Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 101, 26 October 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

Maaa on Sunday in Feilding at 8 a.m. The number of milk suppliers to the Apiti Cheese Factory is increasing every week. There were eight deaths from cancer and 25 from consumption in the colony during the month of September. We hare received the Gazette containing the new Railway Tariff to come into operation on the Bth of November. The Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles will meet in the Orderly Room this evening at 7 o'clock sharp. Mr Clayton, the contractor for the erection of the school teacher's residence at Apiti, is making good progress with his contract. An old " 65th " man, Mr Thoma* Phillips, who accompanied his regiment to Taranaki in 1860, died at Auckland on Monday, October 11th. Mr Guy has made a start with his saw mill at Apiti, and has already a number of orders in hand to execute. Mr Guyhas one of the latest improved planing machines, which will be put down as soon as his shed is erected. It is suggested that the Government should be asked to purchase Mr E. J. Kiddiford's block of 1000 acres near Cheltenham, but the owner is not anxious to sell, and without his consent the land could not be taken. The Feilding Bowling green will be officially opened to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp, when it is expected there will be a good attendance of visiting bowlers from I'almerston and Wanganui. Refreshments will be provided during the afternoon by the wives of members of the Feilding Bowling Club. A contemporary pays:-.!. Kirby, the ex-detcctire, is doing duty as prison librarian in Wellington Gaol. It is stated on reliable authority that three notorious criminals who received sentence through Kirby's instrumentality premeditated an attack upon him. The object of their vengeance was discovered, and the result was that Kirby was appointed to the position of librarian. The Norrnanby (Taranaki) Horticultural Society are importing about one hundred varieties of the best potatoes in the United States with a view to testing the possibility of producing better varieties in New Zealand. This is the second extensive selection this Society has imported and the thanks of the colony are due to its members for their praiseworthy enterprise. The Wellington Times says: — A private cable message received in Wellington recently contains rather bad news for the dairy farmers, and points to the necessity that exists fer seeking other markets than iliose of the Old World. The London market is stated in the message to he overdone, largely in consequence of the heavy stocks held in the cool stores. The Victorian merchants are offering their product freely, and the finest quality is (j noted at 97s per ort. A correspondent of the Dtinedin Evening Star appeals for help for Mr Thomas JUueken. He states that Mr Bracken lias been lying upon a j-ick bed for many months past in a little cottage at the back of the tram shed at Morningha.ni, and iliat it is the opinion of those who ought to know that he is not very long for this world. "He tells me he is not afraid to die,"' adds the writer, " but is concerned about the future of his only son, a lad about ten or twelve." A deputation proceeded to "Wellington yesterday representing the various local bodies in this district who are asking the Government to grahi, & subsidy of X'2 for X'l towards the recoiistnict-ir^j .'.'f bridges damaged or destrow-d In' tiu- lv;.«>t.fi' Hoods. Messrs G. WheeleV and "\V. ti, l'earce will represent the Manchester Road Hoard, Mr Ransom the Manawatu County Council. Mr Marshall the Rnngitikei County Council, who will join with otiier delegates from various local bodies. Mr T. Y. Lethbridgo, M.H.1?., will accompany the dtU- gates, who wait on the Government to-da\ , in support of the jtpplicatiou.

The committee of the Feilding I Cricket Club will meet tbis evening at | 8 o'clock. The Unit rrt Farmers' Co-operative Association -uniit removed a number of pine and gum trees. Butter is now being stored in the New Plymouth Freezing Works at the rate of 800 boxes a day. The Government Bill dolling with slaughterhouses and abattoirs is now ready, and only awaits the Minister's approval. Postmen have been ordered by the Postmaster-General to smoke when passing through a London district where diphtheria is prevalent. The first competition for Lieutenant Pleasantt' prize will take place on the local range to-morrow. — Ammunition can be obtained at the Drill Hall to-night. There is an " ofT chance " that the Justice Department may consider the advisablcness of erecting a suitable buildso as to hold the District Court sittings in Feilding. Two employees of the Gear Company have drawn Lord Richmond in Tattersail's live shilling sweep on the Melbourne Cup. The same two men won .£IOO over the Caulfield Cup. New books and periodical* have arrived at.!. S. Milson's by the last mail. Our readers would do well to inspect them. A detailed advertisement will be found on third page of this issue. A boy named Charles Richard Field, fourteen-months-old. son of Mr George Field, a settler, of Apiti, wan drowned in a creek at the rear of his parents residence yesterday afternoon. An inquest will be held. The New Zealand Times reports there is a rumour in Petone that the lady Councillor of the I'ctonc Borough Council is to be asked to resign. If she is a true woman she will stick to her post, and let the stupid men Councillors resign instead. It is reported (says the Tapanui Courier) that all the business men connected with the ex-hotel interest met it Tapanui last week. The business of the meeting was not disclosed, but it is said it was to elect delegates to sent to Wellington to petition for the restoration of licenses in Clutha.