Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

-♦- The Apiti Christy Minstrels intend holding a concert and dance in Apiti on May 24th. There will be mass at Halcombe on Sunday next at 8 o'clock, Feilding at 11 o'clock, and at Campbelltown at 11 o'clock a.m. It is announced in our wanted column that the Rev John Richards will preach in the Wesleyan Church, Fowlers', twice on Sunday next. To-morrow on the Oval the Senior Championship Football match will be played between Pirates I and Feilding I. The kick off will take place punctually at three o'clock in the afternoon. The Good Templars Lodge, at Ajriti, continues to prosper, there being between ninety^ and one hundred members on the roll. Last Sunday they had a church parade when about sixty attended. The Examiner says : — Mr H. J. Gilberd completed the trial bore for the artesian well at Woodville to a depth of 300 ft, but no water was obtained. Arrangements have been made with Mr Gilberd to go to a depth of 400 ft. Mr T. Lowes gives notice to-day that having let the Family and Commercial Hotel, Birmingham, all accounts owing to him must be paid by June 15tb, and all accounts against him must be rendered before that date, At the monthly meeting of the Palmerston Hospital Board held yesterday, a lengthy discussion took place over the action of the chairman (Mr G. W. Ravenhill), in telegraphing to Dr McGregor requesting him to recommend an independant architect to report on the condition of the hospital, in consequence of several defects in the building having become noticeable. To-morrow night in the Assembly Rooms a wrestling match for the lightweight Championship of New Zealand takes place between Mr J. W. F. Halcombe of Feilding, and Mr J. Sutherland, who at present is the champion. It will be remembered that when these two men last came together the contest resulted in a draw, but to-morrow night the match is to be decided one way or the other. The Apiti school enlargement has not yet been completed, owing to some delay in procuring timber. The school was originally built to seat forty children, and there are now upwards of ninety youngsters on the roll, but they are not all able to attend until the school has been enlarged. We understand the proposed additions will make the school double its present size which is considered insufficient for the requirements of the district. An interesting incident is reported at sea by the officers of the ship Firth of Stron'sa, spoken by the barque Trinidad, which lately came from New York to Wellington. When the Firth was bowling along up the Australian coast under full sail, and distant from the land about 50 miles, a dove settled on deck with a green twig in its bill. It was readily caught in the hand, apparently tired by its long journey, and now occupies cosy quarters on the vessel.— Post. A Manawatu gentleman has brought to us some splendid apples, cooking and eating varieties, grown at Stanway, near Feildiug. He says there are many acres of orchard in the district producing tons of fruit which has to be left rotting on the ground. There is absolutely no sale. In Feiiding the finest fruit can be had almost as a gift, while tbe expense of bringing it to town by the Manawatu railway is prohibitive, the Company not having made the same concessions for the carriage of fruit as have been made on the Government lives. In any case there would be two freights to pay, one to the Government and one to the Company. The demand for fruit in town also is limited, as sales are necessarily confined to retailers, there being no market where the grower and the consumer can meet aud deal.-— Post.

A number of letters to the Editor are unavoidably held over. To-morrow Mr Charles Carr will offer by auction the balance of the ironmongery goods left over from last Saturday's sale. There will be a meeting of the shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles at the Empire Hotel at 7.30 this evening. The recent rise in tbe price of kerosene is reported to be duo to the combination of the American and Russian producers. Yesterday afternoon a prisoner named Joseph M. Foggan escaped from the works at Mount Cook, Wellington, where he was engaged with the labour gang. A most interesting inset appears with to-night's issue of the Star with reference to the Passion Play which is to be produced in Feilding on Monday night next. When the day of pure Socialism arrives nobody -will have anything, and what there is left will be divided among the others. What this means is not very clear, but it is the real secret. The Canterbury A. and P. Association do not consider it necessary to have special legislation forefoot rot in sheep. The Association think the reduction in the freight on lime for agricultural purposes is not sufficient. A new advertisement from Mr John Cobbe will be fouud in to-day's issue, to which the attention of the ladies is directed. Mr Cobbe has recently made very large direct importations of dress goods, drapery, millinery etc., of the very choicest quality and variety. Tenders are invited by Mr G. J. Scott the Deputy Official Assignee, for the equity of redemption iv quarter acre section, Kimbolton road, aud dwelling house thereon, in the estate of Samuel Chamberlain, a bankrupt. Full particulars may be obtained from Messrs Ratliff Bros. Tenders will close on the 16th instant. In another column will be found an advertisement from Nurse Smith, ofthe Mayfield Nursing Home, Palmerston N., in which it is announced that she is prepared to receive patients in Feilding at the residence of Mr Alfred Eade. Nurse Smith was for some time at the Christchurch City Private Hospital, where she gained for herself the reputation of being a successful and experienced nurse. Dr De Rcnzie, M.R.C., of England, gives her a very flattering testimonial. The second annual convention of Temperance delegates will be held at Palmerston North ou the Queen's Birthday aud followiug day. On the evening of the 21th a public meeting is to be held in the Rotunda, Rangitikei street, the Mayor presiding, when addresses will be given by Dr Newman, Sir Robert Stout, H. D. Bell Esq., M.H.R., Miss Kirk and others. On the following evening in the same place, addresses will be given by F. Pirani, M.H.R., and Messrs Carson, Haggen, Rev J. Hintou and others. The following is a copy of the statement of assets aud liabilities iv the estate of Bridget Millard, storekeeper, at Waituua : — Liabilities. — Palmerston N. —J. R. Montague, £98 ; J. Bett, £18. Feilding — Dr Johnston, £'3 us ; Hodren, £4 ; Mrs Bilderbeck, £20 ; Chamberlain, £8. Halcombe— W. Millard, £195 ;W. Bell, £3 5s 6d. Waituna — J. Ranson, £3 10s. Wanganui— J. Grubb, £5 ss; Hatrick and Co., £15 ; Sister Joseph, £25. Auckland— W. Macarthur & Co., £170; Younghusband & Co., £25. Total £552 5s 6d. -Assets — Monies in the hands of the Imperial Insurance Co., Wellington, subject to payment of costs, £310. Deficiency— -£ 2^2 5s 6d.