PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 104, 10 April 1883, Page 2

PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special notice to subscribers will be found m onr advertising columns. The secretary of the Manawatu High* ways Board offically notices that. tenders for Fitzherbert and Kairanga contracts will not be opened till Monday next. We have been requested to state that there will be no practice of the Ohoral Society this week. We have been aske-l to remind those interested m football that a committee meeting of the club will be held at the Commercial Hotel this evening at 7. 30 o'clock, which all members are requested to attend. Among the correspondence read at the meeting of the County Council, when the question of advertising was on the Board was the following addressed to Mr A. Gray, of Foxtori : — " Sir, I shall not be sending any more papers to your store as agent, as Ido not wish to have anything to do with an individual who runs away like a puppy dog ab the heels of its master , and' repeats my words. Signed G\ W. Rubs ell." The reading of the missive caused a manifestation of .varied feelings on the part of several of the Councillors, A. letter published elsewhere from Mr McCulloch, the Clerk of the Manawatu County Council proves how extremely unjustifiable were the aspersions on the Chairman of that body which appeared m the paragraph m the Times of Saturday, to which we alluded yesterday. We trust our unhappy contemporary will recognise the advisability of tendering to the chairman an ample apology for its quite m« defensible aspersions on him m his public position. Our contemporary has our entire sympathy m its unfortunate position, and the ill-will it appears to have gained for itself ; but impugning the honour of the Chairman, and recklessly denouncing the Comity Council will uot mend matters. It is said that the condition of the channel of the Wanjjanui river has very much improved of late. Vessels drawing 11 feet can now come m some time after high water. . Mr Watt, M.H.E.. of Wanganui, m tends to address his constituents one evening this week. | The stone ballast brought m by vessels trading to Wanganui is now purchased by the Harbour Board for the construction of training walls. Of all the grounds on which jurymen get excused from attendance the most curious we have met with cropped up at the Christchurch Supreme Court recently. There a jurior, on being called, swore that he was suffering from delirium tremens. Re was promptly informed by Mr Justice Johnston that he was not wanted, m fact the Court was glad to get rid of him. It is evident, saye the Nelson Evening Mail, that " square gin" ia not a favorite drink m Auckland. According to the Registar General's volume of statistics for 1881, Auckland during thai period onl imported £10 worth of the spirit of Holland, while naughty Wellington im» ported nineteen hundred pounds' wortn, and still naughtier Dunedin the value of £3873. fWhat becomes of all the J.D.K.Z. that is sent through the Auckland bond ostensibly for the Islands tude. Ed. M. S.]

