LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1168, 26 April 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mayor Trewin is to give an address oil municipal matters in the Drill Hall this evening. All oyer New Zealand enteric fever is more prevalent than' is the case m most autumns, Mr George Willoughby's. New Comedy Co. is to produce the latest farcical comedy, ■•The Night of the Party," in Feilding on May 20. At the recent Sydney Show, Jumbo 111. won first prize in the section for large black pig. This giant, boar is wo)] named, for he weighs 7921b. The installation ceremony of Bro. Sutton, on. Lodge Rongotea, to-mor-row night, is to be presided over by DG..M. Bro. R. Fletcher, A start will be made shortly to lay out about 100,000 timber trees in the Leith Valley and on the Sandhills, near D.unedin. Mr J, Jurd, of Mangawhero road, Eltham, lias a calf, which is quite healthy, which has its heart in a small sack in the side of its neck. The Land Purchase Board has decided to purchase 600 acres of agricultual land fro.ni Mr M. J. Corrigan at Makikihi, South Canterbury, for closer settlement purposes. The poularity of moving pictures in Christchurch was evidenced in a very practical manner last Thursday evening, when thirteen extra tramcars had to be provided to accommodate patrons of the picture shows. A deerstalker is reported to have shot a seventeen-pointer in the Maungaraki hills recently, and the head is considered to be one of the finest that has ever been secured in the Wairarapa. At Sydney last week a man was acquitted on a charge of theft, the jury not leaving the box. In discharging him his Honour said: "I believe, you are oiig of the few innocent men tried here."

The Mayor of Feilding in another column invites all who are interested to meet in the Council Chambers next Thursday to make arrangements for receiving the Governor on his visit to Feilding next month. It has always been a recognised fact that the King Country will, when, fully brought under cultivation, prove : second to none in the Dominion for: the raising of stock, and it says a ■ good deal'for the district that South-; crn buyers are' already buying their, fat stock from these parts. ' i Referring to the attempts of the ! Foxton Sub-Union delegates to bounce the Rongotea players into playing in Foxton, a. new member of the Management Committee of the Manawatu Union remarked: "They don't seem to understand we are playing football —not poker!" The next mail for the United Kingdom, Canada, U.S.A., and Europe, via Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Vancouver (due at London on June 15), will close at the Feilding office on Tuesday, May 10, at 3.30 p.m. (Maiii_Trunk). The next inward mail, via Vancouver, is due at Feilding' on or about May 3.'" ' Mr Harcourt, First Commissioner of Works, explained iri the British Parliament recently that "in dealing with the old moat at Hampton Court Palace nearly the whole of Wolsey Bridge, over which Charles I. took his consort to the palace, was found intact and in a wonderful state of preservation. It is now to be restored. ■ Mr J. W. Murdoch has reported to the Southland Acclimatisation Society that red deer were numerous in Stewart Island, but were not often seen because their country was rarely visited by anyone. -They were, however (says the Southland Times), seen from time to time, and their tracks were to he found over a large extent of country. Virginian deer at Pegasus appeared to be thriving, and traces of them had been seen miles away from where they were liberated. The sisal fibre industry in India is, according to the Rev. J. Takle, a missionary who is now visiting Christchurch, going ahead in leaps and bounds. The natives find that it pays better than tea, -and they are planting largely in the tea gardens at Assam. The plant is altogether different from jute, but the fibre is said to be superior to jute for bag-making » and other allied purposes.

