Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 23 July 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

-•- • A match will be played at Feilding on Saturday next between the Feilding and Palmerston Golf Clubs. The annual meeting of the congregation of St Agnes' Church, Kiwitea, will be held on Saturday, July 25th. The Rev J. Cocker will deliver his popular lecture ' Popping the Question,' in the Cheltenham Hall on Monday next. Another of the old identities ot Poverty Bay has passed away in the person of Mrs Blauk, aged 87 years, who died on Saturday last. At Wycombe, England, recently, the Earl and Countess of Carrington were ordered to pay 2s 6d each and costs for riding bicycles without lights' Frederick Clifford who was charged at the District Court, Wanganui, held on Monday last, with exposing indecent literature at Kiwitea, was found guilty and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labor. In hiß proem to cycling notes in the Dunedin Star. Rover says prettily : — General cycling is in a profound state of hibernation just now. It is recuperating — preparing for germination with the adyent of the balmy breath of spring. By the last mail the Hawera Dairy Factory Company had returns for two shipments of cheese, which realised the highest prices of the season, viz., 445. The cheese is reported as being the finest received from New Zealand. — Hawera Star. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce that they will hold their usual weekly sale on Saturday next at 1 p.m. sharp, when in addition to produce, etc., they will sell under bill of sale, a quantity of good tweeds, etc., particulars of which are given in the advertisement. A Bedford servant girl, while washing windows, spattered water in the face of a passing gentleman. He looked, was conquered, married her, and turned out to be worth £20,000. All the men in Bedford now have to walk in the middle of the street, even if they are not worth halfa-crown. A Maine mother was hearing her little child repeat the Lord's Prayer recently. As the child hesitated a bit over the expression " Forgive us our trespasses," she interrupted long enough to ask : " Do you understand, dear, what ' trespass ' means " " Oh, ye?," replied the little one, " it means ' keep off the grass. ' " At a financial meeting of the local Court of Foresters', held last evening, the quarterly balance sheet was read and adopted, which showed the court to be in a prosperous condition. There was a sum of i'lll3 to the credit of the sick and funeral fund. There was a Jarge attendance of members. The remains of the late Mr A. Mair were buried yesterday afternoon in the Halcombe cemetery, and the cortege was the largest ever seen in the township. A half-holiday was given at the public school to allow the children to attend the funeral of an old and much respected teacher. The Rev. Mr Blake conducted the services. The Feilding Harmonic Society will meet for practice in the Foresters' Hall at 7.30 p.m. this evening, when ail members aro particularly requested to make an effort to attend. The concert which was to be held on the 13th August has, owing to other attractions falling on that date, been postponed till the Thursday following. In the House : Mr Mills — Sir, I hope the day will not arrive for the next twenty years, at any rate, when women will be admitted to Parliament. Mr Pirani — They would make good Whips. Mr Mills — No doubt some of them would, and I do not think they would have much difficulty in whipping the hon. member for Palmerston. We are requested to again notify contributors to the Presbyterian gift auction to be held in the Feilding Assembly Rooms to-morrow aftarnoon, that everything will be offered for sale to-morrow with the exception only of sheep and cattle, and these will not be required to be sent in till the following Friday. An important sale will be held in their auction rooms, Feilding, by Messrs Gorton and Son, under instructions from the D.0.A., Mr G. J. Scott, in the bankrupt estate of W. Goodwin, sections 55 and 60, containing two acres, in the rising township of Rangiwahia. There is an eight-stalled stable, with three loose boxes, and hall, erected on these sections. The sum of .£28,000 has been paid by the Government for the Arowhenua Estate of above 4600 acres near Temuka, and i' 64,000 for the Albury Estate of about 19,000 acres. Possession of the land will be given after next shearing season, and meanwhile sub divisional surveys, and roading will be put in hand and the land will be ready for settlement in December next. The following additional dates have been arranged by Inspectors Bindon and Milne in connection with the annual examination of schools in the Wangaaui district : — Ashurst, Monday and Tuesday, 17th and 18th August; Tiritea, Wednesday, 19tb August ; Oroua Bridge, Thursday, 20th August ; Karere, Thursday and Friday, 20th and 21st August ; Jackeyiown, Friday 21st August. Accompanying this edition is the second issue of Messrs Spence and Spence's price list of some of the numerous bargains now to be obtained at their great winter sale. When first class goods can be obtained at such prices as are quoted in this list no one, not even the poorest, need be without necessary clothing and drapery for the winter. Now is the time to buy when drapery is so cheap. The police at Brunner, acting under instructions from the Mayor, destroyed a building in which a resident had been living who died from cancer, (he local authorities oeing determined to take all possible precautions to prevent the spread ot the disease, and the neighbours in the vicinity being anxious that the building should be destroyed. During the last two months three residents of Brunner have succumbed to cancer. There is joy in the camp of the bookmakers on the second reading of Mr Carnell's Totalisator Bill, which has for its object the repeal of the law allowing the use of the machine in New Zealand. Before it was introduced the racecourses aud places of public resort were thronged by a set of harpies who under the guise of '• bookmakers " preyed on the public and lived like dukes on their nefarious practices.— Wanganui Herald. The editor ef a country paper wrote oue evening ; — Today ia the anniversary of the death of Louis Phillipe. When the proof was handed to him the uame read " Sam Phillips," and he ■a rote on the margin '• Who the mischief , n Sum Phillips?" next morning the article read, " To-day is the anniversary ot tne death of Sam Phillips. Who the mischief is Sam Phillips ? " [This ripe old chestnut appeared in the Wellington Chronicle 25 years ago.i In view of the coming season the Feilding Cycling Club have been presented with two very handsome silver medals of new designs by Mr Jas. Scott, jeweller, of Feilding. The medals will bo competed for as soon as the weather is flue enough to admit members of the club to get into training, and it is to be hoped local cyclists will show their appreciation of Mr Scott's kindness in presenting the trophies by taking a lively interest in cycling daring the coming season. '