LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 108, 14 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

In the Wangauui papers the bankruptcy is announced of Lewis Lyona Levy, commision agent and trustee m bankruptcy. Over the leader will be fonnd a card from Wm, Haughton & Co. a firm of Melbourne agents, factors and importers, whose place of business is 49 King-street. As commision merchants they deal extent sively m wool, grain, bMus, bark, timber, and other colonial produce, and also negotiate loans and mortgages, and select and purchase mining and agricultural machinery, station and farm requisites, &c. It might be worth the while of some of our sawuiilling 'firms to open up communication with Messrs Hanghton & Co., as Australian agents for the aale of timber or other produce. Mr Horn, the Wanganui electrician, has been through to Wood ville fitting the Woodville Hotel with a complete set of electric bells, indicator, and every requisite appendage. This testifies to the rapid advance which Woodville is making, and with which that enterprising host, Mr Murpby, is determined to keep pace. Mr Horn's skilled and intelligent workmanship gave every satisfaction. Elsewhere is announced the catalogue for Messrs Stevens & Gorton's next sale at Awahuri, which is fixed for next Friday I the 20th mat. j

The date of Mr Greenwood's next professional visit to Palmeraton is Wednesday week, the 25th instant. The catalogue of Messrs Stevena & Gorton's next Bulls salei s advertised, the date being next Tuesday. The Wanganui Education Board, at a special meetine, has given Mr Harris, the late school teacher at Halcombe, three months notice, to be removed from Halcombe to some other school .forthwith. Thus ends the Halcombe Bchool vendetta. James Edwards announces a four-horse waggon to Woodville every Thursday, for the conveyance of goods, parcels, and i passengers. It is officially stated that m consequence of not receiving the valuation lists from the Government, the election of Wardens for the M-anawatu Highways District is postponed until further notice. Mr Ccombie was a passenger by train laab night, en route for Wellington from Auckland and New Plymouth, where he has been on Property Tax business. "A resident of Ferguson-street"com-plains of the nuisance caused by neighs bours keeping: pigs close to dwellings. He says the animals are fed on sour grains, and "other garbage," and the odour from the animals and their food is at times unbearable, and must be very unhealthy. Perhaps the Inspector or Deputywlnspector of Nuisances will give the matter his attention, Mr A. E.Lewis' clearing cash sale of chinaware and fancy goods will open at the shop m front of Mr Leary 'sprinting office, next Wednesday. The assortment of goods is of a varied and choice description, and as the prices are cheap, a ready sale should be experienced. We are requested to state that Messrs Hannah Hall and James Catton, ministers of the Society of Friends, or Quakers as they are generally termed, will visit Palmers ton next week. Messrs Bently Bros.' new advertisement will appear m a few days, announcing tke arrival of their special shipment of millinery. The brutal impudence of the wretched being Carey is proved by the fact th-it he was among the first to send a letter of condolence to Miss Burke, the sister of the man whom he had helped to assassinate. Extensive floods are reported ia the south-west of Queensland. The Property Assessment Reviewers sat m private m Christchurcb. The manafacture of salt is proceeding at Snowtown m South Australia; The Brisbane Government Printing office is to be lighted by electricity. An exhibition of machinery and manufacturing processes is mooted m Sydney. The late South Australian wheat harvest is the worst ever experienced m that colony. . It is stated that no lesa than 229 Jus* tices of the Peace have been added to the Victorian roll during the past six months. Mr Joshua Jones has brought into New Plymouth some specimens of coal and limestone from Mokau Both look excel-* lent samples. The Goelong Advertiser is the oldest paper m Victoria. The next m seniority is | the Portland Guardian, first issued on i August 20, 1842. A little bay named George Lewis has been burned to death at Rookhampton, through his nightdress catching fire during the absence of hiit parents. Mr Garratt (of tho late Australian Eleven) has resumed his position as clerk of the New. South Wales Supreme Court m its ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The captain of the brigantine Sarah ' and Mary, at present on her first trip to Wangtmui (says the Herald) wa3 the hero of a stirring event some twenty years ago. It was at the time the celebrated bu«dranger Morgan was committing his blood - thii sty} depredations, andjjthe Captain was then living with an uncle and aunt on the borders of the Biack Forest, when the house was invaded by the notorious robber Having tied them all up, Morgan deliber atley, m the presence of the Captain, who was then a mere boy, shot them both both dead, his youth alone saving him from the same fate. The South Australia Farmer's Assooia* tion has declared m favour of free assisted immipjration.and the abolition of duties on materials,&c., used by agricuHusists. In the Wellington R.M.Court,a young allow named Frederick Sayer, claiming to be a nephew of the Marquis of Norman by, and formerly a sergeant m the A.C. force, who has been living a fast life m Wellington, having lately, received money from Home, and spent some of it m debauchery, has been sentenced to four months hard labour for passing valueless cheques. " -;