Everything points to the fact that dairy cattle will be worth big money next spring. It is reported that Taranaki cheese outputs for April, May and June have been sold for about 5-J-d. The Revs. John Dawson and Frank Isitt, two leaders of the No-License movement, were on a visit to Feilding this afternoon . A factor which will bo against dear butter this winter is the decision of some cheese factories to manufacture butter in the winter months. The Taumarunui correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that Ngaruhoe appears to be active, great' clouds of dark smoke rising ,afc intervals from its crater. Mr Thomas W. Rapley has been appointed organiser for ' the Liberal Party throughout New Zealand, in succession to Mr E. Gallichan. Mr Rapley is well known in Wanganui. In our article on Saturday on the making of ensilage, it was stated the main thing was to keep the heat out. It should have read "to keep the heat in." It is necessary to put plenty of weight on top to keep the heat in. _ Up to the present the council of the New Zealand Swimming Association has issued no fewer than 1000 proficiency and learners' certificates. Last year about 300 certificates were issued. At the final meeting of shareholders of the Wellingtou-Manawatu Railway Company yesterday the liquidators reported 'that the shareholders had received £3 0s Od for every £1 share. Satisfaction was expressed by the shareholders at the result. At the Police Court in Auckland today, the secretary of the Reliance Gold Alining Company was fined £5 with costs tor failing to file a copy of the half-yearly report and statement with the Registrar of Companies, in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act of l'JOt*. The Apiti and Feilding friends of Mr and Mrs P. McConnell will be glad U> learu that they are leaving tor Sydney to-morrow, after having spent a pleasant time at Timaru, Ashburton, and Christchurch. They intend spending a fortnight in Sydney and Aiel.journe. Madame Emily Briggs has an adveitiscmcnt in another column of interest to studenfs of music. She now has more singing pupils than she can teach on Fridays when she visits Feilding, and she will therefore come on Thur.-.d-iy and stay the night if there are several other pupils forthcoming. President Taft during his first year in office delivered 348 speeches during the twelve mouths—lo6 more than were made hy President Roosevelt in his last year of oil'icc. Mr Tai't travelled 20.63S miles by rail and 5000 by automobile, and has served more time in a Pullman berth on railway trains than any other President of America. The Anglican general mission forerunners, Canon Pollock, of Rochester Cathedral, and the Rev. H. A. Kennedy, vicar of Horbury, Yorkshire, will be visiting the "Wellington diocese from October 2 until October 16. Canon Pollock was a prominent missioner in the Mission of Help to the Church of South Africa after the Boer war. Mr George Duncan, the victim of the drowning fatality at the Napier breakwater yesterday morning, was for a considerable .time caretaker of the North Egmont mountain house, --vfter leaving that position, he joined the Citizens"' Lite insurance Company as canvasser for New Plymouth, and on resigning, therefrom came to Napier, where he resided up to the time, of his death. The Napier Borough Council decided last night that it was desirable to reject the offer of the State Guaranteed Advances Board to advance part of the borough loan, and that the whole of £134,250 should be borrowed through the Bank of New Zealand, four members of the Council, including the Mayor, favoured the acceptance of the Board's offer, but six were in favour of accepting the Bank's terms . M.r Fred. Pirani, Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, visited Foxton yesterday and went over the local school with the Committee, and the proposals for improvement of the school grounds were explained by Mr J. K. Hornblow (chairman). Mr Pirani undertook to consult with Mr Alf. Eraser, the local member of the Board, and report to Wednesday's meeting. The headmaster (Mr Jackson) intends to start school gardens at Foxton, and some of the fencing required is in connection with these. Information of a private nature has been received by a well-known business man of this city (says the Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star) which points to another big shipping company extending its service to ]New Zealand in September next, and probaoiy a month or so before that date. If the extension of the service comes about, Wellington, it is said, is almost sure to be made the port of call of the company's .steamers. A foreign company, whose vessels now trade to Australian waters, is also said to contemplate including New Zealand in its itinerary. It is understood that the Minister of Labour has under consideration the desirableness of proposing, alterations in the "Workers' Dwellings Act, with the view of enabling workers to acquire their dwellings on easy terms. It has been suggested that many workers would welcome the adoption of some system by which they could pay down a small sum as a deposit and gradually clear off the remainder of the price of the house by time payments, made in the way of a weekly addition to their rent. The clause in the district orders which withdraws from Boy Scouts the privilege of hiring defence tents, "owing to the difficulty in obtaining payment for lost and damaged articles," is taken strong exception to by the local Scout authorities (writes a cori respondent). The matter will bo the subject of enquiry, but they feel that such a reflection upon an organisation which has won world-wide approval is unjust. Whenever tents have been borrowed, a deposit to cover hire and possible loss of pegs, etc., has been I lodged (adds the correspondent) with j the Defence Storekeeper. "A Weary Traveller," writing in the Auckland Herald of the train journey between Wellington and the northern city, says: "Wo stop at Feilding. As to Palmerston, Feilding adopts a certain smirk of rivalry, but no one pretends to think she is serious. Feilding is a pretty and pros--perous village, but some day Palmerston may be a city. Feilding is a chaste wench who lives irremediably far Trom the whirling places where men wreck their"souls on the lips of Our Lady Tarifa. ' She is happy,-' this prim little Feilding with the'smirk that doesn't count," Members of both Houses in the United States receive £1500 a year and their travelling expenses. Next highest come the r'rench Deputies and Senators, who draw £600 a year. Members of the Lower House in Austria receive 16s 8d for each day's attendance. In Holland the payment is nxed at £166 a year, and in Belgium at £160. Swedish members of both Chambers receive £66 for a session of four months, or, in the case of an extra session, lis a day. In Italy, Sapin.'and Ge'rrhany all that members receive for" their services is a free pass over the railways. New Zealand M.'sP, get. £300 a year.