LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 152, 26 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS

The patent stirrup advertised for has been left at the Star Office. Miss Phyllis Humphrey, of Waituna West, has forwarded us a parcel of stamps for the Halcombe invalid. The name of Mr H C. Stewart should have been included in the Feilding Cricket team to play against Cheltenham to-morrow. Mes3ro Milson and Coles have just landed a very fine selection of novelties from Japan, which can be seen in their show windows. On and after Monday next a posting box will be open at Mr Janning's store, Awahuri Road, and will be cleared daily at 10 a.m. and 2.15 p.m. Our wall calendar for 1906 is presented with to-day's issue. Ary subscriber or advertiser not obtaining a copy may do so on application to this office. The largest estate of a deceased person on which probate duty was paid during the past month is that of the late Mr John Plimmer, of Wellington — £35,934. Tbe opening of the new post office at Palmerston North, which was to have taken place to-day, has been postponed, at Sir Joseph Ward's request, to the beginning of February. A cable message received in Dunedin on Monday from Japan, in response to private inquiries, advised that foreign help would be welcomed for the relief ot the inhabitants in famine-stricken districts. At a meeting of tho Hospital Committee, held last evening, lists of those persons who have not subscribed were handed to the Ladies' Committee, who will no doubt deal with them in their usual capable manner. Tbe Feilding A. and P. Association have beeu fortunate in securing the promise of a good exhibit of agricultural implements from leading firms, so that together with the local exhibits of vehicles, etc., that portion of the ground should prove an attractive feature ot the Show. At the Dunedin Bowling Tournament pairs match, in playing off tbe tie on the last head, a Wellington pair were lying two, when the Caledonian skip came up with a beautiful shot and lay the shot. While Bush (Wellington) was gripping Evan's (Caledonian) hand and congratulating him, the ball turned over, and Wellington unexpectedly lay the shot! On and after to-day (Friday) a late fee posting box, at tbe local Post Office, will be brought into use in connection with tbe North and South express mails only. This box will be closed fifteen minutes later than the ordinary time of closing the mail for those trains, viz, for the North at 12 (noon), and for tbe South at 2.45 p.m. A Government parade of the Manchester Rifles was held last evening, under tbe command of Captain Barltrop. Sergeant-Major Peacock was also present. Prior to the parade the members of the corps were measured for their new uniforms. It is requested that those who were unable to be presenc last evening will attend Mr Cobbe's shop at once and have their measurements taken. "Can you tell me what sort of weather we may expect next nfonth ?" wrote a subscriber to the editor of a provincial newspaper. He replied as follows:—"It is my belief that the weather next month will be very like your subscription to this paper." The subscriber wondered for an hour what the editor was driving at, when he happened to think of the word "unsettled." He forwarded the amount at once. Mr Clement L. Wragge, FR.G.S, who over a year ago made a lecturing tour of New Zealand, has in the press a book entitled " The Romance of the South Seas," containing the result ot bis observations in New Caledonia, Tahiti, Raiatea, and Rarotonga. The work, which is to be copiously illustrated, will be published by Cbatto and Windus. Mr Wragge intends giving another course of scientific lectures in New Zealand this year. " Major" writes to the British Sportsman as follows on the disallowed New Zealand try in the Welsh football match:—" I was within six yards of the spot when the New Zealanders scored the disallowed try. It was the unanimous verdict of a goodly number of Welsh supporters next to me, and also my own, that no fairer try has been scored on the football field. The one question uppermost m my mind is: Should not the separate Rugby Unions in the future insist on independent linesmen P I readily concede that on the day's form the. better team won, but the legitimate result should unquestionably have been a draw."

The pupils of Mr H Temple White are reminded that lessons re-commence on Monday next, the 29th instant. According to the Havener Zeitung, of Hagen, Westphalia, it was discovered by (t young woman who was about to be married that her birth by some oversight had not been registered, ami that she was therefore officially non-existent. In acknowledging the receipt of a resolution passed at a meeting of Ngw Zealanders at Kalgoorlie to celebrate the Government victory at the recent election, the Premier says that if all goes well, he hopes to visit Australia in about three months' time. A young man was finod 20s at Blenheim for attempting to kiss the proprietress of a restaurant. During the j affair complainant slapped him in the face and knocked him down, at the same time describing him as a "dirty, beery-mouthed brute." The Chairman of the Kiwitea County Council (Mr H. Fowler), inserts notices to-day to the effect that the loan proposals for Coulter's Line (£900), and for the construction of roads in Kimbolton Township (£650), were both carried. " Doctor, I want to thank you for your valuable medicine." "It helped you, did it?' asked the doctor, very much pleased. "It helped me wonderfully." " How many bottles did you find it necessary to take?" "Ob, I j didn't take any of it. My uncle took one bottle, and I am his sole heir." Mr J. Redmond, M.P., at a Nationalist demonstration at Belfast on December 13th, said that if Home Rule were granted, the Protestants of Ireland would not be put under any religious disabilities. The Nationalists, he asj sorted, were quite willing to give any guarantees in that direction. The first official recognition given to workers in connection with friendly societies was conferred by the retiring Unionist Government at Home, in recommending for knighthood Mr Claverhouse Graham, of Burton. Mr Graham is Past Grand Master of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, and is founder and past president of the Three Counties Friendly Societies Conference for Stafford, Shropshire, Cheshire, and Derby district, and has been as energetic with his pen as with his tongue in forwarding the cause of the thrifty worker. The financial meeting ot Court Loyal Feilding, No 5768, A.0.F., was held ai Foresters' Hall on Wednesday last, when there was a good attendance oi members. The yearly balance-sheel was read and adopted. The balancesheet showed the Court to be in a prosperous position. The total worth of all the funds were £1661 17s 9d. During the year £129 6s 8d was paid for sickness. Eleven members joined during the year, and the gain in membership was five. The Secretary was accorded a vote of thanks for compiling a balancesheet for the past 30 years— the time the Court has been in existence. During the course of his speech at a welcome home to him at Elgin recently Mr John Cochrane, a well-known Ashburton farmer, stated that he bought lamb in London at a halfpenny per lb less than he had sold his limbs for the previous year, and Mr Cochrane also gleaned the information that a "ring " had been formed to " bear " the lamb market, and in this connection an expert had told him that there would b« a decline in the price of lamb. This, Mr Cochrane added, he had found to be only too true since his return to the Colony from his own experience ot the price of lambs sent to the freezing works, and Mr Cochrane also stated that the method of displaying the lamb in the London shops does not tend to its retaining to the full its proper flavour or firmness of texture. — Lyttelton Times.