LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1426, 3 May 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

«. . — The silver match box advertised for bas been left at this office. The Pobaogina County Council will meet on Sacurday, tbe 10th instant. Mr Morsbead adyertises particulars of a cleatiug sale on account ot Mrs Toy. Tbe profits of the last meeting of tbe Manawatu Racing Club amounted to £586 l l 2s. A mission meeting will be held to morrow evening at Cobbe's corner, Manchester Square. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmerston on the Bth instant, are now advertised. The appointment of Robert Bruce McKenzie, to be Captain of tbe Feilding Mounted Rifles, bas been gazetted. The social committee of the Manchester Rifles will meet in the Drill Hall at eight o'clock oa Monday evening. Madame Mclba, it is stated, baa requested that New Zealand beiucluded in her tour of the colonies during the latter patt of the year. At the harvest festival to be held in St John's Cburch to»morrow, tbe vicar will preach, and Miss Par Eons will sing tbe offertory solo. A meeting of those interested in erecting & (Jo-operative Dairy Factory at Taouui or Aorangi, will be beld at Colyton ou Tuesday. At the Broken Hill Police <"ourt recently, a {jirl, aged 14 years, was charged with drunkenness and re manded for seven days. Tbe girl's guardian was fined £1 on a similar charge. Miss N. Parsons, student of Guild Hall of Music. London, and well known among musical people in Wei lingtou, announces in to-day's issue that she is pvep -red to receive pupils for voice production, singing, and piano. Mr Ole Ammntisen, Manriceville, is the wium r of thr> extra Id ptr Ib given by Messrs W. D:tuock and Co , Wellington, for the best quality pigs delivered at their factory for tbe week ending Ist May, 1902, having secured 89 points. Mr Lewis, pf ''olyton, left yesterday afterncoa en void? for the Old Country, by the Kumara which will leave Wellington today, Mr Lewis intends to consult a specialist in England in connection with an injury he received in tbe hunting field tibout a year ago. At the Oiaki Horticultural Show beld on Wednesday last the judges were Mrs Matbieson (Bannytborpe. 1 , Messrs Cooper (Wellington), Mayo (Palmerston), Horton (Pabiatua) and Cossey (Wellington). Messrs Horton (Pahiatua), and Weigbtman (Awabun), showed grand displays of fruit and cat blooms. Mr E. Kelly, a member ot the Victorian ring, experienced a bit of bad luck at the recent V.R.C. Meeting. Manp, who had just previously been bought by him, was backed to win jEIOOO in the Hill Handicap. He won easily enough, bat biß rider failed to draw the weight by half a pound, and winning honors went to the second hor?e, Myosotis. Tbe funeral of the late Mrs H. Bailey took place at Bnnnythorpe yesterday afternoon, and WBS numerously attended by friends of the deceased lady, The burial service of the Anglican Church was read at the grave by the Rev. C. C. Harper, and a lar^e number of wreaths were deposited on the casket and around the grave, iv memory of one so respected and esteemed It is cheering to be able to report that the N.Z.L and M.A. Coy. had a most successful sale in yesterday. Mr C»rr stales that the c'asses of sheep were exceedingly good, and nearh 6very pen wns quitted at advanced rates under tbe hammer One really first cla^s line of 1500 wethers and maiden ewe* from Cape. Birch's, of Erewhon, Moabango, were much admired by the public, elicited "keen com petition and therefore topped the market. Tbe illustrated 'periodicals are making unheard of preparations for their oronation numbers, which will be on a scale of t-ize and splendour never equalled. It is told on good authority that one of the wecklv illustrated papers is to spend £25,000 on its Coronation special. Great progress has already been made m the preparation of these periodicals. A new Post Office regulation probibite postal packets baying on tbem any word or words of an objectionable j character. In the term " objectionable j character " is included tbe word " debt," or any word or words indicating that tbe postal packet relates to a debt or liability for money. All such packets will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office, to be there dealt with as undelivered. A consignment of 1985 tons of flour reached Auckland by tbe Sierra from San Francisco, the present high price of flour having induced a merchant to import with the object of obtaining a reduction in the ruhug rates. Farther inquiries have set iv for American flour, and tbe next steamer will have 300 or 400 tons aboard. Orders have gone forward from Wellington for consignments, wbicb will be included in tbe next shipment. Tbere is a great deal of feeling at Greymouth consequent upon tbe raising of the price of bread to 8d the 41b loaf, meat from 6d to 8d per lb, and , milk to 5d per quart. The Star attu ' bates the cause to the Government , policy of constructing public works that will more benefit future genera* tions oat of tbe revenue derived from 1 taxation of articles in daily use, coupled 1 with the labour legislation and com ) mercial combinations. 