The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1883. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1883. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

The new Volunteer Drill Hall ia to be 45 feet by 35, and will probably be m request as a skating-rink during the winter months. A Yo'unle ©.• B ill is to take place on the 24th of May, which, it ia expected, will be a very successful affair, at leant every effort is being made with that objeot m view. We are glad to hear that Mrs Millar, of Oroua Bridge is progressing satisfac* torily, and it is hoped will soon be able to return home. A Stoney Creek settler bought some sheep at Mr Snelsbn'a last Fitzherbert Stock Sale, and about midnight started to drive them home. He became drovrsy, fell off hia horse and slept till morning. He is still looking for his sheep, and to all inquiries gives the same reply "Oh the sheep are all right." "It is to be hoped they will return, and all have their tails behind them." Mr W. Akera of Riverdale, ia inviting tenders for felling 100 acres light bush, the specifications of which may be seen at Mr Snelson's office. A special parade of the Palaierston Volunteer Corps is notified elsewhere, at which the balance-sheet, and statement for the past half-year will be read. • Mr Snelson will - sell at his mart tomorrow, potatoes, butter, treacle^ and sundries. The Anglican Sunday School picnic took place this afte.noon, the children being taken a railway trip so far as Longburn, and on their return had tea m the Public Hall. Fortunately for the little ones the weather brightened up, and a pleasant afternoon was spent by them all. Mr A. E. Lewis, the well-known ex* tensive importer of china and fancy goods m Wanganui, has taken temporary pre» mises m the Square, (m front of Mr Leary 'a printing office,) and is showing a beautiful selection of oboice goods, of a kind not of ten obtainable outside ametropolis. The exhibition, for it really is one, is well worth a visit, and the prices are exceptionally reasonable. His advertise* ment will appear to-morrow j

Mr Molesworth, a Victorian barrister, I told a jury recently a story illustrative of the fact that every religious sect had its black sheep. The church wardens of a provincial township were m want of a minister, and telegraphed to Melbourne friends m the following terras :— " Send minister. Opinions immaterial. Sect immaterial; bat send up a sober man." I was very glad says a writer m 'Truth 1 to see that the Magistrate at WeSt Ham sentenced two boys, aged ten and twelve respectively, to be whipped for cutting off a cow's tail. It is only by corporal punish* ment, liberally administered, that the horrible brutality of modern roughs, both young and old, can be checked. The efficacy j of the " cat " m repressing a tendency to crime was proved by the remarkable effect it had m putting down ga'rotting. A homoeopathic remedy is not a bad thing m cases of this kind. Mr Shrimski has threatened to summon the Oamaru Harbor Board if an account of €4 or £5 for entertaining the Government is paid out of the funds. A young man named Henry ffarcourt, who claimed to be a distant relation of the Home Secret»ry, was charged at the Lambeth Police Court, London, recently with having obtained shelter and food m the casual ward of the local workhouse by means of a false statement. When admitted he made signs that he was deaf and dumb, but the following day he con* f eased to a Scripture reader, who visited the ward, that he had been pretending he was so afflicted for 14 year?} and that he had made a voyage to Australia and back as an assistant stoker m a steamer with out having spoken to anyone. He was remanded pending inquiries into his antecedents. The raised steamship Austral is now almost restored to her proper condition, 450 workmen having been employed m cleaning and painting hull. She is to be floated into dock m about three weeks* when the high tides at Sydney will favour that operation. Sixty deaths on fire immigrant ships arriving at Sydney have caused a demand for stricter precautions before shipping unhealthy or ailing persons for a long voyage. Nothing definite is as yet known as to the time when Parliament will meet (says a Wellington paper). The Ist June was currently reported not long ago as the day, and gossip now fixes on the 15th of that month. We think it is almost certain that the House will not be ready for oc* cupation by the lsfc, though the 15th of May was the day specified m the contract of the completion of the additions. One gentleman likely to be well informed tells us that Parliament will not open until the third week m June, and from another very "likely" source we learn that the Ministry themselves have not yet fixed .on the day.