LOCAL AMU GENERAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 30 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMU GENERAL NEWS

Mr Stunell advertises for grazing fo two cows. Our readers are reminded that Fatho Hays will give an address to-night, i the Drill Hall. The net profit made by the Welling ton Operatic Society on the productio of " Dorothy " was £100. Train arrangements for the footbai match, Australia v. Manawatu. and th Murton races are notified to-day. Tho Defiance creameries at Junctioi Road, Kimbolton, and Haleombe. wil open for the season on September Ist. Tho Rev. John Aldis, of Beckingloi Bath, who claims to bu tho oldest livin Baptist Minister, lias just celebrate.' his 98th birthday. Thoso interested in tho throateno spread of rabbits in this district, ar invited to meet in the office of tho Orou County, on Friday next. The Postmaster-General has informs tho member for Manawatu that he ha agreed to tho erection of a tulephon line from Rongotea to Carnarvon, fre of any guarantee. The Feilding Bowling Green is i: splendid condition. Tho ornamenta trees and shrubs, with tho primrose* jonquils and other flowers, have a ver pleasing effect. At tho Russian Ministry of Marine i is estimated that the cost ot tho vessel destroyed and captured by tho Japunes in the recent hattl' 1 , is represented by sum of £18,. r joo,ooo Mr Colcman Phillips, a political car didato, at Carterton : "If the clerg would interfero in politics then tho must expect to be roughly handled, ani they would be sorry they ever left thei pulpits." In order to save her father's whea from rain by an impending storrr Mabel Huston, aged 18, the daughter o a Kansas farmer, offered to the thre harvest hands who stored the mos wheat prizes oi three kisses, one kisf and onu hug. Tho wheat was saved. A superb Nankin Porcelain Vase, par ot the famous Huth collection, was sol at Christie's auction rooms, London, n May last, for £5,900. Mr Huth put chased it over 20 years ago for £21 from a dealer who had on tho precedin, day picked it up for 12s b'd. By arrangement with tho Govern inent all tho banks doing business in th Colony are now receiving from tb publio all worn silver coin, and payinj for it at face value. The acceptance o worn coin will be continued till the SOtl November next. Mr McLean, bookseller, Mancheste Street, has just opened up a large con signment of illustrated post cardi giving views of most of the princip? buildings in Feilding. They are beauti hilly executed, and as souvenirs fo friends in other parts of the world, can not be surpassed. It was on the old camp ground. " Pas de hat." suggested Brnddah Wheatley But the parson raised his hand. "No sah," ha shouted, " dere'll be no hat about it. Pass a tin box wid a chaii to it. De last time a hat was passe< round heah it nevah came back, and , bad to go borne bareheaded."

Mr (J. A. Weightman advertises the horao •' Sanfoin ' for salt) or lease. We have to acknowledge complimentary ticket for Father Hays' lecture thit evening. The Rev. Father Hays will he the guest of Mrs Long, during his visit to Feilding. Mr A. H. Atkinson advertises particulars of his auction sale, to take place on Friday next ; and also a sale of furniture, etc., to be hold on Tuesday next. "I tell you, golf is going to be tho salvation of the nation and lengthen i our days by decades." " But our ancestors didn't go in for golf.'' " And where are they now ? Dead ! All dead !" The delegates from the Feilding Licensed Victuallers Association visited Ilalcombo yesterday, and mot a number of residents interested in the cause. It was arranged to hold another meeting there on the 13th September" The New York Independent of 2nd July says, " We see how unhappy it is to mix up religion in any way "with tho public schools in the case of Utah, where, the testimony before the Senate shows, thero are hundreds of schools in which the time from 2 30 to 4 o'clock is given to teaching the Mormon religion." The enterprising firm of Messrs A H Sutton and Co.. at a considerable expendituro, have procured a large selection of the latest novelties in fashionable spring and summer goods, with which s their large show windows are now taste--5 fully decorated, and present a pleasing spectacle to tho eye of the passer by. 1 A Press Association message from ', Hokitika states that tho Rev Elliott, president of tho West Coast Branch of [ the, New Z'*a!and Alliance, has not yet e definitely decided to nominate a candidate for Westland in connection with the local option poll, but the matter is > still under consideration. In any caso, ■ the nomination will only bo a dummy. ' According to the, Times, of India, at tliH present time Russia has at least f 200,000 troops concentrated in Central 3 Asia, and has a sufficient force within striking distanco of Herat to take that . city within a week. Despite tho drain upon h"r military resources she has maintained this large garrison in Central 3 Asia — and she has said nothing about it. At the Feilding Court yesterday, be- ' fore M« 'Rsi's F. F. Haugittand J Kirton, '• J'sP, Jas. McLoughlan, alias T. NorD ton was fined 10s and Gs costs, in default B seven days' imprisonment, for behaving j in an offensive manner in a railway . carriago, while travelling between Feilding and Bunnythorpp. On a second charge of travelling without a ticket he • was fined 10s. A number of Foilding residents will bo pleased to learn of tho succors of • Miss Isabella Oliver, who is at present r studying music in tho Old Country. 9 During a distribution of prizes at tho q Royal Academy of Music, Miss Oliver was tho recipient of two handsome gold medals, presented by Princess Henry of 3 Battenburg. Miss Oliver and her 6 mother have left on an extensive tour through Scotland. A pleasing ceremony took placo at Mossrs A H. Sutton and Co's. establishment yesterday, when the members of the staff presenter 1 . Mr J. Cornish with r a handsome eider down quilt, on the . eve of his marriage. Mr Sutton, in { making the presentation, referred to tho high qualifications of Mr Cornish and the osteern in which he was held by tho employees, and wished him every ? success in his new*sphoro of life. " It appears to me," said Mr Hogg ? in the House. last night, after tho Hon. y C. H. Mills had been attempting to i explain certain striking differences in t salaries paid to officers in tho Customs a Department, " that when the officer is t young, able, and energetic, he recedes inferior pay As he grows more aged, 3 ho gets a, slight increase, and when ho • is very aged and inefficient, he receives 0 a handsome salary, and rotires on a f good pension '" q According to a Northern papor thero „ aro more unemployed in Aucl land just q now than is usual at this time of tho year, but tho increase is not so marked 0 as to cause anything like alarm The " majority of thoso out of work are 1. apparently men averse to, or unfitted e for, country work, as thero is still a q demand for suitablo men from employers j of labor in tho country districts. Tho slackness in the building trade is making itself felt at present, and the alliod r trades, including plumbers, painters, 3 bricklayers, and others, are also sufit>rtl ing in consequence. S The chairman of tho Manchester Ship Bk Canal wrote to tho Promier by tho last k English mail expressing satisfaction that j > a trade is being developed betwoon New 1 Zealand and Manchester (by means of tho Federal Steam Navigation Com- ' pan}')- 'i'ho writer, however, points out a that a direct servico between Now Zoa--8 land and Manchester is desirable, ami r he assures Mr Seddon that should this y colony at any timo soe its way to assist tho development of such a service tho colony could rely upon everything possible being done to afford the very best dock accommodation and efficient nandlinff of the cargo at Manchester. In I addition to accommodation previously existing, a large new dock, equipped with every modern facility, has recently been completed at a cost of half a million sterling, exclusive of cost of land, ir rails, aud roads.