LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1482, 3 May 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An exchange calculates that one person in every 400 in New Zealand is a Justice of the Peace.

The Kawakaw.a general rate of the Manawatu County Council should be Id, not IJd as published yesterday.

A' portion of a farm adjoining the Whenuakura river was recently sold at the high price of £55 per acre.

Mr Jdlm Cobbe is in Wellington today, attending Jiis first meeting of the Wellington riarbour Board.

Stirred up by a paragraph in the Stak, tlie local Inspector is having the noxious weeds cleared away from the ground surrounding his office.

Goneral Booth has returned to London at the "end of a five weeks' preaching tour in Germany, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland. He kept every engagement.

A Napier land agent reports -having sold for the quarter ending March 31, 74 separate town and country properties, representing a capital of over £100,000.

Ducks arc very plentiful on Buller's lake at Ohau. It is expected that the lake will be literally black before long, as birds on other lakes will be jaroused by ishootisjts, |and make for fhis sanctuary.

An illustration of the wonderful development of the dairying industry is afforded in the case of the Stratford Dairy Company, whose annuai turnover 'in 1896 was £7500, but wlricli ■ has now reached the splendid total of £70,000.

Sixty-nine years' ago the schooner Osprey, of Tichborne fame, arrived in Auckland. Two of her passengers are still living: Mr J. Coldicutt, of Graf ton road, 'and liie sister, Mrs Lawrence, of Mount Roskdll.

A memorial, subscribed by the friends of the late Mr Michael Quirke, of Paliiatua, who met his death by misadventure in Palmersifcon 'last year during tihe " Paiwelka hunt," has been erected in tihe Maugatainoka cemetery.

Eassengers sailing from Wellington by the steamer Maitai for Saai Francisco to-day include Mr Jolin Dufchie (Wellington), Mrs Baume and three do.ns (Auckland), the Rev. Edward Walker and family, the latter going to Jkurotonga, en route to San Francisco, where tihey intend to settle for a time.

Says ,iihe Standard : Mr W. JCroucher, of the Rangitikei Advocate literary staff, has been appointed agricultural wa-iter on the New Zealand Times, vice Mr Chas. Cumings, appointed "to the charge of the Department of Agriculture's pubdicartipus. Mr Crouclier is well known all over the Feilding district.

A resident of Waimate Plains told a : Standard reporter that the feed is coming in wonderfully well since (the recen-fc rains, and winter feed will not be as scarce as was at one time feared. Mt. Egmont, whidh a short time ago was! quite clear of snow, has now a white covering extending fully half-way down, an indication- that winter is near.

According to a bulletin recently issued by the Pennsylvania Railway Company, .(trespassing the company's property has caused the death of 7996 people—approximately two a day—since January 1, 1900. In the same time 7838 people have been injured as a result of trespassing. The maximum number killed in any one year was in 1907, when 916 trespassers lost their Jives' in this way. Through tiiie efforts of the railroad s officers and employees the number of trespassers killed in 1908 was reduced to 743. In 1909 the number killed was roduced to 638, and' in 1910 there were 58 Sdoaths from trespassing.

The Hon. J". A. Millar intends dealing fully with the results of the financial year in his address at Dunedin, which will be. delivered probably on Monday evening next.

The ferry steamer Maori landed 2800 cases of fruit at Lyttelton on Saturday, chielly of bananas and oranges from liarotonga. The whole of the fruit was in good condition.

Mr Henry Hay ward, of Hayward's Enterprises, Ltd., has booked a passage to England by the lonic, which will sail from Wellington on June 15. Ho is making a holiday trip, but will also investigate any new ideas which have been introduced in the management of moving picture entertainments in the older countries.

It seems likely (says the Dominion) that more butter will be held for winter use itliis year than last. On April 29 there were 40,724 boxes in the cooi stores of the country. Auckland hoid 15,700 boxes; New Plymouth, 9147; Patea, 1158; Wellington, 10,560; Lyttelton, 1769; and Dunedin, 2390. On April 30, 1910, bhe quantity of butter held in the cool stores was 32,723 boxes, SOOI boxes lower than is held over now.

Messrs It. E. Loder and C. Williams, two visitors from England, have just reached Christchuiroh, after about a month's deer-stalking ia the Hunter Valley. To a. Lyttelton Times reporter they both expressed themselves jjerfectly satisfied that London was not the only damp and misty place in the world, for during their short sojourn in Qtago they experienced about three weeks of hard rain, accompanied by dense logs and mists.

