LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 8 September 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

Messrs Whitehead Bros, have announcemnnts in our wanted column to-day, of inter«st to all. Th« Engineer of the Kiwitea County Council (Mr Bourne) invites tenders for public works, as detailed in the advertisement. i A meeting of the creditors of Joseph Shapleski will be held in the Court House, PalmerstoD North, on Monday, the ltfth instant. Mr George Fowlds, M H.R , intends going Home early nest year in order to take part in family celebrations m honor of his father's 100 th birthday in May. Mr Charles Ticehurst, aged 66 years, ' died suddenly trotu heart disease at Greytown on Wednesday. He arrived in the Colony in the ship Adelaide in 1840. The debate, on "Should women be eligible to fill all positions now occupied by men," takes place in the Wesleyan Schoolroom at 8 o'clock to-night, and a general meeting of the Young Men's Club will be held afterwards. Scholars attending the Pohangina School who passed in Standard VI. are : — Proficiency : John McDonald, Frederick Peart, Darcy Russell, Kenneth Russell, Wilfred Thompson, Mabel Peters, Elsie Wagstaff. Competency : Jessie Stratton. Attention is drawn in the Sanitary Record to the unsatisfactory manner of cleansing the glasses at street gingerbeer "shanties," and it is questioned if the cleansing methods adopted in some public-houses are all they ought to bo from a sanitary standpoint. The practice of throwing lighted matches and not looking where they go is a somewhat risky proceeding. Last evening a match was carelessly thrown on the footpath in Manchester Street, near a building, and remained alight for several seconds. Two persons passed it by and it was left to a third one to extinguish it. In Nelson district hawks are killing the early lambs. Commenting on this, the Nelsou Colonist says : It is erident that the hawks, having learnt to destroy rabbits, are now paying their attention to lambs, as bunny has become almost exterminated in some districts. With the present and prospective value of lambs the losses sustained by some farmers are considerable. Wagga, New South Wales, is tired of Parliamentary eloquence. At the smoke concert held in connection with the recent show, when the toast ot "The Parliament" was proposed, the president announced that no response to the toast would be asked for. After the toast bad been drunk Sir William Lyne left the room, saying it was the greatest insult he bad ever received. The explanation seems to be that last year Sir William Lyue and Mr Groom took about two hours to respond to the toast, and the committee theretore decided that there should be no response this year. A white bug, which feeds exclusively on grass, has made its appearance in the Wellington dictrict. On one property, not more than 20 miles from the city, tbe insect is stated to have destroyed every particle of grass, and tbe owner has had to send bis sheep away to feed in another part of the district which the bug has not yet invaded. The Agricultural Department states that the bug in a pest well-known in many parts of the Colony. In some districts it appears in large numbers one year, and next year it is hardly seen. It has a particular affection for the roots ot strawberry plants, and in the Canterbury district especially growers have suffered considerable loss through its depredations. The injection of carbon bi-aulpbide into the ground is said to be an effectual means of exterminating the bug, but on account of the cost the process can only be profitably applied to •mall ««»•.— Poet.

The expedition to the Three Kings to ri recover lost treasure on the Elingatnite, J sailed from Wellington yesterday. A leading Life Office requires the services of a pushing travelling agent, to introduce new tables. The loss of lambs by the recent bad weather in the North and South Canterbury districts bas been very slight. A poll taken at Kaiapoi yesterday on a proposal to introduce the system of rating on unimproved values, resulted as follows :— For the proposal, 83 votes ; against tbe proposal, 251. A meeting of tbe supporters of Mr John Stevens, who is a candidate for tbe Manawatu Beat in the House of Representatives, will be held in the ante room of the Town Hall. Awahuri, at 7 30 p.m., on Thursday, the 14th mst. Mr Ell is to ask two questions in the House — When the Referendum Bill will be printed and circulated ? Whether they will, in view of the widespread demand for the abolition ot the totalisator, afford Parliament this session an opportunity of dealing with the question The Wellington V.M C A. yesterday received intimation from Mrs W R Williams that she had resolved to offer, as a site for the Association's proposed building, a piece of land in Willis Street, with a frontage ot 34ft and a depth ot 140 ft The land is valued, with buildings now on it, at £2800. Farmers and others who are interested in scientific subjects are reminded that Mr T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, will deliver an address thi9 evening, in the Drill Hall, at 7 30. The local branch of the Farmers' Union have taken considerable trouble to arrange for Mr Kirk's visit here, and it is hoped that there will he a large attendance. Ne charge will be made for admission. Speaking on the land question on Wednesday night Mr Vile suggested that Crown lessees under the Land for Settlements Act should be allowed to purchase their holdings, but that they should pay 10s an acre over and above the price paid by the Government for the land. This would give the Crown a sum equal to £375.000 if the whole of the lessees took advantage of the provision. They play football for all it is worth in the Wairarapa ! The final for the junior championship was played last Saturday between Martinborough and Tuhirangi, and a considerable sum ot money changed hands over the result. One enthusiastic supporter of the Martinborough team offered a mounted deer's head, valued at £5, to the first player who crossed the opponent's line, but a Tuhirangi barrack er went one better, and offered as a special inducement to his " boys " a free gift of '' an acre of land !" The Tuhirangi's won the day, and Bradstock, a young schoolmaster, gained the land title. A Government parade of the Manchester Rifles was held last evening. There was a good attendance under Captain Barltrop and Lieutenant Pleasants. At a meeting held after the parade Mr Doraigan, the well-known rifle shot, and late Captain of the Gore Rifles, was unanimously elected as lieutenant. The Manchester Rifles are to be congratulated on obtaining the services of Mr Domigan, who will be a great acquisition to the corps. The following were elected as a shooting committee for the ensuing year : — Col.Sergeant Aitken, Sergeants Fisher and Trask, Volunteers Evans, Kretschraar, Jacobsen and Jones. The marriage is announced of Miss Olive Christian Malvery io Mr Archibald MacKirdy, U.S. Consul at Muscat, Persia. Miss Malverv, who is a native of India, has during the past five years studied the habits of the " submerged tenth." As a wanderer she tramped the streets of London, spent her nights on the Thames embankment and in Trafalgar Square, sold matches in the Strand, shelled peas in Convent Garden, slept in the casual ward of a workhouse, and in other ways made herself acquainted with the experiences of the London poor and destitute. These adventures, related by her in magazine articles and illustrated by photographs, have made ' her name widely known. Tbe wedding took place on May 13th, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and was one of the most popular weddings of the season. The bride's friends were so numerous that hundreds were unable to get even so far as the porch The Bishop of London, assisted by Canon Henson, officiated. After the ceremony some 1500 of the guests wended their way to Caxton Hall, where two huge wedding cakes were cut acd distributed