LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Public service will be held (D.V.) at the schoolhouse, Stoney Creek, to-morrow at 3 p.m. Sankey's hymns. No collection. All are invited— [Advt.] Mrs McLennan, of Oroua Downs, is m want of a good general servant. Mr McLennan, of Oroua Downs, ia ad* vertising for a carpenter. The English advertisment of Epps's cocoa will be found elsewhere. It was forwarded by our London agents, a nd several longer ones from the same sour cc have yet to appear as soon as room can c made for them. The Feilding paper gets hold of the moat extraordinary dog stories. The Post has tb.3 following extract from its columns, the original of which we have not seen : — " The Feiiding Guardian assorts that dog fat has been administered to two consumptive children m the district, the result being a marked improvement m their health." Mr O.E. Hyltbn, the Square, has been appointed sole agent for Palm era ton for Picturesque New Zealand, and subscribers will receive their copies at his 69 tab- 1 lishmenl. For persona desirous .of enabling their friends elsewhere to form ' as fair an idea as possible of what New Zealand ia, without actually visiting our colony, bo rich m natural beauties, we warmly reccotnmend Picturesque New ' Zealand. We have perused with pleasure several numbers left at this office, and both reading«matter and illustrations are excellent. Picturesque New Zealand should have a large circulation m and around Palmerston. Joe Brady, the first of the Phoenix Park murderers sentenced to death, is to be hanged on Monday next. The election for the vacant seat m the House of Representatives for the district of Inahgahua takes place next Monday. A novel excuse for not being sworn m the usual manner -was made by a female witness at the Wellington Resident i Magistrate's Court (says the Post). She stated that she was an Irishman (sic) and enceinte, and did not think the usual oath would agree with her. She was at ( length, however, prevailed upon , to take it. Within a day's journey of the New Guinea coast, Port Moresby, may be found pandanus trees, orchids, magnificent banyan trees, wild strawberries and raspberries, birds of paradise, bellbirds, sugarcane, and bananas. No wonder Queensland wants . appropriate New Guinea^

A special meeting of shareholders of the Palnierston Brewery & Co., (Limited) will be held at the office of the Company ou Tuesday, the 22nd iost at 2 p.m, A. situation for a nvirrieil couple with good reference is wanted. The preliminary announcement of the Wesleyan concert appears elsewhere. The following cu«"e for cancer is published by the Boinosopathic World ;— Boil three of the finest figs m half a pint of n w milk ; when they are tender, split one and apply the inaide of it, as warm as it can be bo ne, to the part affected, whether broken or not ; wash it with the milk every time the poultice is changed, which must be at least night nnd morning, and once m the day. A quarter of a pint of milk, ii which the fi^s have been boiled, shuuld also be drunk twice m the day, if the stomach will bear it. This course must be steadily observed for three or four months at least. The first application will be attended with pain ; but afterwards the patient will find ease and relief from every dressing. A woman was cured by this remedy who had been afflicted with cancer ten years, and her breast bled excessively ; twelve pounds of figs cured her. In one of the dry districts of New South Wales the baptism of a baby was of necessity postponed on a late occasion, be* cause there was no water wherewith to perform the ceremony. This may ap» pear extravagant, but it is an unexnggerated fact. The parents, the godfathers, and godmoihers were duly m attendance, with a square black bottle of water from the Bluearass Creek. The precious fluid was left m the church porch, and when the cbristeningperiodinthe servicearrived the water was sought. Alas ISome thirsty soul, beguiled perhaps by the squareness of the flisk, had drawn the cork, nnd the contents were missing. This christening had to be postponed* for there wasn't a waterhole within five miha of the church. The grand horse Assyrian is not likejy to raca any more, having broken down m one of his fore legs. Several owners of property situate uear the nighUaoil depot m Wellington have entered into a bond to contribute. £50. each to a fund, which now amounts to £400, for the purpose of taking legal proceedings against the City Corporation, unless the present nuisance be abated by removal of the depotbefore the cad of next month. A letter to this effect has been addressed to the Town Clerk. The campaign m E»ypt having brought prominently to the notice pi the War Office the value and importance of a properly organised railway corps for ser« vice with an army m the field, the Secretary of State for War has'under consideration a proposal by which these duties wonld be taken over by the corps of Royal Engineers. The idea is to form separate companies for railway work. A singular death has occurred at Derby, England. , A servant girl m the employ of an alderman of the borough was found dead, suspended by the neck from a roller towei behind the kitchen door. She bad been m good health and spirits a short time before, and the supposition is that while wiping her face her beck was caught m the towel and she was suffocated. That, at least, was the finding of the jury. ' The total amount annually received or expended on Queen "Victoria and the other members of the royal : family is £893,582. In this is included maintenance of palaces, expenditure m connection with (L 35.885),' households of deceasrd sb^groh !f cv <^£6475) i an d many . other such items. IPTs^Bstimated that nbout £50,000 per annum would have to be expended were there no royal family "to provide for. -.<.-* The .New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer British Qaeen is due at Welling* ton from London and Plymouth to-day being 50 days out. Some time ago (says the Post) it was reported that Gear's Meat Company had had received information as to improve* ments m connection with the freezing of meat. The following from a London letter m the Australasian, probably has reference to the some matter; — "Another proposal which wiil have an important bearing upon the future success of the frozen-meat trade has .already been broached. Means have been devised, so it is said, for economising the quantity of ceal used m working the refrigerating mnehines during a long voyage. If it is frm» that a ssving of three^fourths of the quanty of coal now consumed can be made, the discovery will be a valuable one." That disputed case m Wellington has ended at last. The third summons issued against Mr Malcolm, as a partner of Gillett Brothere and Co., for a claim of LlO 6s by Bannatyne and Co., proved to be is proper form and duly served, on I being decided at the U.M. Court on Thursdaj. Mr Malcolm had responded to iit by confessin? the debt, but asking that the judgment should be against the firm. Order made for immedia'e payment, with costs, but his Honor declined to make tha order against any other than Mr Malcolm. Tenders are elawb'ere invited for felling 60 acres of bush m Fitzherbert. Mr flreenwood will visit Palmeraton on Wednesday the 23rd insfant, and Feildiog on Wedensdav June 6th.