The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 16, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 45, 17 January 1883, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 16 , 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are requested to intimate that the sale of Mr Hitchirigs' stock has , been postponed. The Hawera people are going m fora water supply. A number of catalogues of the great annual Btock sale at Oroua will be posted to all parts of the Weßt Coast. -; ■..< ■ Many of the crops m and around Bulls and Sandon will average 40' bushels per acre. The pastures m and around Bulls are terribly burnt up, m many there not being a blade of grass;" Rain is anxiously ex pected* It is Baid that a charge of issuing valueless cheques will shortly be heard at Bulls. - - -. ■- The heat yesterday 'and to-day ' wai intensified by the numerous forest fires ragtag m many parts of the district. The framework of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's new building, is up, and it will be a very substantial structure. to the main street are now m demand, but owners are unwilling to sell. Mr Williams' store, m Foxlon, lately destroyed by fire, was the property of Mr J. McKelvie, and being uninsured the owner is a considerable loser. Wo hear another chemist is about to establish himself m Palmerston. - r The heat tonday at noon m front of the Commercial Hotel wai exactly 100

degrees. In Bulls, water is very' scarce, and is being delivered, -at half-a-prowa< a barrel from ths river, <, In jJMartpk^ a waitpr famine is being severely felt. Mr B. Graff is appointed Registrar of ■ Dog« for the Borough of 'Palmerston | North. The track of the Canadian and Pacificrailway has been laid for 425 miles nest of Winnipeg. The last 150 miles were pat down m the remarkably quick time of 47 consecutive working days, ; Mr Hardca4jtle, E.M., is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. j The Wanganui excursionists by th» Tui were too much for the Blenheim railway officers. They had got on board the train at Blenheim all except two of their number, who were running to be at the station m time. They were, however, too late, ■ for the train hud started. The Wanganuites were not to be done, so they started shouting and yelling, anil'making a fearful- row. The guard* thought" some-" thing serious was the matter, and signalled the train to stop. This done, the excursionists who were on the point of being left behind, overtook it and gqt on board. The 'guard was' not long 'iti taking m the situation, and amid the mutual congratulations of the travellers, the oigt»al whs given and the train- started on it» -way 1 once more.

Trades with Wanganui is looking up, (says the Herald). One enterprising gentleman has chartered three schooners' to take shipments of timber to other parts of the colony, and these^will load within the next fortnight or three, weeks. The first to arrive will be the Proserpine from Lyttelton, and we understand she has already started fur this port. One of the " Six Hundred" met with a horrible death lately. Aa English paper say :— :" Mr Bos worth, stationmasler at Northam, on the South-western Rail* I way, while walking up the line on October 25th, was knocked down by an. engine and cut m two, death., being instants neours. Mr Bos worth,, who had been many years m the South-western Company's service, was one of the survivors of the Balaclava charge, the 26th anniversary of which wad celabrated ou the day of hie death. By the last mail we learn that the Eoyal institute of British Architects has ' added the name of Mr. F. de J. Clore, of Feilding, to its list of Associutei. JJ.B>R.the Prince of Wales has recently accepted the position ot an Honorary tj, „ - of fcAis institution, it ello>>

It is noiice.ble that experts, writ : ng about the sinking of the Austral, are unanimous the ship whs top-heavy, and that when the ballast was out of her, she merely asautned her natural position. An interesting article m the Army and Navy Gazette says naval architective has sadly degenerated. We onca had ships ; we now have floating coffins. The writer goes on to criticise the construction ot the ..Austral m severe terms. In a case at the AbenJnre Police Court the olbei 1 day, m which a young man named Hooker was ordered to eon» tribute towßrds the mm'ntenance of his fathar, it waa. stated tint the defendant's mother had had thirty«two children. Defendant said that on three ocrasion she gave birth to twin*, twice she had triples, and afterwards four children at a birth. A laughable incident occurred man English church on Easter Sunday. The clergyman announced that the offertory would be applied to reducing the debt on the church. During the singing, while the :collection was being taken up, the tenor, who is a German, had a solo, m which occurred the woqls, "and the dead shall be raised." He succeeded m elects rify'ing the" congregation by giving out at the top of his voice '• TJnd ze debt shall be raised m ze twinkling of an eye." A new us has been found for Oamaru stone. ! The Oamaru Times says that a shipment of the stone sent to San Eran» cisco was fonnd useless for building purposes, but successful experiments were made with it, and shares m the company are expected' to rise m the market, ss the . stone .is ,) alleged to be useful for adulterating baking powder! MrJ Bryce goes to Kawhia about the end of »this month to- make the necessary arrangements for opening it and the Goverment township adjoining. A telegram has been received from the Agent- General relative to the wreck of the New Zealand immigrant ship Wild Deer. It corroborates Router's account, but adds that the disaster occurred off Belfast.