Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 296, 24 June 1901, Page 2

Local and General News.

. * • Parliament will open next Monday. Tbe Wellington City milk supply is rawn from about 4000 cows A strange anormly. Public stands re made to enable tbe people to sic lown. About £5000 a month is being paid n wages by tba Dannevirke eawnillers. Although Friday was the shortest lay in this hemisphere, winter ouly >egan on N aturday. If the present rate of destruction is illowed to continue the huia will soon lecome as extinct as the dodo. The Government has now 38 highly jualified ve;erinary surgeons in its smploy. I rooper D. McDonald, of Waitnna, returned on Saturday ni»ht from the South African campaign. The Hon R. J. Seddon was fifty -six pears of a".c on Saurd-»y. We wish liim m my happy returns of the day. A meeting of members of the Rovers' Football Club will be held at 7 o'clock this evening. Mr J. Ashworth gives notice of his intention to apply to the Manchester Ro*d Board for a license to slaughter jreat and small cattle on section part 12, block XVI, Oroua. Tbe Wellington police record* show that there was an average of only four persona per day arrested for being under the influence of liquor during last week. In our advertising columns, Messrs Spence and Spencts draw atteution to a special line of striped velvets, suitable for ladies blouses, wnich they are selling at very low prices. The mortal remains of the late Mr J. Norman, one of Feilding's earliest settlers, were interred in tb6 Feilding cemetery yesterday afternoon, being followed to their last resting place by a number of sympathising friends. "A Farmer," writing in the North Otago Times, points out that ai present prices, the demand for 10s a day would meau that a farmer's man would go home on Saturday afternoon with seven bags of wheat and twelve bags of oats for bis short week's work. That fear will promote disease has been abundantly proved during outbreaks of epidemics. There are many people of both sexes who never hear of a disease without fancying they have it. The illness of a Royal or distinguished sufferer, tbe progress of which is recorded day by day in the newspapers, always leads to an increase in tbe number of persons treated for the same complaint. An unfortunate shooting accident took place on the rifle butts at Graytown, a small mining settlement in Victoria, on May 23rd A miner named Alfred Bock whs firing at a target, when, owing to some mistake made in tbe flag signals, an unknown man crossed the range, and received a bullet in tbe head. Death was instau taui-ous. Bock has given bioaseif up to the poiice. The drain qp the stock of Maori curios in connection with the visit of tbe Imperial troops and the Duke aud Duchess of Cornwall has been very great, and the Hawke's Bay Hera!d says that we shall soon have to visit Euiope to discover what were ihe arts and industries of the Maoris. Our contemporary a?ks whether something ought not to be done by tbe Govern meut to prevent the loss of what re m*ins of the very remarkable and interesting arts of our native race. On Saturday lust Mr H. Andrews, who has occupied a position on tbe staff "f fciie " Star " for the pa.'>t three years, H&vered his connection with this journal to enter into partnership with Mr T R. Walton, of the w aimate Witness. Durmg hiß term of office on the staff tf this paper Mr Andrews has male himself deservedly popular with all who came iuto contact with hhxi. While regretting his departure we wish Mr Andrews every success in his new venture. The Premier announced on Friday at the luncheon in Wellington to returned troopers that he had, throuyh his Excellency tbe Governor, asked'tbe Dake of Cornwall to agree that in the formation of tbe first Imperial Reserve, the men of tbe New Zealand contingents who have seen service in South Africa, should take first place, and that the first battalion should be called " The Duke of Cornwall's Own," and the second " The Duchess of Cornwall's Own." Mr Seddon said be was satisfied the request would be granted. — Post. The Post says : — Now that the ex citement of tbe Royal visit celebrations is over, the people are to be congratulated on the good sense, and the police on tbe excellence of the arrangements that combined to make the gatherings pass off without friction. Inspector Pender and Bub -Inspector Wilson placed tneir men to the utmost advantage, and left no room for any infringement of the appointed order. One or two constables were sufficiently wooden beaded to interfere with pressmen armed with tbe official pass, but the over-officious offender is generally found in any large body of men, and the Government services are by no means an exception to the rule. The Eawhia Settler reports that tbe survey of several large blocks of native lands is now going on. The survey of tbe Pirongia West Block, of 17,000 acres, with a frontage of fight miles to Eawhia Harbour, has just been completed, the block being cut up into sections of from 200 to 2000 acres. Tbe native owners of this block are stated to be in a position to deal with tbe land. Tbe survey of tbe RangitotoTabua Block of 600,000 acres is now proceeding. This land is on the line of the Main Trnnk Railway at the bead of the Mpkau river. The land ia being divided among the hapos so that tbe families will have from 10,000 to 30,000 acres each,

