Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 40, 5 April 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Bunny has decided to contest the Thorndon seat. Hanlan, the celebrated oarsman, will visit Dunedin. Fifty men were discharged from the Addinfcton (Christchurch) workshops to-day. j A Native who went down to Foxton on Thursday last by train, died almost immediately after his arrival. His corpse was brought up by train Ust evening. In the last issue of tbe Gazette we notice Mr Paul Curtis (brother of Mr A. R. Curtis, of this journal) has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths for the district of Sanson. The Rev. Mr Parsonson is announced to preach at the Wesleyan Church tomorrow evening at 6.30 p.m. The rev. gentleman is well-known in Feilding as. an able preacher, and a large attendance may be expected. The blacksmith's shop known as the Vulcan Shoeing Forge and recently occupied by Mr Gordon will aot remain long unoccupied and will be- re-opened by a new proprietor in a Urn days.

! To-morrow will be observed in Sydney as a day of general mourning for the daath of Prince Leopold. Guiteau's skeleton, which is hidden in a private room of the Army Medical Museum, has been polished and bleached until it looks like an ivory figure. Mrs Grannity who recently fell from a two-story window of a lodging house, when in liquor, died in the Auckland hospital of her injuries. Mark Twain is desirous ot having a statue erected in honor of Adam. He says we owe a great deal to his memory, which has been much neglected of late years. The entertainment to be given in the Town Hall on Easter Monday Night promises to be a great success. A capital programme has been arranged, which, together with full particulars, will be advertised in next Tuesday's issue. A temperance lecturer, holding up a glass of water, said, " With a microscope it would be found to contain many insects but if I drop a little whiskey in the insects instantly die." An old woman respon led, " Then, thank God for tha whuskey." It is understood in Wellington that ,Mr Justice Johnston has resigned his seat on the Supreme Court Bench iv consequence of ill health, and that the Hon. E. T. Conolly, Attorney-General, will succeed to the vacant judgeship. The Chronicle inform* ns that the Minister for Public Works intends to make a personal inspection of the route lately travelled by Mr Rochfort. Mr Mitchelson will start next week from Marton for the Tuhua, and from there will make his way to Waikato. The Archbishop of Canterbury, preach* ing at the consecration of a church at Croyden, said that it was the want of sympathy between the upper anil lower classes which makes us tremble to think of the mines of ill-will which lay Luried for the present. Mr Bindon, the Inspector of School.-* for the Wanganui district, visited 1 eliding yesterday. He made an examination of the school buildings, Ac. He also had a long interview with the Chairman of the School Committee, Mr Sherwill, the nature of which will probably be reported at the next meeting of that body. Mr Sherwill, at the stock sale on Thursday last, called the attention of persons sending slock to the importance of entering the lots in time to have them duly advertised. He said there were only 700 sheep advertised for that daj's sale, while there were upwards of 2,000 in the pens, and that it was impossible to attract buyers unless it was known what was about to be offered. On Thursday night last about half a<t ten o'clock, an individual, who has not been long a resident of the Borough, began to " air his eloquence" in Manchester street. As the matter of his discourse was his own general merit, he appeared to be familiar wiih the subject. Constable Price wh-i was on duty near the spot had some doubt in the mind as to the fitness of the time and place for such an exhibition, and strode towards the orator to have him removed. The stranger did not wait t be interviewed, but fled incontinently from the terrors of the law. A gentleman who has just shaken the dust of his feet against Poverty Bay gives us (Marlborough Express) some very interesting particulars of that terra im-og-nita, as far as the South Island is concerned. The population of Gisborno, the capital city, is 17(>0. There are 17 practisinglawyers, several of whom are making from £2000 to £3000 a year. Between them they employ a score of lawyers clerks. There are between 20 and 30 native interpreters in Gisborne, and a dozen commission agents, and of the unlicensed practitioners who prepare deeds and evade the " Conveying Ordinances," and who jump licensed interpreters' proper claims, their name is legion. The Chronicle informs us that after a long discussion the Koriniti meeting came to an end on Wednesday morning, and it is expected the result will be that M amaku will go with the prospectors into the Tubua. Kemp, Mamaku, and Ndgatai, were to have leit Koriniti on Thursday morning for Ranana, at which place the final arrangements will be made. The matter seems to have been left in Mamaku's hands, who has all along been of opinion that the country should be prospected from the Wangauni side, as it is Wanganui territory. It is not expected that there will be any more obstruction. Specimens have now been found in three of the tributaries of the Wanganui in the Tuhua country, viz., the Pungapunga, Waitapu, and a third, the name of which we have been unable to ascertain. The letter received bj the Borough Council on Thursday from the Librarian pointed out that when he undertook the duties last November at a salary of 10s per week, including lighting and warming, &c, he did not take into consideration the long winter evenings, and the amount of expenditure he would thereby have to incur. Mr Beaufort is a very obliging and attentive officer, and always provides to the utmost of his power for the comfort and convenience of patrons to the Library and Reading; Room. We think therefore that his request that he be paid 15s per week for the six winter months, and 12s for the remaining six months of the year, was but a modest and reasonable one, as was expressed ia the Council, and that they did what was only rig.it and fair in granting it. Our Library and Reading Room. will certainly compai e very favorably for order, cleanliness, and comfort with any other institution on the eoaat, and do great creditto 'M* Beau* fort.

Those large premises iv Kimbolton Road, known as Gilietf ■ store, are at last about to be permanently occupied. Messrs Parr and Bennett, coachbuilders and wheelwrights, having found their present factory ]too small for their largelyincreasing trade, have leased the building above-named, and are now having it fixed up for the purposes of their business, and for which it will be eminently suited. The dwelling-house which forms a part of the premises is also undergoing a thorough renovution for the reception of Mr Parr's family, at present residing at Sandon ; who will remove into it as soon as ready. The following panel of common jurors, to serve at the next sittings of f he District Court, to be holden at Palmerston on the 23rd inst., was drawn by the Sheriff yesterday at 2 o'clock :—Walter Humpries, Charles Stent, John Johnston. F. Oakley, Henry Duke. Thomas Baxton, John Rowe, Thomas Sanson, W r m. Trickington, S. T. Hardley, Richard Milham, George Clark, Richard Smith, Daniel Fairland, Charles Waldegrave, Colin McKenzie, John Bartholomew, George Bartholomew, Morris Samuels, William Gould. Hans Callesand, Joseph Simpson, Isaac Havelock. Wm. Campbel 1 , Walter Marsh, G. S. HadfMd George Lucas, S. H. Caverhill. William Squire, Walter Pearce, William Andrew, R. Bowler, Hugh Sherwill, D. Downes, J. C. Nathan, Charles Fair, Wm. Macdonald, Peter Thompson, John Humphrey, Samuel Daywick, George Death, Solomora Abraham, F. T. Collins, A. C Birchman, Biggo Mourad, H. T. Haynes, J. H. Ash forth, and John Matthews.