LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 244, 16 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

I An advertisement from the City | Registry, Wellington, appears in our | wanted column to-day. I The Presbyterian Assembly, Sydney, | yesterday passed a motion expressing t gratification at the receipt of a bequest ! of £4600 uncler the will of the late Donald Manson, of Palmerston North, New Zealand; • Mr and Mrs A. Perry, of Hunterville, will leave for London by the steamer lonic Mr and Mrs W. Taylor, of Feilding, and Mr J. R. and Miss Johnston, i *o£ Cheltenham, will also be passengers by the same vessel. The postponed sale of saddlery by Messrs H. Palmer and Co. will take place on Friday, 18th inst., at 11 a.m., in Hook's sample rooms. The stock is new and a well assorted one, every ' article being hand sewn and made by experienced workmen . The second term of the Wellington College commences on Wednesday, 30th ' May, lUO6. Tbe headmaster, Mr Firtb, will receive parents and guardians at tbe College on Tuesday, 29th May, between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m., and new boys will assemble at 9.80 a.m. on Wednesday, 30th May. A fatal accident occurred at Hastings yesterday afternoon. A sheep farmer 1 named Richard Dolbel, junr , bad driven some cattle in'O Hastings and was returniig home. When opposite the Stortfortt Lodge Hotel his horse shied, throwing him and killing him instantly. He leaves a widow and young family. Ladies who are in want of smart useful winter blousings will be interested in the special offerings announced in advertisement by A. H. Sutton and Co. 1 There are tremendous bargains in flannels and flannelette blousings, but they will be available for one week only, from Friday, 18th May, to Thursday, 24th May. The Wellington Girls' College comraences its second term on Tuesday, 29th May. The Lady Principal will receive parents, guardians, and new pupils on Monday morning, 28th May. The College has an excellent staff of visiting teachers for music, class singing, drawing and calisthenics. Mrs Somerville also has vacancies for boarders at her bouse in Hill Street. A correspondent informs the Oamaru Mail that a certain school committee in the North Ofcago district received three applications for the position of charwoman, all the women asking the same remuneration. The votes were evenly divided between a poor widow woman with six children, and the wife of the chairman of the committee. The cHairman, who owns 100 acres of land, settled the matter by giving His casting vote in favour of his own wife. It is said"' that at least one member of the committee has resigned in consequence of tbe chairman's aption, A comprehensive scheme for the A. and P. Association's Butter Pat Competition at the Palmerston Show was approved by the committee yesterday. : The prize money is to be &0, £6, and £4, and a championship prize of £25 is i to be won in three yearly competitions, not necessarily in succession. The coin- | petition is fora single cow. One point will be given for every pound of milk, taking the average of four days' yield, and 25 points tor every pound of butter > fat produced. : According to the Taranaki Herald, a New Plymouth tailor is reported to haye made a couple of very profitable suits of clothes recently. ' A customer ; offered him, some weeks ago, a couple of petroleum shares in payment tor two suits, and he accepted the offer, recogni ising that if the scrip was only worth , its face value, he was not ill-paid for his , work. ; He has just disposed of one ot ' the £5 shares for £49, and steadily re- , fuses to part with the other. Tbe other party to the transaction is probably pot 1 in tbe same self-sacrificed frame tf mind. A good story is going the rounds just now in connection with the new Maori < "prophet" and bis Messianic claims, i In recounting the many miraculous ; cures he has wrought, to say nothing ot , " walking on the sea," the prophet may , be said to have met his Waterloo at ■ Wbakatane. An old Maori veteran of . the cannibal age- thus catechised the roan wno professed to be the brother of i Jesus Christ: "Where is your father P" i "I don't know,", said the prophet. . "Where, is your uncle?" "I don't know," was again the prophetfs reply. { "Well, I know," said the anotent warrior. 1 << Where r said the prophet. And the erstwhile oannibal's eyes glistened with excitement as he replied with a ring of triumph, " I ate them 1" Tableaux !

The local Choral Society have lionkfti tbe Drill Hall for the Btb Jun", at.tl 2nd and Brd ot August. Further census returns are:-* Palmerston North, 10,168; increase sibce 1901,8680. Wanganui, 821 U. There was a good at v n'lance at the meeting of tbe Loyal Orangu Lodge last evening, when one cati(')<la(i' was initiated and several names wt-re proposed for membership. Claude S. F. Corlott, well known as a journalist, died at . Auck'aud yesterday, aged 70. Deceased held the position of manager of the Christchurch Press for a number of years. An Indiana man bet ten dollars that he could ride a flywheel in a sawmill, and as bis widow paid the bet, she remarked : " William was a kind husband, but he didn't know much about flywheels. 1 ' Mips Ashton has an announcement in our wanted column to the effect that she is prepared to take orders for painting on silk, and to receive pupils tor art needlework, etc. Irish tenant : " Have you heard the news?" Second ditto: "No." "Our landlord's dead.** "The devil 1 What killed him ? ' "He asked Tim Murphy for his rent." We regret to record the death of Mr F. Campbell, of Aorangi, ''which took place at the Wellington Hospital last evening. Deceased was a very old settler in this locality and was. widely known by a large circle of friends. Death was due to cancer. Tbe funeral will take place in Feilding. The 1906 schedule of the local Poultry Society is now in course of circulation amongst the various exhibitors. It is pleasing to note that the prosperity of the Society in the past has induced them to make many substantial additions in the prize list. Upwards of £40 will be given in special prises, and amongst these is included a ladies' class. The Show will be held on the 12th and 13th of July. At a recent meeting of ratepayers in this district, reports the Whaagarei Advocate, one gentleman was complaining of the high valuation recently made, and to him a fellow ratepayer replied : " Well, I suppose I am the only Irishman here, and you've got little to growl about. In the country I come trom, if the landlord saw your wife go out with a new bonnet on he'd raise your rent." —(Loud Laughter ) At the committee meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, held at Palmerston yesterday, a letter was read from Mr E. 'Short, of Feilding, in reply to the secretary's letter of 4th April that his special prize of £10 and £5 for Roroney ram hoggets in the wool class was quite correct, and stating that he wished to compete in that class himself, and if successful the Society to give the prize money to the hospital. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Short. •The Lyttelton Times, in editorially commenting on the Colony's balancesheet published recenty, says: — "Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the public accounts which we were able to summarise is the absence of the familiar 'tags ' by the Audit Department. The Auditor-General is indisposed, and his deputy has not thought it necessary to challenge any of the methods of the Treasury Probably when Mr Warburton resumes his duties he will find an opportunity for the exercise of his nice critical faculty, but in the meantime the Premier may congratulate himself upon the possession of a clean balance-sheet* The event is, we think, without a precedent in his experience as Colonial Treasurer," We are informed by the Labour Department that a number of receipted bills which have just been placed betore it do not tear out the statement made by some men who recently left the cooperative works on the Mataroa-Tunga* rere section of the North Isjand Main Trunk railway that the prices which they were compelled to pay for provisions were excessive. The bills, it is stated, show that provisions are obtainable at reasonable rates— some being actually on sale at Wellington prices, despite the heavy charges for carriage which the local storekeeper is called Upon to 1 pay. The bulk of bis supplies are obtained in Wellington. The goods are taken by rail to Wanganui, and carried by river to Pipiriki, from whence they are carted over bad roadß to his store near tbe works. Post.