LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1131, 11 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"A Jockey's Last Ride,"- a Reasonable tale just now, with racing all over the Dominion and preparations for the Easter meetings, is the title of a thrilling tale that occupies the whole of the front page of the Literary Supplement to be issued with tomorrow's Star. On the Ladies' Page is a fashion letter from Home, and an article descriptive of a new game in bubbling bubbles. There are"also useful facts for our feminine reader. and health notes for all. The farmer is catered for on page 2, the reader of current literature will find some new books reviewed, and there are notes on our defences by "Taniwha." The Wide World budget', as usual, i ccupies page 4. A good Supplement.

King Edward -has arrived at Biarritz, his favourite holiday resort in the South of Franco. Master P. 11. Frcith is this year's champion swimmer of Wellington College.

I Tolaga Bay has shipped over 4000 bales of wool so far this season, and there are another 400 bales to be sent away at an early date. Dr Porritt, of Wanganui, is steuijdv recovering; from his recent acci . dent caused by his motor colliding ' with a train. ° I The Marlborough A. and P. Association at its meeting on Saturday discussed the question of experimenting with sugarbcet in the district. A Mr Churchyard has been advertising in the London Times that his name is henceforth to be only Church. , One can well understand ivhv 're- . marks tbo Daily Chronicle). I An Adelaide merchant who attendjed the last hide sales in Wellington . tins week remarked that he could obtain hides cheaper from Europe thau | from New Zealand.I As he missed the train at Napier, | the .Rev. Kiiowle. Kempton, of the | Auckland Tabernacle, has had to ; cancel his engagement to give a lecj ture on Home Missions in the Feilding Baptist Church. During February there were slaug i- - tered at the Feilding Abattoir 6 cows (4 condemned), 53 heifers, 5 bullocks 334 ewes (2 condemned). 73 wethers, , 120 lambs, 24 pigs, 1 calf. The Ices for the month amount to £77 17s 6c'. I Mr Wm. Shaw, of Lake H'av >.s, 1 Otago, has been advised by the Department of Agriculture that the ! best sample of" barley shown in +he ! British International"Exhibition was obtained from one of his farms. I In the orchard at the Wereroa Experiment Station there are at present 230 varieties of apples, over 100 varieties each of pears and plums, and 130 of peaches. The sea.son is stat.d to have been an abnormal one, with | heavy yields from all varieties. I The Minister of Railways, followi ing up a promise previously made has nust telegraphed to Mr R. E. , Hornblow stating that on and after April 1 the Auckland-Wellington through express trains will include • -Mangaweka as a stopping place. 1 Mr J. R. Douglas, Dominion Quartermaster of the Boy Scouts, was in Feilding yesterday, having anticipated the date of his visit, which was ;o have been Saturday. Mr Douglas stated that the Boy Scout movement is spreading rapidly all over New New Zealand. Advices received from Gore show that the oats coming to' hand' exhibit considerable variation in the weights per bushel. Lines bought on _ampJes i showing the average weight to be 441b are turning out very much lighter, and portions of the bulk do not run to more than 411b. 1 The Mayor said last night he believed that if the borough maintenance men .were ordered to get on , with the work of tarring and sanding the footpaths, they could have the whole of .the footpaths in the populous parts of the borough done without recourse to loans. He' had instructed tjie men to push on with this work. The 6_Hii.il approved of the Mayor's action. It may be of interest to school teachers and children to know that this year the Easter holidays will ho •_, addition to Good Friday, the w>ek commencing Easter Monday phis means that the Education Board has reverted-to the old system of givinoinstead of at the end of a term «_ was done last year. A. At r.J-J e - Cou " cfl meeting; last night, Mr O Brien Health Officer, reported that several premises in the borough ._? m -f , filtlly condition. Cr Ha- I ford said he would like to see the Council give the Officer authority to have the places cleaned up at ti>e expense of the Council. .After eon. discussion, it was decided to give Borough officers power to havo t l .« premises cleaned up. of C XJ rilli! -f f'V V ? an ex o _,Zl tllC ?PP° Cr Riciniond was speaking in favour of r| l6 motion for taking a po]l fm . th<J 6 tion of an Opera House. He said ti. • tion ll tl7 aS " V * ne . " nf ortunate nosftion that a, majority of the Cour- il me.it 1 ' T* lnSKle - Place of ■amusement. It was most unfair C. Williamson; "To ask them to pay .. _ A handsome leather dressing-case and another for his wife, we.. sented to Mr W. Rutherford hy th e members of the Hospital Board yesterday the occasion being his retirement from, the secretaryship. In making the presentation, Mr J G 1 Sh l^ 6 «™ iMtli the Board had extended over *»M-_r___£ tution it was to-day Th. PrJn'ti SH^__?_sfi_TS it time be a _«in connected with to'7n„" - Sa - id an pioneer to a Dominion writer, "we've P-ot+r. had in +! P thm 1 kln ? the oM way w nad m the early days was the best static oftheVr.t\Siwith a rise to £1 10s the second v..-' I drew what I needed and the Siholder was glad enough, as they a I money* 0 *_. '?? *™ my vearfj 1. fV -S, 1 * of five or -« years J. left with a tidy round sum f-i make a start on. Of course one u4d to hear of me „ knocking down th£ cheques m. a fW weeks, but ffi£ were plenty, I can tell you, who k. Nt clear of that. Take the young fellows to-day, with their dribs ami drars coming m every week. They never have anything. It's 'through their fingers like water.".

