The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 126, 26 November 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1896. Local and General News.

A concert will be held at the Young Men and Boys Club this evening. Members of the Manchester Rifles ar< 1 reminded of tbe inspection parade this evening. Additions are made to-day to the en tries for Mr Charles Carr's Feildinf stock sale. The model of the world famed Stras burg clock is now on view in the premi ses next door to Mr Car tbe w. Mr J. B. Roots, who is an able expon ent, will give an address in the Stanwaj school on Monday next on the " Evih of Prohibition." The Returning Officer, Mr Watson notifies that Mr W. A. L. Bailey and Mi F. Y. Lethbridge have been nominated as candidates for the Rangitikei election Everyone would do well to read the newspaper reports of Mr Andrew's en tertaiatuents, one of .which is to be given to ni^bt in the Wesleyan Church at 6 p.m. Tbe Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr J. W. A. Marchant, gives notice thai on the yth December certain section! enumerated in the advertisement, will be open for sale or selection for cash, lease in perpetuity, or for occupation with right of purchase.

We have been requested to mention tbat bonus and dividend warrants of the United Farmers Co operative Association Ltd., will be available on or before the Ist of December. New advertisements from Mr J. B. Beckley, of Sherborne House, will appear in our wanted column to-morrow. Cash purchasers of the firm are now receiving Is in the £ discount. The committee who have the arrangements in hand are sparing no efforts to make the Cricket Club concert to be given in the Cheltenham Hall on Friday (to-morrow) evening a success. A grand concert will be given in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on December 19th, in aid of the fund for the purchase of the Birmingham cricket ground. Full particulars will be furnished through our advertising columns. " When I took to reading my own old speeches in Hansard I found that sleep decended upon me like the pen tie dew from heaven. But I was afraid to read the speeches ot other people for fear I should not wake Bgain." — Mr Scobie Mackenzie at Dunedin. Mr Wilson a Wellington candidate, was asked the question : - " What is meant by the word agnostic ?" The candidate promptly replied : "In Sir Robert's case agnostic stands for a gentleman who spells God with a small • g,' and Stout with a capital 'S. " (Great laughter.) At the annual meeting of the Wesleyan District Synod belt! at Wanganm yester. day, the trial sermons of the Revs T. R. Richards, of Birmingham, and C. C. Har rison, of Feilding, were received and discussed, and both brethren were unanimously recommended to the conference to pass in their year. Iv our report of the Pobaogina school concert the names of Misses Fisher and Esbensen were omitted, they having taken part in the chorus " Some day I'll wander back again," with Misses Shadbolt, Lucas and Sinclair. The chorus was nicely rendered and had to be repeated in response to an encore. A temperance address was delivered in the Volunteer Hall, Feilding, last evening by Mr Crabbc, the well known temperaHce lecturer, to a fairly good audience. The Rev J. Cocker presided. Mr Crabbe, who handled his subject in an able and humorous manner, was listened to attentively and he was frequently applauded duriDg his address. Extract from a paper called To day, published at Home and edited by Jerome K. Jerome : — A lady doctor says that after an experience of over 15 years, chiefly among women, she had found ' that alcohol was the agencies of evil in • in not more thau 1 per cent. In her ' medical experience she added, " I have ? found that more evil is caused by the abuse of tea and coffee than by the abuse J of alcohol. • The following were elected yesterday • to the Hospital and Charitable Aid » Board :-G. W. Ravenhill, nominated by the Manawatu Road Board ; W. P. • Kendall, nominated by the Fitzherbert > Road Board. For the grouped districts s of Foxton, Feilding, and Halcombe, a nomination was not submitted, and the ' vacancy will have to be filled by the Governor. Mr D. Buick, Returning Officer, presided.— Standard. A Vigilance Committee is about to be » formed iv Feilding having for its object r the promotion and maintenance of good • feeling among those who have been angered or irritated during the election con- • test. On aud after Sunday, December » 6tb, any elector (male or female) who » introduces in conversation any subject 1 having reference to politics, actual or collateral, will be soaked in the Makino stream for such a time as the committee may decide. The Feilding Polo Club have fixed their polo sports for Wednesday, 16th - December, when there is likely to be a very laree attendance, judging from the interest the public are taking in the matter. The programme consists of nine events, including the Feilding Cnp, Ladies' Bracelet, Hardies, Tandem Race, • Gretna Green Race, etc. The members of the Manawatu, Oroua, Rangitikei, and other clubs will be competing, and, - should the weather prove favorable, we predict a very pleasant, as well as amus- - ing and novel afternoon's sport.