Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 53, 6 May 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

A brie called the Bio Grande was wrecked at Gisborne on Thursday last. Mr Ellerj Gilbeit, pianoforte toner, may be expected in Feilding at an early date. We learn that Mr Keen, shoemaker, has laid n charge against a settler on the Ashurst Koad, for a threatened assault.

Sir Wm. Fox has declined to stand for liar.gitikei. Tlie Mormons have made fifty adherents amongst the Maoris in the Waimrapa district. . Professor Anderson, the great wizard ' of the North, will appear in the Feilding on the 22nd inst, full particulars of which ; will be announced. i The Feilding Town Hall has been engaged for about ten different entertainments, extending as far forward as . Boxing night. Several important and interesting cases are to be heard at the next sitting of the R.M. Court here, including some in which two professional men are implicated. It is stated that a new journal, the Railway Express, is to be published in the interests of the railway employes of Victoria. About £400 has been collected in England for the benefit of the family of the late Ca-tain Webb. Mrs Webb intends settling in some busiuess and remaining in America. Investigationsofthe stntistiesof suicide show that hanging is the method most j commonly chosen for self- murders, drovr. ( ing next, and shooting and slabbing next. Miss Bartholomew has resigned her duties as pupil teacher at the Feilding state school, and accepted a higher posii tion in the scholistic establishment of the. I Rev. Mr Boss, at Turakina. A Melbourne newspaper prints the following: — In Auckland the tradespeople have a list printed weekly containing the names, occupations, and places of residence, of those who do not pay their debls. Our readers will please olwerve that Messrs Stevens and Gorton have altered the date of their Cheltenham stock sale, which was to have been held on Thursday the Bth irist. to Thursday the 15th inst. This alteration is made for the convenience of settlers who may be desirous of attending Messrs Halcombe and Shorwill's sale on the Bth inst. at Feilding. The teacher had grown eloquent in picturing to his little pupils the beauties of heaven, and he finally asked "What kind of little boys go to heaven?" A lively little four-year-old boy, with kicking boots, flourished his fist. " Well, you may answer," said his teacher. " Dead ones 1" shouted the little fellow at the extent ofbis lungs. The Yankees have always been credited with an inventive genius, but the following surpasses anything on record. According to an American paper three separate skeletons of Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin, are now being exhibited in the United States—his skeleton when a boy, his skeleton before ho shot Garfield, and his skeleton afur he was hanged. The officer in charge of the Melbourne Branch of the Oriental Bank Corporation received a telegram on Saturday last instructing linn, to slop payment. The affairs of this institution have been in a critical condition for many years, so this stoppage was not unexpected, but maay j ffiU res ret il>afc ln ' s Corporation, which j at one time was so powerful in China, India, and the East generally, should at last have succumbed ibrough bad management. A story is told of a young commercial traveller who recently called upon an up country storekeeper, in .New South Wales, and by mistake handed him a photograph of his betrothed instea 1 of his business card, saying that he represented that establishment. The merchant examined it carefully, remarked that it was a fine establishment, and returned the carte to the astonished man with a hope that he would soon be admitted into partnership. We learn from the Standard that a person who has recently been making himself somewhat obnoxious to the residents of Palmerston, was hung in effigy on Sunday night to the framework of the water tanks at the railway station. The childishness of this proceeding showed that there was more " fun than wrath" in their ebullition of teeling. We hope the matter will now be allowed to drop, and that the good sense and feeling of the Palmerstonians will lead them to forgive and forget errors which were, after all, more the result of vanity than of bad feeling. At the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, held the other day in New York, a large number of scientific men from all parts of the United States were present and a report by a Committee of the Society in favour of reforming the ordinary system of reckoning time was strongly supported. The Committee were of opinion that it was expedient to abandon the divison of the day into halves of twelve hours each, and to adopt a single series of hours numbered consecutively from one to twenty-four. A resolution to this effect was carried all but unanimously.