LOCAL AN GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 146, 29 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AN GENERAL.

The Rst says it is, rumored that Mr Bryce pirposes proceeding "to England directly after the session* -to institute personally a prosecution against the author of the,recent history of New Zealand m which grave charges are made agairst the Native Minister. A movement has been started m Italy to holi the services, of the - Protestant. Episcopal church m the Italian language. It is well that -those who give ■ their sytnpaihy and support to the -Rndmond Missiot shodid know the : aim m view. This is what W. Redmond says ;: — " I say, as »' Nationalist, that no man yearns moretbanldo to see Ireland a free nation, untrammelled by any shadow of British law, but I say to you that no league can n only be aechmplisled by the" swords; and united arms of the Irish .people." At,', present thejeagjje has hot advanced beyond the knife of the assassin, . ■ News to hand from Sydney,.states that: aiittle boy has diedjfrom injuries caused bybis being induced to fight another at North Shore; and was thrown into the wat«r, causing peritonitis. - r ; The N. S Wales Legislative Council amended the Licensing Act By altering the bona fide travellers! clause; ftiaking it necewary for him' to accomplish d journey of s€t) miles on a Sunday before he will be eligible to be supplied with a drink. ; ':;. The North J American Review says;; During the century just passed the popular tion of-the Unitod States has increased : eleven fold arid the' churches thirty >seven fold,'end while a hundred years ago there was one church to every 1700 inhabitants there is now one for every 629. ' ! A very peculiar suicide was committed by a schoolmaster at Mangalore, Victoria, recently. He purchased a gimlet at^.a store at Mangalore, and was very particu" lar m bis selection. He then returned home, and actually bored with the gimlet through his left breast, piercing his heart and thereby ending his earthly career. A grand bazaar has been given m aid of the above; The Cathedral was started four years ago, and over £8000 has been spent on it}' though the walls are only up "partway., . : iiThe health ofthat arch fiend, Te Kooti, was drunk at the recent banquet given to Mr Bryce. Wonders will never cease. The Dunedin Star says; —A railway employe thus expresses his opinion of the service :—" I really .believe that no one succeeds in'the" Government service, .especially m the Railway Department^ better than a man' with' a' good dense wooden head* > Such a man is on a par with his superiors, so.then, there is! no jealousy."- • (Says a Southern exchange) the exterior stonework of Westminister \bbey, which has long been a cause of uneasiness to the dean and chapter, has now been found to be disintegrating so rapidly as to be .ah most a source of danger. Of late years the Abbey has grown blacker and blacker, until it is now hard to say which of the two metropolitan cathedrals is the grimier. • Mr James Weight, of the Princess Hotel,'gives noMce. of -his, intention: to apply for .4; license at the' next sitting of the Court. > .MrrDol -I».-! Smith, manager for Mr Manson, requires 80 acres of light bush fallen. The Bay of Plenty Times says " one of the.little ceremonies that the Governor will be called on to perform whilst on a visit to Ohinemutn will be to unveil the bust of Her Most Gracious Majesty, which is lo adorn Taroati Kapua, being placed amone the obscene Maori carvin gs." Major 'Atkinson -passed through by special train a little before mid-ni^ht last nisrht, m time to catch the first train for Waverley, en route tplHawera, atwhich place heis to address his constituents this evening.' v r The mail from Wellington reached Palmeratoti by the morning train to-day, the coach having failed to get to Foxton by train time. ; MrfPoderin; Rangifcikei Line, is advertising for a steady man accustomed to stock. ' The election of Borough auditors is else* where announced. j The cable brines U3 intelligence of the arrival of the British King m Lob* don. We trust our erstwhile towns-man, Mr T; Manson, tand family, arrived Home after a pleasant voyage, To-day will .be the last day on which Mr Harris, about, whom the Education-Board have been so much exercised of late, will continue m their service. •;' We learn that .he | will take charge of some new schonl under the Gisborne Board, and it is to be hoped that his relations with his new Committee will be more amicable than was the case at Halcombe. We wish him success m his new sphere. The electric light has found a novel employ ment m the hands of some ingenious Frenchmen, who have lately, by permission of their Governjoent, been experimenting with it as a lure for fish. The lamp was contained m airtight globe, and was lowered at night into the sea with the ret suit that thousand of fish of all sizes were attracted to its brilliant light. Boats furnished with nets gradually closed m upon the living mass and made a great haul of fish.