Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 116, 14 November 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Martou Industrial Exhibition will be opened on Tuesday, December Bth. Additions are made to day to the entries for Mr Charles Carr's Birmingham sale. Nominations for the Feilding Jockey Club's Spring meeting close on Monday evening. A meeting of ratepayers in Nos. 5 and 6 Wards of the Manchester Road Board will be held at Ashurst at 8 p.m. this evening. The Rev Mr Stubbs will lecture iv tbe Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening on " Athanasius contra Mundum," or independence of character. The Rev G. S. Harper will conduct the morning service at the Wesleyan Church to morrow and Mr Colin C. Harrison will officiate in the evening. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale, and additions to the Pohangina sale of the firm, are advertised to-day. A large consignment of boots and shoes has just been opened up by Mr R. J. Thompson, of the Cash Exchange Co-op., Feilding, which he is quoting at exceptionally low prices, particulars of which will be found in another column of to-day. In preparation for the Xmas trade, Messrs Spenc& and Spence have lately been opening up large quantities of men and boys' clothing, principally from the best Colonial factories, and the prices, stated in the advertisement, are such that none need be without a new suit for the holiday!. An elector at Roslyn, a contemporary is informed, is rather in a quandary as to what electorate he is in. His house is on the boundary of two electorates, and his two front rooms are in the Dunedin City electorate, while his three back rooms are in the Taieri. He sleeps at night in the Dunedin electorate, and has breakfast in the Taieri. Like the fellow in the music hall song, " 'E dunno where 'c are." The following have been selected to represent the Manchester Rifles iv their second team's match against the Rangitikei Royal Rifles second team at Feilding on Wednesday next : - Sergt Petherick, Sergt McMurray, Corp Evans, Vols Rensemann, Evans, Parkes and Stuart. Emergencies — Vols E. Bennett, Menz, D. Bennett, Isaac and McMillan. Ranges 200, 800 and 500 yards, shooting to commence at 11.30 a.m. Any of the above unable to assist will please inform the Secretary early. Although we do not " play in the same (political) yard " as Mr Charles Wilson, the editor of the New Zealand Mai), who is a candidate for one of the City of Wellington seats, yet we hope he will succeed. We feel quite sure that he would make a useful member represent- • ing the whole colony, and not merely a local delegate. The only disadvantages he labors under are that of being well educated, well informed, and well bred - qualities, according to a late Auckland member, quite unnecessary in a representative of the people. Through the gross carelessness of some person in alowiug a dynamite cartridge to lie about Wordsworth street. Wellington, a lad named Percy Jackson, employed as a telegraph messenger, received terrible injuries on Sunday after noon. As he was walking along tho street he picked up the cartridge, and was in the act of rubbing it against stone when it exploded, blowing off tbe thumb and two fingers of his left band and also lacerating his lip and the palm of his right band. The shock rendered him insensible.— Post. Quite recently a lady was lying dangerously ill in a room in which there was a telephone connection. As she had gone to sleep the members of her family and nurse had left the room for a few minutes. The lady, however, awoke, and, making an effort, rung up the telephone exchange, and her son, in one of the offices. He recogaised her voice calling the name, saying. " God bless you ; good — " He then thought be heard a moao, and feeling all was i.ot right, the young man ran home about a quarter of a ruiie to find that his mother I had expired in her chamber unknown to i the mm ites of the house, and that her < finaj menage and last works were spok- ] en through the telephone— Cbristchurch < Truth. -

Mr Lethbridge will address the electors in the Makino schoolhouse this evening. Special services will be held in connection with the Salvation Army tomorrow. The Kiwitea and Pohangina County Councils will meet on Wednesday, November 25th. Captain Edwin wired at noon : North to west and south-west gale with rain and glass fall. Mr Bailey's Feilding committee will meet at the Manawatu Timber Company's office on Monday evening at 8 p.m. An assistant is wanted at the Cheltenham Dairy Factory. No previous knowledge of the business required. See our wanted column. Says a correspondent to a Reefton paper : — lt is simply marvellous how the tricycle is superseding the horse. Yesterday I found a piece of rubber tyre in a sausage I was eating. Messrs Gorton and Son's first entries for their Feilding sale are advertised today. Tbe list is unusually large and comprise a number of useful Hues. The firm's Awahuri sale is also advertised in this issue. At au inquest on a girl who was struck dead at Windsor, N.S.W., by lightning, the medical testimony was to the effect that a circlet of metallic haircurling pins on her head attracted the electric fluid. Mr Marcus, stationmaster at Timaru, formerly iv Wanganui, has intrcduced a new rule, which will on occasion be enforced, allowing no person on the platform except, those who have tickets to show that they are travellers. Mr F. E. Pickering's mail bag, which was stolen from the roadside after having been left by the mail coach, about three months ago, was returned a few evenings ago when the missiug bag was found hung on the gate. Number one supplementary roll for Rangitikei has closed with 751 names, which giyes a total enrolment of 4171. Number two supplementary will be printed after the issue of the writs, which may take place any day now. The complete rolls will contain ovar 4500 names. The railway authorities are adding about sixty feet more to the platform at the Feilding station. While they are about it they might as well put up a verandah which is, in every sense of the phrase " a long felt want." The cost would be small but the advantage groat. According to the correspondent of the Dunstau Times the recent sharp rise in the produce market has been profitable to the liquidators of the Ward Farmers' Association, who are enabled to clear the storey entirely of oats. Debenture holders will now probably get 20s in the £, and the unsecured creditors 10s, and if time is given they will probably get nearly 20.5. " What is truth '?" said jesting Pilate. Pilate was cynical, but he was quite right. How rnauy people know the truth about teas '.' But very few, comparatively ppenking. All those who drink the Empire Co.'s teas (and they are not a few) have arrived at the truth, however. If our readers will peruse the Indian proverb in another column they will see what we are airr>ing at. A pleasant concert was given in the large room of the Youug Men and Boys Club last evening in aid of the Club fuuds. There was a very fair attendance and everyone seemed to appreciate the efforts of the committee»to provide an enjo3 r able and cheap evening's amusement. The president, Mr J. Greenwood, presided. Sougs were given by Miss A. Gould, Miss Oliver, Mr J. S. Milson, Mr Greenwood, Mrs Wood, Miss Holmes ; Mr James Wood gave a humorous reading ; Mrs James played two pianoforte solos ; pianoforte duet, Misses Macarthur and Greenwood ; and a pianoforte and flute duet was given by Miss aud Mr Greenwood. The accompaniments were played by Miss Greenwood, Miss Hamilton, Messrs Moore and Oliver. The items were all well rendered and loudly applauded.