LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 136, 16 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! Miss Johnston announces new arrivals of fruit, .all sound and' in good condition. i A private meeting of the creditors of Messrs Gillett and Co. , a firm tbat includes I^ger, Malcolm, and,C.o,., of Palmefrston N ofthj was ; held at' ... the - office of Messrs Buller, and. Gully, Wellington, on ifroriday Btternbon. Two of tha creditors were- appointed -to investigate' the condition of the firm and report to another meeting of creditors, to be held on Monday next. . ! The Auckland Star strongly urge's on p'arents the duty. of acting with th«. police in putting dowii the use of catapults by theyounpr. • : ; : ' ] The railway authorities, announce that . return tickets f rbtn |nll 1 Rations to Marton will be available^ THirtJday; thedajteon which the Marton- Rangitikei Meeting will beheld., Jr . jV . i , / . { „.,-: ■ ...-,"• Tjhe; last iinwai^d' mail Bteamer was delayed'at Auckiaud six hours for want of laborers to work on the vessel. As much as 2a and 2s 6d per hour was offered. : The Few Zealand Herald states that Sir George Grey is in good health, and ready for hia Parliamentary duties. ' The Nelson Acclimatisation Society have preferred a 1 charge against a resident of Happy Valley, named John Powell, for shooting a stag out of season. It is stated that a peat number of deer have been shot during: the close season. The Herald understands that Mr A. Nathan's tender of about £19,100 haa been accepted for the Maoawapou section of the Wang«nui-New Plyniounth rail■way. The distance is 2^ niiles, embracing probably the wpr9t piece of formation on the line, and the contract time is about 8 months. Writes the Waneranui Chroncile ; — "We trust the Manawatu Times does an injustice to its district, when it over and over again writes as though an illicit still was the principal industry extant in the Manawatu, and was to be. cherished and protected accordingly." This condemnation is not unmerited. We very much : regret to learn of the deata, at the early age cf 23 years, of the eldest daughter of Mr D. D. Kitchen, saddler, of Wanganui. The deceased iyonng lady was a pronriement member of the \\ angagui Harmonic Society, a'nd a very clever vocalist and musician. We deeply sympathise with her 'bereaved parent' and family in their sore trial. Miss Batch eu fell a prey to consumption, and only lately was it apparent that her young life waa so soon to be but off. • The Royal Illusionists announce a visit to Palmerston. The performance is very I highly spoken of by the Wellington and Australian press. j (.'ermany ulilses all her land; even the highways are bordered with frnit trees, pruned and cured for by the road makers, and watched day and night for several weeks before the crop matures. The value of this resource is said to have aggregated one year 2,000,000 dola in the Province of Wurtemburg alone. The best breed for a dairy where the milk is sent to a cheese -factory is the Ayrshire. No other cow is so productive for the quantity of food eaten as this kind. Pedigree Ayrshires are the mO3t profitable of all dairy cows for the cost and keepine, even for butter, as although the milk may not be so rich in cream, as the Jerseys' milk, yet they give ! more of it, and in some cases their milk is quite as rich as that of any Jersey cow. This breed of cattle is active, and do well upon light, rough pasture where heavier cattle would not. The progress of the construction of the Oanada«Pacific railway has' been so rapid that seven; and a half million, acres of its land subsidy has already been earned, and as the dominion land, survey has not been .able to keep pace .with that progress, ;the government have been forced to grant the Company all the unoccupied odd.numbered sections in the old province of Manitoba, 't " After the Ist May in Chicago, no person or corporation will be permitted to maintain or use any telegraph pole, telegraph : wire or electrict conductor in any street or alley of that city. Every great fire adds newemphasiV to the cry of " put ' the wires underground." It is probable that Mr Redmond. M.P., will not have time to visit ' New Zealand before his return to England. [ It is.propdsedin Lyttelton that a New {Zealand Literary Magazine • should be ) established. Twenty years ago. a very excellent literary magazine was published in Aupkjand, called " The - Southern : Monthly Magazine." . ; There are about two persons insured to every eleven ot the population of New Zealand, and the sum insured is something over £20,000,000. It hurts John Bryce, says an exchange, just as much to burn him in effigy as it would have done to have his shadow on a stone wall butted by a goat.