LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 65, 9 February 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Through protracted delay m shipment we were nearly without paper for our issue yesterday. Being so much larger than any other paper m the district, the size generally m use would not have suited. A few reams from the Wanganui Herald fortunately tided over the difficulty, our own shipment having now arrived. An advertiser is desirous of purchasing ! two horses and a dray. The meeting convened m connection with the projected Dramatic Club last night lapsed through want of attendance. Mr Haultain desires us to say, as the convener, tfeat he was unavoidably absent, but will be m attendance at the Commer- , cial Hotel this evening at 8 p.m. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company (Limited) elsewhere announce that they are prepared to make advances from £500 up to £50,000 on freehold security. Mr J, W. Hamilton, at the Commercial Hotel, will furnish all requisite information.

Mr A. Croskery announces a special j sale at his mart to«tnorrow, at 1.30 p.m., of general merchandise, &c. The names and addresses of registrars of dogs are elsewhere notified. A scratch match will take place on the ground tosmorrow, wicketa to be pitched at 2 o'clock. Mr C. McKenna notifies that he has opened m the Square as fishmonger and poulterer, and has always on hand a supply of ducks, fowls, and geese. He is ia receipt of fresh fish every morning, and all orders will receive prompt attention.

The special train to the great Oroua Stock Sale was fairly well filled, a num* berof intending purchasers going through trom Wangauui, Turakina, Rangiiikei, and Manawatu. The sale promises to be very succeasful. A public meeting of ratepayers is convened by the authority of His Worship the Mayor at the Public Hall, on next Monday evening, at 8 p.m., to consider the question of a water supply for the Borough. With this queation we will deal subsequently at greater length. Mr John McLennan writes to say that the " aliasing " letter has bean at length returned. This is satisfactory to a certain extent. The outward 'Frisco mail will leave Wellington on Sunday, February 25, closing at Palmeraton on Friday, the 23rd inst., at 7.45 p.m.

We hear that during the absence of Jones' solicitor m Wellington, the premises m which certain goods seized by distraint had been placed, were forcibly broken into and the goods removed. Says a contemporary ■. — Lady Gertude Stock, nee Douglas, and her husband are j a brave pair, They have actually pur* chased a bakery business at Hammer* smith, and iutend working it. Why not ? Mrs Browning's Lady Geraldine, who had married the penniless poet Be tram, had stately woods m Sussex and large possessions elsewhere ; and if the Marquis of Queensbury's sister has not large poa« sessions, and deliberately- prefers to marry a baker, why should she not be allowed to take her position side by side with her husbaud, free from tha sneers of scandalised society ?

It is understood that Mr John Knowles, Under Secretary for Public Works, who has been m the service for 43 years has received permission to retire on his pension on the ground of ill health. Sir Julius Yogel was a passenger for London by the Sorata, which sailed on Wednesday. % The winter at Home seems to have been a very severe one. On the 12th December two sentries were frozen .to death at the Curragh camp, Ireland, and an ap» palling number of skating accidents hap* pened throughout the country;

" Tiu»ketUing" is hot always the piece of fun it is supposed to be. A happy couple got married very quietly the ether day at Te Aro, but ot course the secret oozed out, and a band of youngsters who got wind of the affair repaired to their residence under the friendly shades of evening, armed with the usual tin«kettling apparatus, with which they made night hideous to the great annoyance of the neighbourhood. Presently Mr Benedict issued from the house, and after, seizing the instruments of torture, sound'y boxed the ears of the tin-ketfclers, who retreated with, tears m their eyes. According to the Post at Messrs T. K. Mac Donald and Co's recently land sale, the farm, timber lands, and sheep-run, at Wainui«o-mata, m the estate of Messrs J. and D. Sinclair, provoked somewhat spiiited bidding, which was started at L2OOO and run up m LSOO bids to L 6509, the property falling to Mr A. E. Russel, of Palmerston North. . .When Michael Flynn, the last of the Huddy murders, was sentenced to be hanged, he said to the^ judge— " Thank you, sir ; lam as willing to go there (lqokr ing upwards) as to go home; I wish you all goocUday." His execution was fixed for 17th January. Oscar Wylde sailed for England the day after Ohristmas. Previous to leaving New York he fell into the hands of sharpers, with whom he played till he lost 1060 dollars, for which he gave hi* cheque, and then took a cab, drove to the bank, and stopped payment. .

The " Black Maria," or prison van, waa sent down to the Wellington wharf on the arrival of the s.s. Hawea, and ten long" aentenced prisoners, sent up from LytteU ton Gaol, were pat therein and conveyed to the Mount Cook Prison^ The van was drawn by two horses. Among the prisoners was the notorious house-breaker Garratt, who recently, after a long : term of mv prieonment m the South Island, was found on some premises m Ohristchurch with an evident burglarious intention.