Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 145, 18 December 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Birmingham School concert this evening. It is a bad f ign when farthings are put in circulation. The elections for the four Maori seats take place to-morrow. The Borough Council will bold a special meeting this evening at 7.30. There was a very welcome fall of rain yesterday afternoon, over all parts of this district. We have to thank Captain McCallum of the Salvation Army, for a copy of the Army almanack for 1897. A gentleman said the other day ' Jour* nalists individually are sice fellows. Collectively they are a beast.' Notice is given in our wanted column that on Boxing Day the Salvation Army wili JioM a Jield day near tbe Iwcxadka.

Mr S. Ooodbefaere reports : — The rainfall yesterday afternoon, after a 17 days drought, was 0*35 inches. On Friday, at an auction in Dunedin, 103 shares in the Colonial Bank of New Zealand (in liquidation) were sold at one penny. On Tuesday last, at Ford ell, Miss Hanna Ruscoe was nnited in the bonds of matrimony to Mr Archie MeCallnm, of Hnnterville. In the Sydney District Court Rosalind White, of Balmain, sued George Bolton, a bank clerk, for breach of promise, and was awarded £25 damages. The concert to be given in the Birmingham Hall to-morrow evening in aid of the Cricket Club, promises to be the best yet given in Birmingham. Mr T. Pavitt, of Greymonth, wants to lease, with a purchasing clause, about 250 acres of grazing land, with a proportion of arable land, near Feilding. A bazaar will be given in the Bongotea school house to-morrow commencing at 11 a.m. in aid of S. Simon and S. Jade's church. A concert will be given in the evening. A Denniston Salvationist has been expelled from the ranks of the Army foT gambling, he having drawn a horse in one of Tattersall's sweeps on the Melbourne Cup. After New Year's Day an attempt will be made to form a ' Pull Together Club ' in Feilding. We can give no particulars but we understand the promoters are very much in earnest. Our readers are reminded of the school concert to be given in the Assembly Rooms this evening. An attentive programme 13 advertised and the concert should be largely attended. An application is to be made to the Sydney Supreme Court in February tor the release of William Cresswell, the lunatic who is alleged to be identical with Sir Roger Tichborne. An information has been laid against Mr O. H. Osborne, licensee of the Mulgrave Hotel, Masterton, by Mr Hustwick, Inspector under the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, charging him with selling adulterated liquor. At Christchurch His Honor Mr Justice Denniston sentenced John Scott Myers, a bankrupt, to seven days' imprisonment for contempt of Court, in disobeying an order to give up possession of his property which had been sold nnder order of the Court. The special correspondent of the Star says that four calls to the Legislative Council are intended, and that Mr Pinkerton, late senior member for Dunedin City, who presided at a Licensed Victuallers' banquet in Wellington a few months ago, and Mr Louisson, brewer, of Christchurch, are of the number. Messrs Spence and Spence have been doing so well in the clothing department this season that they have had to repeat their orders for the Xmas trade. A second delivery of mens, youths, and boys colonial made suits has just been opened up and is now ready for inspection at the Bon March©. A number of notices will appear in our wanted column tomorrow. Saved. — A bloomer girl just left her wheel ; a lurking piece of orange peel. A careless step, a sudden slip, a scream, a fall, a fatal rip. A man at band with macintosh, a garment just the thing, begosh ! The bloomer girl raised from the ground, the garment wrapped her form around. A score at hand ; the maid has gone ; all's over and the band plays on. Mr James Trewin, of the Public Benefit Boot Depot, is again to the front with the very best class of tan and white shoes, for ladies, gentlemen, and children ,* also, he has a splendid line of running shoes. Gentlemen should also see the " Sunday " boot at 11s 6d, a marvel of cheapness. Other lines are enumerated in a replace advertisement on our third page. Mr J. Grace, Government Land Purchase Officer, is at present in the Danevirke district, and has secured 50,000 out of the 56,000 acres in the Ngapaeraru Block, the southern boundary of which comes within a short distance of the ] Danevirko- Weber road. Some of the I Natives will receive large sums for their J shares in the block, and Wi Matua, a Porangabau Native, has £2000 to come to him. At St Andrew's Church, Colytou, on i Wednesday, Mr Edward C. Lankshear j and Miss Margaret L. A. Menzies were united in the bonds of matrimony, the Rev A. Innes Jones being the officiating clergymen. Miss Allerby acted as bridesmaid. A wedding breakfast was given j at the residence of the bridegroom's father, Mr R. Lankshear, where a number of friends of the contracting parties were entertained. A flying bicycle rider is no longer a figure of speech, for a man in Oklahoma City has invented a bicycle with wings. It is a marvellous affair, with great wings that open and close like those of a bird. It is claimed that a bicyclist who is provided with one of these flying machines need no longer worry about good or bad roads. When he comeg to a bit of road that he does not like he will simply fly over it. It will be the same with rivers and lakes, mountains and valleys, for it is proposed that the new flyer shall carry a rider from one moantain peak to another.— Modern Society. An interesting law suit, by which it will be sought to determine the right of a racing Club to expel any person from a racecourse, is to be heard in the Su> preme Court at Wellington shortly. A well known resident of this city has entered an action against the stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club, claiming £50 damages, and the statement of claim sets out that the plaintiff, who is a back er of horses, and attends race meetings and bets with the totalisator, went to the Feilding races on the 2nd December and, for the purpose of backing horses, and transacting business with the totalisator, purchased an admission ticket to the course for Is, bat was afterwards forcibly expelled from the racecourse, and for this he claims LSO damages, — N.Z. Times. The elopement case which we recently recorded as having occurred from Masterton, says the Star, is possessed of romantic features. The husband, who is a bard-working industrious fellow, had befriended a man with a broken leg. He had not the slightest reason to doubt the fidelity of his wife or to suspect the bona fides of the one he had befriended. On Thursday last he left home as usual, wishing his two children, to whom he is fondly attached, good-bye. In the evening, worn-out with a hard day's work at haymaking, he returned to his home for bis meal. To his intense surprise he discovered that his house was empty. His wife and children had gone, and so had the one to whom he had acted the part of the good Samaritnn. The feelings of tne husband when he realised how he had been betrayed, can be better imagined than described.