Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 278, 30 May 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

« Extensive additions are made to day to Mr Carr's next Feilding sale. Several young Jambs are reported as having been seen in a flock at Beaconsfield. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams sale on June 4lh, arc now advertised. The Excelsior Skating Rink will be open this evening at 7.530 in the Volunteer Hall. Additions are made to-day to Mr E. E. Beckett's Hunterville sale on the 4th of June. Mr Chas. Carr will hold a sale at his Feilding yards ou June sth, and Birmingham on Tuesday, June 9th. Tenders are invited by the Feilding Borough Council for forming and culverting 22 chains of Arnott street. At the Bank of New South Wales' half yearly meeting held in Sydney on May 18th, a dividend of 9 per ccut was declaved. There are four cases of typhoid fever in the Palmerston North Hospital, the patients being from the vicinity of Oroua Bridge. The Pharmacy Bill is to be introduced into the Council during next session. It is understood the measure will not contain the clauses objected to last session. A meeting of the Directors of the Feilding FeraiaTieut Building Society will ho held at the office of the manager, Mr Edmund Gocdbehere, on Monday afternoon. Mr John Stevens, M.M.R. for Rangitikei, invites his constituents to meet him at places and on days mentioned in the advertisement which appears in another column. The Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation have resumed making advances on landed securities at current market rates of interest in sums to suit the requirements of applicants. " Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely,' a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, and so took it into my mouth which I found did me much good." — Pepy's Diary. Mr J. H. Richardson, saddler, of Birmingham, notifies to-day that he has just received a consignment of saddlery and harness. He is also making a specialty of horse covers which he is selling at 16s and 18s. Mr R. J. Thompson, of the Cash Exchange Co-Op., has just received a consignment of boots suitable for winter wear. The boot and shoe branch of this popular establishment has established a name for itself throughout the district, the goods being of first-class quality and the prices remarkably low. A Mr W. Thompson writes to the Palmerston Standard from Coromandel, pointing out the prices obtained there for meat, and thinks some additional butchers would do well there, particularly as the gold mining promises to be prosperous. He says he has paid 2/6 for silbs of boiling beef, and 8d for three chops. On Wednesday next an extensive clearing sale will be held at the farm recently owned by Mr C. Simpson, Lees Line, by Mr C. Carr, auctioneer. A detailed list of the farm implements and stock offered for sale appears in our advertising columns. The sale will start at 11.30 a.m., and luncheon will be provided. It is notified to-day by Mr Mitchell, that he is now proprietor of the Denbigh Hotel stables, where saddle horses, and all kinds of vehicles are at all times at the disposal of customers. Mr Jeremiah Wilson solicits for his successor the liberal support that was accorded to him. We may state that Mr Mitchell has a first class reputation for courtesy and business application. Bicycle riders beware of footpaths ! The Wellington Times says : — " Footpaths were made for walking on, and not to ride bicycles ou, as F. Billman, W. Higginson, C. Johnson and Frank Withers were made aware of yesterday at the Magistrate's Court, when they were fined 5s and 7s costs each for riding the machines on the footpath at Kaiwarra." London Truth wants to know what Scotland is coming to. Sunday driving and picnieing, Sunday cycling and golfU1 rr — these and similarly frightful backglidings have long filled the devout minds of the unco' quid with anguish and dismay, Now a worse horror has happened. At their meeting recently, the Glasgow Corporation resolved, though only by a narrow majority, lo open baths for lour hour on S.unday mornings ! As one of the minority remarked this will make Sundays as other days in the week. People will even be able to wash themselves. It is the heaviest blow (says theLabby) that has yet been dealt at the sanctity of the Scottish Javvbath. Yesterday afternoon Mr Claude Holden, pupil teacher at Stanway School, took his departure in order to assume the position of master at Kawatau. Before leaving he was presented by the principal teacher on behalf of the school children, with a handsome writing desk. Last eveni'ng'he was given a happy send off by a social and