Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

— # -■ Mr Joseph Darragh has just importc d a number of novelties in table ware. Mr A. Williamson, tailor, has just received a quantity of new materials and fashions. Mr H. F. Worsfold, tobacconist aud hairdresser, has an important announcement in to-day. Mr P. Burrell has for sale 50 sacks of good sparrow bill oats. The same advertiser wants twenty cords of firewood split. The person who took a silk umbrella from tbe Coiyton Hall on Friday last is requested to return the same to Brarnwell's store, Colvton. From an advertisement which appears elsewhere to-day it will be seen that that the thoroughbred stallion King John will travel the Manawatu Kiwitea and Pohangina districts this season. According to statistics xjublished from time to time by the Grand Lodge in New South Wales the falling off of Good Templars in that colony during 9 years amounted to 10,192, or an average of slightly over 1132 per annum. The Cromwell Argus states : — i( At a meeting of shareholders in the Ophir Reef Company it was unanimously resolved — ' That the mine be abandoned, and that tho balance in hand, £17 odd, be devoted to the purchase of tickets in Tattersall's sweep on the next Melbourne Cup.' " At the general meeting of the New Zealand Polo Association, held on Friday last at Cbristchurcb, it was decided that no ponies should bo bought during the progress of the tournament. Mr A. E. G. Rhodes agreed to continue to act as secretary until he had time to communicate with tbe club as to their wishes on the matter. Our readers will see that the scheme for a Young Men and Boys' Club has got as far as an inaugural meeting this evening at the room in Glasgow House. The Mayor will take chair at 7.30 and there will be an explanation of objects, enrolment of members, a few good musical items, refreshments and a collection. We hope those who wish well to the scheme will attend and help. Refreshments for the small charge of 6d. There is a possibility of Mr Sims Reeves and his wife visiting New Zealand- They leave shortly with Mr Percy Nottcutt as manager, for South Africa, where they have a long engagement at £100 a night and all expenses paid. It is just possible that arrangements will be made for them to extend their tour to Australia and New Zealand, provided of course, sufficient inducement offers. Tbe following additional dates have been arranged by Inspectors Bindon and Milne in connection with the annual examination of schools under the Wanganui Education Board : — Bunnythorpe, Monday, 7th September ; Kiwitea and Cheltenham, Tuesday, Bth September ; Apiti and Mangarimu, Wednesday, 9th September; Rangiwahia and Birmingham, Thursday, 10th September. Tbe Birmingham Rifle Cjub opened the shooting season on Saturday last, when there was a very fair attendance of members and the shooting was moderate. In the evening the committee met and decided to bold a ball in about a month. It was also decided to call a general meeting of members for Saturday evening next at the Birmingham Hotelj when all members are requested to attend. The conduct of tvso &r three members of the House of Representatives thia session (says tbe Wellington People) hap been disgraceful. They have been in a chronic state of drunkenness, makinp themselves a nuisance both to members and the public who frequent the House. These men are unfit to be legislators and arc a disgrace to their constituencies. Surely tbisjs & strong argument for the abolition of Bellamy's altogether. The Shops and Shop Assasfcaais Act Amendment Bill, brought down by the Goyeran}.ej)t provides an extended definition of " shop assistants," by including all persons in tbe sbopfeeeper's employment who sell or deliver tns goods or canvass for orders for his goods, wUeihpr such persons are at any time actually employed inside the shop or not; and, also, all persons or .classed of persons /rom time to time declared by ths Governor by notice in the (J&zstfce to be shop assistants. The Calais correspondent of one of the London journals reports a shocking fatality, which happened whilst a young married couple named Dixon-Sage, who were stopping at Calais, were out cycling. They were on a tandem machine, and when just outside tbe town met a heavily-laden waggon, and before they could get clear tbe machine was knocked oiifit, and tbe waggon passed over it and ti?e rivets, The husband was killed instantaneously, a#d Mrs Dixon-Sage was so badly injured that -i^r was despaired of*

Additions aro made to-day to the en • tries for Messrs Abraham and Wiliiams' Palmerston sale. The New Zealand Polo Association's Junior Cup, won by tho Feilding Polo Club, is now on view in a window of Mr Carthew's shop. It is a very handsome i trophy. Mr Claude Scott arrivad in Feilding < to-day to make arrangements for tbe i forthcoming season of Mr Chas Cooper's j Scenic Recitals, the first of which con- j sisting chiefly of a scenic display of Britannia's bulwarks, will be given in the ; Assombty Rooms on Monday night next. The plain and fancy dress Skating Carnival to be held in the Drill Hall on Wednesday evening next, August 26th, promises to be a very great success. A large number of skaters have already reserved their skates. Some very bandsome dresses will be worn. The Drill Hall is to be nicely decorated for tho occasiou. On July 7tb, at New York, an exhausted pigeon fell into tho bauds of tbe police with diamonds attached to its tail neck and le»s, and the weight had been too much. It was the property of a gang of smugglers, who took the bird to Ewrope, and on tho voyage to New York liberated the birds to evade tbe Customs oflicers aud duties. "We have to apologise to our subscribers around Taonui and along the Taonui and Ashnrsfc roads for the irregular manner in which their papers have been delivered of late. Having obtained another runner, who commences his duties to-day, we trust there will be no further cause for complaint owing to any irregularity, but should auy subscriber not re ceive a paper on any occasion we would be obliged if advised immediately of the fact. The Awahuri Volunteers held their first Morris tube practice on Saturday eveuing last, and considering this kind of practice was new to them, some very good scores were made. Following are the scores, f> shots : — Scrgt McMurray, 20pts Ist round, 28pts 2nd round, total 4:> ; Corpt Mann, 14pts Ist round, 16pts 2ud round, total ;-50 ; Yol Stuart, 21pts Ist round, 19pts 2nd round, total 40 ; Vol E. Bennett, 20pts Ist round, 20pts 2nd round, total 40 ; Yol J. Bennett, 20pts Ist round, llpts 2nd round, total, iil.