LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 35, 16 March 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In a Christchurch evening paper a day or two ago appeared the following : — "The person 8 who eased me of about 2cwt of coal last night are requested to come again to»night, and I will wait up for them. Refreshments— Ginger ale, cake, »nd small bull pup. — J. Wbeatley" Much of the wheat m stack round about Waoganui is sprouting, the stacks being quite green at the top. 3?he telegraph cable between Port Dar« win and Java is not repaired, and it is impossible yet to say when it may be.

In Waimea West, Nelson, where hopgrowing is carried on to a large extent, there is a very busy scene just now, pickin? m all the gardens being m full operation. We (Nelson Mail) were told of a woman and her two children (she had f oar m the field, but one one was told off to look after the baby), who had on that da; day picked 91 bushels, which at 3|d per bushel would give the nice little sum of £1 63 6d for the day's work. " And this, or something like it," said one of the pickers, •' is going on for three weeks or more." A gazetted notice states that no less than 18,670 persons were killed by snake* bi*es m India during 1883. The Colonies and India remarks thai, many of these are really Buicides. Mrs W. B. Rhodes arid Miss Rhode 3 were passengers to Wellington by thes.s. Wakatipu on Monday, having returned from England via Sydney. According to the local paper there seems to be considerable difficulty about locat« ing the police station at Masterton. The architect, apparently, like the old gentlemen who objected to plane down his corns to fit his boots, had designed a house, and now wants to put it m a position which it frill not fit. Part, of of the edifice occupies a portion of that district known as Mr Bngge's garden. To this Mr Bagge naturally objects, and the gifted architect is now 'sitting with a block map of the township upon his knees, wondering what piece he shall move next, The New York Herald states that a phi* nese coin 3000 years old, has been found by gold miners digging m a claim at Oass siar, British Columbia. It is supposed to have been left there by Chinese mariners wrecked on the coast long before the Christain era. The directors of the Tauranga^Rotorua Railway have decided at a meeting held yesterday,' to send Mr George Ve3sey Stewart to London for the purpose of floating the company. Mr Vesey Stewart will start for London by the end of the month. A Socialist flag was recently captured m Pisa. It was brought before the quse3tor and unfurled. The staff had hardly touched the ground before there was a fearful explosion. It was filled with dyna« mite. The students will probably be sent home if any more Socialistic manifestations are made. The date for the meeting of Parliament has not yet been fixed, but, it is not likely to be before the latter part of May, or perhaps the beginning of June. There is indeed no pressing business demanding urgency, nor do we find anywhere m the Preas, at present, any ontcry about any; burning question: ' The value of land near Wellington has sone down considerably of late, says a i Southern exchange, as one of the auction* eers who held a sale one day during the , present month well knows. The land 1 which was put up was a number of sections at a place known as Midlothian, a suburb of Wellington, end. their extent was a quarter of an acre. The price realised for them was £3 each. Who wouldn't be a land owner after this. From a Wellington paper we learn that the Adams family, of which so much has been heard m connection with the Longhurst case; is at present m very reduced circumstances. The Relieving Officer reported at the meenng of the Benevolent institution recently that a child which had recently died m the family had to be interred at the public expense, and the father is laid up with some lung disease. It isnot improbable the maintenance of the family will era long devolve upon the nstitution. Mr King is advertising rye«gras9 seed I from old pastures. Messrs Bentley Bros, altered advertise* will be found elsewhere. 1 A Manawatu Highway Board advertise* ment will appear to-morrow. Wellington won the aquatic match with Canterbury easily, by several lengths.