The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 111, 7 November 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1896. Local and General News.

• _ Monday next being the Prince of | Wales' Birthday the Stab will not be I published. I Diphtheria is reported to be prevalent in Eketabnna. The Palmerston North Caledonian Society's Sports will be held on Monday next. Between two and three million acres of Crown lands are sh6rtly to be made available for settlement in various parts of New South Wales. Mr and Mrs Nilsson, of Colyton, returned from their trip to Europe to-day. We are pleased to know tbat Mrs Nilsson has much'benefited by the change. Mr A, Eade has jnst received a large consignment of iron bedsteads of the best yet most economical makes. Further particular in future advertisement. In the Salvation Army Barracks tomorrow there will be special service in tbe forenoon, and a memorial service in , tbe afternoon. See oar wanted knows column. The usual services are advertised for the Wesleyan Church to-morrow. Mr W. Smith, of Golyton, will conduct the morning service and Mr J. Wood will officiate in the evening. Ladies out shopping tbis evening should not fail to visit Sherborne house, as there will be a large display of choice millinery and novelties for the holiday season on view, Mr Beckley having j*st opeaediiesb, goods.

Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmer ston sale are advertised to-day. The 'Frisco Mail arrived in Feilding yesterday afternoon and was promptly sorted and delivered. The dates on which Mr F. Y. Lethbridge will address the electors in the several centres of the Rangitikei Electorate are advertised to-day. The dates of Mr W. A. L. Bailey's addresses in the country districts of Rangitikei Electorate are advertised today. Mr G. Foster, ranger, found a letter and a post card on the Feilding Bunnythorpe road yesterday. They have been handed to the postmaster. We have seen some specimens of electric oil painting executed by Mrs Hazell of Leamington farm.Bunnythorpe. They are really very well done and show considerable artistic skill and taste both in coloring and style. In our report of the Borough Council meeting held on Thursday last the following appeared " tenders received for forming and culverting 41 chains West street ,F Rink 4s lid a chain accepted.'' This should have read 14s lid. A four-year old son of Mr W. Middlemiss, of Springlands, Blenheim, fell into the river at Grovetown on Monday last, and was drowned. This, the Marlborough Express, states, is the third child j Mr and Mrs Middlemiss have lost by drowning. The Returning Officer for the Borough Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice he has appointed Monday, the 16t.h inst., as the day, and tbe Borough office as tbe place for the nomination of candidates for tbe office of Mayor for the ensuing term. A poll if necessary will be taken on the 25th inst. At a meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board yesterday an application was received from Mr H. Oliver for leasing five sections in Block 10, Pohangina, at 5 per cent on the upset value. It was resolved to lease them subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Waste Lands. In France bicycles are taxed at the rate of about 9s per year. The tax yields about i'Bo,ooo per annum. In Naples the tax is ten francs on each cycle used for pleasure, and 5 francs for business purposes. In Moscow there are nearly 6000 wheelmen, but only about half have permission to ride within the city limits. Cause and Effect — From tbe French : — The Advocate : " I wish, Monsieur lc President, to call two other witnesses who have not been subpoenaed." The President : " Arc you satisfied that tboy will help us to arrive at the truth v> " Tbe Advocate : " Quite satisfied. I have not had time to communicate with them." Sir Robert Stout, in the course of an interview at Dunedin, said, with regard to the temperance party at tl^e election, that the trouble in tbe past ha* been that many men have declared themselves for Prohibiiion who have no sympathy whatever in the movement. They have declared themselves Frobibitionists to catch votes. When an alleged politician gets tired of sitting on a rail in Parliament then he becomes an advocate for the Elective Executive. In that connection Major Harris, one of tbe Government whips, is reported to have stated at his Papakura Valley meeting that the members of tbe House were not sufficiently upright in character for the Elective Executive to be a success. The local corps of the Salvation Army are having a change just now in its offi. cers. Lieutenant Burton of tbe Divisional headquarters, Wellington, has arrived aDd will for the time being take charge of the Army's operations in Feilding, Tbe Army have just finished np their annual self-denial appeal. Close on £4500 have been raised, being an increase of nearly i2OOO on last year's total. The Secretary of the Feilding Public Library reports tbe following new books and magazines that have come to hand : — " While the billy boils," Lawson ; ' Thirty years of Paris," Daubet; "Port Salvation," Daubet ; '• Recollection of a literary man," Daubet ; " Fromont junior and Risler senior'" Daubet. Magazines :—St James' Budget, The Punch, Graphic, Tho Australasian, Illustrated London News, and Cassell's Saturday Journal. Do you or your friends want a really good opening, town oc country livery stables '.