The Feilding Star. Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazrtte. Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1897. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 34, 9 August 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazrtte. Published Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1897. Local and General News.

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet this evening.

Tbe cantata " Esther " will be given in the Cheltenham Public Hall this evening,

Additions are made to day to tbe entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Ftild. ing sale.

Additions are made to the entries for Herns Abraham and Williams' Colyton stock sale.

Mrs Sonnex, one of the oldest of tbe settlers of the Upper Hutt, died on Saturday, aged 98 years.

We have to thank the bachelors of Colyton for an invitation to be present at their dance on Friday next.

Our exchanges witb tbe Wanganui Herald come to band with great irregularity. Only one had reached us last week.

At a meeting on Saturday evening i he FeildiDg Polo Club decided to die band owing to there not being* sufficient number of playinp members.

It is somenbat singular tbat the railway authorities on this coast, offer no facilities for people to visit Wellington to assist at the reception of Lord Ranfurly, our new Ooverner.

The Feilding Brass Band played in the Kotuuda en Saturday evening and tbo weather being fine a large number of persons paraded the Square listening to the enlivening strains of tbe performttrn.

A special train left Feilding today about onu o'clock, with 23 tracks of uheep purchased by Mr Jardine, of Eai livi, at Mr Carr's Bale last Friday. A second consignment will be forwarded tomorrow.

The Rival Minstrels, who have already won a good reputation with their show, will give a popular entertainment in Awaburi on Wednesday. After the performance there will be a dance, for which excellent music will be provided.

Slaughtering operations ceased at tbs Longburn Slaughtering tnd Freesing Works to day, and tbe works have been closed (I:>hti lor tbe winter. Tbera are about 10.000 carca*ea of mutton at Longburn, which will be shipped Home by the Tokomaru this month.

A. meeting of tbe committee of the Feilding Jockey Club was beld on Sat* urday evening last. The business transacted was mostly ordinary routine. A number of subscription were reported as having been received from outside clubs towards defraying the costs of the recent law case in which tbe Feildiog club was involved. It was also decided to proceed witb the erection ot caretaker's house as soon &c possible.

Mr J. Williamson, cabinetmaker, Fergutson street, has just repaired a really good violin. It is over one hundred years old, being marked on the inside •' Montegarga, Milan, 1792." Tbe modal is very beautiful being of tbe old Cremona type, wbile tbe tone is rich and mellowed witb age. Tbe owner is a gentleman recently settled in Feilding who is, naturally enough, very proud of being the possessor of such a valuable instrument.

The next fortnightly dance io connection with the Marjorie Assembly will be beld in tbe Foresters' Hall to morrow night, instead of Wednesday night as usual.

Captain Edwin wired at noon to day : —Barometer fall everywhere. Easterly gales with heavy rain will continue at Russell and Oisborne, and are probable soon at all other places- Frost in most parts of tbe Sontb Island.

Mr Carr will hold a sale of furniture on Wednesday, the 18th instant, at tbe residence of Mr Sandman, Birmingham. For other particulars see advertisement. Several additions aro made to day to tbe entries for Mr Charles Carr's Apiti sale on the 17th instant.

On Saturday evening last Mr Bainbridge, on behalf of tho residents of Fowlers, preaented Mr and Mrs Anyon with a handsome Bilver fruit Btand to ■bow tbe high esteem in which they were beld by tbe residents of that district during their residence there.

The Primitive Methodist Church anniversary services which were con ducted by the Bey W. H. Judkins yes terday were very successful. To-night tbe tea meeting will be held and a good attendance is expected. Tbe programme for tbe public meeting is a good one, inclnding solos, anthems and addresses. Tbe speakers include tbe Beys Judkins, Abernetby, Stnbbs and Captain Buck enham.

Tbe bazaar in aid of tbe Birmingham Anglican Church fond is to be opened on Wednesday, August 11th, at three io the afternoon, and on the succeeding day at 12 noon, in time for a very appetising aud tempting lancheon at which a good attendance is expected. We hear that pretty articles are arriving in even greater numbers than expected bo patrons will doubtless be able to obtain novelties as well as useful things com biued with a large amount of fun.

" Mercutio " in the Auckland Herald writes :— " I understand that a mater familias, in a suburban district, got a shock tbe other day. Sho was engaging a "young person" who had arrived from tbe Sontb. After a preliminary skirmish as to " n:gbts off," and whether followers were allowed tbe lady help expressed herself as prepared to give the lady a trial, on one condition. She bad been accustomed in tbe City of the Plains to keep ber " bike," and it was essential to her health and comfort that she should bring her bike with her and have a flutter at reasonable bonrs. Tbe mistress of tbe house is at present considerin? t'>e situation."

It is surprising how coon a wifo tires of the company of a man who is too much at home. Men are wiso in getting away from their roof-irees a certain portion of each day. Among their wires will be found a very general consensna of opinion to this. They are disposed everywhere to pack off the men in tho morning, and to bid them to keep out of the road till the evening, when it is assumed tbat they will probably havo a little news of tbe busy world to bring home, and when baby will be *ure to have said something exceptionally brilliant and precocious. The general news of tbe day will afford topics of conversation more interesting by far than if tbe whole household bad been together from morning till night. A very little enquiry too, will elicit tho fact that men about home all day are eminently apt to be fidgety, grumpy and interfering — alto getber objectionable in short.

It is reported that the Auckland Law Courts are likely to be engaged shortly with a more than usually interesting ease. The story goes (says a writer in the Star) tbat a patient was in such a condition that it required human skin to be grafted on wounds in order to cause them to heal. One or two kind hearted people volunteered to give portions of their cuticle for this laudable object, and their offers were accepted. Among these martyrs was a young woman, who was greatly dismayed to find when she recovered from the effects of the ehloreform that something like 50 (?) in. bad been transferred from various parts of ber body to tbe patient, Her friends were also very angry, and their irritation increased when it was found that as a result of being flayed the young woman had in turn to be a patient, and as a matter of /act was laid up for over a fortnight, and has not been well since. An action for damages in the Supreme Court is now pending.