The Terawhiti gold field ia still attract* ing a large share of public attention, and many atranpera may be seen inspecting the field. The Palmerston North correspondentof the United Prees Association states, though we doubt the authenticity of the assertion, that "the intention of those implicated is to give Peck and Jessop the amount of the fine on coming out of gaok Postmasters are to be the receivers of yet another .class of revenue. We allude to the fees payable under the Inspection of Machinery Act, which were formerly payable to the Inspector of Machinery but which are now to be paid to the postmasters of the several districts, and from whom the necessary certificates are now to be obtained. The tender received for the lease of the Wood villa Reserve belonging to the Napier Borough Council, not being considered satisfactory, the time has been extended until May 14, till which date fresh tenders are invited. Ev9ry publicity should be given to the following' statement of the Lancet with reference to dog^bitea, as there is nothing about which people are bo nervous and at the some time ignorant ac to the bites of dogs. The Lancet says : — An absurd superstition prevails that the bites of dogs should be either cutout or. cauterised, and the poor animal destroyed. It is not necessary to adopt either of these serious courses, provided the dog is healthy. In fact they are simply ridiculous, and are calculated to produce groundless fear m the person bitten. Of course, m severe cases erysipelas may supervene, but witb ordinary care, the wound being cleaned by a disinfecting lotion, no sarious consequence will follow. In all cases, however, a doctor should be consulted. Writes the Auckland correspondent of the Wanganui Herald . — " Very gross misrepresentation of Waikato affairs has been made m the press by the Association. The whole thing arose through the blundering of the Native Office. Mahuki knew not that people were coming. If Mahuki would have had legal assistance, some very nasty revelations as to incapa* city would have come out." A rumour is current m Christchurch that the diamond prospectors have found excellent specimens, which will be shortly submitted to test. Queensland furnishes a frightful horror. Fanny and Florence Parker, aged re. spectively fifteen and thirteen years, are held to trial for murder. The younger was confined of a child, and the two set about to strangle it witii as much unconcern as if they had been killing flies. The killing of the child appears to have been an act of unexampled barbarity. "It is a singular circumstance," says the South Australian Advertiser," that two barque? named Tarabochia, should be anchored at the bell buoy at the same time Both bhipa came from the Baltic with timber, and kept so closely m company that although at times during the week they were separated there was scarcely a Sunday for 77 day« that the masters did not exchange compliments. After 77 days ) they parted company, and one arrived three days m advance of the other. The following paragraph m the Wanganui Herald is • equally applicable to Palmerston : — "A telegram has been received from the Public Works Department by the Harbour Board stating that the Minister has given instruction for a con- j siderable extension to the shed accommodatioa m Wanganui. This is so far good, but is there to be any delay. The matter is urgent, and if it is to be a question of months the loss will be serious." In a letter received from Sir William Fox by a resident of Wellington the number of marks obtained by each Wellington child who competed for the tern* J perance prizes -offered by the former is stated to.be as follows: — Frank Stevens, school not mentioned, 90; M'Kirdy, Mount Cook, 75 ; Burgess, ditto, 71 ; Elizabeth Robinson, 70 ; and F. J. Rowden, school not mentioned, 28. The maximum number of marks was 160. Sir William expresses his regret at the small amount of interest that was manU fested m the affair, and says that neither parents nor children seemed to care about the matter. The writer mentions that out of 80,000 scholars m the colony ther? were only 40 candidates. The only successful competitor m the North Island was a pupil of the public school at Bulls. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes: — Judge Manning is sinking slowly, and suffers terrible agony which can only be relieved by perpetual injections of morphia. The jaw is now completely exposed, and the end cannot be far ofl. It may be some consolation to the old gentleman's friends to know that even if they happened to be on the spot they could not nurse him or do anything more than is being done. Only trained attendants can stay m the room even a moment m such cases, and one (a very nice kind lady) devotes her whole time to the Judge The Dunedin Star was made the victim of an amusing joke between its editions on Saturday. It received information, presumedly by a bon a fide as a. communi« cation, which bore the signature of a wellknown citizen, that a whale seventy feet long has been stranded on the ocean beach at Lawyer's head by the high tides. Hundreds of people' despite the wretched weather, went to the beach on Sunday to inspect the monster, only to be impressed of the fact that it was "All Fools' Day.' The Star apologetically says " Yesterday morning's high tide must have washed the whale away." The attention of contractors is directed to advertisement m another column m which the Government invite tenders for sleepers for the Middle Island railways to the extent of 100,000, or any smaller number not less than 5000 instead^ 10,000 as previously advertised,

A Mr Josiah Flight has writtten to the Taranaki Harbour Board stating that m his opinion and m that of medical men rum is not required by the divers at the harbour works, and therefore the Board should not supply it. The Board decide 1 * to acknowledge receipt of the letter. According to Captain Shaw's report, there have been 131 accidents amongst his firemen duriag the past year, many of them having been very serious, and three of them terminated fatally. It would appear, therefore, that a London fireman incurs considerably more danger than moat of our soldiers who were m Egypt. Why, then, are the latter given stars, and crosses, and medals, and the former nothing but their pay P Mr T. S. Hoe has been appointed local agent for the Standard Insurance Company, the Wellington . agent being Mr W. R. Waters. A portion of the material for the pro* posed enlargement of the Standard has arrived, but a further portion has had to be sent back owinp to instructions having been wrongly carried out, which may probably cause a delay m the date of the projected increase m size.