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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 153, 7 June 1883, Page 2

Several cases of typhoid fever hare been reported m Masterton during the past few days. Oa Saturday (says the Star) a fine healthy young lad of twelve years, son of Mr. Sparksman, a seltler at Manaia, succumbed to the disease, and the whole family, consisting of Mrs Sparksman and four children, are down with it. The locality is a healthy one, isolated from other dwellings, and the ontbreak of the epidemic, m such a place seenaa unaccountable. _;-. .; j -^j I I IvThe Chronicle publishes a iyarn- thalV Malgolm and Gillett intend proceeding against Constable Gillespie for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. Of course, this is all nonseuse. We-learn from the Inangnhua Times that Father Oarew,'of Reefton, is about to be transferred to Fielding. of Riyerton, has (backed out of the sculling match, with Hearn. Thesupportefa of Hearn are indignant. An important matter will be ~ brought before the Rangitikei County Council at its next meeting, by the Chairman, Mr Milne; namely a- proposal for the extension of the Sandon and Foxton tramway to Marton, , making a ■ thorough line to Foxton. Mr Murray, County Engineer, is now engaged m making a survey of a route from Bulls for the diversion of the loop«lirie to Marton instead of the Great* ford terminus. r ' The line will be about 19 miles shorter ithan the present from wbiph jit must cpnseiiaently divert a large amount of traffic.; ;'^ . !? :. ~.'\ The late Prince (Jortaqhakoff,. whose parsimony was notorions, leaves an immense fortune to his two sons. : - A vulture has recently been seen hover* ing over the city of ' London, occasionally perching upon some of the tallest buildings. A member of the same tribe was. caught forty years ago Bear Cork Harbor, and m 1855 1 one was shoe on the snores of the British Channel. These, three vultures are, it is said, the] only srJecinc'ena 'known to have visited the British him for several centuries. An unsophisticated stranger was 1 "doing" Queen-street Auoklahd,last week, and, re« quiring a reduction of his hirsute develop* ment, entered a barber's shop, and took , his seat m front of a mirror. He had not been long there when he heard a gentle rustle, and turning: his head round he saw a woman beside him, He was somewhat astonished upon being asked by the barberess if he wasted a shave or a " cut." He was not quite certain what to do, but after the operation had been performed he said he thought he could " go " another share if the fair one could find a little more stubble.