LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-• We hare to acknowledge the receipt of a number of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. In Hokitika the fire bell was rung out one Sunday morning, at 3. J0 a.m., lo waken persons desirous of viewing the comet. Mr C. S. Cross is the successful applicant for the office of secretary to the Wangiuiui Heads .Railway Company. There were about twenty applicants. The infant son of Kichard .Robinson, of Makino, died suddenly yesterday of convulsions. Dr Johnston had been sent for, but on his arrival life was extinct. Mr Lync has just completed an adJition to his residence at the top of Den-bigh-street, and the improvements he has made render his house quite an ornament to that part of the town. The Mayor, Mr Chamberlain, is still confined to his room. We understand that a change for the better has taken place in his case. Dr Johnston is in attendance on him. Mr A S. B. Forster, the Clerk of the Court at Palmerston, has been offered a higher position in the Civil ervice in Wellington. We understand that Mr Forster will accept the offer. It is not improbable that Sir George iiowen will again be appointed to the Governorship of New Zealand, and that Sir Arthur Gordon will be made Governor of Ceylon. We hope to see a large attendance on the pa;t of the public at the meeting tonight, in connection with our annual sports, at the Denbigh Hotel. The business will be to arrange a programme for the coming sports, and to receive the balance-sheet and report for the past i year. During the heavy gale of wind which raged during Wednesday night last, a tree was blown down on the Cheltenham road, completely blocking it up. The tree fell near the Holel, and \ r Muuro. of tlii- Cheltenham saw mills, had a most narrow escape, some of the branches uf the tree actually grazing him as they fell. One of Mr Amott's daughters had a narrow escape from a serious accident on Thursday morning last. A number of horses were being driven to the pouud by the Hunger at considerable speed, and they came suddenly on the girl, kuocking her do'.rn. However, the mob passed over the child without doing litjr any serious injury.

The <*um-!i* rate for slieariug on the Eiiat CoanL is 17a Gil pcl 1 lUO sheep. The 'Frisco mail arrived. iv Feilding on Thursday evening hisf, and was delivered by the postmaster with, his usual promptitude. Mr Conrny, who was recently liurl by . I a collision between his c;ii't iiu-d llic rail J j way online, at W^niranui, still remains ! ' in a precarious condition. j The sch'oner Hannah IJurratt is loud- j ! ing at Foxtou with -iO.OOO feet of limber, i I from Mr Ad sell's mill, eonsi nod to I i t i ' Lyttelton. After discharging her cargo, ; ] ilie vi-sM'l will immedit-tely return for ! anoiher cargo from the snnie mill. The Telegraph slalrs liat ilio crime of forgery at present appears to be rampant in Christeliurch. The Ifeiinan He pton j forgeries are likely to lead to a numlicr of remarkable exposures of knavishne-s and credulity. An acre of land with a two-roomed cottage thereon (says the Advocate), situate in Queen-street, Feilding, changed hands a day or two ago. The price wa.ttsO. The Advocale omits to mention that there is a considerable balance yet to be paid by the purchaser to a Wellington Building Society. The Wauganui Education Board have I decided to appeal against the decision of the R.M., Mr Ward, in the case of i onj son v. Kducalioii Board, in which judgment was given for I?owson. .Rowson i too poor to win a second (ime. as the appeal cannot be heard for six weeks ami lie is not iv affluent circumstances. We (Wanganui Herald) understand I that the If on Mr Bryee will return from Auckland to this coast, through the interior with a view to obtaining an accurate knowledge of the country, and also some definite opinion of the best route for the central railway. Mr Bryce will com*-' through the .Ylurinutu on his way south. [Regarding the Egyptian loss at Tel el Kebir, a computation approaching accuracy has not yet been made, but, including those accounted for by the cavalry, it cannot be short of 25(J() to 3000. In sever 1 places the bodies of Egyptians were lying in heaps of from 30 to 50. The dead extended for over a mile behind the position, as our pursuing troops Hred after the mass of fugitives. Altogether the Held of Te el Kebir presents a terrible and ghastly sight. An incident is told of the fii st beaver com pnny of the Army Hospital Corps. They were, by movement, of the troops, i§ol:ited. The me >ical officer in charge refused to allow any interruption in his duty of dressing wounds, which a change of position would have caused, and his 40 men filled their haversacks with sand, isoas to make a rough shelter, to. 'lf the rifles of the wounded, and ■lefended their charge until the arrival of cavalry put, an end to the enemy's attack. They have a nice idea of our Supreme Court in. Australia. A correspondent of the South Australian Register is responsible for the following: — " In ZS r cw Zealand the costs to litigants in a Supreme Court case are seldom less than £300, but more frequently they amount from £800 to £1000. There is a case now pending in the Supreme Court in civil jurisdiction, where the amount of properly in dispute does not exceed £2000 in value ; but before the matter is finally settled I am told that the Court fees, solicitors' and barristers' charges will not fall «horl of £3000!" A man named Hans Petpr Neilson, a Scandinavian, committed suicide at Terrace End, Palmerston .North, on Thursday last. The suicide was of a most determined character. The deceased tied a piece of flax to a fence post, and put a noose round his neck. He then stooped forward, tightening the flax, and thus strangled himself. An inquest was held the same day before Mr D. If. Macarthur, Coroner, when it was elicited tli.at the deed must liare been done on Tuesday. A verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane.