FEILDING NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 327, 31 January 1908, Page 6

FEILDING NOTES.

(Own Correspondent)

Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., with him Mr Martin, solicitor 10 the Municipal Association, will act for the Peilding Borough Council in the case Feilding Council versus Feilding Gas Company. The company's defence has been filed, and the case will commence at the Wellington Supreme Court —where it will end is not yet known. The mechanical filters ordered from England by the Feilding Bolough Council for use in connection with the town's water supply, will b© shipped to New Zealand some time next month, and should reach here about April. The Manchester Rifles paraded for Government inspection last evening. There was a fair muster, Captain Barltrop being in command. SergtMajor Peacock was present for the purpose of instruction, and imparted some useful information. The officers and men who attended the daylight parade on December 14th "were paid the capitation money earned by them on that occasion. Mr John Raukiu, Town Clerk, will return to Feilding on Tuesday "by the mid-day mail train. Major Holdaway, secretary of the Young People's Department of the Salvation Army for the North Is- . land, arrived in Feilding yesterday afternoon. Special juvenile services were held at the local barracks last night in connection with the Major's visit. He leaves Feilding again today.

The garden party organised by Mrs y. John Cobbe and a number of other $ - • prominent members of the Wesleyan C Ohiircli in aid of the organ fund, will result in a profit of something J y over £30. That amount is already £ in hand and several sums from - different sources are still to come - in. A number of the congregation contributed fruit, provisions and \/» money towards the function. . A pleasing ceremony was pery- formed at the business establishment > of Messis Domigan and Co. on Weds nesday evening, when the manager Mr Auld, on behalf of the staff, presented Miss Norah Woulfe, forewoI man of the dressmaking department, with a handsome travelling rug on * the occasion of her approaching marriage. Miss Woulfe has been for some years in the firm's employ, and hftd become very popular with all .v * with whom she came in contact. The marriage will be of considerable *,• interest to both Palmerston and Feilding residents, Mr John Waldej grave, eldest son of Mr Charles Waldegrave, of Palmertson North, > being the other interested party. The ceremony will take place in Feilding on Tuesday next, and will i; be- a very quiet one. The happy oonple will leave on Friday, the 7th > February on a six or seven weeks' * v visit to Australia. r The cycle road race arranged between W. Wiggins, of Mr Geo. Garrett's staff, and W Woodhead, of rHalcombe, takes place on Wednesday, the 12th February, and will be from Wanganui to Feilding. The parties leave the former town at 2 7, p.m., Woodhead having five minutes' f start. The prize is a bicycle pre- * sented by Mr Geo. Garrett, of Feild- - ing.

i'' The Peilding A. and P. Show tftlrflfl place on Tuesday and Wed- ; nesay of next week, and Mr E. H. Fisher, the secretary, is just now about the busiest man there is in |f. Peilding. All arrangements are well forward for this popular fixture, and given fine weather the atp tendance should be very large. Satisfactory arrangements have been -made for excursion trains from all quarters, and on the seoond day of -'"V the show a special train will leave S* Peilding at 4.50 p.m. for Wellington, and wfll connect with Dannevirke f / And Masterton trains. The mem- ?*" bers who have not yet done so should '&■■■ pay their subs, at once and obtain their tickets. The general commit- | tee meet to-night. » Mr Gillichan, the organiser of the ? Liberal and Labor Federation, f passed through Feilding yesterday. The Rev. Mr In wood, who is at present visiting this country as the representative of the Wesleyan bodies of England and Ireland at the special conventions being held in different parts of the Dominion, passed through Feilding by yesterday's mail train from Wanganui, where he attended the convention which closed on Tuesday last, on his way to Dune~din where another important meeting takes place. The Rev. gentleman was met at the stating by Mr and Mrs John Cobbe and 4ft#ud Mrs J. Darragh, who knew him in Ire- , land over twenty years ago. He received a pressing invitation to remain a little while in Feilding with his old friends, but he was unable to it accept the kind invitation. Mr Inwood is a native of Kent, England, and joined the Irish conference many years ago. A great deal of his time is spent travelling about on. church business. He was in South Africa a good portion of last year.

The statement of Herman Burr, farmer, Halcombe, •who has been adjudged bankrupt on his own petition, is as follows: —Unsecured creditors, £377 7s 4d; secured creditors, £112 Is 8d; total debts, £377 7s 4d; assets, Bnrplns from securities in the hands of secured creditors, £42 8s 4d; deficiency, £334 10s. The following are the unsecured creditorsFeilding: Oroua County Council £10 7s, James and Co. £2 12s 6d, Peter Thompson £1 10s 9d, Gorton and Son £66 lis. Halcombe : James Fleming £53, Purkiss and Son £1 12s Id, Peter Petersen £12, Rasmus Neilsen £3. Other creditors: F. W. Bismarck, Kiwitea, £105; Lyttelton Times Co., Cliristchurch, £3 10s; Farmers' Union Advocate, Wellington, £1 10s; Chronicle Co., Wanganui, £2 12s 6d; total, £377 7s 4d. Mr James Ritchie, the new'ly-ap-pointed District High School assistant has arrived at Feilding and was last night appointed secretary pro tem. to tho Technical [School Committee.

Mr Lethbridge, M.P., presented the prizes to the pupils of the District High School yesterday afternoon. Mr Braik, chiaf inspector to the Board was also present and addressed the children.

The gentleman whom the Education Board is endeavouring to get as director of the Feiiding Technical School has verv high qualifications and should the Board succeed in obtaining his services there is a probability that the teachers' cla,ss now being held at Marton and Palmerston will be held in future at Feilding.