Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 42, 10 April 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

«. The bank « will be closed on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Monday. The Post and Teiegrapli Offices will be closed to-morrow. As there are no trains running, mails will not be despatched. The railway employe's picnic and sports will be held at Westoe to-morrow. At 9.36 a.m. a special train will call to pick up the Feilding staff. { At a special meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board, held to-day, at which there were present— Wardens Taylor (chairman). Williamson, and Davis — a gengeral rate of fd in the pound was struck. We have t© thank Mr Deighton, the superintendent collector, for a copy of the agricultural returns for the Oroua. Manawatu and Rangitikei Counties. We will refer to them' further in a future issue. In the seduction case Dunne v. Hugh Morrison, at Dunedin, in which damage^ of £'250 were claimed, Judge Williams found for plaintiff, for £150. The girl aged 18, was employed in the same photographic gallery as the defendant. It is somewhat alarming to learn by our telegrams this morning that the P. and O. steamship Rome, which arrived at Albany yesterday, has the small pox on board. The passengers are to be quarantined on their arrival at Melbourne. Mr Turner will give one of his popular dances in the Foresters' Hall on Monday evening next. The Makino String Band has been engaged for the occasion. The moderate prices charged, united with the fact that these assemblies are conducted in the best possible style, while being stricily select, ought to insure a fuli attendance of erpsiehorean devotees. Chicago newspaper reporters have demonstrated that lady reporters are a decided failure. Not that they do not gather in all the news, even down to the most minute occurence, but from the fact that they invariably publish the local intelligence all over the city three hours before the fastest lightning presses are able to disseminate the news contained in the printed pages. There will be a total eclipse of the moon to-night and to-morrow, risible in New Zealand. First contact with the shadow, 10th, at 9.22 p.m. Beginning of total phase, 10th. at 10.30 p.m. Middle of eclipse. 10th, at 11.16 p.m. Eud of total phase, llth, at 0.2 a.m. Last contact with shadow, llth, at 1.10 a.m. Magnitude of eclipse P431 of the moon's diameter. Last night the hotel accommodation available in Feilding was pushed to its utmost limits. A good many men were in from the bush, and found great difficulty in getting beds, or indeed shelter of any kind. Two of the visitors applied to Constable Price, who gave them every assistance in his power, and it was only after great difficulty they succeeded. We believe it would pay any hotelkeeper here to provide more accommodation for bushmen. A sp.nsst:onrtl InrHont occurred during the performance of " Youth," recently, at Wellington. During the siege scene one of the soldiers, snstead of aiming his rifle into the flies, very foolishly pointed it at the dress circle and fired. A piece of wadding or some other substance unfortunately struck a gentleman in the circle of the forehead, about an inch above the right eye causing the blood to flow. Tiie wound, however, did not appear to be a very severe one, as the gentleman remained till the conclusion of the performance. To-day's Chronicle says: —We are pleased to state that Mrs White and Mrs Rotheram, who were so severely injured by the buggy accident on Saturday last, are progressing as favourably as can be expected. Mrs White had not recovered consciouness by Tuesday evening, but yesterday morning was sensible, and, we are informed, shows signs of mending. Mrs Rotheram also is doing very well, and will soon be removed to her home. In the hearing of a case in bankruptcy in the District Court recently, writes the North Otago Times, where the assets of the bankrupt were nil, his Honor remarked that it was a strange thing that the Government of the country should have to pay all the expenses connected with the proceedings— solicitors, Official Assignee, and advertising. Later his Honor said the new Bankruptcy Act seemed to have been designed to give the Court, lawyers, and bankrupts as much trouble as possible. We are glad to learn that Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's inaugural slock sale, held at Ashurst yesterday, was so successful the firm lias determined to continue them at regular stated intervals. The prices offered for most of the stock approached the reserves, which— as tbe report, published in another part of the paper, says—were placed exceptionally high by the vendors. The continuous downpour of rain had pro? bably, a slightly deterrent effect on buyers. An artisan's life is not the happiest ; nor is it, as some people say, leisurely and well paid. To succeed as an artisan means' to work hard for ten hours « day for six days a week, and live for years on from £60 to £76 a jear in constant competition with men who "keep down, wages by desiring . little civilisation. It is a fact which educated fathers my ponder with advantage, that the most successful of a|L European strivers,,and the men who, in a coarse way, make most of a study of life, the Jews, though they do not avoid shopkeeping, do avoul handicrafts, with a decision wbich: affects their whole position in the world.— Spectator. -■_■-■•-• -

The Feilding Brass Band has been engaged by Mr Rotheram for the Railway Picnic at Westoe to-morrow. A tea meeting in connection with the Freethought Association will be held in Wanganui on the 23rd instant. A Masonic ball will be held on the 18th instant, in the Princess Theatre Wanganui. Geoge Augustus Sala has arranged a lecturing tour for text autumn in the j United States. < ■ Frank Tansey, the New York publisher, j was arrested on the 3rd March for rej printing a book entitled " Memoirs" of George Fourth. It is described as in- . jurious to the community. ; Jll^^TrTOs^i^^a^Kansa^law-cdurtf being bullied by a cross - examining lawyer, called upon the court for protection. The judge handed him a pistol. "I have no further question to put," said the lawyer. Intending bankrupts would do well to be careful that they have at least one j shot in the locker before they decide j upon indulgence in the whitewashing process. Mr Justice Gillies has determined that no longer shall creditors hear j the terrible words: liabilities, three or i four figures ; assets, nil. On the contrary, the enterprising bankrupt will have to commence operations with more i than his lawyer's fee ; he will also require | to borrow or purchase on credit sufficient of the world's goods to make a respectable show under the heading of assets before he can get his discharge. The learned Judge finds that the Act was only framed for the purpose of distributing estates, and while " no assets men " wbo have managed to get through before this change of policy came into operation may j bless ttieir stars that they were not l nipped, it behoves those who contemplate taking advantage of the Act to see tnat their business transactions are sufficiently extensive to leave something for the court to distribute, or their chance of release with a "* clean sheet " is a remote one. — "Zamie," in the Auckland Star,