The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 62, 10 September 1897, Page 2

The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897. Local and General News.

♦ Dr Monckton is at present unwell, and unable to attend to patients. A meeting of the Athletic Club Committee will be held this evening. The Feilding portion of the 'Frisco mail arrived by the midday train to-day. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston Bale, to be held on 16th inst., are advertised to-day. An important clearing sale of farm stock and implements will be held at Rongotea on Monday next by Messrs Gorton and Son. An extraordinary general meeting of members of the Colyton Rifle Club will be held at Mr Wratt's workshop at 7.30 on Tuesday evening. A report of the parishioners meeting in connection with St Andrew's Church, Colyton, arrived too late for insertion to-day. In the order made by Judge Kettle in the case of Hammond Bros, bankrupts, they have to pay L2OO per annum between them, and not that amount each. The Ngaire (Taranaki) cheese factory has paid milk suppliers BJd per lb on butter fat for the past year, and there is a balance on hand that will admit of at least id per pound more being paid. Taking last season all through suppliers to the Riverdale (Taranaki) Dairy Factory will receive 6d per lb for butter fat. The report for the past year shows that it took 24*8 lbß of milk to make one pound of butter. A petition is being signed in this district requesting the Government to impose a gun license instead of the present game license, in order to provide for the better protection of native and imported game. We understand this matter is being taken up by the various Acclimatisation Societies in the colony. — P.N. Times. A sad drowning accident happened yes* terday afternoon near the Destructor. A young girl named Kathleen O'Halloran, aged three years, daughter of a Corporation employee, living in Grainger street, was paddling in the sea, and was washed off her feet by a wave, and before help could reach her she was drowned. Dr Pollen was called, but his services were of no avail.— N.Z. Times. Last week the Normanby Horticultural Society sent specimens of potatoes to the Government analyst, Wellington, with a view to determining the cause of weak or thread-eye that is so common in this (Taranaki) district. Two sorts were sent— those snowing strong growth and those showing weaker. It is to be hoped that the analyst may be able to solve the cause. — Hawera Star. Reports are circulated (says a corres* pondent in the Hawera Star) of consider* able slaughter amongst dairy herds on account of disease, by the stock inspector, as many us 10 or 15 cows being killed in a single herd. The animalß in many cases to the inexperienced eye looked quite healthy. Dairymen think it is indeed a fair case for some amount of compensation from the Government. Messrs Bramwell Bros., of Feilding And Colyton, draw attention elsewhere to their stock of implements for garden use which are now being offered at the lowest possible prices. They have also a large stock of vegetable and flower seeds from the nursery of Yates and Co. Amongst the implements which are worthy of special notice are the seed drills and cultivators for small gardens. A perusal of the advertisement would well pay farmers, gardeners and fruit growers. Messrs J. Williamson and Bell, cabinet makers, Feilding, have just completed a sideboard of French design to the order of a resident of Bulls. It is made of cedar which was obtained from a log found on the Rangitikei beach by the Bulls resident above referred to about 20 years ago. The log evidently drifted ashore from some passing ship which was probably wrecked and after being kept as a curiosit3 r it has now been sawn into boards which have been worked up in the sideboard referred to. The Manchester Rifles parft&d for inspection in the Drill Hall last evenie^. There waa a lair attendance of members, and Lietenant Barltrop was in command. After inspection the men were drilled in the manual, firing and gword-bayonet exercises by Lieut Pleasants, and in company movements by Sergt- Major McMillan : and Lieut Pleasants. Members are reminded of the church parade on Sunday next, the 12th instant. The men will fall in at 10 o'clock, and every member X8 getjuestcd to be present.