LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 114, 21 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr James Linton announces ' that he has for sale about 40,000 acre 9 of land m sections varying from 30 to 1,000 acres, inprovedor uninproved. He has alto a large number of valuable town properties and choice building sites, anioug others some particularly eligible sections m the A number of other valuable properties are m his list at present. In money he has £30,000 available for in* vestment at lowest current;. rates, and he is m a position to offer land to settlers and new arrivals m delivered payments. The steamer Wallace has turned up all Tight having been- compelled to take shelter from tjhe heavy southerly gale both at Guard's Bank and Cabbage Bay. It is announced Mihat the election of officers to the Phoenix Lodge 1.0. G.T. will take place next Tuesday evening, April 24.., All members are- requested to attend. c ' i In Taurnnga a milk company has been formed to supply the community with milk at reasonable prices. ■ ; .:iui ,; ••> t?«;f ■"■ii ■ ■- •■-...■■■.. It as been found that jarrah timber which it was thought Was impervious to the worm does not withstand its ravages so well as New Zealand timber. This has beenprofred initbe case of the Wellington wharf. Messrs Stevens & Gorton are inviting tenders for metalling the Borough Sale Yards. Tenders to be m by noon on Tuesday next. Some interesting reading matter will be found m our fourth page.

We hear that Mr iJrebner, of i'eilding, is to be the promoted to the charge of the Customs Department and .Railway station at Foxton. Mr Brebner is one of the most efficient and obliging; station masters on the line, and one who is held m high estimation wherever he has been located. The Feildiup people will miss Mr Breb* ncr, as well as the travelling public, who have found him a competent, impartial, and very courteous offical. The Killymoon stock sale by Meaßra Sterens & Gorton on Thursday was very numerously attended, Manawatu being well represented among those present. The sale was one of the best that have been held this season, all clashes of stock having an upward tendency, and reserves m many cases being exceeded. The auctioneers through advertising their Rantritikei sales m the Standard m which paper only the outside advertisements ap« pear, find that the attendance of buyers from Manawatu and the adjacent districts has materially increased. This was notably the case at the Bulls Bam Fair, and the Oroua Downs Annual Stock Sale, and more particularly at Killymoon on Thurs* day. A Chapel-keeper is wanted for the Wesleyan Chapel. The Highway Board is inviting tenders for cortaius road work on Poulson's Line. Our little contemporary is at it again, hitting round like a jolly Irishman at a fair fortunately injuring none but him* self. The County Council should feel flattered at the loving attentions so lavishly bestowed. But a wonderful part of this won* derful curse Is that no body seems a penny the worse. Elsewhere will be found the full present catalogue of the horses for Mr Snelson's next sale on Saturday at Jor« dan's horso bazaar. Mr T. Dwtta has retired from the contest m favour of Mr E. Shaw, who will probably be returned. A most discreditable affair has occurred on board the hired transport Lusifcania, which bad arrived at Portsmouth from Bgypt. A party of abonc forty seamen were sent on board to assist m unloading, and several of them gained access to the spirit room. They broached a cask of porter, one of ale, and one of rum, and partook recklessly of the contents until nearly the whole of them became in* sensible and speechless. Guards were obtained, who conveyed them to] the flagship, where eight of them were found to be so dangerouily ill that for a long time their lives were despaired of. Three naval surgeons remained the whole night with j them, and it was only by continued ap« plications and incessant care that they re. j covered. A strict inquiry will be held into their conduct. j The quantity of rain which fell m Wellington between the Ist and 18th instant has beau greater than m any of the corresponding months of the past 17 years. The Post received the following letter from "An Old Miller ";— « The present rise m the price of bread will add £120 pei* week, to the income of the bakers, while the increased cost of flour is only 5s per ton, which, on 40 tons per week, amounts to £1.0, The public are thus fleeced of £110 per week, or £5700 per annum by these cormorants, who have forgotten the lesson taught them m 1874 by the Co-operative Baking Society. It will h^ve to be repeated unless they retrace their steps." On Monday evening (says the Wanganui Herald) a native prisoner, m charge of the Foxton constable, escaped from custody from the train when near Palmerston. The train had stopped atoneof the flag stations, and the prisoner, watching his opportunity, bolted into .he bash. The constable gave chase, but his man proved too much for him, and he had to return unsuccessful and disconsolate.