Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 130, 1 December 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The bicycle road race will be held at 6.45 this evening. The Masin Company propose to visit Feildin? on the 11th inst. A social will be given in the Primitive Methodist Church tomorrow. Additions are made to day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale. j There will not be any championship cricke* matches on Saturday next in connection with the Manawatu Association. A concert and dance will be given in the Colyton Hall on Friday evening next in aid on the Colyton state school funds. The quantity of wool shipped from the Asburst station for this month is 364 bales, against 186 bales for the same period last year. A silk handkerchief with straw bats therein, found by Mr R. Bowler, on Kirn bolton road this morning, has been left at this office. The usual Wednesday afternoon prac tice will take place upon the cricket ground to-morrow afternoon, commenc ing at 2 o'clock. Those about to fur:.ish will find a large and comprehensive stock of household and furnishing drapery, linoleums, floor cloths, etc., at the Bon Marche. The Army announces a trial of " Old Tom " at their Barracks on Thursday night. This is a new kind of Prohibit tion meeting, and will no doubt be well attended. We direct the attention of our readers to Messrs Gorton and Son's stock sale at Bulls on the Bth inst, at the conclusion of which the privileges of the Rangitikei Racing Club will be disposed of. The Commissioner of Crown .Lands, Mr J. W. A. Marchant, invites tenders for leases of building sites at the Foxton Health Resort. For other particulars see advertisement. Mr Seddon went north by train to day He will speak at Hawcra to night. Mr Bagnall went up by same opportunity and will give an address at the same place tomorrow night. The Standard says: — His Excellency the Governor has beea pleased fed ap point Mr W. Park a member of the Pal merston North Hospital Board for the grouped district of Halcombe, Foxton and Feilding. Two experienced miuers arc employed in extracting lor assay and report a quantity of a peculiar description of soap stone, containing a bright metallic sub stance, which lias been discovered in the | Pelorus ranges. Mr J. H. Scott has left at this office a sample of case knife beans grown on his laud on the Maidston Block, Kitubolton road. They arc full size and the pods well filled. The seed came from Waimate, Canterbury. Among other items of expenditure during the North Island Main Trunk llailway exploration, 1800, appears the following : 2 tins insect powder, 3s ; 1 box pills, Is 3d ; tin vasaliue, Is6d ; doz cakes soap, Is Cd ; 1 corkscrew, Is 6d. The Invercargill Starr Bowkett Society's second appropriation of £500 was decided by sale, at a meeting of members on a recent date when a loan bf £200 brought a premium of j£3B, £200 realised A 36, and ±100, £34 ; or a total profit to the society of £182. The next allotment will be a free one. A committee meeting of the Feilding Polo Club was held last Saturday evening, when a considerable amount of business in connection with the forthcoming sports was dealt with. It was resolved to sell all the privileges by auction at a date to be fixed by the working committee. It is very probable that Kimbolton will be selected as the future designation of Birmingham — Fowlers. The name of Marangai chosen by a majority of the settlers is certainly more euphonious, but there is another place near Wanganui of the same name, and if Marangai were adopted confusion would arise. On the evening of Friday next, December 4th, election night, all telegraph and telephone offices will be open from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. on the morning ef the sth, or until all messages are cleared. Telegrams from the public will be charged ordinary rates up to 8 p.m. and urgent rates after that hour on election nigbt. The secretary of the Feilding Public Library reports the following new books and magazines have come to hand : — ' A secret service,' ' Two years ago.' Magazines — St James' Budget, Punch, The Graphic, The Australasian. Harper's Monthly Magazine, The Girls' Own Paper, The Boys' Own Paper, The Nineteenth Century, Chambers' Journal, The English Mechanic, The Leisure Hour, Illustrated London News, Cassell's Saturday Journal. By a Parliamentary return of the number and respective strengths of cadet corps connected with colleges, collegiate schools, and primary schools in the colony, we are informed that on 31st May, 1896, the total strength was 1081. Wanganui Collegiate school Ride cadets with 106 headed the list. Cadet corps in Primary Public Schools had a total strength of 1021, the Arthur Street Public School Rifle cadets, Dunediu, with 83 headed the list. The grand total was 2102 lads for 39 corps. An exhibition of Edison's latest and most wonderful invention, the Kinematograph, vrill bo given in the Feilding Assembly Rooms tomorrow evening. Wherever it has been exhibited the large crowds who have witnessed the reproduction of the scenes have been astonished at the wonderful and life like appearance of the views shown. The advance agent, Mr Walsh, having completed airaugetnents in Feilding for to-mor-row night's exhibition is now in Marton arranging for its appearance there on the 4th and sth inst. Mr Goodbehere reports the rainfall for November, 1896, as follows:— The rainfall for the past month was 206 inches, for November, 1895, it was 573 inches. Rain was registered on 16 days during the month, the heaviest fall in one days being 0 73 inches, registered on the 16th. The thermometer reached freezing point <32 degrees), on one night only, namely, that ot the 3rd. The maximum temperature was 76 on the 25th, the mean temperature at 9.30 a.m. was 50*82 degrees. The mean maximum was 64 60, and the mean miuimum 42 43. Tbe corresponding means for November 1895, were f. 6 00, 65-86, and 4148. A correspondent writes thus in reply to " Mephisto," the Syracusan :— " Mephisto complains that the (Rangitikei) election roll has been loaded with about 7GO or 800 names of temporally employed strangers, under the names of cooperatives, who, in retnrn for two or three months employment are instruct ed to return the Government candidate. I cannot allow such specious arguments and baseless assertions to pass nnuoticed- The " loading " of the roll is caused by transfers, necessitated by the recent alteration of boundaries and such " loading " has of conrse taken place in every electorate in the colony. The statement that the men are instructed to vote for the Government candidate is simply ft bald unsupported assertion, easily made but incapable of proof. It is only natural that men should vote for a Government which strains every netvo 1 to give them employment,"