Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 283, 4 June 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., will address his constituents at Bunnythorpe to-night. The monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held 011 Friday evening next. The Otago Chess Club have resolved to accept lady players as members of the club. We are requested to notify that Mr Greenwood, dentist, cau now be consulted ever}' day. A sharp shock of earthquake was exexperienced at Wellington at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. The application of Mr C. E. Wildbore, of Pohangina, for letters patent for a folding dish-cover has been granted. The following are the vftal statistics for the Borough of Palmerston for the month of May ; — Births 28, Deaths 5. In order to foster the butter trade, the Canadian Government has offered to buy the winter butter made by the citizens for shipment to England. The Directors of the Feilding Permanent Building Society met this afternoon at the office of the manager, Mr E. Goodbehere. Mr Charles Bray invites tenders for making and completing a green for the I'ei lding Bowliug Club. For other particulars sec advertisement. The son of a AVoodville resident, Mr Scott, died yesterday from the effects of suckiug hot tea from the spout of a teapot. The boy was twenty months old. Mr James Wood, who has beeu connected Avith the Kaiapoi aud Petouc Woollen Factories for many years as working manager, is about to take up his residence in Feildiug, where it is probable he will commence business as a wool buyer. At a meeting held at Christchurch of representatives from various organisations to consider the unemployed question, it was resolved to ask the Government to take immediate steps to assist the unemployed by subsidising the local bodies aud opening up lands for settlement. The Debating Society will meet this evening in Mr Bray's office at 1.30. The subject for the evening will be " The Anglo Saxon under the Southern Cross," which will be introduced by Mr T. Watson as a " paper," but affords considerable debatable matter. The election of officers for the ensuing term will also take place. Intending members are invited to be present. A manifesto has been issued by the Melbourne Protection Association and representatives of industries affected, protesting against many of the recommendations of the Tariff Commission. It was also decided to draw up a schedule of recommendations and objections and forwarded it to all members of the Legislative Assembly as the tariff of each trade comes before Parliament. A woman who asked Mr Justice Williams, of Melbourne, for a divorce from her husband on the ground that he got drunk every Saturday when he received his wages, was informed that that was not habitual drunkenness within the meaning of the Act. " Habitual drunkenness,'' said His Honor, " meant that a man was irreclaimable, and was drunk always." We beg to remind our readers of the tea meeting to be held in the Temperance Hall to-morrow cveniug to welcome the Rev Mr Judkins' return to Feildiug. After the tea a public meeting will be held iv the Wesleyan church to bo addressed by ministers and others. Mr G. Grant, of Palmerston, will speak, and a number of anthems will be sung by the choir. An unfortunate man named Henry Watson, a labourer, aged 52 years, attempted suicide in Wellington last Saturday by eating a quantity of matches. Tho last work he had was at the end of April, and he nrrived in Wellington from the Wairarapa the previous Monday in a destitute condition. Since his arrival he had been sleeping in the Basin Reserve, he had had nothing to eat since 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, and he had been driven by starvation to make the attempt on his life, Watson was taken to the hospital, and is likely to recover. At the meeting of the Rangitikei County Council on Saturday last the report of their engineer on the stato of the Bulls Bridge was read, and also that of the Mauawatu County Engineer. The former's report said it would cost .£'7oo to repair and the patching would only last for three or four years, while the latter estimated the cost of repairs at £1 50, and though an expenditure of .£-100 would put the bridge right for 10 or 15 | >ears. It was decided that the Government be asked to allow their district engineer to report on the bridge,

There will be a musical meeting iv the Salvation Army barracks this evening. The Manchester Rifles will parade in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday night at the usual hour. Mr G. W. Fowles has just imported some of the most remarkable watches ever seen in the colony. Mr C. Staffan announces to-day that he is prepared to give instructions iv violin music at private residences. We havo to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the concert in aid of the Church of England Building Fund at Campbelltown, to-morrow evening. ''-'' The parcel of bank notes advertised iv the Star as lost yesterday was left at our office to-dayy by Mr Richard lioppy, who is employed at the hairdressing establishment of Mr F. Bray. The secretary of the Red Star Football Club desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a guinea from Mrs M. Hastie as a donation to the club's funds, also a football bladder from Mr J. S. Milson. The quarterly meeting of the Primitive Methodist circuit will be held iv the Awahuri church to-morrow, after which a public tea meeting will be held and people of the district arc cordially invited to be present. Inspector Pender takes with him to Londou, informations, with the depositions of witnesses, in eight charges which arc to be preferred against L. Harper. The charges arc for haviug fraudulently appropriated to his own use the following sums entrusted to him : — lu the estate of Win. Miles, £1751 ; Rev. Mr Gillit (England t, if- 000 ; William Hotham (England), i::-> 000 ; Mary Louisa Webber (England), .£750 ; Rev. W. N. Barnes, (Knglandl, £1000 ; T. H. Hope, (England) £250; F. Passmorc, (England), .£1000 ; anl J. 11. Robin, (England), 11500. It is with feelings of regret we have to aunouncc the death of yet another of Feilding's earliest settlers. We refer to Mrs Stubbington, wife of Mr R. Stubbiugton, senr,, of Makino road, wlio died last eveuiug ot the age of 58 years, after an illness of about nine mouths. Mrs Stubbington arrived in New Zealand with her husband aud family in 1574. iv the emigrant ship " Carnatic," and with them took up her residence iv this district. The funeral will leave her late residence on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the Feildiug cemetery. Wo regret to announce that another old Feilding identity in the person of Mr Henry McA lister, passed away last evening at his residence iv King street, at the age of 70 years, after an illness of several weeks duration. He arrived iv the early days of the settlement (in April IST I: and has resided here ever since. Previous to his coming to New Zealand he had served in the Royal Artillery, 12th Brigade, for twenty-one years aud was receiving a pension for his services. He leaves a grown up family to mourn their loss. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon, leaving his late residence at 2 o'clock.