LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 164, 16 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are pleased to hear from Mr Monrad that the Government are alive to the importance of the butt«r and .cheese industry; and will probably have some information with regard thereto dissem* mated* and will otherwise endeavour to ! promote the success of the enterprise. ] . Tenders for formation and laying of rails. on the Carnarvon -Sandon Tramway Contract were to close at Foxton at noon to-day. The two men Graham and McCafferty who received such heavy sentences at the hands of the Palmerston Bench of Magistrates, were old offenders, several previous cinvictions having been recorded against each, neither having been long released after recent sentences. Phcebe Veitch, the WangaDui child murderess, has been sent away to Wellington, where for the present she will remain at tha central penal establishment there. Mr Jobberne inform us that it was the Manawapou river (not Manawatu as telegraphed) m which Mr Taylor.of Wellington, got the wetting 'ha*- had a fatal termination at' New Plymouth. When acbscrib.ers complain of h" regular delivery they should be sure that the fault lies with the runner. A few l nights. ago ; wbeno_ur boy waa leaving the paper at Mr Reed's,Stoney Creek, he was accosted by two men who asked permission to take Mr iJeed's copy, and they would leave it back again m the morns 1 ing. Our lad believes they did take it after he left, as they watched where the paper was put. They were told by the i bey on no account to think- - of touching it, or he would be blamed. Several people were . under the im« pvession that the character of, " Balaam's Ass " was to have been represented at the Fancy Dress Ball on Thursday even-, ing, but somehow the necessary equip* ments to properly dress the character were not readily obtainable. A buggy driven very recklessly into the yard of the Commercial Hotel yesterday nearly caused an accident, through the conveyance running foul of a heap of timber which fell about the wheels of the vehicle and among the legs of the horse, which fortunately stood still. Neither of the occupants appeared to be able to realize the danger they had incurred. And yet the eun had not been particularly hot outside that forenoon ! Mr King, editor of the Industrial Gazette, is at present on a tour up the West Coast. An inveterate swearer, named Henry Ellis,, bis been made to pay dearly m ■Wellington for bis offensive habit. He was charged with using obscene and abusive language m Manners-street, on the 4th instant. He had been twice convicted of the same offence within three months, being each time fined £10 or a month's hard labor. Other offences of drunkenness varied the monotony of his existence. W hen summoned for the present ottence he refused to appear, and was brought up on a warrant. The Justices 6 n the Bench let him off lightly as compared with previous sentences by the Resident Magistrate They fiued him £5, or a fortnight's -hard labor,/and to pay the. costs. A regatia at Eversham, England, was followed by 68 cases of typhoid fever among persons who attended it. An m» vestigation developed the fact that nearly every one had drunk lemonade at a re» freshment etarid, the proprietor of which had mixed the beverage with water from a disused well that was closed because it . was known to be foul.