Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 67, 16 September 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Committee of the Feilding Cycling Club will meet in the clnbroom at 8 p.m. to-morrow evening. We have to thank Mr J. A. Menzie, of Perth, W.A., for copies of the Morniug Herald and the West Australian. It is rumoured that Mr T. Studbolme, of Ruahine station, will stand for the Patea seat in the Government interest. In accepting the office as one of the Vice- Presidents of the Cricket Club, Mr Sandilands has given a donation of one guinea to the Club's funds. The Wanganui Hospital is fast approaching completion, and is expected to by out of the contractors' hands in about a fortnight's time, the painters being now busily engaged in finishing the building. We are glad to learn that Mr C. Carr, who was injured yesterday by a trap ac Cldent on the Kimbolton road, is in a fair way towards complete recovery. He slept well last night and hopes to be able to attend to business in a very short time. The annual Home Missionery meeting will be held in the Wesleyau Church tomorrow (Thursday) evening. The Ucv G. Bond, chairman of the Wanganui district, will give an address, settiug forth the claims of the Home Mission fund, in aid of which a collection will be made. A leading member of the legal fraternity has had imported a pair of pneumatic roller skates -the first pair, it is believed, that has been brought out to Dunedin. Great speed, it is claimed, may be attained by this means of locomotion and it is not too much to surmise that the day is not far distant when, besides cycling clubs, there will also be pneumatic roller skating clubs. The ordinary meeting of the Feilding Debating Society was held last evening in the Borough Council Chambers, when it was decided to close the session. The subject under discussion, wan " That i gambling is a greater curse than drink," Mr F. Y. Lethbridge led in the affirmative and Mr J. C. Thompson in the neg ative- A vote was taken on the question and resulted in favor of the affix- ' mative. ' We clip the following luminous production from our Bay of Islands contemporary :— " Now that another quarter has ended we advise home of our friends to siug the following : ' I blows, I sows, I reaps, I mows, I cuts up food for winter ; I digs, I hoes, 1 taters grows, and for aught I knows I owes the printer. I do suppose all knowledge Mows right from the printer's press ; so off I goes, in these 'ere clothes, to settle up, I guess.' " At Trunysotz, Kovno, Russia, a peasant belonging to that village, who occupied himself with procuring and abducting ignorant peasant girls ior houses of ill. fame in Germany and Brazil, was recently caught by a peasant whose daughters were amongst the victims. Sumoninsr the villagers to his assistance, the injured parent proceeded, with their help, to beat the offender to death. The peasants used pointed stakes, and were about an hour doing the killing. Mr A. E. Ratliff, land, estate and commission agent, reports the following sales at satisfactory prices : — 2l acres, Awahuri road, from Mr J. Norman to Mr D. Hingston, of Bulls. 23£ acres, at Halcombe, from Mr Tiffen, of Napier, to Mr Quarie, of Halcombe. 400 acres, at Waituna, from Mr E. 'Bryant to Mr H. Densbam, 100 acres, at Apiti (lease), from Mr A. W. Wheeler to Mr A. Wade, of Wellington. 100 acres, Apiti (lease), from Mr E. Curreen, Apiti, to Mr F. W. Miers, of Ashurst. The annual meeting of the Manawatu Cycling Club was held last night. The report showed a large increase in membership, there being 228 on the roll as against 20 at the beginning of the season. The balance-sheet showed a debit balance of £'62 4s 4d. The loss on the season's operations was due to having to pay the expenses of representatives at the Championship meeting, which entailed a cost of L 64 6s 9d. The report and balancesheet were adopted. The following were the executiye officers elected for the ensuing season : — Captains, Messrs Lewis and Clarkaon ; Treasurer, Mr Russell ; Secretary, Mr Manning. During the discussion on teebnical education at the Napier School Committee meeting (says the Telegraph) one member related a peculiar incident which, he said, had come under his own knowledge One of the girl pupils of a Board School was married ?n Sue course. She had received no technical tuition in her younger dajs, and was sorely distressed how to cut out a pinafore for her first born, so she proceeded to lay the young» ster on the floor, toea downward, and in this position was able to get a good pat« tern ! The accuracy of the story is vouched for. After that surely technical education is needed. An adjourned meeting of the Pohangma County Council was held at the county offices yesterday to consider the applications for the position of clerk, treasurer, etc. All the Councillors were present — viz., Crs. H. Dickin (chairman), R. W. Brown, W. Vicary, E. Bell, A. A. Wagstaff, C Selby, and H. Fraser. Thirty-two applications were received from all parts of the colony. After a lengthy consideration it was decided that the chairman and Crs. Fraser and Brown be a subcommittee to interview Mr W. S. Harper, of Patea, and formerly of Marton, at Feilding at a date to bo arranged. la the event of a satisfactory interview Mr Harper will receive the appointment, otherwise Mr R. H. F. Dumaresq will be appointed. St Mary's Church, Wanganui, was well filled on Thursday evening when the Rev Father Patterson, of Palmerston, gave one of his fine organ recitals. The rev gentleman is known throughout the colony as a grand exponent of organ music, but Thursday night's performance eclipsed anything we have previously heard by Father Patterson, who brought out with effect the beauties of the different stops. Punctually at eight o'clock the programme was started with the beautiful " Palestine March " (Archer), the soft opening movement of which was greatly appreciated. Bach Fantasia, Prelude, and Fngue received an excellent interpretation at the hands of Father Patterson, the pedalling being really fine and the mellow tones of some of the stops used were alone worth going to hear. An arrangement by Fathar Patterson of " O Rest in the Lord " enabled him to again bring out the fine qualities of the instrument. — Herald. The following delightful "bike" picture appeared in an American paper : — A youne couple are running away to some * merican Grptna G reen on a tandem bike, thf eirl m front and the young fellow be hind. Both are pedalling fast, for the hard hearted father is coming up behind on a sturdy machine of his own. The fair one is, of course, in a terrible way, but the lover reassures her, explains that he has provided for all emergencies, and slowly draws from his pocket — a revolver you think? Not at nil That would have sent the poor girl into fits Even romance has never gone the length of permitting the lover on such occasions to shoot the father of his trembling com panion in flight. On this particular oc« casion the joung fellow draws from his pocket a package of tiu tacks, and quietly drops them on the road behind ] him. Tne infuriated father never gets past those ticks. He Buffers from a puncture — in the tjre as well as in the heart.

At the Palmerston Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Stanford, S.M., G. J. Scott and W. Coombs were further remanded until next Tuesday on the application of Mr Moore, counsel for the prosecution, on the grounds that the principal witness for the Crown was unable to be present. Mr Innea appeared for Mr Scott and Mr Hankins for Mr Coombs, and offered no objection to the remand. Bail was fixed at the amount previously agreed upon. — Standard. ' The crusade against the use of tea and tobicco, in any shape or form whatever, has already commenced. The frying-pan and the billy will also have to go at the same time. All of these have slain their thousands and tens of thousands. The Manawatu Farmer said with considerable force and truth :— Orchards are becoming everywhere more numerous, and better methods must|prevail. No department of farm affairs stands in need of reformation as does the care of the fruit. If practice were up to even our present practical knowledge, the result would be different. In fact, the orchai'disfc is away behind his possibilities.