In the course of an interview Bishop Julius, who conducted the consecration ceremony in connection with, the installation of the Veni. Archdeacon Crossley as Bishop of the Auckland diocese, said his first irnprossion of the new Bishop was that ho was a quiet, cautious, reliable man, with something of the fire and eloquence oi : the Irishman and something of the caution of the Yorksihreman —in short, just the man to do good service in the diocese of Auckland under present conditions.

Mr W. Homes, M.P.,, leaves Wellington! to-day for Nelson, to deliver a series of political addresses in the South Island. Hβ will speak at \Vakefield on Thursday, and will then go on, to Hokitika, Itimu, Ross, and Kumara, addressing meetings at each place. He will be back iv Wellington about May 21, after which Jie will deliver an address at Palmerston North. Why not in Feilding ? Mr Hemes is one of tihe stalwarts of the Opposition Party. In view of the large number of candidates offering' for the Northern Maori seat, and the seeming impossibility of an arrival at a satisfactory decision as to who is best fitted for the position (writes the Auckland Herald's Dargaville correspondent), ■several leading chieftains of the Northern tribes favour requisitioning M.r Henry" Stowell, private secretary to the Acting-Prime Minister, to represent them. Mr Stowell is a man of high rank amongst both Rarawa and Ngapuhi tribes, and is well known to tlie native population.

Commenting on the banking returns for the quarter ended March 31 last, Mr Harold Beauchamp, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, said to an Auckland Herald reporter: "It is obvious that there is an abundance of money in the Dominion at the present time. Thie is very largely due to the excellent prices which have been realised for wool and other primary products during the past season.' There has been a slump in the value of butter and frozen meat, but with the falling off in the export/ of meat within the next few months, I have no doubt that prices in the London market will recover."

Mr William Benson, a Maori war veteran, died at Ormond, Poverty Bay last week. Ho was a member of the 'late Major Jackson's No. 1 Company, Forest Rangers, and served during the (hostilities in the Waikato in tlie years 1863-4, amongh .other places being engaged at the taking ot Orakau pa., under General Cameron, in 1864. In 1865, with men from No. 1 Company, F.R., and No. 2 Company, Forest Bangers, under Major Yon Tempsky, ihe served on tlia West Coast, being in action at Kakaramea a*nd the Weraroa pa, aftei'7 wards proceeding up the Wanganui river to Pipiriki to the relief of Major Brassey, who was besieged there.

Easter enjoyment takes various forms, but surely none more curious than that conceived by Mr George Anderson, a Dunedinite, who undertook to walk from Dunedin to Christcliurch by moonlight. A Timaru Post representative met Mr Anderson at 10.30 on the evening before GoodFiriday im the enjoyment of a fish supper at one of the local cafes. Mr Anderson explained that there was a wager of £5 attached to his singular effort, the conditions of which were that he was to walk only between sunset and sunrise, and to reach, tlie Cathedral City within ome week of leaving Dunedin. Hβ made it clar, however, that lie had really undertaken the walk for the love and novelty of the thing. 'Among recent visitors to Wellington was Mr T. Dyer-Edwards, of London, a tourist, who has been making >a conrpreliensive tour of the show places of the North Island. Mr came down the Wanganui river, and he is very enthusiastic over the scenic glories of tike river. '" I don't understand you X>eople in New Zealand. You call this river the iNew Zeafond Rhine. 1 Why, it is a disgrace to the Wangaiiui lliver to liken it to the Rhine. Your river is beautiful beyond the measure of words. The Rhine is just a fine river—historically interesting—but from a scenic point of view there is aio comparison. Your Wanganui is a .beautiful gorge—a streak of silver reflecting a wondrously beautiful native ibusJi, which, forms a £>erfect pictiui'e always."

Replying to a Christchurch deputation yesterday, representing the Municipal Representative Committee, which asked that the regulations governing Parliamentary elections should govern municipal elections and that Parliamentary and municipal elections be hold the same day, the Hon. J. A. Millar said that personally he would like to ccc the Municipal Corporations Act amended to give a three years lease of office to local bodies, including that of Mayor, because at the .present time county representatives took omee for three years, some on Boards for one year, and City Councils for two years, but if they took all the elections together on one day it would mean absolute confusion. A suggestion that the polk should be extended till 8 p.m. he thought a good one, and it could be easily done.

