LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume 1, Issue 49, 10 December 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Miners' Halh at Huntly, has be?n destroyed hy lire, Insurances are as follows: Hall £2OOO, fui«rture £3OO, and plant £SOO. The Irish Free State loan of £lO,000,000, at o per cent., issued at C9o, and redeemable 1930--10, has been oversubscribed. .V fire broke out at 3.4") yesterday j morning in a fruit shop in Main-st. I West, Palmorston North, the building j being completely gutted. Tin 1 shop of Mi' Wood, bookseller, adjoining, with the .stock, was badly damaged., Mr S. Phillips, aged about 35 years, a married man wii.li two children, was drowned in the Wangaiiui river while bathing near Hi pan go Park yesterday. At least three people who are generally regarded as leputablc. citizens (says the Manaawtu Times) 'nave been heard to claim as limit's the anonymous gift of £ol), which appears among the" contributions to the memorial fund. In a divorce case nt Wellington, Wilhelmina Frances Pea roe said her husband (Robert Pearcej was working in the bush, and every fortnight he used to get drunk. It was his habit to yet a 20-gallon keg of beer on the Saturday, and .sometimes ii was g'me before the Sunday, finally the parties separated, A decree nisi was granted. In the Piccadilly tea rooms this evening will be held the last uf St. Brigid's progressive euchre parties and the proprietors hope to see all the patrons present to enjoy the final evening for the season. The aggregate prizes for this scries will be presented this evening, and as these prizes seem very keenly and evenly contested the games this evening should be most interesting. Particulars of train arrangements and issue of' excursion tickets in connection with Christmas and New Year holidays, as well as night trains leaving Wellington for Wanganui and vice versa on the night of December 24ih, and making connection at Palmerston North with trains to and from Napier, are advertised in tin's issue.