LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 1411, 16 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

• Members of the Manchester Bides are reminded of the parade tomorrow eveniog. Mr W. Bramley, of Raumai, Pohangina, won the third sweep prize of £225 in the City j-'attereali's Handicap. The committee of the Feilding Horticultural Society met last evening and decided to hold a Chrysanthemum Show on Wednesday, April 30 tb. The roads in the Aorangi Settlement are in a most disgraceful condition and a man should be put on immediately so as to have them put in good order for the winter. Mr Edwin King, batcher, gives notice of his intention to apply to the Manawatu County Coaocil for a license to slaughter great and small cattle on part of section 149, Sandon Block The Returning Officer for the Poban gina i onnty Council, Mr W. S. Harper, gives notice that be will receive nominations for the vacancy in the Conncil on Saturday, the 26th instant Out of 2610 Queensland Bugar grow era, 1398 have registered as employers of white labour, thus enabling them to get the bonus. It is estimated the bonus tbis year will amount to about £100,000. The Match Committee of the local Bowling Club have decided that all games remaining unplayed in the Handicap SiDgles (first-class) after Saturday, 26th instant, are to be declared forfeited. Mr Samuel Knight, of Utuwai, is announced as a candidate for the vacancy in the Pohangina County Council made by the resignation of Councillor Bmythe. Mr Knight has already received liberal promises of support. Tbe school excursion to Wanganui this morning was very largely a< tended and as tbe weather is fine the children should baye a good outing. The school committee decided last night to give prizes for tbe five best essays on tbe trip. Mr Walker.poultry fancier and florist will return from Auckland to»tnorrow with new supplies uf all lines. He will bring with him a large photograph ot bis well-known poultry farm in Auckland which will be on view in the shop for three or four bonrs to-morrow afternoon.

Mr L. H. Reynolds, engineer, of Dunedin, was a visitor Feilding yesterday and to day. A little girl who did not go to the picnic at Araoooho, said : "Ab, this is an all right day for it." New slang. Many old friends will no doubt be pleased to see aod listen to one of the old Salyation Army officers, Adjntant Rowlands, who u?ed to work in Feilding in the early days of tho Army. He has just returned from Australia and will give his famous lecture illustrated with some 213 views, at the Army Barracks next Friday evening. A letter received iv Dannevirke from a New Zealauder who has been fight ing with the Sixth Contingent in South Africa, states that some time ago the Boers captured no less thin 100 members of the above contingent. The New Z^alnnders were stripped of i heir clothing and then set free, the writer stating that the aff-iir was kept a secret for some tme.— Dannevirko Advocate. The committee of the A. and P. Association desire to place on record their appreciation of the vaiious news pipers in the eursouudiog districts for their consistent reporting of all committee meetings, which not ODly enables the members to keep in touch with the work of the Executive, but it keeps tbeir readers and the general public at a distance posted up in all matters connected with the Association. —Times. Notice has been given of the follow ing motion, which will be brought forward at the next meeting of the Wanganui Education Board to be held on Monday the 21st instant, at 7 p.m., by Mr Pirani : "That in order to secure the efficiency of the District High Schools, Regulation No. 50 ia hereby modified to far as it holds the bead master responsible for the secondary Bchool work, and it, shall be in the discre'iou of the Board to define the individual responsibility of the teachers of secondary work in District High Schools." It i 8 rather early to pick the winner of the Mayoral contest In deciding for whom to vote electors will be considerably influenced by the views of the candidates on water supply and other local matters It will be largely a question of measures, not men, and when we see the civic programme of the respective candidates we will be better able to guage tbeir chances of success Messrs Bramwell Bros have something to say on this interesting subject, and tbeir advertisements will, an usual, be found well worth careful perusal.