The New Zealand Government have got hold of a first-class man for the new post of Electrical Engineer ±or Public Works, at a salary of £800 a year (says a London correspondent;. Mr Evan Parry enjoys a liigh reputatipn, in England among electrical 1 engineers, and has been, engaged on [ many undertakings of magnitude m> various parts of the world. He has had twenty years' experience in electrical engineering, and for the past seven yea.rs has been engaged mi designing and reporting on hydro-elec-tric -undertakings. Hβ has been associated with power schemes in Egypt, Mexico, Canada, th!e United States, anid Spain, and with the. installing of the .hydro-electric plant for the New Zealand Crown Mines. Mr Parry is familiar with the water powers in New Zealand, particularly in tne North. Island, as had occasion a year or two ago to look into the situation with a vfew of getting together a syndicate for utilising the water powers for transmission to the gold fields and other districts. The abnormal; growtn of George Davies, Ltd., the Modern Tailors, ie a striking illustration of the splendid values they are giving in genuine tailor made suits to order at 555, 68e, 75s for cash, fully guaranteed to fit and pleaee. If you write to the Palnißrston North branch of this wellknown firm, their representative will call on you with patterns of the very latest Spring and Summer and will take your measure for a firet-class suit, according to your instructions. Such a_»mt would ooet you £2 more at the" old-time credit tailors. Besides earing you the £9, Mr Davies personally guarantees to please you, or return your money in full. Inveetigftte this. money-saving cash proposition now. The address ie G«orge Duviee, Ltd., the Square (next N.Z. Clothirg Factory), Palmaraton Norfck.

The visit of the Kaiser to England in May will be hid thirteenth, since his accession to the German throne.

Mr Edward Newman is to give an acount of this stewardship as member of Parliament for Manawatu at Marton next Tuesday evening.

Dr. Rupert Hosking, of Masterton, is suing Mr Grove, of Auckland, for aiIOOO damages for alleged' slander iii connection with matters at the Cook Islands.

Wanganui is shortly to be further enriched by an addition to ite public memorials in the shaps of a monument to the late Major Kemp, given by the Maoris of the district.

Brian Gillan, 16 years of age, was 'handling a revolver with another clerk in the Union Bank, Port Piiie, South Australia, last week, when the cartridge exploded. The bullet entered his skull near the ear, death occurring shortly afterwards.

The Director of the Feilding Technical School wishes to make a start with the ©voning dressmaking class to-morrow night, and all those ladies who intend taking advantage thereof a.re asked to communicate at once wiUh Mr Watkin, or with Mrs Lotnax, the instructress of tho class.

It seems hardly possible that any man or boy would go out of his way to deliberately kill the sheep of a neighbour. Yet the discovery by Mr Blund'ell of two dead sheep on his land at Stairway points to the killing 'having been' deliberately done. The weapon used was a pea rifle, and two bullets were found in one of the sheep.

'' Government auditors know very little about sheep," remarked a member of a Ta ran alii local body, when some exception was taken to a sheep transaction.- "Why," he continued, " at a Domain Board audit, the auditor could not understand why the Board owned 15 sheep at beginning of the year and 20 at the end of the year, without any being purchased in the interim I"

A wool-classing demonstration is to be given in the Technical School on Friday afternoon next, at 3 o'clock, by Mr Hambley, the Wool-classing Instructor of tlio Wangainu Education Board for the Southern District. All farmers and others interested in the production of wool should give the demonstration their support, and help to bring students to the classes which are to be commenced shortly throughout the district.

A paragraph in the Waitara Mail suggests a possible Rhodes scholar. Mastor E. M. *W-llie, of the Stratford District High School, left for Dunedin to enter on. his studies to fit ihim for the medical profession. "Mcl," as he is called by his mates, has had quite a successful school career. In 1906 he won one of the Queen's Scholarships given by Victoria CollegOj Wellington. On tbe expiry of this, in 1909, he Avon an Ediuication Board's Senior Scholarship ; in December last he won, a Taranaki University Scholarship, which he is now about to hold at the TJniversitv College, Dunedin. He passed in successive years, examinations set for Junior Civil Service, Matriculation, and Solicitors' .General Knowledge, Senior Civil Service, and the Junior University Scholarship. He was a good all round boy. He was the best forward in the school Rugby team, and lasft year won the champion belt of the Taranaki cadets for shooting.