The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY. Survant la verites TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 January 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY. Survant la verites TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs J. and A. Russel, Rangitikei; Line, notify that certain stock are runDing on their property. King Tawhiao did not reach Awahuri yesterday as expected. His arrival appears rathar uncertain. The meat that that had been killed for the occasion appeared yesterday as if it had been kept about long enough to. suit the most, .fas* tidious Maori palate. i From the Wanganai Herald we learn that the new flaxmill belonging to Mr Nash,. of Wirikiuo, near Foxcon, was burned to the ground on Saturday at midnight. The loss to that district will be serious ns the mills promised to empty a good deal of labour, and would have added considerably to the industry of the place. A lost carpet bag is elsewhere advertised for. Messrs Henderson & Co. tender their acknowledgments to those who assisted to save the Kelvin Grove Sawmill from apparently inevitable destruction by the bush fires that raged; in. the vicinity last week. Mr Greenwood will pay his usual pro* fessionnl visit toPalmerston on Thursday, Feb. 15, and may be consulted at Eoe's Private Hotel, as usual.' Tenders are invited elsewhere for alterations to the office of the Manawato\ Standard. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Larcomb's office. Tenders close at noon on Saturday next. * The Wanganui Chronicle is informed that a vessel will shortly load with cedar from one of the Queensland ports for Wanganui, taking a cargo of white pine away in return. A trade interchange of this kind cannot but benefit the district generally, and might be the foundation of direct commerce. in other ways. ■*■ The Manawatu RacingClub is inviting applications from persons willing to aot as Secretary. The Turakina Natives gave Tawbiao about £100, and the Wangaehu Natives about £250, as presents. They will pro* .bably regret their generosity before long. ' Auckland is becoming notorious for the list of crimes wLich are perpetrated there week after week. Again two attempted suicides are reported. In one case the landlord of the Onehunga Hotel Mr J. T,» Smith, stabbed himself with a penknife in the throat, but without inflicting serious injury. In the other case a bushman, whose name is unknown, was found at Mercury Bay with his throat cut and the windpipe neariy^severed: .It is.doubtful whether he will recover.

The Obristchurch Press states that while Captain Fairchild was at Wai pap a .Point in the Goyerment steamer Stelia during/the recerit'trip rduad the Middle Island, he took advantage of a calm day to visit the wreck of the steamer Tararua; He found that the hall had.been broken to the level of low water, but the cylinders of the engines projected about 3ft. They were in a nearly up-right position, and there was no difficulty in standing on them. Bpyond (his the scene presented nothing worthy of note. , A new weekly has made ; its appear: ance in London. It is called the Rag, and the following sentences from jfche commencement of its leading article will sufficently indicate ita character:— "Good morning, my rorty pals. Hope you are pleased to see me. This will be the properest rag chucked out of any papers showing crib in London; no tommy-rot, no advertisement, no pound of flour and two plums; all real jam and no mistake. " The editor of the Key West Democrat issoid to be only forty inches high and weighs bnt thirty-five pounds. When the man with the club comes in to interview "the chap wbo wrote that article." the editor of the Democrat crawls into the paste-pot and pulls down the lid. The Kumara people went in for novelty at their Christmas Bportß. There was a 100 yards race for barmaids, of whom five or six toed the scratch, and a Miss Jacobs proved tbe winner, being made happy with a trimmed hat; the second prize was

also u lint; and tho third a pair of »' -.vs. Another race was for publicans (male and female), the prize beiug a cask of t>er. Six bonifiioes and two widows enteredbut the ladies did not start, probably de» terred by the small start allowed them of 25 yards in 800. Naturally, ike events created a good deal of fun. . A correspondent of an Adelaide weekly paper, writiug from Auckland*, makes the most astounding statement that" in New Zealand we hays some 250 and odd newspapers, one-half of which are styled the Morning Independent or the Evening In» dependent, or the weekly Independent, or as the ca~e may be." There are about half this number of newspapers in the colony, and there is not an Independent amongst them. The railway«gunrcl, Redpath, who has long beeu known and esteemed here as a courteous, careful, and efficient officer of the Government service, has been trans-* ferred to the Nelson lines, a guard from that district taking his place here. Red« path left on Saturday nipht by the Wallace, and a number of his fellow-employes and other friends assembled on the wharf and gave him a hearty parting cheer. The proprietors of the London Times and the Observer have baen summoned for contempt of court in commenting upon the Chamberlain' -Boy d libel case during its trial. At the meeting; of householders last njght the following persons were elected a .Committee • — Messrs Linton, Wright, Stewart, Leary, Marriner, Caverhill, and Snelson. • The prolonged drought is beginning to affect even the most moist localities, and scarcity of feed is complained of every* where. Unless rain comes soon the re» suits in many parts of the district will be simply disastrous. ,|The barquentine Prosperity, arrived afc Wanganui from Lytteltoa on Saturday night:' She is a smart craft of 120 tons, arid come9 in ballast, intending to load with white pine timber for Melbourne, on account or Messrs Richter, Nannestead and Co. •