LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 62, 6 February 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Previous to the recent rains the water supply m Wanganui had to be cut off. We are glad to see Mr Marsh continuing to regain health and strength, and daily to look more like his jolly original self of a few years ajaro. A special railway notification appears elsewhere, " Ratepayer," Peilding, expresses surprise that the local paper has made no allusion to th« seizure of goods for disiraint for rent, which has caused such excitement m that township ; but when Mr Palmer's gopds were taken the matter was made very public. G. A. King, of Woodville, Commission Agent, has become insolvent, and Mr T. F. Fouctaine has been appointed creditors' trustee. ; , .■ '/, .- ■

The Manawatu County Council held its monthly meeting today. The Palmtraton Borough Council will meet to-morrow evening. ' It takes between two and three hours for a Press message to come through from Wellington to Palmerston. These pro. traded delays are most aggravating. An accident by fire ; was narrowly escaped m the Weßleyan Church on Sunday-even,, ing, through one of the lamps flaming up, and threatening to burst. With the utmost presence of mind one of Jhe congregation lifted the lamp down and extinguished it. ■:,; J

I A special summoned meeting of the Foresters will be held to-night, at which a proposal to lease -the Hall for a terih of years will be discussed. We wonder will anything be done fco-day at the County Council meeting with regard to the approach to the Awapuni bridge pn the Palmerston side, which ia a disgrace to the district, bejng also a constant source of danger. •; We are sorry to hear that Mrs R, Millar, of Oroua Bridge, is m very feeble health m the Waaganui hospital, her physical and mental state necessitating careful attention. Messrs Moore and Gibson have leased the Commercial Hotel stables, and arc now m a position to take m horses to livery, and to provide vehicles for travellers. Both are experienced men with horses, and animals placed m their oare will be well treated.' They undertake to break m colts to aaddls, and single and double harness. In their hands the Commercial Hotel stables should soon secure a popular reputation all over the district. We learn that Messrs Stevens & Gorton are indenting largely m fencing wire m connection with their Palmerston business. Several large parcels have already come to hand for various settlers m this i district* ;

Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., passed through Palroerston on Sa'urday evening taking with him some valuable pure-bred sheep purchased m the South. Complaints are made by visitors to Palmerston of the flooded condition of the footpaths across the Square after rain. This could be avoided by raising the crown and making waterways at each side. Mr A. McDonald threw out what we consider a very good suggestion the other dny 1 with regard to the railway timetable. His proposal was that the first train from Wanganui should start an hour earlier, say, at 7 a.m., and that from Halcombe an hour later, say, at 10.15 a.m., by which passengers for Foxton could go right through, giving two through trains to Fox ton each day. The following appears m the Wanganui Herald :— ••• Wanted to know the name of the thieving larrikin who upset a hive of bees at &r Steedmari'a late residence." RabbiUkillerß m New South Wales are accustomed to cut off the rabbits' ears m order to secure the reward offared by the State for the destruction of these animals, and then to turn the rabbits loose to breed tigain.

One of the London papers contains an interesting account of the crystallised sand obtainable (for purposes of making glass &o.) on the shore? of the Bay of Plenty. The writer dilates at length upon its dazzling whiteness, and opines that the commodity will prove " aperfect bonanza to glass merchants." The following New Zealand colonists hove been elected as Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute : — Hon. Robert Camp* bell, M.L.0., Messrs Ormisfc Biddulph, Henry Gaisford, John M'Donald Grant, and John Purvis Russell. A writer m the Pall Mall Gazette characterises Sir Dillon Bell's re view re colonial loans as " delightfully arcadian," and proceeds, at great length, to contro* vert many of his statements.

Some days ago we mentioned that a Rangitikei lawyer had been fined £50 for practising without a cerdficbte, and that, m default of payment (for which ample time was allowed him by the Law Society) tbe lawyer was arrested under a Supreme !Court writ and taken to Wellington m , charge of a Sherriff'a officer. We learn I from the Evening Pott that the fine has been paid, and .the erring legal luminary allowed to return home* r lhe Wanganui'Chronicle regrets to hear that the injuries to his lags sustained by Mr A. Knyvett, who, was thrown from a buggy at Maxwelltown on Friday night, aie so severe that it was thought necessary to remove him to the Hospital.