Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

White bait are being caught in Canterbury rivers. Wellington consumed eggs worth £32,751 last year. The Kiwitea County Council will meet on Saturday next. The new railway bridge across the Oroua river, with 60ft spans, is now finished. Messrs Gorton and Sou will hold a stock sale at their Feilding yards on Friday next. Mr C. Carr will hold a stock sale at his Birmingham yards, on Tuesday, 18th August. The Rev L. M. Isitt, the Temperance , lecturer, will will give an address in the Drill Hall on Thursday evening. A general meeting of members of the ( Feilding Jockey Club will be held in the Denbigh Hotel this evenine at 8 p.m. A meeting of the committee of the Young Men and Boys' Club will bo held in Glasgow House tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. An advertisement in connection with the Art and Industrial Exhibition to be held at Palmerston North next mouth appears to-day. Mr J. R. Montague will sell, at 1 p.ru 1 to-morrow, the billiard table and stock-in-trade m the bankrupt estate of Mr D. Ross, hairdresser, of Feilding. There promises to be a considerable demand for " fancy " breeds of poultry in the district this season. People arc beginning to learn it is false economy to rear mongrels. A meeting of shareholders (second and third issue) of the Longburu Freezing Company will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday next at 1-45 p.m. A full attendance is requested. It is rumoured the Hon Mr Seddou will appoint himself Auditor-General. Another report is that Mr Ward, exColonial Treasurer is looking for the job. We have our doubts on the point. Under the now boundaries ot thcßangitikei electorate Feilding will probably be the electoral centre. The other townships in the electoral district are Halcombe, Birmingham, and probably Hunterville. Service stars for Sergt Aitken, Vol -T. M. Benuett, E. E. Bennett, G. Saywell, Walton and Wilson, of the Manchester Rifles have come to hand and will be issued at once on application to ColorSergt Milson. The secretary of the Feildin? Public Library reports the arrival of the following new magazines : — The Graphic, St James' Budget, Punch papers, The Illustrated London News, " Tho Mighty Atom," by Marie Corelli. At 1.30 p.m to-morrow Mr C. Carr will sell, iv the Assembly Rooms, some valuable house property on behalf of Me J, Smith. Particulars will be seen on reference to the advertisement. Mr Carr will afterwards sell tho livery stable plant of Mr L. H. Goldfinch. The Member for Palmerston has redeived a letter from the Postmaster General in which it is stated" that provision has been made in the in land mail ser vices for 1897-98, for which tenders are about to be invited, for the extension of the Pohangina-Upper Pohangina service to Mr E. Wagstaff' s house. Alternative tenders will also be called for a thriceweekly and a daily service between Fowler's and Apiti. The following teams have been selected te play in the football match on skates at the Drill Hall, Palmerston N., tins evening :— Feilding -Forwards, JRosoman, F. Hoggam, D. Dermer, M. JenniDS ; half-back, H. Sears ; full-back G. Haybittle : emergencies, Walsh and Flyger. Palmerston— Batten, Bedford, Purser, McMinn, Kennedy, H. Meyrick; emergency, F. Meyrick. The correspondent of the Marton Mercury, who has gone to Wellington to assist the member for Rangitikei in dunning the Government writes : — I have interviewed Mr Stevens, M.H.R., in reference to his question about the Marton buildings, and he says he has never advocated, and he never means to advocate, the employment of co-operative labour. He merely put the question, which has not yet been answered. At the Committee meeting of the Feilding Harmonic Society held last evening it was definitely decided to hold the first concert of this season in the Assembly Rooms on Thurseay, the 20th inst. The programme (which will be published as an inset to the Star paper on Tuesday next) will consist chiefly of choruses, songs, and orchestral pieces by the members of the society, but will also include instrumental solos by Messrs Durnaresq (violin), Cohen (viola), and Gunter (piano), the two last named having kindly promised to assist. A man asked Mr Dickinson's advice at Thames police-court respecting his wife, who neglected three children, and oDly the previous day ' jawed" at him for two and a half hoars " without stopping." Mr Dickinsoa thought the latter performance must be of an exhausting character. Applicant further said he had been married 16 years, and during I the whole of that time bad lived a miser- j able life. Mr Dickinson : Does she drink ? Applicant : No she eats. It's all eating with her. Why, she weighs over seventeen stone (laughter). Mr Dickinson : Well, wait. I will see what I can do for j you. Our readers will remember that Mr ' Spddon said garbled reports of the Banking Commission had been telegraphed to Xustralia. The reporter who cabled the . r -murks of Mr Booth did not approve of ">is imputation, so he interviewed Mr Booth and showed him a copy of what had been cabled. Mr Booth said the report was correct. The Napier Telegraph s.>s :— " Mr Burton thereupon wrote to r he Chairman of the Committee, pointing oat that Mr Booth had exonerated him from blame, and in no way questioned the accuracy of the report. The writer klso courteously volunteered to cable any explanation the Committee might wish sent to Australia. Did Mr Seddon apologise? Not he. In that sweetly demo eri'ic °'yle of his he loftily remarked that 'No member of the Press had the right to question the proceedings of the Committee,' and mysteriously hinted at 1 infringement of the privileges of Parliament.' ' What a tail our cat has got !' 1 O> ! mother, look at Dick.' " At the meeting of delegates to the National Dairy Association on Friday last, a statement of accounts was read for the twelve months ended April 30. This showed that the receipts had been : Cash from Dunedin, £41 5s lOd ; members subscriptions, £167 10s ; Government bonus, £50 ; shipping companies, £150. The expenditure had been : Secretary's salary, £245 ; travelling expenses, £56 10s; telegrams, stamps, printing, advertising, &c, £41 ss, the balance against the Association being £77 12s 9d. But between April and 30th June another Ll5O had been received from the shipping companies, L 25 Government subsidy, L 5 members' subscriptions ; and after providing for secretary's salary and a few sundries the balance to credit was L 57 19s 3d. The following were appointed a committee for the ensuing year : Messrs P. F. Ralfe, Stratford (subsequently electee! chairmau) ; Newton King, New Plymouth ; Oldham, Patea ; Robbins, Hawera; J. W. Foreman, Tikorangi ; H. N. Liardet, Stratford : J. U. Murray, Eltham ; R. \V. Foreman, Inaha ; Mitchell, Cheltenham.

Capt. Edwin wired to day— Every indication of frost to-night. | Additions are made to the entries for i Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmers- [ ton sale. ' I A correspondent wants to know . ■ whether any persons have the right to cut down the bush and saplings growing i near the Kiwitea bridge on the banks of I the stream, because that is being done. Perhaps the Town Clerk will give his attention to this. - — !