Every precaution is being taken to make the trial shipment of appl-s from Nelson a success. The Bluff oyster trade for February represented a take equal to 300,000 dozen. This is „ somewhat lower average per boat than what is regarded as a normal yield. "I have jet to meet the man," said the Rev. F. Rule at the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, Christchurch, "who has not, when a boy, stolen fruit." It is estimated that there will be a shortage of about 5000 bales of wool from Gisborne this year. The shrinkage is attributed to the extensive operations in freezing last year. A meeting of Waipawa ratepayers last night resolved that it was not desirable to take a poll for the completion of the breakwater until MiGeorge Nelson's scheme was adequately reported on. The manager of the Miramar Fireworks Display Co. announces that owing to the inclemency of the weather, the display of fireworks has been postponed from this evening until Easter Monday night. Word has been received in town _at Arthur Richard Toy, formerly of Feilding, was found dead at his residence at Raetihi on Saturday evening last. A rifle was lyin-- near the body, and a bullet wound was found to have penetrated his head. At the Wellington College -Swimming Sports Malcolm Douglas Canwas successsful in winning the 100 and the 50 yards championship, 50 yards and the 75 yards open, was in the winning team's race, and second in the 200 yards championship. 'At the annual meeting of the Kia Ton (fourths) on Wednesday night, O. Rush was elected captain, L. Oliver vice-captain, and P. Smytho selector, ft was decided to suggest to the Rugby I'iiion that a weight limit of 9st 7l'b be enforced for fourthclass matches. The passengers by the Ruapehu for London from Wellington yesterday included Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Wynyard, who has been spending a holiday in tho Dominion. Mr J_. St. G. Gorton, of Bulls, who is en route to the 'Argentine; Mr N. Fitzherbert and Mr S. Fitzherbert (Feilding), Dr Little (Wellington), Mr J. 11. Broad (Hawke's Bay Association's professional cricket coach), Mr A. E. Relf (Auckland's coach), and Mr J. Ritchie (Feilding). In view of yesterday's cable news of the death of the Earl of Carnwath, the following item, whicli we take, from an English paper, is of special interest: There is at present serving on a certain P. and O. liner a young and zealous officer known as Mr Ronald Arthur Dalzell, who in real life beam the title of Lord Dalzell and Liberton. heir to Lord Carnwath, a Scottish earl. He is not tho only carl, however, who has served in the mercantile marine. The present Earl of Egmont and tlio late Earl of Aberdeen both served before the mast, while the present Lord Lyveden was at one time a ship's steward.

Speaking at the final meeting of the old Hospital Board yesterday, Mr •I. G. Wilson gave a resume of the year's operations. He stated that at the close of the present Board's term of office they would have between £300 and £400 to hand over to the neiv Board to commence operations with. He congratulated the members who hail already been elected, to the Board. Mr Wilson referred to th. up-to-date position that the Hospital was now in, and suggested that the question of having the luiildmgs lit by electric light was one which would have to be considered at a very early date. He regretted that the Board was losing the services of Mr \V. Rutherford as secretary, and expressed satisfaction at the'able manner in which he had carried out his duties.