LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 76, 21 October 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

I Information for voters at the Local Option poll may be found on the fourth page. Thu annual report of the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Frozen Meat Company sbows a net profit of £9081. Messrs Scott and Thomson advertise, in the wanted column, a few of their lines of mercery and clothing. Intending athletes tor the Horowhenua Athletic Club's Sports, please write to C Williams, Weraroa, tor pro-' grammes. — Advt. A matrimonial advertisement, "strictly genuine," from a " gentleman aged 305," appears in a Dunedin contemporary. The humorous linotype again ! Messrs Gorton and Son advertise a sale, on behalf of Mr W. J. Lowes, Taipo Road, to take place on Saturday next, 28th inst. We publish a preliminary notice of a Sale of Work and Tea-meeting, to be held in the Drill Hall on King s Birthday, on behalf of the Wesleyan Trust Fund. Both services in the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Olphert, also the afternoon service at Colyton. Mr H. Smith preaches at Makino. Mr R. W. Cameron has returned from the Baptist Conference, and will conduct the services at the Drill Hall tomorrow at the usual hours. The Sunday School and Young Men's Class will meet in the afternoon. The Waikato Times says the Whakaraarama block, 10,000 acres of bush land of good quality lying some eleven miles inland from Tauranga, has been sold to Messrs Keene and Reid, of Wellington, who intend cutting up the block for settlement. Tbe attention of those wishing to secure a cheap sheep and cattle property, suitable for sub-dividing into farms, is drawn to the advertisement of Mr G. C Hill, land agent, who offers an estate of 10,000 acres at a very low price, and one xceptional easy terms. The average tests for the period ending 20th October at the Cheltenham Dairy Factory, including all creameries, was : — Lowest, 32 : highest, 41. This is three points higher than for tbe corresponding period last year. The quantity of butter made is the same as last year. Mr A. H. Atkinson will sell (without reserve) on Wednesday next, on behalf of Mr G. E. Blade, the whole of his effects. The furniture is practically new and of good quality. A good cow in milk, and a quantity of pure-bred poultry will also be offered. Shooters are reminded of the Feilding Gun Club's £100 pigeon match, to be held on November 9th (King's Birthday). Nominations, costing £2 10s, close with the secretary (W. Woolven) on Monday next, at 9 p.m. The handicaps will be declared on October 27tb. Mr Benjamin Slade, ot Ashton, Upthorpe, Berks, who recently died, occupied a farm that had been handed down in unbroken succession from father to son ever since 1553, when the lease was renewed by the Monks of Cirencester. This lease is still in possession of the family. A large wool clip from 30.000 sbeep in the Gisborne district, which used to sell for sjd, and last year realised B\<\ in the Colony, was the other day sold in Wellington ior cash in the Colony for lOd. If such prices are maintained, the benefit to New Zealand will be enormous. This is the first large sale of the season. At the Wesleyan Church to-morrow the Rev. P. W. Jones will preach at 11 and the Rev. Ropata Haddon, the wellknown Maori Minister, will conduce the evening service. Collections for the Wesleyan Home Mission fund will be made on Sunday evening, and also on Tuesday evening, when the Rev. Ropata Haddon will address the annual meeting. The London Daily News, at the latter end of August, contains a letter from a well-known China Missionary (Rev. T. G. Selby) as to the flogging ot Chinese coolies on the Rand. He says this flogging will create a hatred against their white masters, and that wben these flogged Chinese go back they will preach a blood feud against their brutal oppressors, and that a new Boxer movement will be the result. In reply to Mr Massey, the Minister for Lands states that it is not considered necessary to offer a bonus of £~)00 for a milking machine, as there are several machines now on the market, and the agents of these would no doubt be prepared to submit them for trial One has already been tried at Ruakura experimental farm, and another has been promised for a trial when completed. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge, 1,0 O F-, M.U., was held last evening, N.G. Bro. Ducker presiding. Tbere was a good attendance of members, and as several matters of importance to the Lodge were brought forward for discussion they were thrashed out with vigor. Three candidates were initiated, and one proposed for membership. A number of members took the scarlet degree, while otbers took the blue. Says to-day's Chronicle :— Perhaps no one in Wanganui or the Colony was more interested in Trafalgar Day than Mr Edward Hines, whose father was one of Nelson's sea dogs at the famous fight. It is interesting to note tbat Mr Hinee will be 80 years of age next February, and Mrs Hines is a month older than her husband. They were r^&itle J bit years ago in Sydney, where Mr Hines landed in 1841, and was one of those who was allured to Bendigo by " Gabriel's Rush." Mr and Mrs Hines are still hale and hearty, and we hope tb .t they uJ»*y long continue 89. A man, charged at Woodville yesterday with being on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, set up a defence that tbe part of the premises he was on — to wit, the stables — were not licensed premises within the meaning of the Act, as the stables were leased by another person than the licensee, and oonusel for defence submitted they could not be termed licensed premises. Tbe Magistrate (Mr James), held that they were licensed premises, and fined the defend* ant 40s and costs. They are not fools in America, and if they do tolerate trusts and combines, they do so to cheapen the cost of production and to inorease the, volume of the national trade. The policy of the United States is to develop trade 5 the policy of New Zealand is to contract it. The only things that appear to count in New Zealand are votes, and if your votes are against the expansion the Premier goes with them. He does not, of course, like to tell the workers that they are fools, but if he gets the employers and employees in a room together he will trust the employers to enlighten tbe workers and make tbem understand certain plain truths which it would be impolitic for him to declare. —Wairarapa Times.

Mr A. James invites tenders for the erection of two shops (brick) in Fergusson Street. The poundkeeper notifies tbat he will sell one heifer, at the pound, on Monday . next, at 12 (noon.) One of tbe oldest inhabitants of Auckland, William Smith, aged 93 years, died at the Costley Home on Wednesday, death being due to senile decay. Mra George Phillips, of Manakau, daughter of Mr Morgan Carkeek, died at tbe Otaki Hospital on Wednesday last. Deceased bad not been married more than a month. Belfast, which 60 years ago had a population of only 60,000, has now a population of 300,000. It leads tbe world in linen manufactures, and the finest steamers in the world are built at Belfast. The services at the Salvation Army Hall to-morrow are to be of a very special character. The Altar Service at night, together with the other meetings are to be conducted by Brigadier and Mrs Albi3ton, of Wellington. The No-license party (states a Dun" edin correspondent) is confident of cap* turing Oamaru, Tuapeka, Invercargill, Chalmers, and Awarua, and declares that prohibition will go very near carrying the day at Taieri and Waikouaiti. At a meeting oi the Committee in connection with the Oddfellows' late social and dance, held last evening, a resolution was passed thanking the ladies who bad so ably assisted in bringing the dance to a successful issue. Over tbree million pounds sterliug of Alaskan Klondike gold has been deposited in the United States Treasury thus far this season, and thera will probably be over a million and a half more pounds received before the navigation on the Yukon is closed. ■ ai