The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 72, 1 March 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An alteration will be* found ia the advertisement of the American Novelty Company^ who ate ! doing, we learn, a big businees, andiireceivingvery liberal public patronage. The exhibition of conjuring tricks is well worth the price of admission, which is— nothing. An excellent conveyance is offered for sale by Mr Stratford;, Rangitikei-street, which is well wortbMnspection by those m want of a really firsUclass vehicle. i We were told yesterday by an independent and very competent judge, that no cleaner or better sample of grassspeed has been seen m tlio district than that just recei?ed by| Messrs Stevens & Gorton, which is being rapidly bought up by the fame's in' the district. Mr Hunt's professional notice appears elsewhere. He gives th« Fitzherbert Road soil the credit for being the best for gardens and orchards be has ever worked. In fact it could not be surpassed. Mr Hunt's opinion, as^ a gardener of wide } experience'and much practical knowledge is worth consideration. The spread of fire from burning bush has ruu the risk of damaging several of the culverts and approaches to bridges on the.Stpney, preek- Line. A Stoney Creek settler, nnmed Andero i son, . had a nasty spill the evening before .last, and narrowly escaped receiving severe injuries. He was riding at a furious rate, either through his horse bolting or some other cause, when a stirrup-leather giving way, caused him to be dragged some distance. We hear that he is very seriously injured about the upper portion of the body.

Tenders are invited for farming the Borough Pound. ■ Some new Wellington advertisements will be found elsewhere. The railway [station water-tanks are being ' removed; prior to extending the station building. A number of new Southern advertisements will appear to-morrow. A notification with regard to the revision of the Maori jury list appears elsewhere. Two soldiers on sentry at the Curragh military camp, Ireland, were frozen to death oh the night of December 12. There is no record of a similar occurrence happening m Great Britain, and the order has gone forth to change the sentries hourly. The recovery of Judge Manning, the .well-known author of 'Old New Zealand/ a colonist of nearly 'fifty, years standing, is pronounced hopeless. - If the operations of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company are successful, the Lyttelton Times, prophesies that the -value of grazing- land m the .Province will -be increased from £1 to £'2 per acre. :At a meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly, at Auckland, the appeal of the Rev.,C. Fraßer, of Christchurch, to be re-admitted to communion was considered, and the action of the Christchurch Presbytery was fully sustained. A re» solution was carried leaving the celebration of marriage with a deceased wife's sister optional, with the , individual con» sciences of' ministers 'arid members'. An expedition into the interior of Tas* mania-is being organised. It will prospect as thoroughly as possible a lateral area of about one hundred miles, bj three or four miles, over a district which has hitherto remained almost untrodden. Captain Fry, of the Welcome, reports that while, waiting outside the Wanganui Heads on ATd'nd'ayi. waiting,- a^ steamer to tow her m, he 301 fresh water twenty miles out at sea. This is some index of the immense freshets which have come down the rivers on this coast, and the tremendous force of the currents.- ; ' ■ ; ' • ■ The brig Derwent,* presented to the Auckland Naval Brigade as a training ship, was built-in I&J4 andsyet^ when a test was made of her timbers, her gar* board streak, 13 inches of solid oak, was found as true as the day it was put m. French army surgeon's say that a great deal of the sickness among soldiers is caused by the use of tobacco. 1 In the fertile district of the Ashburton Forks, saya the Lyttelton Times, a Mr Church has threshed out his wheat which averaged 67 bushels to the acre. : ■ China has the largest garden m the world. There are 60,000 square miles round Shanghai, which are called the Garden of China, and have been for hundreds of years under- a high state of cultivation. Three crops a year are harvested. It is all meadow land, raised bnt a few feet above the' water, and has a complete network of water communication. The following birth notice appears m the Wellington papers : — Chute. — On the 25th February, at Clyde Quay, the Svife of Mr Alfred William ,Ohute,, of triplet daughters, all wall.

The real cause of the present tightness) of'rrioney (*»ays an exchange) ia more probably importation m excess of require* me'nts causing large sums of money to be unprofltftbly locked up. If this be so, m course of a few months the evil will re* medy itself m all probability, because the reports of an unfavourable state or! the money market here will have hid time to reach home, and to cause lessened shipments. Bishop Hadfield was a passenger from Wellington to Wanganui by last night's train. The Wanganui river is m a bad state since the floods, and vessels are sticking m the flat every day.