoon Mr John Jacobsen and Miss Annie Fidler were united in the bonds of wedlock by the Rev J. Cocker, at the home of Mr George Fidler, the bride's father. Mr W. Bloomfield was best man and Miss Fidler as bridesmaid. After the wedding ceremony a splendid wedding breakfast was enjoyed by the friends who had been invited to be present. It is satisfactory to hear that the butter from the Cheltenham factory continnes to command the premier position in the London mr rket. Always the top price has been obtained and the best Danish has been surpassed in price by our local product. Mr T. Watson has arranged for a regular supply of this choice butter, and all those who prefer the superior article should place their orders with him. '• Money makes money." This maxim is now exemplified. Ready money is a great power, and just now, at Sherborne House, those who have it may purchase goods with a pound (£1) usually sold for 25s and 355, an inset appears with this issue calling attention to the great surplus stock sale and mentioning a few of the numerous bargains now to be obtained. Mr Beckley notifies us that the sale will only last a month. "The amusing recklessness which characterised the methods of Mr Ward and his Association were (says the Insurance and Banking Journal) public property long before the recent application before Judge Williams. Their buyers, both for sheep and oats, for a time scoured the Otago and Southland districts, and made purchases at prices which could not possibly result in anything but the most disastrous losses. The full measure of the ruinous effects of this competition will never be known to the pnblic." Last evening an exhibition of trick skating was given at the Excelsior Skating Rink, in the Volunteer Hall, by Mr Sid Frith, the champion American roller skater. There was a good attendance. Mr Friths performances were certainly very clever and well worth seeing, giving a good idea of what skill can do on the •' rollers." After the exhibition of trick and fancy skating Mr Frith raced a local rinkist, Mr H. Flyger, the former going backwards. The distance was ten laps and Flyger, who was conceded half a lap won by a few yards. The Palmerston Norih Orchestral Society will giv«> a concert in Feiiding on Wednesday next, the 15th inst. The Society consists of 25 performers, viz : Conductor, M. Cohen ; piano, Mrs Fitzherbert and Mr Cohen ; first violins, Messrs Isherwood (leader), Kitchen, Chisbolxn, Crump, and Dumareaq ; second violins, Messrs F. Kendall, Bell, Wade and Toms ; viola, Mr J. Brophy; cellos, Messrs G. Kendall and Wingate ; double bass, Mr A. Drew ; flutes, Messrs Scott, Hunn, and Shortt ; clarinets, Rev R. Young and Mr Christie ; cornets, Messrß Pickering and Burmester ; euphonium, Mr Turner ; nombone, Mr Atford. The programme will be much the same as at the concer jjiven by the Society in Palmerston on June 30th, which was a pronounced success. The matter of feed flavor in milk was brought before the Edendale students by Mr J. B. McEwan recently. All the present students at the school are either managers of factories or assistants He impressed upon managers the absolute necessity for closer inspection of milk on its receipt at tbe factory from the several suppliers. He would not lay down that if a certain milk was ill-flavored it mast always be rejected ; but there were ways of impressing on the suppliers how such an unsatisfactory state of things could be improved. He had himself seen managers talking away to a supplier while the milk was poured into the vat quite unheeded— and, maybe, the supplier was adroit enough to keep tbe manager off his duty until the ' ' flavored " mi k got into tbe vat. Managers could not be too careful in their inspection of the milk received from tbe supplier. i ... >„ „. -■■•..