The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) vant la verite. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2,1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 May 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) vant la verite. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Elsewhere wiil be found the nominations (twelve m number) for the Manawatu District Produce Race of £60. This must be cousidered very satisfactory, as with acceptance and other fees there should be a balance to the credit of the Club. We are glad to hear that the business of the Palmerston Brewery Company has shown a very satisfactory increase since Mr Tom King took charge. Mr King is possessed of business energy that makes itself felt m everything he undertakes and the consequence is that the Brewery Company have reason to congratulate themselves m their selection of him as their manager. Mr Snelson announces thafc Partridge's cart will leave his store at noon to-morrow for the convenience of intending purchasers ar Mr Guthries sale at Knrere. The result of the poll. for the Kiwitpa election under the Boads and Bridges Construction Act is elsewhere officially; announced. In the manifest of the steamer Te Anau at "Wellington from Auckland appears the following:— « 2 bones, Buller." What is the worthy doctor going to do with those two bones? Are they Moa bones, whale bones, human bones, relics of some extinct rumtumphusillum, or the j«w bones of an ass? jftenlly, we should like to hear a little more about those bonea that came m two ships consigned to Drßufler. The Manawatu portion of the Frisco Mail may be expected to reach Palmerston on Thursday evening. The Otago Daily Titnes draws the attention of its readers to the danger of eating. rabbits that may be sent into town from districts m which poisoning by the means of • phospborized oato is being carried out. The Auckland f correspondent Pof the Wanganui Herald is credibly informed that Judge Fentnn will be cailed to the Upper "House. An exchange has the following:— "Priestly, the alleged murderer, has turned his attention to gura-diggine. A rather sharp decent for a Gospel student." IWe don't think so. We have known Gospel students make much "sharper decents than going gum-dig e ing. It ia an honest calling, and Priestly notwithstanding his antecedents, might make a first class j! urardigger. ; f You; never can tell what a Gotfel student can turn his hand to. Many of them seem to have attained proficiency at all kinds of vocations, .from pitch»ftnd-toss to ..manslaughter; -An honest gum«digger is much to be preferred to a ; snivelling saint any day. In the Wanganui Supreme Court, Elzabeth Jacks, on a charge of larceny, wasfound not guilty, throngh the accused being of weak mind, Twenty tons of, dynamite were recently landed m Wellington for blastine purples m connection with the Te Aro reclamation. Captain Gray, of the Stella, reports that Mr Hay, surveyor, and party, who left Queenstown some time ago to walk to the Sounds, arrived at Long Sound m saf ty, after a journey of 27 days, this being the first time the trip has been accomplished, at any rate by white men. They were supplied with provisions, &c, from the Stella, and then left to walk round the coaßt to Biverton, and thence home, which they expected to occupy them another 1$ day 3. In the House of Commons last Wednesday night, the -Affirmations m Lieu of Oathßßill was again under consideration. During the course of the debate Mr. Glad* stone made a speech, m which he strongly supported the measure. The discussion was, > however, adjourned.