The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verites WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verites WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Extreme pressure oa our space necessitates holding over our leader and other matter. The Summer Show of the Pal mere ton Horticultural Society is to take place on Thursday, the 22nd prox., m the Public Hall. Mr Mandel wishes to intimate that his charges for hair-cutting are at the uniform rate of Is, and shaving 6d. He considers it necessary to make this announcement as reports have been circulated that his charges are double what they really are. meeting this evening m the Public flail, at 7-30 o'clock. ■ We are requested to mention that the goods m Mr Croakery's auction mart will be on view on Thursday afternoon and Friday prior to the sale. After going to Press yesterday we received a cablegram stating that the Aus« . tralian cricketers m their second innings only succeeded m putting together a total of 83, and the English team thus won the match by 69 runs. Messrs Stevens & Gorton announce for sale a very valuable hotel property, which may be said to be as good an investment as can be found m the district. Particulars' can be had r of the auctioneers at Bulls and Palrnerstcn. Messrs McDowell Bros.'newadvertisement appears over the leader. The steamer Penguin, with the outward 'Frisco mails and pnßsengers. broke down near Cape Egmont. Her mails and pas. senders were transferred to the Hauraki, which happened to be passing, but repairs to the Penguin's machinery were subsequently effected, and she proceeded on her voyage. Tenders are invited by the Borough Conncil for widening the Kawau Creek and other drainage work. Borough and orber advertisements are held over for want of space. The house of ,Mr, F. Andersen was m the greatest danger on Sundayvthrousrh a bush fire, and was only saved through the exertions of a number of men from the mill. Their services have obtained recng. nition at the hands of the Mutual Insur«. anco Company, who had a risk on the property. The^day after to-morrow is that on which Dr Curl pays his nsual professional visit to Palmerston. Mr David Knight is advertising for tenders for carting about 1500 posts, and about 14 tons of wire. Tenders to be m by next Saturday. i Great consternation was caused at Bulls a few days ago by a report that a well had been poisoned. Some boys got a box of sulphur, which they threw down the well, and the owner of the drug seems to have immediarely'staned a report that the box also contained arsenic and strychnine. A baker who had used the well at once destroyed the whola of the " sponge" made by him that morning, and some fiveand»tweniy families who used the samo source of supply were thrown into the wildest state of consternation. However, on careful examination, the report was found to be quite unfounded, no trace of any foreign snbstance except sulphur being found m tha well. The firat cargo of lighthouse material has been landed at Waipapa Point, the scene of the wreck of the ilUfated Tar» arua. Mr McNeil is m want of a boy who oan milk. The owners of certain st°ck running on Mr Mc'Neil's land are advertised for. It is rumoured (says the Wanganui Herald) that Mr Booth has been appointed Resident Magistrate at G-isborne. J

Wo rogret to nntico the following ad vcrtisnment m the Eveniu^ Pos 1 : — " Owing to Miss Snplann's illno3s her School for Young Ladies will not re-open during the coming term." The Hawera Star states that a visitor to the colony, representing- Briti&h capitalists, is prepared to enter into negotiations to construct n branch line of railway from Gpunake to any pointjon the main line thnt may bo agreed upon. The Government has been asked if ib will encourage tho venture, but naturally it declines to commit itself until definite proposals are made. The same gentleman expressed a willingness to negro* tiate for the construction of a line up to the MV>kau, but the Government, for iaev* eral reasons, declined [to entertain the idea. A correspondent writing to the Post, snys that although, clause 6 of the regulations, states " A volunteer fahall be entitled to his d'Schnrge at any time after a years' service," this is over-ridden by the « AToluntoer Act. 1881," clause 3, of which provides that any volunteer may, except when on actual military service, emit his corps on giving to his Commanding Officer three months' notice of his intention to do so, or if he is leaving the district he is entitled to hie discharge on giving a fortnight's notice. A firm of London, engineers have patented an invention for extinguishing fires m theatres. They propose so to arrange gas pipes all over the building as to be able to turn them into water pipes at a moment's notice. That is to any, by touching a lever the gasjia to be forced out and. replaced by water, which will pour down upon the fire. The invention allows of the water being directed to any par* ticuiar part of the theatre, so that behind the footliahts, where the outbreak generally ocenrs, the gne pipes might be turned into water iets without affecting the lights m other parts of the building. Henry Garrett, who was sentenced at Christchurch to seven years' penal servi* for honsebreaking, was a fine-looking man, close;on seventy years of age, whose appearance was well described by a by* stander ns " respectable," but who has spent nearly all hi 3 life m gaol. A movement has been started Bince the death of the Rev. Father Pezant to erect a monument as a remembrance of the p;reat reverence and respect entertained for the deceased by all who knew him. No more worthy recipient of re* cognition than the late Father Pezant ever labourned m earnest zeal and constant self sacrifice foe his Master's cause.