LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr Carl paya Mb weekly professional visit to Paltnerstoa to-morrow, and can be consulted by patients at Remington's Medical Hall. To«morrow is the day of Mr Crosses periodical professioaal visit toPalmeraton, where be can be consulted at Mr Hoe's Private Hotel as usual. The great auction sale of the unsold portion of Mr F, Beaven's stock com» mences ; to-morrow, and will be continued the folio wing day, beginning each day at 10 a.m. Bargains will be the order of the day. The formal inauguration of the new Kilwinning Lodge of Freemasons took place to-day with the usual imposing ceremonials. Tiie banquet this evening promises to be an exceptionally successful affair. A notice appears elsewhere requiring tho payment of all debts due to W. S. Staite to Buckley, Stafford, & Fitzherbert, within one month from thid date, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken for their recovery. The Napier Telegraph remarks . -''The Bay of Plenty Times goes m for three column leaders now. Words, words, words ! That's what comes of having only one newspaper m a town." More likely that the editor is an ex*parson, and be writes his leaders aa he used to do his sermons — rather long-winded. The very small rise and fall of the tide at Wellington during the past three or four days has caused a great deal of men* tal speculation among nautical men- and others who take an interest m such sub jects. The rise and fall of spring tides at the wharf is as a rule a trifle over 6ft, but on Monday and Tuesday it was scarcely more than 2f fc. We are informed that at least one other port, namely, that of Blenheim, is similarly affected. No feasible solution has yet been found for the extraordinary change. The new Town Hall m Sydney is estimated to cost €100,000, and, like the harbor, is to be one of the finest m the world. The numerous friends of IVTr H. H. Godwin will be glad to learu that he is m first-rate health and spirits, and filling the responsible post of headmaster m the Geelong College. Some advertisements had to be removed for this issue, m order to make room for reading matter, the pressure of which left us no other alternative. There is a probability of a woollen factory being started at^Hastings, m Hawke's Bay. The train between New Plymouth and Hawera takes, three hours aud forty minutes to cover the distance, 48 miles. Tfia Hawera Star characterises it as the slowest of slow coaches. In reference to the caße of a Maori who yesterday pleaded guilty of horse stealing at Wangauui, and was seLtenced to a year's hard labour, it by appeared the depositions that he had sold the stolen horse, aßddlej and bridle to a resident of Peildins, for £3 10s only. The Chief Justice remarked that this was a most discredit" able transaction, and that the purchaser might think himself lucky he was not charged with receiving property well knowing it to be stolen. The Crown Prosecutor thereupon signi6cantly ob~ served that he had had no opportunity at present to look into this branch of the matter. Mr. William Rees, well known as an ex. perienced and successful sugar planter at Fiji, has left Melbourne for Borneo, for the purpose of examining that country, and reporting fully to n Melbourne company. A number of influential and business men m London and iVlelbourne have obtained from the British North Borneo Company a concession of 100,000 acres of land m that territory on very favourable term 3. | The Minister for Lands for Victoria has received a letter from a correspondent m Canada, signingbimselfJ. G. ScottsuggesU ing that electricity might be employed m the -destruction of rabbits, and he recommends the employment of electricians m the erection of wire fences from six to nine miles circuit. This done, the rabbits might then be driven towards the fence, contact with which would kill them. The Minister for Agriculture of Victoria has received samples of wattles planted m Majorca State Forest. The seed was sown sis months ago, and the plants are now ex« ceedinely vigorous. The growth covers about 400 acres. They will be fit to ship m about five years. He desired to have control over areas on the railway line devoted to wattle culture, so that necessary attention may be paid to the plants. Fires m the United Statea, says the " Insurance Agent," every year destroy as mach property as the earnings of about poeofifth of the male adult population amount £o for the year.