Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

To-day Mr Trewin opened up a large ! consignment of the famous Zealandia \ boots and shoos. Additions arc made to Messrs Gorton and Son's Feildiug sale of three lines of very useful wethers. The ball of the Colyton Football Club will be held iv the Mangaone Public Hall next Friday evening. Ii is reported that the wells in the town of Rakaia have " gone dry" as a silent protest against the Prohibition agitation now ripe iv the Colony. Iv a Good Cause.— Lady Member of the Girls' Friendly Society : " I want to sec Harriet Brown ?" P;tgo boy (pointing to area gate) : " Visitors for Miss Brown that way, please." Messrs Wood and Judkins announce that they will sell at 11 a.m. on Saturday uext, a large consignment of fruit and ornamental trees on account of Messrs Mayo and Sons, of Palmerston North. Tenders are invited by Mr L. G. West, architect, for the erection ot offices and grain stores in Fergusson Street for Messrs Barraud and Abraham, also for the removal of the old building and for the delivery of gravel by the yard. Tenders close on Saturday next at 5 p.m. We advise those desirous of securing front seats at Mr Isitt's lecture to-mor-row night in the Drill Hall to be there early as a crush is expected. At the close of the lecture a collection will be taken up to defray expenses. Mr F. Y. Lethbridge will preside. Every person interested either for or against prohibition should make a point of hearing Mr Isitt. The Feildiug Band will play outside the Drill Hall to-morrow evening. Under the new classification of electoral districts, the town of Waipawa is taken out of the Hawke's Bay electorate, and Woodville is trausfered to the new Pahiatua seat. This new district (says the H.B. Herald's Wellington correspondent) makes Mr George Hunter's { election practically a certainty, whilst Mr Hall considers himself safe for the present seat. The following resolution was passed unanimously by the Manawptu Road Board at its last meeting : — That this Board views with alarm the action of the Member for the District in his evident desire to saddle the local bodies with a share of the cost of reconstruction and. maintenance of the Gorge bridge ; that this Board decidedly objects to being saddled with any portion of said costs of reconstruction or maintenance in any degree whatever, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Member for the District. At a meeting of members of the Feilding Jockey Club, held in the Denbigh Hotel last evening, it was resolved " That it is desirable that the Feilding Jockey Club be registered under the Unclassified Societies Act, 1895, and Mr Sandilands was instructed to give effect to tlio resolution. A communication was read from the Colonial Secretary stating two totalisator licenses would be granted to the Feilding Jockey Club for the coming racing season. In connection with he regisuration of the Club we understand this is the first racing club in New Zealand which is taking advantage of the Act. At last night's usual practice of the F"ilding Brass Band it was unanimously decided to enter for tbe Exhibition Band Contest to be held in Wellington at New Year, also for the marching and marchplaying competition. The Contest Committee provide one selection for all bauds to play, and each band chooses oue for themselves. Feilding's choice will be " Lucretia Borgia," and the march, "Battle and the Breeze." In order io defray the expenses of the trip, the band intend organising a series of concerts, the first of which will be given in about a month, when the march and selection will be performed. Remembering the creditable positiou the Feilding Band took iv the local contest, we are sure they will do credit to themselves aDd uphold the honor of Feilding in tbe Empire City. On Tuesday next two very interesting ceremonies will take place in the Drill Hall. The first will he a sac-ial,at which the Rev. Fred. Stubbs tthe new iacumb' ut of tho Presbyterian Church) and Mrs Stubbs will be accorded a welcome by the members of the congregation and other well wishers. Tbe second event will be a presentation to the Rev. H. M. Murray, who fcs-s retired from the Miv istry. There will l» an exhibition of works of art, over one hundred of which have already been promised. Among these are several Royal Academy pictures .unequalled in the colony. For the ease of mind o£ those who are good enough to lend either pictures or statutory, we are requested to poiut out that every #are will be taken of exhibits^ and a competent person will remain co the premtses all Tuesday night, whose responsibility will not end until every arMele ha*^ been safely delivered to the I several owners.

Mr W. W. Carlile, formerly editor of the Hawke's B>y Herald, and also of the "Wellington Pre.-*?, is now editor of the Courier at Coolgardie, W.A. The Post, mentions Mr Warbnrton as the successor to Mr Fitzgerald as Auditor and Con' roller Gt-npral, and that Mr J. C. Martin, S-M., will become Public Trustee. A business card will be found in another column from Mr Jas. Spiers Freeman, land ageut, of Ashurst, who has always a large number of properties for sale. The superior quality of tlie ale browed by Mr J. Paul at the Feilding Brewery i is ra-pidly forcing the local manufacture into the public favor as a wholesome beverage, and Mr Paul is being kept very busy. Mr P. J. Qnirke who has jnst returned from Australia, informs the Pahiatua Herald that had the ram that brought LI6OO at the Sydney sales been put up for auction at Pahiatua he would probably not have brought more than 10s. An old Maori woman was found dead in a tent at Taylor's, Pah, 2_ miles from Hastings, on Friday last. It apnear.s that she was left in charge of another woman, who had evidently left without providing for the wants of the sufferer, and she had died from starvation. The death is announced at Stoney river, Punehu, of Matthew Hill, aged 64, late of Eltham. The deceased enlisted in the 71st Regiment iv 1852, and served throughout tho Crimea, receiving the medal and clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol ; also the Turkish medal. He served iv the 57th Regiment in New Zealand, and received his discharge in 186 1. Mauy petty larcenies have occurred lately at Bulls. One would imagine that the thief or thieves were near starvation, as they have a penchant for edibles. Those who go without dinner on Suuday do not appreciate marauding attacks made upon their larders or safes, and it is to be hoped the nefarious energies iv this direction will meet witli the reward they deserve. The constable may find them with harder fare if they are not more honest. — Mercury. A meeting of dairy factory managers and assistants was hold at Wayerlcy recently, to consider fhe best means of conserving the interests of those practically concerned in carrying on tho manufacture of butter and cheese in the various factories of New Zealand, 40 representatives were present. A preliminary committee was formed, and it was decided to form an association to be called " The Dairy Factory Managers' ancl Assistants' Association of New Zealand." Communication has been opened up with tho kindred body in Victoria. The objects of the organisation are to watch over tho interests of the trade and those connected therewith. The association will include members from all parts ot New Zealand. Tlie dail3 T average cost per head of patients in the hospitals in the colony last year (less patients' fees) was as follows : — Arrowtown>7s llh ft, Ashburton 5s 4. U1, Auckland 2s 9 : |d, Blenheim :5s 6';d, Charleston, 5s 2d, Christchurch Is 2.U1, Akaroa 8s 10*',* d, Coromaudel 12s 5 jd, Cromwell lis sd, Dunedin 8s 2jd, Dunstan 7s 7 |d, Gisborne 4s OM, Grey River 2s lift, Greytown 8s 5Ad, Hawera lis OJd, Hokitika 8s 8-|d, Invercargill 4s O.Jd, Kumara 4s Id, Lawrence 5s sd, Masterton 4s B|d, Nelson 4s 10 -}* d, New Plymouth 5s 2hft, Oamaru 5s B|d Palmerston North 4s 4d, Patea 10s lid, Picton 2s 9:ld, Queenstown 5s 3d, Reefton 5s 6.UJ, Boss 4s 9]d, Thames 3s 3* ft, Timaru 4s 6-Jd, Waikato 6s 5-Vd, Waimate 7s Sift, Waipawa 4s Ojd, Wanganui 4s 6?d, Wellington 3s l:]d, W T estport 2s Od, Rotorua 5s l:'|d.