LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 34, 5 January 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tht next. 'Frisco mail is due m Wellington on the 10th inst., next Wednesday. , . r.,:\ Wr W, Gr. Haybittle has obtained the contract for carrying the mail* from Feilds ing to Awahuri and We hear that it is very probable that Mr J. Ames will be the lessee of the Club Hotel. . ; , Those who often make enquiries for a decently-conducted barber's shop m Pal* meraton, will be glad to learn that Mr Mandel will open here very shortly. Mr Handel's establishments are invariably creditably conducted, and liberally supported by the public. A well-appointed barber's shop is sadly wanted m Palmerston, and should prore a highly remunerative undertaking. Navvies are being advertised for m various newspapers, wages 10s a day. No wonder the horny-handed m this Colony can afford ' to be independent. This is a higher rate, of remuneration than many a highly»ed«cated professional man receives m the Home Country.

The total receipts nt the Wanganui Old •English Fnyre amounted to over £700, and it is expected that ?v net bilunce of about £200 will be left m aid of the new building for the Fire Bripnde. A woman made application to the Wellington Benevolent Society for a pas« sage home, but refused to travel any way but m the saloon ! What next 1 Mr Pascoe, brewer, of Wellington^ at present on a visit to Palmers ton. A few daya ago we were shewn some bones of a moa,. which were found m tLe Oroua district, some six feet under the soil. From their appearance they would appear to have been subjected to the in* fluence of fire. Excavations for a drain -revealed the interesting relics. Bank»clerks are not always infallible m their orthography. We were : shewn a letter a few days ago m which the aspiring youth struck out a new line for himself. A lather common word m backing correspondence was thus written, '• Dishonor. " Ocular demonstration alone could have convinced us of the prevalence of such inexcusable ignorance of common orthography on the part of a person who from his position would be supposed to have received a , smattering at least of the rudiments of elementary education. The machinery for lighting the Wellington Houses of Parliament has been sent Home for. . The rough horse*play and rowdy larrikinism which developed themselves on the last evening of the Old English Fair m Wanganui are lomdly complained of as most indecorous, outrageous, and repre» heneible. The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer was a passenger -by train last night en route for New Plymouth. In the inquiry to take place to-day into the recent fire at Foxton, Mr Hawkins, junr., will appear «s counsel for Mr Williams. We learnthafc the Insurance Companies interested have demurred to pay the amounts claimed m the meantime. A notice to subscribors will be found over the leader. The ajsgr legate amount due for subscriptions alone is now a very considerable sum, running into hundreds, and we - must request that settlement, especially of the long outstanding amountß, be no longer postponed. The accounts will be out m the coarse of a very few day«. An effort. is to be made to raise the salary of the Wellington Mayor from £200 to £300 per annum. Mr John Monrad invites cheese and butter-makers to call at Mr Ferguson's •hop, and inspect a few things for the dairy just arrived from New York. We direct attention to Mr Snelson's Fitzherbeit "Stock Sale" to take "place tomorrow, the entries for which are catalogued elsewhere. Communication by telephone ib shortly to be established m Wellington. .Dr Coplestone, Bishop of Colombo has dismissed a schoolmaster forengaging himself to marry the daughter of a Methodist* In his letter the Bishop wrote to the school* master i— "l am deeply gneved that you had not loyalty or courage enough to say you from the wretched fall you contem. plate." Potto, the jockej whoso leg was broken m the Auckland steeplechase, wai removed to tke hospital, where the limb was set, and the patient is now doing well. VVeston, bookmaker, at once on the course, headed a subscription list and £100 was collected for the injured man. In the preliminary canter for the Consolation Merlin knocked over a woman,- whose injuries rendered it necessary to send her to the hospital.

"Yankee Liimberers" trousers sa, at TERRACE END STORE. Sheep Shearer's troupers 5s atTßliRACE END STORE. Juvenile Suits from 6s, at TERRACE END STORE. Boy's atid Youths' Snits from 24a, at TERRACE END STORE. Splendid Stock "of Colouial Clothing, at TERRACE END STORE •