LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1670, 14 December 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Before. Mr J. Cobbe, J.P., this morning John Hemes was convicted and fmecl o.s, -the amount of his bail, for being drunk in Kimbolton road.

The senior pupils of the Feilding High School aro spending to-day at a picnic in Awahuri Bush.

A movement is on foot in Danncvirke for tho formation of an Egg Circle.

The following eight, shareholders have been nominated for tho six vacancies on the directorate of tho Wanganui Meat Freezing Company:— Messrs" R. E. Beckett, A. Burnett, E. A. Campbell. IT. S. Cornfoot, O. L. Duignn, 3. 15. Murray, A. Robinson, and J. Stevenson.

Though practically no business is passing iii tho oats' market (says tho Dunedin Star), the jvosition is of perhaps more than usual interest at 'this time of year. It is ''in between" tho old harvest and tho new. The great question is: When will the now crop bo harvested? If it is an '•oldfashioned" harvest, "somewhoro about Master, holders of last season's oats will do woll. But if tho crop is ripe by January it is probablo that they will be left with stocks of oats on their hands, purchased at a higher prico than .lho new season's oats aro likely to open at. Everything depnds on tho weather. Continued wot and cold weather will mean a late harvest, and will suit holdors; warmth and absence of much rain'will not.

Tho Rhodes Scholar for 1912, who, | as stated in yesterday's Star, was : chosen yesterday morning, is Mr Alan Wallace, of Auckland University Col- | lesie. is the fourth New Zealand j Rhodes Scholar Auckland has provided, all during the past five years. Ho ' has also tho distinction of being tho j youngest Rhodes scholar yet chosen to represent Now Zealand. Ho will bo I 21 years of agc,iu April next. Of course, ho has had a brilliant cduca- ! tional_cour.se. Iv tho field of athletics it is chiefly as a cricketer that tho successful candidate is distin- J guishecL He represented Auckland : province last season, and had the sec- ■ ond highest batting average in the | Auckland di.sl.rioi. Ho has also plnved ' Association* lool.ball. lie has plnved a loading part in hit, college life, being ' secretary and prcsidenL of tho Students' Association, and president of tne Moii's Common Room Club.

1 Mr Fred. Pirani presented "t.~.e pri- I zes at the Marton District High School yesterday, aud spoke for a short time to those present. j The girl pupils of tho Marton Technical School gave an evidence of the efficiency of the instruction they receive in the domestic arts yesterday, when they invited the Chairman of the Education Board to afternoon tea, and they also entertained the pupils of the opposite sex. A delicious repast was provided, and in thanking the girls for their kindly invitation and capital fare, Mr Pirani spoke in high terms of the manner in which the entertainment had been prenared, and suggested that it might be pos- ! sible the old axiom about finding the * road to a man's heart would find its fulfilment at their function. Those present gave Mr Pirani a round of cheers as he left. Very many of our readers will learn with regret of the death of one of the earliest settlers of Feilding, Mr G. C. Jlill, who passed away at Palmcrstoci on Monday last. Mr Hill came to this district in the year ISBI and practised as a surveyor, lie was the first Town Cleik of Feilding, anel held the position for about twenty years, retiring some eight years ago. Of la-'-e he has resided in Palmerston, where his daughter (Mrs Dudley Prior) lives, " and she was with him to the last. Be--1 , sieleiS his daughter he leaves two sons, ' one grown-up (Eustace) and Wilfrid, ' ; who is about fourteen years of age. *■ Mrs Hill predeceased her husband ' some years ago. Widespread- sym- : pathy will be extended to Mrs Dudley Prior, who has been a loving and faithful daughter, ad has borne the main burden of ncr father's care.