The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1896. Local and General News.

There will be Mass in fiongotea on Sunday next, at 8 a.m. In September cancer killed ten persons in New Zealand. Entries for the Palmerstoa North Caledonian Sports will close on Thursday next. Owing to pressure on our space seve* ral letters to the Editor are unavoidably held over. The hotel-keepers of Wellington are Ba id to be raising a fund of L2OOO to help them during the election contest. A new advertisement from Mr Car thew announcing the arrival of a splendid assortment of Japanese goods will appear to-morrow. A cable message received in Auckland states that Sir George and Lady Grey have been reconciled, ttfcer a separation of something like hull <i century. By an oversight the subject for the Rev. F. Stubbs' sermon, on Sm day evening last at the Piv>byinian Church, was accidentally omitted from Saturday's issue. The Feilding Bowling green will be opened next Wednesday. The green is at present in capital order, and a large number of visitors is expected from Palmerston and other places. A general meeting of members of the Feilding Cycling Club will be held at the club rooms at 3 o'clock this evening for the purpose of electing a captain, arranging road race and other matters of interest to the club. A large attendance is requested. We are informed that bawks have this year been attacking the lambs, and that the loss this year from the cause stated will be heavier than ever befoie. In some districts, where the lambs have hitherto been untouched by the hawks, several lambs have this year been attacked, so that sheepowners will have to keep a sharp look out.— Taieri Advocate. Mr Booking, the well-known expert in disease of abeep has consented to deliver a lecture on fluke in sheep on Thursday afternoon next, under the auspices of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association. The lecture will probably be given in Messrs Abraham and Williams' rooms at 3 p.m. on the day mentioned, and we. have no doubt there will be a forge attendance.— St»nda(e\