> The right man can come in cheap. Do you want a good wheelwright and blacksmith's business combined, doing extensive trade ? Let tbe present proprietor go to Auckland look ing for gold, you step into his trade and torn tbe iron into precious metal. Apply as usual for bona fide bargains Pearce's Land Mart, Palmerston N. Mr Charles Carr will hold a stock sale at Feilding on Friday the 13th instant, on the 14th instant he will sell several lots on acconnt of whom it may concern. Oh the 21st instant he will hold a sale of tbe freehold land and bakery business in the estate of the late J. C. Cothbartson. The last mentioned sales will be held in Mr Carr's new auction mart in Kimbolton road. All other particulars are given in the several new advertisements. The Johannesburg output of gold for the month of August last has been declared at 213,4710z, being the largest quantity ever recorded for a single month. It exceeds the output of August 1895, by 989802. There are other goldfields in South Africa besides the Joban nesburg, but their output is at present comparatively small. The value of tbe raw gold exports from Cape Town for the first eight months of the year was entered at £5,253,364. The committee of the Feilding Atble tic Club met last evening at Mr Slier will's office, when Mr W. G. Haybittle presided. Mr W. Wilkinson's tender at jb'l4 12s 6d was accepted for a 18 x 10 addition to the competitors' dressing shed. A letter was received from Mr L. E. Reade, secretary of the Feilding Quoit Club, suggesting that a quoit tournament should be placed on the programme It was resolved that Messrs W. G. Haybittle, T. H. James and H. L. Sherwjll , be a sub committee to confer with Mr ' Reade and ascertain more clearly what was required and report at the next meeting. Te Horo. A correspondent of the Otaki Mail writes : — It is with sincere regret that 1 record the death of one of our most respected residents, Mr Frank Taylor. He had been suffering for some time back fxom colds, bat nothing serious was anticipated. However, on last Monday week Dr Mason was sent for, and found the patient suffering from'a complication of inflammation of the lungs, pleurisy, aftd * slight touch of rheumatic fever. All that medical skill conld do was done, but was of no ?.yajj, as the sufferer gradually sank, passing away peacefully at an early hour on Monday, November 2nd. Mr and Mrs Taylor, senr., were sent for, and came up on Saturday morning. The deceased was gze&tly respected in the district, and will be much missed. He was one of the orieinators of the cricket club, aud up to the time of his death $>as an active member. Those who knew him ca& testify to his kind disposition, and keen sense of honour, and to bis untiring energy which made him a model settler. He le-ives a widow n O d four children, who have the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. His brother Mr J. H. Taylor, is a resident in Makino. We cordially sympathise witu the relatives in their bereavement

A sample shipment of five tons of cheese is to be sent by the Maman from Wellington to the Manchester Co-operative store in London from tbe recently-estab-lished cheese factory at Belvedere, in the Carterton district. This factory, which has been in existence only a few months, is already finding a large market for its goods, and an order has been taken for 100 tons of cheese to be sent through the season at a cost of about L 35 per ton. The number of electors who elected the President of the United States in the recent contest was 447, being equal to the total of representatives and senators to which each of the States is entitled. Each State is entitled to two senators, and two representatives in proportion to population. On the basis of the last census the proportion of representatives is one in every 153,900 of tho population. This gives 357 representatives and 90 senators. Consequently Major McKinley would have won had he only received 224 votes, The popular vote for President in 1892 was 12,100,000, or at the rate of slightly under one in five of the population. In the latest struggle the popular vote will probably prove to have been close upon 13,000,000.