LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the borough ' of Hawera, with a population of 1500, there are no leas than, seven, licensed houses* Additions have been made to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's programme' "for their Borough Sale. The Wilmott Combination Company have an advertisement appearing else« f where, announcing change of programme every evening. : j. Fully a couple of hundred peasons who purchased tickets for the concert held in' Wellington^ m aid of the wife and family of the Rev. Jeremiah Murphy -were unable to obtain aemisaion to the Hall, the attendance of the general public being far greater than was anticipated. Tenders are invited for felling 100 acres of light towa bush. • • • < With regard to the JMaia Trunk Rail* i way. Line through- the -Nor th' Island, the" Wanganui Herald says:— "lt is well known that the stars just nowjare fighting against theMokau route. The King Natives have not only given .their assent to the line of i '• railway J g6ing through their territory, but have absolutely prohibited any survey.-of-the route." - ; -' ■ ' "• ' Dr Curl will pay his usual weekly pro* fessional visit to Palmerston . to-morrow, and) can be consulted as usual' it Reiniiigton's Medical Hall. , . „ Mr Wilson, M.H.R., addressed his *ofek-i'Constiluentff^a^fia*ay light, and obtained a vote of confidence. The chief points of . his" address were that there shoulfl be a Board to manage railways, and the tariff on timber lowered. It will no doubt be. interesting 1 to some of our. readers to know that the month of June ia one of j^he. periods of the year specified m the Vnlunteer regulations when recruits .can be enrolled. Now ' is the time, therefore, -for patriotic young men to fill up any vacancies which exist m our local Volunteer3bodies. ; Messrs. Thompson, Shannon and Co. request us (Post) to state that the paragraph which was published; m our last 1 issue (extracted from a Wanganui papier) about a prisoner Bamed Jackson, said ' to have been employed by thena and dismissed for drunkenness, is a pure myth, soiar:Bßit relatfls' to that firm.. The : story was probably one of Jackson's con* coefcions. He had neither the appearance nior education of a man had ever moved m good society. . ■;';■■■..' :: Au' accommodation license has been granted.to F. Bills, of Paiiiakariki, on condition that he keep a light burning from Bumet to sunrise, where main road turns m from the beach. The same regulation should be enforced at Ohau and Otaki. . r ' ' .... ; The charge against the three individuals who tried to rush the Volunteer Ball on- "Queens Birthnight will come on for hearing next Court day. ; We learn with regret that Mrs Johns ston, wife of the fruiterer intheSqnare, was to be brought up this afternoon as a dangerous lunatic. , ; . , The Wesleyan Choir meet tor practice, at 7*30- o'clock' this evening. \ The Brunswick Bench (Victoria) is up m arms, because MrTownsendM'Dermott, who i 9 no- less impulsive as a barrister than he used to be as a politician," condemned one of its decisions as " the most ,_d.isgracef ul he had ever heard," adding, " But what can you expect when a felon from Pentridge is allowed on the Bench? The steamer Hauroto, which sailed from Wellington for Sydney on Tuesday, took away afull cargo of New Zealand produce, including 90 horaes, . 12 head Ayrshire and other cattle, about 700 kegs butter, 18 bales hops, and 639 packages of prepared wood, the latter being pieces prepared m Wellington mills ready for putting together as boxes. It is to be hoped (says a Wellington paper) that Australians will not judge New Zealand cattle by the shipment referred to, for. a more scrub by»looking.lot could Kardly be brought together. Not drily were most of the animals m exceedingly low condition; but they were also thoroughly under-sized. Some of the - three-year olds would scarcely turn the scale at 350 ft.