The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. Local and General News.

Messrs Nodine and Co., of Wellington, ladies' tailors, have an* important announcement in to-day. A concert will be given at Fowlers on ilurday, February 20th, in aid of the \Ysie\ an Church circuit fund. The Wanganui Education Board meets v iluudav. One of the items of busi.uice, i- the Hawera school trouble. Mail Ifcerus. — The new year opened auspiciously on the London Stock Ex change, money for the time being cheap. The Engineer of tbe Pohangina Coun- j t,y Council. Mr D. Sinclair, invites tend- ! ers for public works as detailed in the (idvertif-;emeut. The great sale at the Bon Marche ie proceeding apaco, that popular establishment ' being thronged daily with oager buyers from ail parts of the district. ! Teuders are invited by Mr G. T. Mur- j ray, Road Surveyor for metalling and gravelliug ou the Pipiriki-Waiouru, and Ohingaiti-Tokaanu roads respectively. For oliher particulars see the advertisement. Tho first passenger train to go through the Midland Railway tunnel in the S^ooner's range ran from Nelson on a& excursion on Monday Nelson papers point wibh pride to the fact that tho tunnel is in length exceeded by tbe Lyttel ton tunnel only in New Zealand It is (37 chains, or over three quarters of a mile, in length, and tho passage through occupies some four or five minutes.

Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade this evening. The fortnightly meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge will be held to-morrow Hisht. A mob of 7000 sheep passed throngb Feilding this morning. They came from Waipukuran, and are en route for Ohingaiti. According to the latest news received from Mr Alex. Bell, he had nine shops in Glasgow, carrying on a retail trad© in New Zealand frozen meat. The post office has been thronged today with natives who are selling lands to the Government through the post--1 master. i A special train leaves New Plymouth I about 12.30 to-day with the inward 'Frisco mail. It will probably meet the ordinary train at Aramobo in which caße correspondence will be sorted into private boxes in Feilding by 9 p.m. The Pohangina County Council invite tenders for road work as follows ;—Formation and culverts, 100 chains Main Ride;e South. Particulars at Mr Tompkin's store, Fowlers. 80 chains metalling Zig Zag road, Mongoni. Particulars at the county office. Tenders close on the 13th inst. The large and interesting show of coffee, peppers, spices, and food preservation made by Crease and Son, of Wellington, at the exhibition lately held in that city, was much admired. It is pleasing to note that the firm's goods have taken such a firm hold in New Zealand as the large auount of money paid in wages by the firm apart from the excellence of the goods deserve some recognition. A private letter received in Auckland from Miss Mary Cozens, secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of Women's Suffrage, London, conveys the information that Viscount Templemore (Conservative) has undertaken to introduce the Women's Suffrage Bill into the House of Lords this session. Tho committee hope, it is stated, to got their Bill through both Houses of Parliament during the present session. In the report of the proceedings of the last meeting of the Waugauui Education Board, copied by us from a contemporary, it was stated that Miss A. Richardson, of Birmingham, had been transferred to the Kaponga school. This was incorrect, the Board not having made such transfer, and we regret the report should haye caused Miss Richard - gou and her parents some inconvenience. To-day Mr W. Hotlrcn who has beeu for the past four years in business iv Feilding, took his departure with his family for Wanganui. During the time Mr Hodren has resided in Feilding, he has won the respect and esteem of every person with whom be has come in contact as an estimable citizen, and useful member of the community. We hope that in his new home he will enjoy good health and prosperity. At a meeting of the Feilding Lawn Tennis Club held ou Tuesday it was decided to extend the time for finishing the following matches till Saturday the 6th instant : — Mrs Blundell v Mrs Hill ; Mrs Blundell v Miss Macarthur; Mrs Hill v Mrs Lewis ; Coote v Mildred ; Coote v Dyer ; W. B. Giesen v Wratt ; Mrs Dyer "and H. W. Giesen v Mrs Lewis and E. A. Barton ; Miss Macarthur and Dyer v Mrs Bryce and Lance. Capital, industry and income, apply Pearce's Land Mart. £4 153 per acre will buy splendid farm of 500 acres ; soil chocolate loam ; 380 acres in English grasses ; 8 paddocks ; good outbuildings ; 3 acres orchard ; 6 roomed house. The land is fairly level, and is about fourteen miles from Palmerston on a good metalled road. Price only i."500 cash ; balance provided by Pearce's Land Mart. LIOO cash will purchase a livery stable business on a 20 years' lease at L2O per annum ; small balance provided. Hairdressing business to dispose of, small rent ; good-will, fixtures and stock on very easy terms. Type-writing speciality; type writers in stock at Pearce's Land Mart. A novel undertaking in the manufacture of drugs has been begun by two young Pennsylvanians, who are making a regular business of extracting the poison from honey bees. According to the accounts they have two ways of collecting their crop of venom. In the first the bees are caught and held with their abdomens in small glass tubes until the poison sacs have been emptied. Iv the second they aro placed in a bottle on wire netting, and enraged until the tiny drops of venom fall into the alcohol which fills the lower third of the bottle. The venom is said to be a sovereign remedy for cancer, rheumatism, snakebite, and a hundred others of the terrible iliss of humanity. A petition is being sent to the Government by the settlers at Pemberton and Rangiwahia requesting the completion of the repairs to Kimbolton road from the latter place to Whare road, the County Council having let a contract for re-making the road from Whare road, southward. Co-operative workmen are now employed metalling Kimbolton road through the Rangiwahia township and the grant will complete the repairs to about half way between there and Pemberton and the settlers now desire the Government to grant an additional amount for the purpose stated. If the request is acceded to there will be a good metalled road from Feilding to Rangiwahia, a distance of thirty-five miles. _____^__ — ____