LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 123, 1 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Licensing , Committee' for the Borough of Palmerston. will be held at the Oourt House on Tues« day the 6lh of June. | It is notified that there will be Mass at FeUding on Thursday at 8 a.m. and at | Palmerston at 11 a.m. ' [ Mr Orosse will pay his next profession- | al visit to Palmerston on Thursday week, the 10th ipst,. his Feilding day being Tuesday the Bth inst. . The result of the recent polls under " The Road b & Bridges Construction Act, 1882" are elsewhere officially give n. A bi-weekly newspaper is being established at Opotiki, East Coast. We learn that the yarn about the pro* j jected powerful evening, paper m Wel« | lingtqn is " all bunkum." We noticed to-day two very substantial | new conveyances, each a very creditable specimen of local industry. One was a baker's .cart for MrU J. D. Fraser, and the other a stout spring cart for Mr G. M. Snelson. Each was as good a piece of workmanship as could be turned out of any coachbuilder's shop m the colony. Mr Stratford was the builder, and we can say he has no reason to feel ashamed of his handiwork. : The Manawatu Highway Board held its usual meeting to-day. The tides m Wellington harbuor as* sumed their normal character on Sunday,; high water m the evening. being fully up to the ordinary neap tides. The City Council of Melbourne propose j to spend £100,000 m wood paving. There are three Australian natives m the Service-cum» Berry Coalition Ministry.' We have received the Australian Medical Gazette for April, which contains a number of instructive articles, some of them from the pens of New Zealand practitioner?. ' Mr Barry has purchased the entire horse Morpheus, the price paid being, we hear, £100. It is Mr Barry's intention to use the horse for stud purpose. •'..;'■- , Captain Edwin telegraphed at 12.55 p.m. yesterday : — Bad weather approach, ing' between southaeast and east and' north ; glass falling very soon, and within 12 hours heavy fall of rain. Really, we are beginning to lo9e faith m Captain Edwin. All last week he predicted bad weather, though none came for day s ! after the period prescribed had termi«' nated.

Mr Tricklebank bad to enterview the Borough Engineer to*day m reference to a trench that had been cat m dangerous proximity to the entrance to his residence m Princeis-atreet. The place had been left^ntirely unprotected, and also without lights, the consequence being that three or four persons fell into the trench fast night, one, a little boy, receiving consider able injniry -from the accident. ..The" owner tit the-property topreveht further accident, acting -by advice -filled .up'the ; trench. The Borough Engineer said the contractors were to blame for not haying-lighted (he place at night, but upheld Mr Tricklebenk's action m promptly filling up the place, apologising at the same time for any apparent remissoess m having allowed; the place to remain unprotected; , The Oulcutta Englishman mentions thet, at the request of the New Zealand Government, 100 couples of mongooses will be sent out by the Government of India t 0 wage war against 'bnuny.' : ;" .. Rabbits are becomming civilised and .are combining for mutual protection as notice the following advertisement which appears^ m the Palmerston South Times.— '* Notice. — A public meetin of rabbitawill be held on Hochaetter Dome (Mount Cook) on the 26th instant, for the purpose of taking steps to obtain provender for the winter. Waihemo and Shag Valley rabbits specially invited. By order.— Phosphorus." Probably their next step will be to hold cancus- meeting with a view to select one of their number to represent them m Parliament. . It; appears that, the Wiggins' storm .prediction created some sensation at home as well as m Australasia and America. Considerable alarm having been caused m the minds of smack-owners as to the safety of their property, a Mr Emmet, underwriter, of JRamsgate, wrote to the Meterologieal Office, .London, on the subject, 'and received the following reply';— •" The prophecy to which you allude emanates from some man m the Finance ■■■-Depart-,', ment of the Canadian Government. It is utter nonsense. No living man can pre» diet the weather two days beforehand,, much less six months. The idea that the Admiralty have ordered ships to lie m port is also absurd and utterly false." . ; Monday last, the 23rd April, was the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth an d death. . , . ** Anawkwafdaccident happened last week to a man who was assisting at Mr J. Gardner's slaughterhouse, m Johnson ville. Mr Charles White, cattle drover, was at the winch winding up a slaughtered bullock, when he- let the .hindle slip, and it flew round rapidly with the weight, the handle striking his chin, cutting it fearfully, and knocking out three teeth. He remained linfc conscious about an hour, when he was able., to go .home. - • -" '"''-' ""• " :: •"' Despatches received from the Agent.; General state that the Waipawalaft' for Lyttelton on the 4th February with 220 soula, equal to 205 adults, including^ 13o' single women. The Caroline — the vessel, which re-embarked the Wild Deer's passengers—left the Clyde on the 19th February, for Port Chalmers, with 235 souls, equal to 213 adults , of whom 112 were single women. Of the 164£ statute adults on the Wild Deer, 134 had sailed m the Caroline' A few were ill from exposure on the occasion of the wreck, and would be sent if they recovered m time by the Eorfarshire. Some of the emigrants had refused to re* embark. A fire was occasioned m a peculiar way m a hotel m Sydney recently. The. lan^i) lady was lighting the gas m her bedroom, when a rat running across the room, startled her. Sac dropped the lipht near the bed and ignited the curtains, which blazed up instantly, tha whole bedbeeomi ing enveloped m flames. The fire was ex» tinguished bj ; the inmates, the only darn* age done being the complete destruction of the bed and bedding;