dance held in his honpur at Mr Manson's .shed. Although Mr Ho.den is to be complimented on his well deserved success his removal is much regretted in the district as his patient attention to duty, and honest industrious habits, have earned for him the esteem of both parents and children. One of the orders issued to the Salvation Array during the regime of Commissioner Coombs reads os follows: •' It having been brought under notice of the Staff Council that lieutenants espected headquarters to, consent to their courting and eriga^einents, and that, instead of trying to qualify themselves lor captains, their iho ictus and attentions were directed to, their sYi-eetaearts.; they have just the following stringent order: That in fmure no -sanction Ibe- given to courtibg or any engagement of any male lieutenant.^ a ( jbaptaili t>iefore any t Hipg of ; the

We notice among other appointments on the Commission of the Peace the name of Mr John Bruce, of Cheltenham. The usual fortnightly assembly (Oddfellows' string band) will be held in the Foresters' Hall on June 3rd. A meeting of the Advances to Settlers Board was held yesterday, when loans amounting to £30,000 were authorised. There are 70,000 breweries in the world, but only one brews good beer. Horses wouldn't drag that name out of us. The new pipe organ for the Wesleyan Church has not yet arrived, but will be fitted up in the Church for the following Sunday, when special choral services will be held. At Wellington on Thursday last, Miss Maud, second daughter ot the Hon. Dr Grace, M.L.C.. was married to Mr J. Duncau, eldest son of Mr J. Duncan, of Levin and Co. Meetings will be held in the Salvation Army Barracks this evening and all day to-morrow (Sunday) to welcome Brigadier Hoskin, commanding officer in New Zealand, on his first visit to Feikling. The Hunterville Express states that Mr Robert Dalziell's eye was so badly injured by the recent gun accident that the eye had to be removed. Dr McKenzie, oculist, of Wellington, performed the operation. The householders in the following school districts will meet on Monday evening evening next to elect school committees for the ensuing year : — Beaconsfield, Colytou, Kiwifcea, Upper Taonui, Makiuo, and Fukeroa. In our wanted known column our readers will find a notice of services to be held in the Feilding Wesleyan Church to-morrow. The Rev G. S. Harper will conduct the morning service, and the Rev T R, Richards, of Palmerston, in the evening. For this much thanks : The latest American addition to the English language.is the word " snollygoster," a political term meaning a man who is ambitious for office, regardless of party platform, or principles. This variety of homo is not unknown in New Zealand. A few days ago over 40,000 rabbits were sent by the Mataura Freezing Works to England by the s.s. Banffshire and some 30,000 are in the works await ing export. It is expected that the present rabbit-freezing season in the Mataura district will continue till the end of August. Speaking of the value of election pledges, Mr Greenwood, at the Prohibition Convention, instanced the case of a candidate at Auckland who promised his interest to tljo Prohibition Party, and the first thing he did, ou the declaration of the poll, was to say to those around : "dome on, and I'll shout!"— Oarnaru Mail. •' That jado Rumour hath many ton qn.es we aro io'.d, aud as a rnle tlie tales that are industriously circulated by this interesting personage are more or less wide of the mark. " Rumour with her thousand tongues," is, however, right sometimes, and she never was so strictly accurate as when she gave pride of place to these exquisite teas which are so skilfully blended by the Empire Tea Company. If any sceptic disbelieves rumour on this occasion let him taste the teas himself — the experiment is well worth trying — and we are sure he will speedily become as enthusiastic as everyone else is. A public meetiug was held in the Feildiag WcUeyan Church last evening, in celebration of the union of the Wesleyan Methodist, Free Methodist, and Bible Christian Churches. Mr W. Carthew presided, and pointed out the benefits of the Union which has been so happily consummated, and also expressing regret that the whole of the Methodist churches were not uniting. Addresses dealing with the causes of disruption, and the advantages of the union of the various branches of the Methodist churebss, from social, political and spiritual points of view, were delivered by Revs. F. Quintrell and J. C. Harrison, and Mr J. Wood. A collection was made in aid of the Union Thanksgiving Fund, which is now being raised on behalf of needy circuits and stations.