LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 92, 27 March 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death is announced at 56 years of age of Mr Barningham, an Englisham, who rose -from the 'positions? of ca day laborer to be the posseeor of works turn« ing oat 70,000 tons of rails a year, and the employer of 2000 hands. He was a large real estate owner, m -England,; and had also a property and castle m France, where he had early m his life been much employed under the late Thomas Brassy, The Oam aru Times, m a paragraph referring £6 heavy fleeces, says . — ' Two yaara ago Mr Grunion, of Bugged Ridge Station, purchased ftom the Hon. R. Campbell six merino rams, from his floek i at Otekaike. The second year of shearing the fleeces averaged 201 b, and this year they average, the unprecedented weight of 261 b 13ozh each. Of the six rams one reached 331 b, two of them 30lb each, the remainder making up the average of 261 b ISozs.'' The Presbytery of South Australia have passed a resolution m favour of readiDg the Bible m State schools, It has been decided by Judge Docker, pf Sydney, that bookmaking is not an il- | |egal raaa.ni of opining a Uyelihood, ,

Mr John Edward Kedmond, M. P., the delegate of the Irish National L;ind League, is little more than 26 years of nge. 34648 gallons of South Australian wine were imported into New South Wales last year. Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania have each an Education Cominis« sioner to report ou the existing systems of public instruction. Funds from the United. States having run dry, Australia and New Zealand are now to be exploited by the delegates of the Irish Land league. It appears there was some error m connection with the recent election of members to the Education Board, the Board having omitted to send notices to the School committees at the extraordinary vacancy. It is probable inconsequence that a fresh election will be held, as it is stated that at. the election to be held by ! the Board there will be at least one Drotest. " ' One advantage of employing self "binders m the harvest field has been extensively illustrated during the present har; vest, says the Timaru Herald. Whenever a wet harvest is experienced, mat least nineteen cases out of twenty, the first i heads to show ay mp tons of sprouting m a Btook of hand-tied corn are those contained m the band. In a sbeaf tied with wire or twine there are no heads m that position, and consequently the chances of the sample beinp depreciated m value by sprouted grains is a cood deal reduced. At the inquest upon the bodies of the 54 persons who|were killed by the fall of a chimney at the Newland Mills, Bradford, the jury returued the following verdict : — " We find that the owners did all that unpractical men could be expected to do under the circumstances, and therefore we do not attach any blame to them, or find them guilty of negligence, and we give as our verdici accidental death. We are of opinion that the foundation was good, and that the fall of the chimney was, partly due to the cutting, aided by the strong wind on the morning of the morning of the accident, and we regret that the works were not stopped during the repairs." Writes one of our Ofcago contemporaries :— Harvest hands are scarce m the neighborhood of Grlenore ; so much so, indeed, that a personige wearing 1 the garb of the fair sex may bo seen performing the duties of a horse conductor to a reaping- • machine engaged, m the cutting there. Strangers passing at. a distance are m the habit of asking if tfae driver is a " kiltie' lad" jus£ newly arrived from the north of Scotland, and suggest that "breeks'' would be an improvement as a harvesting dress. • It is believed by the police that there are m Melbourne and its suburbs no less a number than 21)00 fallen women- Six hundred of the class called unfortunate are known to reside m the streets and lanes that extend from Parliament buildings m the east to the Spencer street railway m the west of the city. These are lodged m at least 250 houses. Indeed, were the total number of such houses m the city and suburbs with all their oceu« pants, placed on one extended area, a considerable town would be formed; and what a town ! The information conveyed m a telegram which we publish m to-day's issue tends to show that the suspicious which have hitherto existed as to the implication of the Land League m the various outrages that have occurred m Ireland are not without foundation. Persons are cautioned against trespass* ing with dog or gun on the Hokowhitu Reserve. Mr Perkins is advertising money to lend; at reduced rates of interest. The Hawke's Bay Herald states that Tawhiaowas evidenaly much impressed by Captain Russell's anecdote of Canute and his courtiers, for he came to town and resolved to out-do King Canute. Standing on the beach, near the breakers, he ordered the waves not to wet his royal feet."'-' The; waves obligingly obeyed, and Tawbiao, grown more bold, took several steps forward. Then a big roller came, upset Tawhiao and his applecart and gave royalty a good wetting. Says an exchange— "A publican of Christchurch recently made a bet of " £1000 to a shilling, and the whole of his property to a jam tin," that not one of the Good Templar candidates would be elected for the. licensing committees m Ohriatchurct. He won his bet. The three-year old son of a Parramatta storekeeper, drank some rum which his father brought home •• the previous night, and died from the effects of alcoholic poisoning. t ."- ■ Mr Hallenstein, of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, was a visitor to Palmeraton last eVening , from Napier, and I we hear may probably open a branch of his business m this town ere long. The steamer Manawatu recently knocked all the blades off her propeller by coming m contact with a partly sub» nerged log. . Mr James King is m want of a general servant. Mr T. Lowes,, of the Otangaki Hotel has Bent us down an herbal curiosity m the shape of a six»)eafed shamrock. We believe the* species is very unusual. An unfortunate Native named Rahftna is lying, m. a distressed condition at the Jackey Town pah. He is suffering from bad leg, which threatens to mortify, and 'tble^joor fellow is m a pitiable plight. The Natives render him no assistance and he says' medical aid' was refused because he is without means, though he has a horse .which he offers to sell. He will certains ly die a miserable death if left where he is. We hear an effort- is being made to get him admitted to the Wanganui Hospital. It is to be feared his leg will have to be amputated m order to save his life. We notice m almost all our exohanges complaints of the difficulty of accurately ascertaining the correct date of opening the shooting sea.apj| ,