The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1897. THE LICENSING ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 207, 5 March 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1897. THE LICENSING ELECTION.

Relative to the Licensing election which will take place in this district either on the 24th or 25th instant, we may remind our readers it will be held under the revised regulations of tbe Amending Act of 1895, and instead of nine members composing tbe Committee, the number will be reduced to six, of whom five will have to be elected, the Stipendiary Magistrate being chairman tx officio. In the event of any district failing or neglecting to elect a Licensing Committee, the Stipendiary Magistrate will constitute tbe Committee, and will have power to exercise all the functions of the Committee until the time appointed for the next periodical election of the Committee. A subsection of the Act also provides that a Committee is deemed not to be elected in any case where the whole number of such Committee is nut elected. The Act also provides that the chairman and any two members of a Committee can grant conditional licenses for race or other meetings. We notice that several of our contemporaries are suggesting there should be no election, and thus leave the administration of tbe Act in the hands of the Stipendiary Magistrates for the next three years. No doubt this proposal, if adopted, would have the advantage of economy to recommend it, but economy is not everything in connection with the Licensing Acts now in force. So longas the Acts remain in their present shape, the electors should endeavour to conform to their provisions,

Mr Peter Bartholomew was a visitor to Feildiog to-day. Local cricketers are reminded of the practice to-morrow afternoon to commence at 2 o'clock. There was a larpe attendance at Mr Carr'g Feilding sale to day. Bidding was brisk and late prices were maintained. The Palmerston Standard says that Mr James Linton is about to take up his residence in Sydney, after over a quarter of a century spent in Palmerston. Mr Marshall, mail driver between Feilding and Rongotea, over strained himself last evening when lifting a case at Awahuri, and had to be carried into the hotel, being unable to walk. It is hoped he will speedily recover. The grocery store kept by Mr W. W. Corpe, at Makino, was entered on Weds nesday night and a quantity of tobacco, matches, jam, salmon and other tinned fish, also about five pounds of cocoa, were stolen. The affair is in the hands of the police. The work of erecting the large iron bridge at Mangaweka will shortly be proceeded with. The large iron cylinders to be used in supporting the bridge have been completed by Messrs 8. Luke and Co., of Wellington. As showing the extent to which Goy ernment billets are sought after, it is stated that at the present the Minister of Railways has no fewer than 6000 applications for positions on the Government railways, and on an average he receives from five to six daily. Sour-faced Woman : " You cet right out of here or I'll call my husband." Tramp : " Y'r husband ain't at home. 1 ' Sour^faced Woman : " How do you know he ain't?" Tramp :" I've alters noticed, mum, that w'en a man is married to a woman wot looks like you he never is at home except at mealtime." Intending purchasers of bicycles (and who would be without a bike now-a-days?) should inspect the new aud beautiful Crescent bicycles just imported into this district by Mr J. S. Milson, the well known stationer. These machines are the cheapest in the market (£l7 cash) and for make and finish cannot be equalled. At the Women's Christian Temperance Convention, the New Zealand officers were elected as follows : — President Mrs Schnackenberg, Auckland ; correspondent secretary, Miss Powell, Palmerston North ; recording secretary, Miss L. M. Kirk, Wellington. The appoint ment of the treasurer was left to the executive. Several people who " gave Feilding best," and cleared out for the new Eldorado in Auckland, are now coming back to their old homes. Auckland ia a nice place and the people are good, but they don't find beer and skittles free gratis, and all for nothing, for the lean and hungry stranger. In fact they are built quite the other way. Another old colonist passed away at Wellington on Wednesday in the person of Caroline Ashbolt, widow of the late Thomas Ashbolt. The deceased lady, who was in her 86th year, was one of the best known of our earlier colonists She left England on the 17th June, 1841, in the ship Gertrude, commanded by Captain Fisher Stoad, and after a long passage of 136 days arrived in Wellington on 31st October, 1841.