LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 58, 1 February 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' + There was ; a satisfactory meeting of Volunteers la»t night, thirty-five having enrolled. It is almost certain that the full wumbor of C OwiU bti loachod TTltlliQ the next few weeks. Tenders were invited according to the to the report of the Wanjjanui Education Board for the erection of a new school at Manchester near Bunnythorpe, but not a single tender was received. In what paper were the tenders advertised ? It must have been some paper with a very limited circulation, surely. The Wairarapa Daily writes m a most lugubrious strain of the dullness of times generally, It Bays : — Colonial politics ara almost at dead low-water, and half-a-dozen Cabinet Ministers might visi t Mfttterton without running the risk of a deputation or a petition. County 'business is, as everybody knows, m a state of suspended animation, and Highway Board operations are postponed, This is very sad. Two girls charged with uttering spur., ions coin m Wellington have been committed for trial. Disgusted reader to the runner of the, Kamskatka Free Press.- — "No; don't j want your blpoming paper to-night. Well,, look here, here's a penny to help you alniig, but tell yotir master to print it so that I can rend it, or you needn't leave it here any more." 1 The Post has the following ;— " It is stated that a temperature of 99de# m the ghade was registered at Feilding last week." Surely this is a "Star" cram* mer. . - 5 • .. Our local contemporary's mind is sorely exercised because of its little sheet being nightly torn down from the board on which it is posted. Even larrikins have aesthetic tastes more or less developed, and their feelings rebel against what is un* lovely; and can they be blamed for removing that which is certainly not an ornament. Bat let the other side of the sheet be exposed to the public gaze, and such a commotion would be raised that the Riot Act would require to be rend. It is strange the Standard board is rarely disturbed. It appear* to have gained the respect and good- will of all classes, and none molest it. Let the Times alter its tactics, and perchnnce it may be allowed to live,and die,iu peace. The Patea Mail remarks. "Business has never been so dull m Patea bafor6." London Truth says that if the masses could be persuaded to eat fruit after their meale, drunkenness would cease to be the reproach of Britain as a nation. The Gospel of St. Luke has been translated into the Patagonian language by the Rev. Theodore Bridges, who has laboured m that country for twenty-five years. Abrakeman on the Cincinnati Southern Railway refused to allow the coloured wife of a clergy mnn to ride m the Indies' car. They rode on another line, but sued the objecting company and have received iOOOdols as an apology. Mr Frantzen's thermometer registered 77 degrees m the f-hade at 8 p.m. to»day. His aneroid barometer indicates the near approach of rain.

Writv? Sioi'titiv m the Wnp.nanui Herald, "1 may meulioa ih:d Chance, llio old Sir Hercules mare, is still alive. "Sir Launcelot" waa wrong m stating that Mujor Morso's death followed close on that of tho old mare. This winter may probably see the last of the grand old maro. " Sir Launcelot" has mistaken Mr Bowen's St. Clair for Mr Crocker's horse of the same name. The former is by Day Dawn, and the latter by Dead Shot. Tawhiao will go back to his own settls* ment much richer man than when he left it' At every ptih be has visited on the Const (says an exchange) substantial pres* ents of £1 notea hare been offered for his gracious acceptance, and he has very generously designed to receive the offerings of his people. At Turakina, he 11 accepted" a considerable sum, and at Te Rev Rev and Kakariki similar offerings were mnde, while at Awabun — the principal meeting m the district — it is asserted that at least 500 £1 notes will be given him for his condescension m visiting his " subjects" at that pah. The Pafcea Mai) states that Mr E. Houghton, the former proprietor of that journal, is about to start a weekly paper at Hawera, under the same of the W»imate Plains Press. Mr J. S. Caverhill, who is quite the talk of the town and district of Hawera, for the enterprise shown by him m agricultural operations, arranged to start no leas than six reaping-machines on Saturday last. The Huia on Saturday last brought up from Wellington a number of Scandinavian immigrants, of an apparently highly respectable clasp, and with them were two clergymen of the Lutheran denomination. We have not beard what part of this coast these new arrivals are bound for. The Auckland Herald says that the Spiritualists huve been interviewing '.he late Hugh Aitken Hamilton m the sprit world, and he, (hey allege, has gnen them full details of the occurrences which took place on the eventtul night on which he died. The Manchester Unity of Oddfelbws now numbers 547.909 and the total capital of the order on the let January last was £5,291,890, nearly £9 15s per member. It is stated by an English paper that Mr Gladstone's next " great measure" will be the disestablishment of the Church of Fnglnnd. The Rev. David Bruce, late editor of the New Zealand Times, has purchased, m conjunction with Mr Carrick, the Waikato Times. Mr Carrick is a pood newspaper man, but the Rev. David has been tried and found wanting. There is some probability (says the Wanganui Herald) of a, vote of £1000 or so being set aside by the Borough Coun» cil m aid of the erection of the new Hospital, and the Committee of the Council have been authorised to inquire into the matter. Tbis important; step once gained, the battle for. the erection of the new building will be more than half fought. Some volunteers entertain the mistaken notion that they can lay claim to their uniform after being enrolled for twelve months. The regulations do not permit this, and any Volunteers on leaving the corps must deliver up his uniform, The capitation fund of the corps has to supply the uniform and they afterwards belong to it.