The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILT.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 128, 7 May 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILT.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We beg to remind our town subscribers that they will be called upon early m the present week for their overdue subscriptions, when a prompt settlement of all accounts rendered to date is requested. Mr Croßse will pay bis usual professional visit to Palmerston to-morrow, and can Private Hotel. We apain remind our reader." of the tea- meeting to take place m the new Wesleyan church this evening, which it is expected will prove a very pleasant fathering. Mesarp Stevens & Gorton's npxt sale at the Borough Yards will take place to« morrow, at J o'clock. Mr J. McLennan, of Oroua Downs, is m want of a man to look after horses.&c. " A. B." writes : — Your contemporary advertises thufly :-"Tbe Manawatu Times publishes more news than any other paper m Manawatu ns comparison will show." I took the trouble yesterday to make a calculation, (the better the day the better the deed), and this wns the result. Times, of Saturdny, reading matter, 85^ inches, Standard, of Saturday, 147 inches, or three quarters as much again as m the Times. If your contemporary rashly invites comparison, be must not be sur* prised if occasionally- his challenge is taken up by some curious unbeliever like myself, and. the truth or otherwise of his statement closely investigated . A New Jersey man has patented a stove that explodes at 10 o'clock at . night. He has four daughters. A boy who had been watching through the key-hole the antics of a couple of lovers, r»n down-to the kitchen to announce the discovery to his mother. " Oh, its such fun P" he exclaimed " What's such fun?" gravely asked the old lady. " Why to see sister Molly and Mr Fipps play lunatic asylum." The Melbourne Age now circulates 50,000 daily. Ten years ago the number wasl7,ooo. The Wanganui Education Board is advertising for teachers for Mars Hill, Warrenpate, Whenuakura, Glen Nevis, also for assistant female teacher at Palmerston North and Foxton Schools. "We learn there was a heavy landslip on the Gorge .Road yesterday, men being at work clearing away the dirt to enable traffic to be resumed. A large number" of respectable but shortsighted people who lent their farour and gave their money to the michievous burlesque of a religious movement called the Salvationists have now (says a home paper) come to their senses.; The Earl of Shaftesbury has denounced -the whole business m terms of the strongest reprobation. The clergy are painfully awarenow of the havoc this service has wrought among the members of their congregations. The minds' | which are captivated to religion by noise i and the language of carnage, by the symbols of murder and incendiarism, are ill* balanced, and the after-effect is as painful as the getting sober to a man or woman who has been drunk for a lengthened period. That portion of the Stoney Creek Boad within the Borough Boundary, opposite the Cemetery, sadly wants attention. If Dot repaired ii threatens to be impassable during the winter* The Chi? f Justice left this afternoon by uoach for Masterton,en route for Wellington. We notice that Mr H. J. Hankins is making substantial additions to the iwelling recently purchHsed by him on the Stoney Creek road. Mr Prendergrast is advertising for a uarried m»n, with a good knowledge of itock and farm work. The Waiarapa Daily remarks : — The Colonial Architect's Office is evidently veil informed as to its own operations. [t sent a Clerk of Works up to Masterton ;hiß week to inspect the progress of tha 3ourt H ouse building, which as yet only ixists on paper. A father, on being requested by a rich md vulgar young fellow for permission to narry " one of his girls, " gave this rather ' pushing reply ; "Certainly ; which would rou prefer, the housemaid or the cook P'' '

An influential movement is on foot m Wanjfanui to establish a Dairy Factory, and the Committee appointed has selected a site and received very large promises of support. There is every prospect that a Company will be formed. A. gentleman lately out from England (says the Wanganui . Herald) has been visiting Wanganui on the lookout for land. He would not be satisfied with less than 60,000 acres, and being unable to obtain ti^is area went elsewhere, but we hear that he is likelyto negotiate for a property sufficient to meet his requirements on the Hawke's Bay side. His object is to start a . woollen factory, but he desires to combine wool-producing with wool-manufacture, intending to raise sufficient to meet his own requirements for the most part. In this case the proposed factory would con sume little of the wool produced by the other snttlers m the neighbourhood, and would m fact amount to a monopoly. A few of the more' enterprising settlers m. Rangitikei are inclined to aid m the venn ture of establishing; a woollen factory,and it is generally acknowledged that Wan« ganui would form the .best site for such an industry. What do our Wanganui capitalists say to the proposal whea such an interest is at stake? The following ominous advertisement appears m the Napier Telegraph ;— " If the party who threw filth over the fence of my back yard last Thursday nisrht on my clean clothes does not apologise through this paper, within seven, days, proceedings 'vill be taken against him, as it is well known who did it." The friends of Mr W. I>. Shaw will be glad to learn that he now occupies a good position m the service of Messrs John Duthie & Co., of Wellington, m whose employ Mr Shaw was m Wanganui for a considerable time some years ago. A correspondent forwards the following apropos of the recent concert : — A London organ«grinder recently escaped fine by a very ingenious excuse. He had been playing before the hou«e of an irascible old gentleman, who furiously and wild with gesticulations ordered him to " move on." The organ-grinder stolidly ground on, and was arrested for his disturbance. At the trial the Judge asked him ffhy he did not leave when requested. " No spick Inglese," was the reply. " Well," said the Judge, but you must have understood his gestures, his motions." " I thiukie he come to dance," was the rejoinder, that caused the Judge to laugh heartily, and let the musician go. > . - The following nominations have been received by the R-turning Officer for the vacancy m the Clifton Riding (Rangitikei County Council) caused by the re* tirement of Mr C. Bull : — Alex. Dalziell, Stephen Fagan, and Arthur E Remiugton. A poll will take place on Friday, 11th May. A very peculiar suicide was commited by a schoolmaster at Mat/galore (Victoria) recently. He purchased a gimlet at a store at Mangalore, and was very parti* cular m its selection. He then returned home, and actually bored with the gimlet through his left breast, piercing the heart, and thereby ending his earthly career.