LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 42, 15 January 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The resignation of Lient. Andrew Younff, of the Wellington Guards, has been accepted. Result slip of the drawin? m" the Bonanza Consultation on the Champion Stakes has arrived, and can be seen at Mr fllacro'a cigar divan. Some annoyance is expressed that the Wonganui Municipality has not officially recognized the visit of King Tawhiao. Our new Governor is expected to reach Wellington on Friday next, and will be the recipient of a popular demonstration. The water m the Wellington reservoir increased m depth twelve inches wi'.hin 24 hours* There must have been more rain there than we had. The sanitary condition of the Wellington Supreme Court is something terrible, The medical faculty pronounce the air capable of bringing on fatal dysentery or typhoid fever. We again remind oar readers of Proa fessor Hugo's lecture to-morrow evening m the Foresters' Hall, which we can assure them will be of a most interesting character, and will embody both amusement and entertainment of a superior intellectual order. Mr Greenwood may be consulted at Roe's Private HotU next Thursday. Messrs Stevens & Gorton bare added to the catalogue for their Awahuri sale a Henderson's reaper and mower back delivery. The Borough Council invites tenders elsewhere for putting down «n artesian well m the Square, also for road formation m College and Ferguaonastreets. Tenders close on the 22nd inst.

The Wanganui Herald, speaking of Bishop Morau'a candidature, writes : — " We do not know what are the Bishop's chances of success, but all we can say is that if he is elected the House of Repre» sematives will possess one of the most gifted and eloquent men who have ever adorned the Legislature. Even those opposed to the Bishop's views might hail his presence in' the Parliamentary battlen field as the representative champion of a great cause. Among the adjuncts of the Long Beach Hotel, which accommodates 1000 guests, is washing apparatus which can wash 2000 bathing suits a day and 1500 napkins m a quarter of an hour. It is driven by a thirty»horse power engine, and keeps 50 washers and ironers busy. Eight million bricka are made daily on the Hndaons m summer. The annual output, if the bricks were laid end to end, would encircle the world five times. Throe million ton of clay are used every year, 80 JO men aud boys are employed, and the wood burnt m the brickyards costs L 165,000 per annum. Lombardy, although one»half of it is occupied by arid mountains, contains probably the densest agricultural popus lation m the world. According to offical reports, the provinces of Milan and Cremona have 161 inhabitants to the square kilometre, and even m the mountain region of Oomo there are 97 dwellers on each square kilometre. On the same area England has only 30, France 49 and Ireland 60 inhabitants. A kilometre is equal to five«eighths of a mile. After years of trial, doubt, and delay, there is at length a chance of the Taranaki ironsand being turned to profitable account. The new manager of the com* pany has informed the directors that he has come to the conclusion that the trial smelting will be acomplete manufacturing success, and that it will only require cheap fuel to make it a financial success. Alterations which are being made to the furnace are nearly finished, and the first smelting will take place within a few days. A great many conflicting assertion respecting the little girl Hathaway, who was treated by Mr M. Stephen, have been made lately; • a correspondent of an exchange writes; " I have just Been Mr Hathaway. Ho says the little girl is doing well, and he is much pleased with the progress she is making towards recovery." A man named Peterson, employed by Mr Saundera on the Matamau bridge contract, Hawkes Bay has been accidently killed; This ia the third fatal accident, besides several minor casualties. I on the bridge. A Scandinavian woman, living at Norsewood, was robbed and violently assaulted a few nights ago on her way homo from selling her garden produce. Her assailant had ' his face concealed m a red handkerchief. There is as yet no clue to his identity. "Yankee Lumberers" trousers ss, at TEURACE END STORE. Sheep Shearer's troupers 5s at TERRACE END STORE. Juvenile Suits from 6s, at TERRACE END STORE. Boy's and Youths' Suits from 245, at TERRACE END STORE. Splendid Stock of Oolouial Clothing, at TERRACE SND STORE