1 For some extraordinary reason tbe > Government will not fill tbe two ; vacancies on the Wellington Land [ Board The seat held by tbe late Mr r H. A. Field bas been vacant for over two years, and no appointment baa yet been made in tbe place of Mr J. >tev» ' ens, M.H.R., whose term of office ' expired some months ago. Tbe Board ' now consists of the Commissioner of r Crown Lands, (Mr J. Htrancbon) and > Messrs A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., and A. I Recce, and should any one of them be unable to attend a meeting no business could be transacted. a 9 three J members are required to make a * quorum,— Post,

The Directors of Feilding Permanent Building Society will meet on Monday nest. The Rover Football Club will hold a smoke concert in the Oddfellows' Hall next Wednesday. Particulars of a clearing sale on account of Mr £ J. Qiaham are advertised to-day by Mr H. E. Morsbead. Tbe dfttefor receiving tenders for 'be erection of a dwelliughoaae in West Street, for Mr D. Haswell. bas been extended from tbe 6th to tbe Bth inst. The following were elected as school committee for Rewa : - Messrs R. Wood (chairman), E. Gladstone (.treasurer), H. HuDt, Grower, Foster. Mr O'Meara concluded his speech at Woodville on Wednesday by saying be considered the coming season should be devoted to passing two good mean ores, namely, a comprehensive Liocal Bodies Bill, eivine assured fioance, and a Liquor Bill. He assured his hearers he was goiog to hammer away till be got tbe Lower Gorge bridge, wbioh be accused Palmerston of retarding tnrou^h jealousy of Feildiog. A new regulation, framed under tbe Slaughtering and Inspection Act, is gazetted. It provides that where two or more local authorities combine to establish an abattoir, tbe agreement for such combination shall be by deed under tbe se&.l of each of tbe corporate bodies, setting out tbe terms and con ditions as agreed on, provided such terms and conditions are approved by the Minister for Agriculture. In any case where an abattoir established by one local authority is to be made available for tbe purposes of another local authority, the agreement shall bo by a similar deed. The lady teachers who left Wellington yesterday afternoon for Sooth Africa, were entertained by the Hoo. W. C. Walker (Minister of Education), and other Ministers before leaving Mr Walker, in a short speech, bade the teachers good-bye and in a happily phrased address, christened the outgoing party tbe " Learned Eleven," jocularly referring to tbe party as another New Zealand Contingent. Each glady was presented with a memento in the shape of a silver fern leaf, bearing the letters "N.Z," The party number 20 ladies. At every meeting of tbe Wellington Land Board, as a rule, applications are received from holders of lease-in-perpetnity who desire to sublet and reside off their properties. On Thursday a strong cafe wan made out by tbe bolder of a 200 acre special settlement section. He pleaded tbat he bad complied for several years with residence conditions, but now be bad a wife in delicate health, several of tbe family of a school age, and be wished to be allowed to >ive off his section for a term of years in order that they might be educated. Tbe Board intimated tbat they were opposed to subletting, and advised the applicant if be could not comply witb tbe residence conditions to try and transfer his property. Tbe following is tbe statement of assets and liabilities in the bankrupt estate of Edwin John Hodren, bookseller, of Halcoinbe, who filed on Ist May :- Liabilities : Unsecured creditors, £824 4s 4d ; secured creditors, £172 15s ; estimated value of securities, £340; surplus to contra, £167 ss. Assets : Stock-in-trade, £450 ; book debt?, £100 (estimated to produce £80) ; furniture, £80 ; estimated value of security over mortgage, £167 ss ; deficiency, £96 19s 4d The secured creditor is the Feilding Building Society tbe security being a mortgage on two shops and a certain section in Hal combe valued at £340. There is only one Feilding creditor for £10 10s. Tbe first meeting of creditors will be beld at Feilding on 12th May.