The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 41, 17 August 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1896. Local and General News.

I • , Some of the Members of the House \ take snuff. How dreadful ! Mr W. W. McCardle will be a candidate for the new Pahiatua electorate. Owing to pressure on our space a num. ■ ber of letters to the Editor are unavoidably held over. Some of the early graiu crops in the Wairarapa valley are reported to be looking remarkably well. The Post denies that LIOOO per annum is to be paid to the Licensed Victuallers Association's lecturers. All qualified persons should make it ch"ir busiu ;o see «hat their names aiv uu ihe . >c oral roils for their respective dibti ct^ We have to thank the secretary, Mr R. ' D. tSurrell, for an invitation to the Football Club ball to be held in Cneltenhani on the 19th instant. At a rifle match last week between two ladies and two gentlemen a few miles out of town (the Patea Press reports) the ladies won by two points. On Saturday last Mr Bray showed us some mangolds grown at his farm. 1 Makino, i'rouj beed supplied by Messrs Barraud and Abraham, of Feilding. • Their size and weight showed what exI cellent capabilities some of the Makino land has for roots crops grown from reliable seed. A replace advertisement from that popular drapery emporium, the Bon Marche, appears to-day. As Messrs 1 Spence and Spen cc are real live tradesmen and do not suffer the grass to grow under their feet, the Bon Marche will always be found up to date in the matter of quality, value, and variety. Bedrock prices for ready money is the motto of the establishment. Some stupidly malicious person has made a point of digging or hacking up the newly laid asphalt on the footpaths, when in a soft condition as left by the contractors at night. This is not only a cause of annoyance but of actual money loss to the contractors therefore the perpetrator should be punished, but the difficult thing is to get sufficient information as to bis identity. Now that the population is steadily 1 increasing parents begin to ask " what shall we do with our girls," this question is to some extent solved when enterprising firms are giving employment to young ladies. Mr i»eckley 4 v o.f oher I , borne House, has a notification ie .our wanted column to-day that he has an opening for two or three apprentices for me dressmaking department.

A purse with money therein has been left at this office. Owner can have the same on paying expenses. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Harmonic Society's concert to be given on Thursday next. Captain Edwin wired at noon : — Indications for strong North-East to North and "West winds after 12 hours from now ; glass fall. The orchestra of the Feilding Harmonic Society will hold a practice this evening in tlie Foresters' Hall at 7.30. There will bo a full rehearsal of the Society in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday evening at 7.30 p.m., when all members are expected to attend. Messrs Abraham and Williams report on fcbeir Palmerston horse sale as follows :— The entry forward on Saturday was a small one and generally of an indifferent quality. Bidding was somewhat slow, though a good many were sold. For draughts there were several inquiries but none came to hand. Trap horse L 7 ; hacks, L 3 5s to L 5 2s 6d : others, L 2 to L 2 8s ; unbroken yearlings, etc., 22s to L 3 10si pony, trap and harness, L2l. The Manawatu Daily Times regrets to learn that Mr H. Wollerman, who has so long been a resident of Palmerston ami a well known and popular figure in mercantile circles, is about to leave us and take up his residence in Wellington, where he intends opening upbusiuess as a shipping and general merchant. The Palmerston business will, however, still be carried on as before, under the management of Mr 11. Wollerman, junr. We understand that the valuable agencies recently offered to the firm of Wollerman and Co have caused the change of rcsi dencc to be necessary. Mr Wollermau will leave for Wellington about the cud of the present month. A man named Andrew Kelly, alias James Kelly, was arrested at Palmerston on Saturday evening by Constable Griffiths on a charge of stealing from Timaru eight horses valued at LlC> each, the property of Mr W S. Masliu, M.H.R., in July last. The arrest was a very smart one as it was done entirely on the description of the man given in the Police Gazette, which does not exactly tally j with the man's appearance. Accused, who was one of the swaggers sleeping in the Shannon station the previous evening, denied all knowledge of the affair when first arrested but subsequently admitted that lie was the man. Accused disposed of the majority of the horses in Christchurch tor L7O. Kelly was brought , before the Court this morning and re I manded to Timaru. — Standard.