Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 66, 6 November 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Jenkins, the newly appointed assistant teacher of the leilding Public Schoolj arrived on Saturday, and entered upon his duties yesterday morning. Martini- Henri, the winner of the Melbourne Derby, is by Musket, out of Sylvia, a fact which should be " nuts " for the Auckland Stud Company to crack, as they own the sire. Spurious half sov wrings are in circulalation in Wellington. The counterfeit!!* spoken of as being very indifferent and evidently the work of a mere novice. Our local tradesmen may as well accept this warning. The great racing event of the year will take place in .V'elbonrne to-day, when the Melbourne Cup will be ran. liameately on receipt of the telegrams annonncmg the results, an "Extra" will be published from this offico. One Benjamin Cornish employed at a bren-ery ne«r Stock ; % -ort> England, having stabbed himself ineffectually with a penknife, finished the business by drowning himself in a vat of beer. Beer drinkers will confino themselres to colonial ale for a little while. Mr Stanley, of the Opera Bouffe Company, informed us that his juvenile troupe received their daily lessons in general education, us \ho company included a male raid fwraale (eiichcr. On one or two occasions rhe education authorities had come d?\\n upon him, but the youngsters answered the applications liii-niselves, Mild (his put ii fito^j to nuy further conrniuuu'iitions on thsit head t'-a answers [ being ,'tpparrniJy perfectly saiis Factory to ■the department. The Manawatn Times states that at the opomng of the 'Resident Magistrate's Court a; Palmsrston on Thursday morning, Mr VTY.rd. It. it., drew attention to tht* fact Unit the magisterial duties was enlarged as from that day. the first tilling under the new order of things being hold in Palmwsfcon. The district now comprises four counties, viz., those of Maria, watu, Oroua. Rungitikei and Wangaan: ; four boroughs, viz.. Palmerston, Marion. Wanganm and Feilding; and four town boards, viz., Foxlon. Halcoinhe, Bulls and Lelhbndge. This is certainly a very large district to bo attended 10, and, as Air Ward pointed out, it would be impossible to do so were it not for the convenience of transit by rail. Last evening a young horse attached lo a trap belonging to Mr Bnuckham, of Makino road, by some means became startled while standing near MrGichard's siioi). Bolting off at a tremendous rate, the trap caught the handrail of the Manchester street bridge, breaking the same, and smashing the vehicle, including some of the ironwork, literally to atoms. Probably such a perfect -wreck has never resulted from an accident of the kind here before. The horse being thus liberated, continued its mail career, and turning up the Kimbolton road was stopped and caught near Chamberlain's mill. It iras exceedingly fortunate that no person wa* in the trap at the time, nor in tite way of the horse between where it started and the bridge, or fery serious consequences iudbodxrii^hthave resulted. i

There are 16 surviving officers who took part in the Battle of Waterloo. On Friday next, being the Prince of Wales' Birthday, the banks will be closed. The relatives of persons killed by the recent earthquakes at Iscbia have begun to quarrpl over the intestate estates. The bridge near Mr Oliver's, on Makino road, h:is nt last been put into thorough repair, and has been made a good job of by Messrs Alacalister and Hubner. The ease against the jockey of Archie for suspicious riding in the race for the Derby on Saturday was heard by the Victoria Earing Club's Stewards to-day. Thejockey was dismissed with a caution. An excollent authority in medicine recommends a little common sugar as a remedy for a dry, hacking cough, and gives scientific reasons for it. If troubled nt Hitfhfc or on first waking in the morning have n little cup en a stand close by the bed, and take half a tenspoonful ; this will be of benefit when cough syrups fail. While an Idaho girl was sitting under n tree waiting For her lover, a grizzly bear came along 1 , and approaching from behind b»'gnij*t« hug her. But she thought it was Tom. and so leaned back and enjoyed it heartily, and murmured ' tighter,' and it broke the bear »1) up ; and he wept away and hid in the forest for three days to get over his shame. O^hi? probably to the counter amusemeat joiner on nt (he Tovrn Hull last slight, (i i .c usucii r.-t'lt-hraiions of " the .rinn'jius fi .'.;;»" woiv conspicuous in Poii:.li. T !^ by their ftfj-enep, excepting the firing by ffime i-airJolie individual ox three saluJr-s, piobal'iy i si! ended as one each £•:•»* Gun }'••-. wder plot, luVeruiann, and Pariluikn.