LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hunterville is to have the electric light on August 8.

The Tail)ape Times states that district is experiencing the mildest white,, known to settlers.

During the past racing season over 200 persons were warned oil trotting and racing courses throughout the Dominion.

Forty-five applications have been received by the Wanganui-R.mgitt-kei Electric Power Board for the | osition of assistant-engineer.

The Tara run Power Board is taking a loan with the Government Insurance Department of £15,000 lor a term of 33 years, at 6 per emit, interest and 1 per cent, sinking fund.

New Zealand has two extremes to,c|ay_tho Conservative or large land owner, and the extreme 'Labourite. Between these two are the majority of the people, who are lor fusion <>l the moderates. —TTtiri torville Express.

At the meeting to he held in Feilding for the purpose of forming a branch of the Automobile Association representatives of the Wanganui Association will he present to encourage the formation of the new branch.

Two cases of which dividends ol 29in Iho pound are payable to creditors of bankrupt estates appear in the notices in last week’s Gazette. Dili is that of IT. D. Forbes, fan! and

estate agent. Wanganui, and . v e other that of A. A. Richardson, hardware merchant, Ashburton,,

In the Indian State of Johore last year 63 people were killed by tigers and 20 bv crocodiles.

A Berlin message states that the Bourse Committee has decided to -e sume the official quotation of prewar loans from .fitly 20.

Eight hundred entries have been received for the Wanganui Competitions, whi.-n v. ill be held our,eg next month.

Mr McAlister, Feilding’s Postmaster, lias returned to his home, niter his recent operation. He is now in the convalescent stage.

A number of springs in the Onmnru district, that have been dry l'o‘r years are now running. Most of the lagoens in the district are also hill of water.

To-night at Cheltenham Mr H. GTinstend, of Palmerston, will reply to the proposals of the Licensing Reform Association. In addition, some fine illustrations ot the benefits ot prohibition will, be screened.

The lower end of the Xgahnuranga Gorge road. :■ length ol roughly 40 chains from the Hull road near Wellington city, is now being prepared for paving, and the road alignment is also being iiVrproved by the cutting bad; of the bluff.

Lindsay's, the speciality house, dealing in ladies' fashionable apparel, advise their many customers that they have disposed of their stock' of gentlemen’s goods, and will in future concentrate all their space and display front to ladies’ goods onl v.

Those who hold the comfortable view that Labour in office becomes tamed arid conventionll under the influence of the responsibility of gi '/eminent, and that there love the political progress of the Labour movement does not matter, would do well to consider what is taking place in Australia at the present moment. —Lvf tel ton Times.

The tunnel under the lonely hill near Tnngoio, constructed with the object of freeing Tongoio from flood waters, has been reopened by the action of the late heavy seas, alter being closed for over a decade (says the Napier Daily l Telegraph). The effect of. the reopening has been beneficial to Tongoio, where the residents have been freed from the throats of a- serious Hood.

‘•The Audit Department has sprung a surprise on us by announcing- that at the end of each financial year not only must the country lutnls he in ci 4 lit. hut also the funds in each riding of the county,” stated Mr T. Mason Chambers, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay County Council. If such a decision proved correct, he said, it was going to he, very serious for some of the riflings.

Says the Wanganui Herald: A modern miracle has boon achieved at Katana by welding together a number of religions, and a big concrete church is to lie erected to hold the new flock. One native said on Saturday that the Ratana ..Church would include those who had previously been N Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, do Kooti-ites, Seventh Day- Adventists, and a small strange sect known as i.lie Dippers.

Included in the. statement of the more important work 'carried out during the month, placed before the monthly meeting of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, was the following: Woodvilie - Palmerston on the Government section 57 chains of this road have been widened to a with of 22ft., and 20 chains have boon widened to 30ft. Good progress has been made with the construction of concrete crib walling.

Tbe disappearance of old customs is deposed by a resident of Norfolk Island who in writing .to a friend in Auckland says the old settlers, whom he. describes as great men, are dying out, and he expresses the fear that the younger ones now growing Up are not going to fill their places. Speaking of the old identities of tfie Methodist Church on the island, he. says the only one left is Uncle Cornish, who is now aged about 84, and that Uncle David died about, a year ago at the age of 90. He finds the island generally i s . changing, and with the coming of many new settlers the old customs are dying out. The singing of hymns by the people in the evenings i* now rarely heard, although the part-singing in church is still good.