A quantity of raiding tLatter will be f jund on the fourth page. The Kimbolton Rifle Clab's dance ia postponed. The Carterton dairy factories haye £5000 worth of cheese on band. Mr C Y. D.lly advertises thn dates of fruir tree sales which will be held at Ran^iwibia, Kimbolton and Apiti. There whs a heavy fall of s< ow, the first this winter, at Raugiwahiaon Stturday night and early Mouday morniug. Mr T. W'ltsnn, anuounoa a free diHtribution of medals to the children cimtnunorative of the vis t of the Duke and Duchess of York An oppcnunity to spe Milford and other West Coast Sounds is to be given vhe English newspaper correspondents who are with the Royal party- A special ».r»in has been nrranged from Lyttleton to the Blnff, where a vessel, pro« bably one of the Government steamers, will be in waiting to proceed to the Sounds. The families who went to the Mutton Bird Islands this year caught among them 65,000 birds, valued at £1013 10s lOd, or between £24 and £26 for each family on an average. The natives report (says the Western Star) that the titis (the Maori name for mutton birds; were as numerous as ever, and that the young ones, which form the " catch," were in excellent condition. During the past fortnight (says the Hawera Star) there has been a move in the potato market, and ptices now show aa upward tendency. The rise is not much, certainly, but it goes to show that the stocks held elsewhere are not extra heavy, and the enquiries are all from a distance. This week a buyer has been goins round offering £2 53 per ton, but holders asking £2 10s. We (Christcburch Press) regret to announce the death of Samuel Gar forth, of Spreydon. Mr Garforth was taken ill at the saleyards on Saturday, and was removed to the Strathmore Hospital, where he died last Thu'sday evening from epilepsy— a complaint to | which he had been subject for some years. The deceased, who was sixtytwo jears of age, wat one of the founders of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and was among the best known and most highly respected of the old Canterbury agriculturists. The late Mr Garfurth also took a keen interest in the formation of the Canterbury Frozen Meat » ompany, and had been f < r the past sixteen years a director of the company. He was an o!d West Coaster, and his death will be mourned by many sincere friends who knew him in the early days of the goldfields. In consequence of the somewhat premature departure of the Ophir on Friday afternoon, there were (says the N.Z. Times) some unanticipated incidents on the Queen's Wharf. Jufct after the forward part of the vessel had moved off from the wharf, the Ri«ht Hon the Premier and Sir John Anderson (secretary to the Duke ofCornwall) arrived in a cab, and on leisurely descending therefrom, discovered that i he time was one which called for vi^oraction "Ho, there!" vociferated tl.e the Premier, '■ Are you going already? " " RigMt away, sir I" replied a deep voice from the bridge. " But he cis Sir .'ohn Anderson !" cried Mr Seddon. Someone suggested a movement to tu»end of the tee, where the stern of tho vessel was nearer in. Tne Premier at once sprinted vigorously thither, his secretary ran second, and the Royal official third, close up. Two of the lloval suiie leaned over the rail and grasped (he latter geuilemin, each by a hand, the Premier and his secretary shoved up behind, the select crowd on the wharf and the nuny on the yacht cheered and Sir John, panting and dishevelled, reachtd the dtck in safety.