LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 145, 28 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following advertisement appeared recently m a London daily paper:—" A merchant wants a clerk who can correspond fluently m! three languages; salary, £1 a week." To a death notice of a child aged 6 months, which.appears m the Wellington paper?, appears the'add'itioi. :— " Deeply regretted by a large circle of friends! The Borough ie writing, tenders for works m Eangitikei and Fitzherbertstreets. Tho catalogue o£ Mr G-. M. Snelaon's Fitzherberfc»street sale next Saturday, is elsewhere announced. „■; Mrs Lowes, of the, Otangaki Hotel, is advertising for, a., general servant. ', , . ' : Traffic for conveyances at the Gorge Ferry will be suspended after to«morrow while much-needed repairs to the tpunt are being effected. : Mr John Stevens M.H H. 1 is to address the electors round about. Cheltenham and on Kirabolton Road at 7 o'clock to-morrow evening at the Town Hail I 'Kiwitea. \\'' The Cape Argus nfprmsJtsV dreaders that the heir to the earldom of Stamford and -Warrington has for many years re» sided at Wynbbfg;near Gapeton,:" notin thearistocraitic quarter of that delightful, vi'lage, bat m a two-roomed cottage on the flats" He is a clergyman, has been jaanied three times, and his present wife is a Hottentot. We take the following from the Patea Mai?, of Friday :— "MrFlood, who for the past 3£ years, has successfully held the position of second master at the School here, leaves to»day for Palmerston North, to enter upon his new duties as ma9ter of the Karere School.' Mr Flood takes with' him the good wishes of his pupils, and a large circle of friends." _ i "An Englishman" wriles to a Mcl« bourne contemporary complaining of the terrible frequency with which the third commandment is broken m the colonies. A stump orator down South- declared m the course of his speech on Major Atkin* son's insurance scheme, that if it w«s introduced m New Zealand " it wbuldcause a resurrection." Mr J. H. Hankina is advertising for a good general, servant. The Bruce Standard has ceased public* ation. We understand the proprietors are removing their plant to the North Island, where they iptead, to start a new venture. Mr Murray, manufacturer, at Liverpool, New South Wales, recently gave a picnic to his workpeople and their friends. In a speech he made on the occasion, Mr Murray said : —/'During the nine years his factory had been m operation, 8500 tons of paper, principally for news printing, had been made and supplied to the leading journals m Australia j. 40,000 tons of coal had been used * m "the manufacture; £50,000 had been paid m the purchase of rags, which to a great extent wa^.a wa*fce article m the colony ; £45,000 had been paid m wages ; ,£28,000 had been paid for railway carriage and freights, principally to Government railways, 4500-.,. tons of straw had been used ; and last, although ;not the least of Colonial production, he had 'trained several apprentices to the trade, of whom; he would not be ashamed were they to be placed m the best paper-mills m Europe." , ' ■' ' Notwithstanding the numerous brick manufactories around Auckland, and thoae about to be started, it is stated bricks are likely to be scarce for the next few months; and m too " limited supply. There are a number of heavy building contracts on hand and about to be entered into, which, it ia said, will absorb all' the marketable bricks which can be supplied. This state of things should be a stimulus to the local factories to produce a good article and make a large output. A half*cnßte woman m New South 1 Wales recently gave birth to twins, one j child being white and.the other black. -'• ; From New Zealand alone 8,500,000 ' rabbit skins were sent to England m 1880. These skins are m demand by the.furriers. Suclrskins as are not dyed, and fused as furs are, after the hair has been* pulled off for the hat-maker and for stuffing bods, ■ employed for glove making. The hair is also nffwurddfbTnlakihg yarn" and clothTJ The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter ' enumerating eight railways - /which are being conßtructed^on the-western frontier of Russia which, as far as can be seen, are not i equired for commercial purposes.; The Taranaki News learns that a company has been formed and the necessary arrangements made for the opening up of the Mokau country;. With the consent and help of the natives the company alluded to will endeavor to ship away from Mokau a portion of the vast* -deposits of limestone and coal which are now lying idle there,:the quality of which has already beep favourable commented upon. In con« nectjon with the coal trade from Mokau a novel application will be made to ■ the Harbor Board, viz., an application to lease one of the outer Sugarloaves for a coaling station. The idea is far from a bad one, and the originators of it deserve every en* ' coufagement.