LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 40, 12 January 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Foster, till lately of Messrs Poster, Hounslqw, and Voigt, has determined to start m business on his own account, and being well and favourably known, and an excellent tradesman, we have no doubt he will soon secure a wide business conneo tion. Mr Arkwright, an English gentleman of means, has purchased an estate at Marton, from Mr Harty Doath, the price paid being- £11 per acre. This is the gentle* man whose departure from England some of the Home jorunals hare made such a fuss about. Mr Gomez adrertisement is still held over until room can be made for it, with other announcements which have yet to appear. Still further complaints hare reached us to»day of neglect of duty by the nightman. In some cases no risit haa been paid at all, and m others his work has been performed Jn a most slovenly manner. Complaint has been made to him, but without avail. The cases should be officially reported to the Borough Council. Mr Poatans, formerly teacher at Bulls, was a passeDger by train to Makino a few nights Biro, and we shrewdly suspect has joined the Benedictine order, although he tried to appear as nonchalant as possible. The scientific instruments which were used by the American party which visited Auckland to view the recent transit of Venus were shipped back to America by the mail steamer City of New York. They are net down as valued at £8000.

Serious apprehensions of a wator-fumine are entertained m Wellington. The depth m the resertoir is rapidly decreasing, al« though the supply has been supplemented by the addition of other streams. The fine ship St. Leonards, Captain Tod, arrived m Wellington on Wednesday from London m ballast. She is to follow the Lady Jocylyn, for London. It is not often that a thousand*tun ship comes out to the antipodes m ballast, for want, we should say, of any cargo offering. The average daily attendance at the Auckland Public library is over 300, and on Sundays nbout 250. The income from railways is now £3000 per week m excess of any similar period m the history of Victoria. The sparrows have nearly destroyed the cherry crop m the garden of the Horticultural Society of victoria. The Otago Times says Mr. Sheehan's letter m reply to Mr. Mills is such as no gentleman could have written. The Rev. Charles Strong, of Melbourne, has made the Btraight-laced shudder by expressing strong liberal views on religious matters, and by ex* pressing regret that he could not choose his text from Tennyson, Emerson, Froude, and similar authors. The Marlborough Times mentions that it is the intention of three gentlemen m the Telegraph Department to make an ascent of the. highest peak of the KaU koura leaward range — namely, Mount Tapuaenukei, approaching the peak from what is known as Stafford's Tongue, on the Awatere side of the range. This feat has only been accomplished three times hitherto — namelj , iv 1864, by Mesara N. Mcßae, S. Macalister, and C. Stewart ; m 1874, by Messrs J. Nicholson and H. J. Stace ; and m 1876, by Mr Weiss, who underwent severe privations, and was ultimately discovered by Mr Mcßae's manager m the Awatere Valley. Mr Walkley has had a letter from Mr Metard, who is now m Paris, and who desires to be most kindly remembered to all old friends. .Mr Metard speaks m raptures of Paris, Tvithout seeing which he says no person can be said to have lived. Messrs Stevens and Gorton announce their second Awahuri stock sale to take place this day week, at their new sale yards, Awahuri, There are already cata» logued nearly 100 head of cattle, over 300 sheep, besides horses, &c. The sale will probably be very largely attended. Mr McDougal, formerly m the Bank oi New South Wales, m Feildinej, has been appointed manager of a branch m Otago. We hear that a caae of " malignant typhoid " was lately reported as existing m Palmerston, and ' special precaution: were taken to isolate the patient, and prerent the spread of the disease. Di Curl was afterwards called m, and pro* nounced the diagnosis entirely wrong, no symptoms of the dread malady being apparent. The patient, a child, is now almost convalescent. A delightful rain sot m this morning, of which the country stood much m need, The Wanganui Chronicle reports a whirlwind having occurred nt Woodville. Somebody has been hoaxed, surely. Professor Hugo reached Palmerston last evening, and pnt poses giting a series of lectures here, of which due notice will be given. On Wednesday evening, says the Wan* ganui Herald, Mr J. S. Watchorn was presented by his fellow employes with a handsome album as a token of esteem on the occasion of his leaving Mr P. Bell's establishment for an appointment at Palmerston North. At a meeting convened m Wellington to discuss the proposed reception of the new Governor, Mr Plimmer suggested that the proceedings should be deferred until the 22nd inst., when an imposing parade might bo made of all the old colonieta of the Wellington district, with himself as fugleman. The Mayor, men* tioned that it had been suggested to him that a decidedly striking feature of the proceedings would be a parade of " The Devil's Own," to wit the lawyers of the city, with a banner depicting a " Bill of Costs." Twodeathsfrom "alcoholism^'in otherwords, from the effects «f intemperance — occurred m the colony last month, one m Ohristchurch and one m Dwnedin. The "reverend" Arthur; Graves was convicted at the- Melbourne General Sess sions on December 2, of indecent exposure, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. A lady at papier offered the required guarantee for a special train from Waipukurau to Napier and back, to enable country people, to attend Mrs. Hampaon's servicesl Dr Molney is of opinion that the hours during which children are compelled to study m Victoria shonld [be materially reduced. A project is mooted for forming an association on a large scale for popularising of Australian eatables and drinkables m London. It is reported that the Union Bank of Australia intend following the example set by the Bank of New Zealand, and starting a branch at Woodville. Immediately after the arrival of the last San Francisco mail, a letter appeared m one of the London papers re the Maori mission detailing Sydney Taiwhanga's character m its true colours. It created a profound sensation m London society, and those who vied to entertain the Maoris are bitter m invectives a&ainst Mr Chessonand the Aborigines' Protection Society, who they ur«e, should hare ascertained the precise status of the Maoris before bringing them out. My belief is it suited Chesson and Co. to take up with the men. Unless an institution like the Aborigines Protection Society comes before the public freqmntly people won't support it. The public printing office m Washioatoa, the largest m the world, employs 1,500 riflteta.

Cornelius .Brown, au employe* on the Victorian railways, injured throngh negligence, refused £150 offered as compensation, nnd obtained from a sympathising jury a verdict of £2000. A serious accident occurred recently to the wife of a man named] Page, whn lives m Reed-street Oamaru. Mrs Page was milking a. cow, when it kicked her m the chest, breaking a blood-vessel, and after" wards gored her. A correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times, states that he can give a very simple nnd expeditious cure for bleeding |at the nose. He states that when a boy suffered fromnose-bleeding to an eztraorv ainary degree' and when all other rem-* edies failed a doctor was called m, who prescribed freely eating Jaiaina or muss catelles when the bleeding occurred. The effect was speedy and complete, and whenever an attack came on a few pence laid out on raisons effectually stopped it.