Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 222, 20 March 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

A tea and concert will be held in the Wesleyan Church at Birmingham this , evening. In the various orchards in Feilding may now be seen apple, cherry and pear trees in partial bloom. The Governor of Fiji has expended i'lo,ooo in the relief of the sufferers by the recent hurricane. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge will be held in the Forester's Hall on Friday evening next, 22nd instant. A Martini-Henri Rifle has been presented by Captain Kirton to the shooting committee of the Manchester Rifles to be competed for. Notice is given by the bailiff, J. J Tuohy, that a horse seized under a distress warrant will be sold at the Feilding Court-house paddock on Monday the the 25th instant. The Railway Department proposes to ruu an experimental insulated truck, with a trough of ice and salt in the ceiling, from Elfcham to Wellington for the conveyance of a shipment of butter. At the meeting of the Palmerston Borough Council last night it was decided to formally recommend to the Minister of Lands that the name "Manawatu" be substituted for Palmerston North. Members of the Feilding Bowling Club will meet at Mr E. Giesen's office this evening at 8 o'clock. A full attendance of members is desirable as several matters of importance will come up for consideration. Mr W. J. Smith, who is so well known in musical circles aloug this coast, and who for the last eight years has been bandmaster of the Marton Band, has received an offer from Nelson to conduct two bands there at a salary of .£IOO a year. By this afternoon's train Mr J. B. Hamilton, who is manager of the Feilding branch of Te Aro House, left for Wellington to make selections from some splendid new lines which have just arrived. Full particulars will be shortly advertised. Messrs Gorton and Son advertise today that they have received instructions from Mr A. Paine, of Cheltenham, to sell by auction the whole of his dairy stock, on the 28th inst. For other particulars see advertisement. The firm also advertise entries for their Feilding sale on the 29th inst. The building trade has revived in Feilding, and about fifteen substantial houses for private dwellings or business purposes are now in course of erection. Among others we notice that Mr W. D. Nicholas has commenced the work of putting up his new shops in Fergusson street. We may say, however, that there are already in the town more than sufficient carpenters and bricklayers to overtake the work. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded that entries for the handicap medal competions (Martini and Snider) close with the secretary at noon on Saturday next. The first competition takes place on Wednesday next at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Ammunition may be obtained from the secretary. A youth named George Marshall, a son of Mr Marshall, mail carrier, Feilding, met with rather a painful accident on Saturday last. While grooming a horse it lashed out and kicked him on his left knee. The sufferer Las since been confined to his bed, but is progressing as favorably as can be expected. There are nine hundred clergymen in New Zealand authorised to perform the marriage ceremony, and about two hundred registrars with the same power, yet thousands of benedicts and spinsters cumber the earth. There must be a lamentable lack of enterprise somewhere. The proverb " competition is the soul of business " does not appear to apply in this branch of industry. If we are asked why the apple is so popular with buyers, we simply reply that it is fully of vegetable acids and antiseptics—enemies to jaundice, indigesI tion, and that dreaded member of the human system, a torpid liver. It is a gentle spur and tonic to the whole bih- [ ary system. Chemists also tell us that the apple contains a greater percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or ! vegetable, which makes it a proper food for the scholar and sedentary man, feeding his brain and stimulating his liver. — Manawatu Farmer.