Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 268, 16 May 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Mutual.lmprovcmcut Society will meet this evening. Capt. Ed win wired at noon to-day: — Strong west to south and south east winds and glass rise. We arc glad to learn that Mr George Kidd, of Kiwitca, is rapidly recovering his wonted health and strength. An elderly resident of Christchurch named John King, a grocer, dropped dead in the street at Christchurch on Tuesday. A man named John Horler, who was thrown out of a trotting sulky at Christchurch on Sunday, died in tlic hospital on Tuesday. Wo have been requested by Mrs Matheson to remind ladies of the lessons to-morrow afternoon, and to state that there will be no evening lessons. The Defence Minister lias decided not to insist upon Queen's Birthday parades autl/cH.r dejuip. in view of the hadrships undergone by Volunteers at the Easter encampments. The money spent out of the Borough load of .£6OOO on Manchester Square — to put a road round it — was .4.132 according to schedule, i.c-, 22 chains at £(5 per chain. Three hundred years ago, when the Japanese were at war with Corea, they cut off the ears of 300,000 Coreans, and sent them back to Japan, where the car monument still stands as a trophy. The Prince Regent of Bavaria gives presents on his Birthday instead of receiving them. His last gift w r as one hundred bottles of diphtheria serum for the hospital for poor children at Munich. It has been reckoned that the seeds of one kind of thistle alone would be sufficient to choke the whole face of the agricultural land in Britain in about three years if it were suffered to grow untouched. Slightly over a hundred Feilding people went to the Foxton races yesterday. No doubt the poll for the loan kept a number at home. The Foxton races have always been popular with our local sports. " Daybreak," the Wellington women's organ, is already in deep water financially, and publication has ceased. The Wangauui Herald says running a newspaper is not such an easy thing as it looks. With reference to the application for a school at Eangiwahia we are informed Mr Baker, a member of the Education Board, has been instructed to visit the localities interested w r ith a view of making some satisfactory arrangement. The committee of Borough Councillors appointed to consider the appointment of a ranger and poundkeeper — The Mayor, Crs Goodbehere, Say well, Allan and Worsfold— met yesterday afternoon and decided to invite applications for the position. A commercial traveller named Fothergill lost .£'4o from his bedroom at the Rutland Hotel, Wauganui. He sued the landlord for the recovery of the amount. The S. M. held that reasonable precautions had not been taken by the plaintiff to secure the money, and gave judgment in favor of the landlord. At the Apiti Christy Minstrel concert to be given in Eagar's Hall, Apiti, on the evening of May 24th, Mr E. Pope will give a ventriloquial entertainment in addition to the various songs. Considerable interest is being taken in the performance by the troupe, who give promise of a good entertainment. Archdeacon Faucourt will pay an ollicial visit to Feildmg on Friday next. He will arrive by the afternoon train and meet the vestry and other church officers at 4 o'cldCk; he will also address the congregation on Parochial and Diocesan matters at a service to be held in St. Johns at 7.30 the same evening. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Relief Fund Committee, held on 15th May, it resolved the balance of subscriptions collected in Feilding (£23 13s 6d), as published in the Star, be remitted through the Colonial Bank of New Zealand to the widow and family (in England) of the late William Johnstone who was drowned in the wreck of the Wairarapa.