Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 115, 13 November 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Nominations for the Mayoralty of <\ ■TeHding will close on Monday. The Feilding lawn tennis conrts will se opened at 3 o'clock to morrow afternoon. * Additions are made to-day to the en 1 tries tor Messrs Abraham and Williams' j Pohangina sale. Mr Lethbridge will address the elec- ( hors in the Maliino school room tomor- , cow evening at 8 p.m. \ James Wood has a quantity of goods < to offer to-morrow, and no reasonable offer will be refused. , There will be a meeting of the Shoot- ; ing Committee of the Manchester Rifles at 7 p.m. sharp, this eveninp. Train services for the Wellington A. and P. Show, rac&s and Industrial Exhibition are advertised to day. An advertisement of importance to visitors to the Wellington Exhibition, who require superior board and residence, appears to day. The Manchester Rifles paraded for inspection last night. The attendance was small as a number of the men are away shearing. A proclamation will be gazetted to day dissolving Parliament and it is expected that next day the date of the election will be announced. We learn from the Perth Morning Herald that Mr L. R. Meuziehas reeentlv erected a mansion on which he has expended between i'7ooo and £«000. Mr Herbert Godfrey, travelling representative of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, died at Picton last Friday, after a short illness, from an internal complaint. Mr T. Dixon has shown us a fine sample of early potatoes of the White Elephant variety grown by himself, and which are the best developed we haye seen of this yeac's crop. The interest in local cricket continues to be well kept up, and to-morrow a very interesting match is expected between sides of runrried aud single players. The ground is in excellent condition, aud we arc pleased to see such a hearty revival in cricket in our town. A fire occurred in the People's Palace Variety Theatre, Edinburgh, on September oOth, duriug a perlormance, causing a panic, feiuriug which .several per.sou.-5 were crushed to death, and a number were seriously injured. The building was completely destroyed. We have received the programme of the next ineetiug of the New Zealand Rine Association to he held iv Auckland on Monday, 15th February, 1«97, aud following days. Free railway pusses over the Government lines will be granted to competitors, who in all cases must travel in uniform. A man named W. T. Giesc was arrested at Feilding yesterday on a charge of failiug to provide adequate means of support for his wife and two children. Accused was charged before Mr H. L. Sherwill, J.P., and remanded to Wellington on the application of the police. The fortnightly popular concert of the Young Men and Boy's Club will be held to night in Glasgow House. Provision has been made for a large gathering and the programme is quite up to the stand ard of those of former concerts which have made these gatherings so popular and successful. Farmers would do well to peruse Messrs Reid and Gray's new advertisement, on the fourth page of to-day's issue. In ad dition to their well-known manufactures Messrs Reid and Gray are sole agents in New Zealand for the "Deeriog" pony and all steel harvesters and binders, machines which have a world-wide reputation. The London Papers arc poking fun at Mr William Waldorf Astor, the American multi-millionaire, and report that he sold his hotel in order to silence the criticism that a boniface is not a suitable husband for a priacess. The Norwegian newspapers announce the engagement of Mr Astor to Princess Vie toria of Wales as a settled fact. Notwithstanding the recent immense shipments of gold to America, there appears no lack of the yellow metal in Sydney. The Bank of New South Wales last week sent to the mint in one lot, 64,b26 ounces, or over two tons weight of gold, valued at £245,000. This is the largest amount ever sent by any New South Wales Bank to be coined at one time. A new occupation for women has been adopted in America, which, as it might suit some of our women pining to find an opening for their talents, I will notice. Miss Mona Sheldon, of Friendship, New Jersey, has started a frog farm upon a twenty acre patch of swamp. Her frogs are of course of the edible variety, whose bind legs are beloved by the gourmet, and find in cosmopolitan America a ready sale. She clears £500 a year out of her reptilian trade. Last night after 11 o'clock a young man named George Mclndoe, employed as a groom to Mrs Smith, of Fitzherberc street, Palmerston North, was removed to the hospital suffering from a gunshot wound supposed to be self inflicted. It appears that Mrs Smith and family were iv bed at 11 o'clock, and about that time they beard a loud report and on going in the direction of the noise found Mclndoe lying on the floor with a double barrelled gun near him. Dr Satchell was called in and discovered a gunshot wound in his forehead. Mclndoe lies in an unconscious state. — Standard. A pretty wedding was celebrated at Feilding yesterday. The contracting parties were Mr Arthur Ernest Sandilands and Miss Mary Pussel, both of Beaconstield. