The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 10, 11 July 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1896. Local and General News.

Excelsior bkating Rink to-night. The Pohangina Road Board met today. Several letters and other matter are unavoidably held over. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Bulls. Entries for Mr R. E. Beckett's Marton sale, to he held on Friday July 17th, are advertised to day. The anniversary tea of the Rongotea 1.0. G.T. will be held on Wednesday next in the Temperance Hall. The Palmerston North Orchestral Society will give a grand concert in the Assembly Booms oo Wednesday evening next. A Feilding parent calls his cnild&an " Circumstances over which I have no control."

It is said that Mr G. Hutchison resents the action of the Opposition is not supporting him for the Bank Committee the other night. Mr Cowie, of the Makino P.O. Store, has for sale an iron safe, Avery weighing machine, and stack first-class clover hay. See " wanted " column. On Monday next the pretensions of Stanbury and Harding to the Aquatic Championship of the world will be settled over the famed Thames course. Dr Quaife has given LIOO to the Sydney Hospital to get an apparatus to produce the Rontgen rays in cases of human injury and disease. The Standard says: -The Premier stated in the lobbies yesterday that he had received a requisition to stand for the Palmerston seatAfter Mr Carr's stock sale at Birmingham on Tuesday next he "will offer for sale a valuable section close to Birmingham. For other particulars see adyertisement. Mr McNab's Absolute Majority Bill provides that no candidate shall be returned as a member of the House unless he secures a majority of the numbers of all voters who have exercised the franchise. The followtng match was played on the " green " last evening: — W. Dickson, A. R. Curtis. C. Bray, jun., J. Yates (skip) 30. J. Scott, O, Bray, jun., P. Thomson, R. Young (skip) 15. The only point of difference in the Asiatic Restriction Bill No. 2 from the original measure, is that it exempts Asiatics who are British subjects from the Indian Empire. At the Benevolent Asylum at Sydney, relief was extended on Wednesday week to 1000 persons, representing about 3508 widows, orphans and individuals in indigent circumstances. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a well known guard on the Manawatu railway line on the charge of wife desertion. The accused is supposed to have made for Sydney. A stockowner of the Upper Murray, J. Drummond, has been lined Ll5O for crossing 800 sheep into Victoria without having paid the duty, and he has been ordered to pay LBO duty. A list of persons whose names have been struck off the Napier electoral roll has been posted up at the police station where it is open for inspection by all and sundry. We understand this plan will be adopted in Palmerston shortly. — Standard. Heads of families who find their children's boots a heavy tax upon their pockets can effect a considerable saving by purchasing some of the cheap lots now being offered by John Cobbe, who is clearing out a lot of samples and odd lines much under regular prices. As the result of the entertainment recently held at Colyton in aid of the Church of England building fund, the committee have received the sum of L 7 4s, for which they would desire to thank all those who contributed towards the success of the evening's entertainment. The annual meeting of parishioners of the Feilding Parochial District will be held in Miss Goodbehere's schoolroom on Friday next, 17th, at 3.30 p.m., when, among other business, nominations for two synodsmen to represent the parochial district will be received ; the election of which officers will take place on Friday, 31st, at 3.30 p.m. See advertisement. Yesterday Mr W. Vicary, who collected funds in Apiti for the Brunner Relief fund, sent the balance of the money collected by him (7/6) through the Bank of New Zealand. In addition to subscriptions from those already acknowledged Mr W. Short paid 5s and Mr J. Gould 2s 6d. Altogether Mr Vicary collected Ll4 in Apiti, the whole of which amount has now been remitted. It was said of the Rev L. M. Isitt during his tour through England that no man had ever moved the country to such a height of enthusiasm in the cause of Temperance since the time of John B. Gough. Many a New Zealander felt proud of their orator. He has returned to the colony and is engaged to lecture in all the centres of the colony. The Prohibitionists of Feilding have secured his services for August 13th, 1896. Tenders will be received by the Kiwitea County Council, until the 18th inst., for the following works : — For forming and culverting 31 chains Peep-o'-Day road ; forming and culverting 148 chains Mangapapa road ; forming, culverting, and bridging 151 chains Pakihikura road ; forming and culverting five miles Kiwitea-Tapuae road ; and erecting bridge and making cutting on Northern line. Further particulars in advertisement. A sale of town and suburban sections in the Wanganui Harbor Board's township of Pohangina is notified by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to be held in Palmerston North on 4th August. In all, 51 quarter acre sections are to be offered for cash at the upset price noted opposite each section. The land is mostly cleared, and there are no restrictions or limitations imposed on purchasers. Plans containing full particulars will shortly be obtainable at the principal Post Offices in the district, and at this office. __^^____^______