LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

More complaints of the management of the Public Library. A* correspondent writes :— '* I could not get a later|file of the Illustrated London News than the middle of January. TV, here are all the rest 1 Who is responsible 1 " ■ : is rather "strange that Wellington, Wanganui, and Palmerston should each be aaitating for a new theatre, and all on the same plea, viz. , inadequacy o£ present accommodation. , ■ : . Mr J. McLennan, Oroua Downs, and Mr J. R. F. Pratt, have been appointed to the Commission of the Peace. Melrose has been withdrawn from offer to the Wellington Corporation, and so the poll for its purohse as a burial site will not tßke " |slace. " This' good result was achieved _by agitation. - :.. ; We remind our readers of the Fancy Dress Ball to V* given on Thursday even* ing, J undsr the auspice^ of the Football. Club. " The affair promises fa pass off very successfully. '''.■'.' :..^,' '[)" '"' ; But f r?r pur accidental error. , |n insert*, ing on the'day before it Was authorized, the Msnawatu Road Board notice of meeting to strike a rate, the whole attair would have been illegal. A certain specified time, is, required by the Act, which otherwise would not hay» been legally conformed to. . A gentleman m th« building line wrote the other jay to a timber merchant not a thousand miles from a Northern timber mill, informing him that he had a contract on hand to build a hotel, for which he wanted some 30,000 or 40,000 feet of timber, and asked for a schedule of prices. This, we believe, would amount to something between £300; or £400. Judge of hisi surprise when he was told that as the timber Would be used for the erection ot a hotel, the merchant could not conscien> tiously supply it, but would he glad to deal with him for any timber he might require for any other purpose than hotel or brewery buildings. The arc electric light at Messrs, Milner and Thompson's new building, Christ* church, was the theme of universal admiration on Saturday, 26th ult. The night being dark, it lit Up the whole of the surrounding buildings and the street east and west most brilliantly* The price of maize has lately greatly fallen owing to the. cheap supply of oats frpm the South, .and the Bay of Plenty Times suggests that a few thousand baps should be shipped to England. As showing thalmagnitube of the rab« | bit pest and the mode of coping with it, we (M*rlborou<rh Daily Times), may take the following figures as,some, criterion : — ftn Starboro-iirh, for the past t welre months, 160,000 skins were brought m ; on Flaxbourne, over 30,000 skins were got m off one block of hills m less than one month ; phosphorised oats being the deadly agent. It is estimated that only one m ten skins is recovered, the other I nine rabbits dying m the burrows. We may state that all the other rnns are killing m the same proportion. The LoDdon Tines states that the general scheme of raising the Austral was settled m London by the managers, who were guided by the advice of Mr John Stansneld, M.I.C.E. The Austral is in* sured m London Liverpool, Glasgow, and Paris for upwards of £200,000. Those m search of useful information by which they can save money should are fully read Bentley Bros., advertisement that appear on the first page of this paper. The firm has established a name for selling useful drapery and clothing at reasonable prices, which combined with civility and attention to customers has caused Maryborough Houit become very popular.— [Adat.]