Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 57, 4 September 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

The railway timetable for the current month is to hand. Train arrangements for the Marton races are advertised to-day. The Pohangina County Council will meet on Saturday the 11th inst. The gas cooking stoves will be on view in the Volunteer Hall this evening. j The annual meeting of the Colyton Cricket Club will be held this evening all 7.30 p.m. [ Additions are made to-day to Messrs Abraham and Williams' Pamerston and Colyton sales. The Pnraekaretu Express is agitating for the formulation of a drainage scheme for Hunterville. Yesterday Mr Charles Curr sold 23 trucks of store sheep to buvcrs in the North. Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Feilding sale on September 10th are advertised to-day. Mr Charles Bray invites tenders for works in connection with Victoria Park and the Bowling green. The annual meeting of members of the Cheltenham Rifle Club will be held this evening at Mr Median's Hotel. We have to thank 11. E. Beckett. Esq., hon. sec, for a complimentary ticket for the Marton Jockey Club races. The funeral of the late Mr J. C. Gordon, of Beaconsfield, will take place on Monday next, when the procession will leave his late residence at 10 a.m. for the Feilding cemetery. On Tuesday next excursion tickets will be issued to Wellington available for return until Thursday. This concession is made to enable residents in the country to be present at the reception to the lion Mr Scddon. The Manchester Kirles will attend divine service at the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday, the 12th instant. The parade for the Roman Catholic Church will he fixed at a future dato. — It is thr intention of old members of the Manchester Rifles to form a veteran corps. To-day the programme is advertised o a grand concert to be given at Tuonui in aid of the prize fund of the school. Our readers will notice that the performers are all of recognised ability, and already deservedly popular. The affair should be a marked success. Messrs Gorton and Son have received instructions from Mr Rich, of Ilongotca, to sell the whole of his dairy herd, farm stock, implements and furniture. The sale will be held on Monday, September 13th, and everything will be offered without reserve, Mr Rich having sold his farm. On Wednesday evening next an address will be given in the Assembly Rooms by Adjutant Bishop, of the Salvation Army, who will take for his subject hi.s " Life in a Monastery."' he being a converted monk. The lecture is said to be particularly interesting while Adjuant Bishop is a fluent speaker. Mr Lethbridgc M.H.R., will preside. Naylor's famous Novelty Company will give one of their exceedingly popular entertainments in the Assembly Rooms on Monday night. We have been requested to draw the attention of readers to the excellence of the performance of the Connor Brothers, the American acrobats, and also to Mr Xaylor in his wonderful Australian cuckoo business. There was a very large attendance at the Assembly Rooms last night when the Cineinatographe was shown. The subjects were all very well done, and some of them had to be repeated in order to satisfy the demands of the audience. Everybody was well pleased and the proprietors can rely on good business on their return visit to Feilding shortly. We are given to understand that Lieut. Colonel McDonell is about to write a history of the Maori war. No man in the colony is more competent. He possesses the pen of a ready writer, has a thorough knowledge of the Maori character and modes of thought, and was an active participant in many of the battle scenes he will have to depict. We feel confident the work will be a brilliant success. A poor man lay dying, and his good wife was tending him with homely but affectionate care. " Don't you think you could eat a bit of something, John ? Now what can I get for you '?" With a wan smile, he answered feebly, " Well, I seem to smell a ham a. cooking somewheres ; I think I could do with a, little bit of that." " Oh, no, John dear," she answered promptly, " you can't have that. That's for the funeral." Yesterday afternoon an eight or nine-year-old son of Mr W. G. Shearer had a narrow escape from what might have been a serious accident. He was about to collect some shavings in Mr Shearer's turnery factory and for this purpose was cirrying a spade. On passing some m ichinery he allowed the spade to touch a pulley with the result that the former w.is knocked up and struck him on the forehead inflicting a nasty wound. The EeiMing Brass Band will give the following programme of music in the 11 >tunda this evening, commencing at 8 p.m. : — March, " The Conquerer " ; selccti >n. " Grand Duchess " ; valse, " Britanna": trombone solo, " Village Blacksmith"; (|uadrillo. " Hypatiu " ; selection, " Record Reign Airs"; valse (by request) " Light and Shnde " ; sehottisehe, " IV lrgraph " ; march, " Continental " ; " God Save the Queen." The United Australian Axeman's Association hold their seventh grand exhibition of bushmen's skill at Melbourne on Ist and :>rd November next. The prizes are very liberal, and include the following events: — Champion Chop (2ft) jG7S, Champion Chop (lHin) £;SH, Underhand C2ft) j£.lo, Ironbnrk Chop X'4o, Sawing (2ft) £30. Handicap Chop (1-Sin) X'2oo, Underhand Chop (IBm) £200, Maiden Chop i-10, Handicap ditto £10, Amateur Chop JCIO, Sawing Match .£6O, Maiden Sawing Match .£lf>, Double-handed Sawing Match .£;{"). Entries close on September 2."> th. and all competitors outside Victoria can enter at half price. The Secretary of the Feilding Public Library reports the following new books and magazines have come to hand : — Books — "' I saw three ships," Q ; " Historical Tales," Morris ; " My Run Home," Bolderwood : " The Monks of Mar-Saba," Hocking; " Eighty Years Ago," Gibney. Magazines : " Cassel's Saturday Journal," " Pall Mall Magazine," " Leisure Hour," " St. James' Budget," " Review of Reviews," "Nineteenth Century," "Truth," " English Mechanic," "The Australian," " Illustrated London News," and " The Quren." On Thursday afternoon (say* the Palmernton Times) Mr Hull, Stock Inapeo tor, gave an exhibition of the process of dehorning at Mr Matthew Henry's *a!e yards in Rangitikei street. Several farmen ware present, and watched tbo proceedings with a great deal of interest. Two calves were operated upon. Tiie process, wbich was gone through with great care, consists in the haic being clipped off the seat of the horn and caustic potash being rubbed m. The operation h-s to be repeated six days afterwards, which is all fiat is necessary for the complete removal of the horn. It must bo borue in mind that to be effective the proper a»« at which the operation should takn place is when the calf is six d*ys old, tin; system be ng, comparatively speaking, useless when the horn has appeared. The same calves will be agaiu operated ujjoa ue&t week>