LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS,

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 2 December 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS,

• Mr Prior h&B a farm of 60 acres for sale. A lost brooch, with pendant, is advertised for. Messrs Hoult and Son have cows to ' sell, or lease for season. An advertiser seeks situation as general servant. Mr G. De Manser, engineer, Apiti I haß an advertisement in our issue to- . day. Accounts due to the estate of the late t Dr Hughes must be paid to Mr Prior, t forthwith, Mr D. J. Baker inserts a warning today to persons removing gravel from his section in North Street. A special line of ladies black dress skirts is advertised by Messrs Spence and Spence, over the leader. Commencing with the 3rd inst. the Feilding Telegraph Office will re-open on Sunday from 5 to 5.30 p.m. Mr E. Edwards, well-known in this district, has accepted a position as travelling representative for Mr J. B. Clarkson. Correspondence, telegraphic news, and a report of the Feilding wool, skin, and hide sales, will be found on the fourth page. Entries for the Feilding sale on the Bth instant, of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, are now advertised. During the progress of Mrs Harrison Lee's open air meeting at Whangarei, William Smith, aged 79, suddenly sank to the ground and expired. The Choral Society will meet in the Presbyterian Hall on Monday evening next, at 7.45. A special practice of the tenors will be held at 7 p.m. The New Zealand Shipping Company 's steamer Kimutaka will leave Wellington on the 21st inst., and berths may be booked through Messrs Barraud and Abraham, the local agents for the Company. It is reported that Mr Vile has demanded an apology from the Premier for referring to him as a " hypocrite of the first water," and is also "dealing" with the New Zealand Times for publishing the statement. The handsome hand-painted mirror, which was competed for at the Catholic Bazaar, was the work of Miss Bianchi, who is at present engaged on a painting which she intends exhibiting at the Christchurch Exhibition. Services in the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev C. Sims, and in the evening by the Rev J. Olphert. Mrs Jones preaches at Taonui, and Mr Murray at Makino. The Eltham Co-operative Dairy Company has received intimation of the result of its first sales on the London butter market, and it brings with it the gratifying information that the Company's product has topped the market at 116s. A Christchurch paper, referring to Mr Seddon'i meeting, says : " Fully 80 per cent, of the meeting were with the speaker before he finished, and it was undoubted that quite a large proportion of those who came to scoff remained to pray." We draw the attention of all sufferers from consumptive troubles to a very valuable treatise just published by Mr Charles Fletcher, pharmacist, Wellington, sole agent for " Sacco," the great South African consumption pure. An advertisement in connection therewith appears in another column of this paper. The balance of the Ashburton sly-grog selling cases were disposed of yesterday as follows : — Michael Lagan (two informations), dismissed ; James Burgess (two informations), fined £10 ; Mrs Burgess (one information), convicted and ordered to pay costs ; H. Oranfield (two informations), fined £10 ; Charles Lagan (one information), dismissed ; R. Nealon (six informations), adjourned for a week. There was another large attendance at the Catholic Bazaar last evening. During the evening several raffles were drawn, the following being the lucky winners ;— Iced cake, Mr Campion ; cusnion, Mr W. Douglas ;' Japanese tea set, Mr Lundon, Pahiatua ; tea-pot cosy, Mr Wright ; cushion, Mr McLeod ; picture, Mr Ramsay ; table centre, Mr Grogan ; painted flower pot, Mr McKenzie. The Bazaar will be brought to a conclusion this evening, when a first olass programme will be given, including items from Mrs Diokson, Miss Corrigan, Miss Butler, Messrs Macedo and Fowler. The Bazaar has been very successful from every point, and it is anticipated that a large sum will be handed over to the Convent building funds, The piano used at the concerts was kindly lent by the Dresden Piano Company, for which Messrs Milson and Coles are the local agents. We hear bo much in reference to the extravagance of the Government, says the Mataura Ensign, that knowledge ot its little savings and economies comes as a pleasant surprise. It is not generally known what ultimately becomes of the original telegrams handed into the various post offices in their thousands daily by the public. After having been kept for the statutory time these are done up in sealed bags and despatched to the paper mills. Large consignments of them find their way regularly to the Mataura mills, and the most elaborate ! prepfwtiions we taken to ensure the 1 secrecy of the messages up to. the very last. The bags are conveyed to the mill in charge ot a postal officer, and daposited in a speoial shed, which is looked with two keys— one being retained by the manager of the works and the other by the local postmaster. When everything i« in readiness for the material to be pulped, the postmaster is sent for and the old telegrams emptied direct from the bags into the digester, which ' is then sealed down, the postmaster remaining in close attendance until all danger of an j message bring decipherable is put.