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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3886, 30 March 1877, Page 2

The latest new thing in railways (says . .' "CEdipus") is the New York Elevated. It consists of posts and girders supporting three tracks of rails. Five miles have been completed, and the trains carry BQOO passengers a day. The success,- is : :> sufficient to warrant the extension of ItHe : line — how far remains to be seen.

A sad story comes from tlio village of Walton-on-Trent. One Sunday afternoon, when the village children came out of school, one little fellow, aged eleven, named James Mevris, was teasing a girl named Charlotte Butcher, and pulling her dress. She told him to be quiet, and *■ pushing at him with an umbrella, the point accidentally entered his eye, and he fell unconscious to the ground. He was taken home, and the effect of the shock upon the father was so great that he was seized with a fit, and died shortly afterwards. The little' boy died' about seven the same evening, and his mother has since been confined to the house, owing to the influence' of the sudden double bereavement. It was evening. Three of them were killing a-cat. One of them held a lantern, another heldthe cat; and the third jammed the pistol in the. cat's ear, and fired, shooting the man in the hand who held the cat, and the one with the lantern was wounded in the arm,- The cat left when it saw lioav matters stood, : and that ill-feeling was being engendered. — Fair Play Sentinel.