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr Fred Pussel. The bridesmaid was Miss Clara Pussel. Mr Otto Pussel acted as best man to the bridegroom. The bride was attired in a dress of fawn cloth, trimmed with cream colored silk, and wore a bat trimmed with orange blossoms. The bridesmaid was dressed in a costume of silver gray, trimmed with shot silk. The gifts of the bridegroom to the bride and bridesmaid were handsome gold brooches set with moonstones. The presents were pretty and in several instances costly. We wisb bbc newly married couple long life and much happiness. An adjourned meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of P. Mcllroy, of Rangiwahia, waa held at Feilding yesterday. Mr G. J. Scott, D.0.A., the debtor with his solicitor Mr Innes, Messrs J. Prior and L. E. Reade (representing Messrs Windelburn Bros.) and W. Summers were present. It having transpired in examination that debtor had paid £12 10s on account of the purchase of an acre section at Rangiwahia, the D.O.A. said he would pay the costs due on the title, which he would got compiled iv the interest of the creditors. Several fresh matters cropped up in connection with the estate, amongst which were two' sums of X"BS and £63 which were paid to Burke and Miss Mcllroy respectively. The D,O.A eairl h£ would take steps to recover these amounts a? having been preferential payments, on foehaif qf the creditors. The debtor's solicitor undertook that debtor should appear for his discharge in February next.

Oddfellows' Lodge meets to-night. The Rev Mr Davy will hold services >n Sunday as indicated in our wanted :olumn. Mr Lethbridge's committee will meet n the Manchester Road Board office his eveningWe have to acknowledge receipt of a ;omplimentary card for the concert and lance to be held in the Pohangina lown Ball on the 20th inst. Mr D. D. Currie was elected to represent the Umutoi riding in the Pohangina County Council, having secured fiye votes against his opponent Mr Gawler'a four. Mr John Stevens will address tbe electors of Mauawatu at Awahuri on Monday the 16th instant, and at Rongotea on the 17th iustant, at 7.30 p.m. on each occasioa. The N.Z. Times says:— On Monday evening next a public meeting will be held in the Opera House, when Mr J. J. Bagnall. of Feildiug, will address the people of Welliogton on the question of •'Liberty versus Prohibition," under the auspices of the Liberty League. A poll for the election of candidates to represent the Rangiwahia and Otamakapua ridings in the Kiwitea County Council was held on Wednesday last with the following results :— Rangiwahia riding — F. Pemberton 52 votes (elected) ; T Moffatt, 17, Otamakapua riding- A. H. Atkinson 55 (elected) ; W. J. Paulin 46. A meeting of the committee of the Feilding Bowling Club was held at Mr Sherwill's office last evening. Various matters were dealt with, including the improvement of the green. Messrs Yates aud Young were appointed skips to select two teams for practice, in view of tbe coming tournament at Wellington iv Jauuary next. It was decided to have the handicaps for Mr Bonnie's trophy rearranged. Tennyson could take a worthless sheet oE Diver, write a poem on it, and mako it •^orth i'l3 0i)0 - Ibat's genius. Vander* bilt can write ale?? wortis on a bit of paper arid niako it worth £13.000— that's capital. The United States c;\n take an ounce and a quartf r of cold and stamp upon it an eagle and make it. worth £5 — that's money A mechanic can lake tun tern I .' wr-Tili X"l .i:u( mnke it ; nto waVcb spring- worth £200 — that's skill. A tn' r chaii!. fan take ,-\n hi tide worth 3s >;nd soil it fo" •!■-; — tint's business A lady j C3n p'lri-h'is/"- a 3- It at", but she prefers ' one tli:it. crsts .£5 -that's foolishnt'ss. A rli'r-h di;:<;!?r •i(irk-. tf>n hours a da>. nrui handles several tons of earth for 7s — that's !ab ur