LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 165, 18 June 1883, Page 2

LOC AL AND GENERAL.

Mr Edward Shaw is to move the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's speech to.morrovr,

A correspondent writing "to the (Hago Daily Times, with the signature of " BacheV says: — " It would be of great benefit to many families if pnblican&wonld clear back parlors as well as the bar tit 10 o'clock. In giving-this hint to the inspectors, yba will oblige." Elsewhere we publish another gratiutous notification jn. jconneceipn. wjfch the West Coast Railway, ' >j appearing m the Wellinfton papers only, but which will be found of interest to MaWawatu'stiarehotders. ■ The tanks at the railway station yesterday were running to waste and flooding the roadway, pointing to negleot on the part of some official or other. ! . We hear that it is not" improbable that .another :drapery establishment (a branch of a Wellington house) will b.e established m Palmerston; daring the present month, negotiations'baving already been entered intjo with that object m view. .. . i The Town Band will play at-Terrace End this evening. ; . j ■*• ~ "-' i Qui'h a number of new houses! have beener ;"ofecL between Stoney Creek and AshuVfct during the last few wee^s, ie which district settlement isj proceeding rapidly. : j We lenrnthat over 3000 acres of j Man* Chester Corporation Land on the road from Kimbolton Line to 'Ashurst, have found purchasers witnirTthe' last few months. The new Manchester Schoolhouse, opposite the Bnnnythorpe station, haa .a. strange appearance standing by itself m the fore^r, without another habitation m sight. There is, however, a large population m the adjacent district, which will gladly welcome the "establishment! of a school. .; ; ■'; .( ; ! " We have received the latest number^ of. the • Wellington .Industrial Gazette, which as usual is a first cl^as. periodical," full of excellent, welUassorted usefuljiufor mation and readable interesting uiatt«rWe learn that a Wellington, ■ firm of booksellers and stationers is about 'upen* ing a branch establishment 'in Palmerston, and as tbeir prices are\ exceedinjrly low —about 50 percent uriderihbse ruling m ' Palmerston, they will probably have no cause to regret their venture. The choice of premises has .not. yet been decided upon. '• '/- ' • The Sunday afternoon. «eryices ,held iD the Stoney Creek Schoolhbuse are well attended by the settlers, and the privilege "of; worship thus 'afforded' is uridoudtedly appreciated.- This will be .encouraging to those to whose laudable' efforts' the inaug" uration of the services may rightly be attributed. : ' "^v-- 1^ ■■■• ■ Mr Seed's praperty,. m .Si.toney Creek, a portion of which was" filled and burqt last season, haa a rich and verdant growth, of grass, which' ldokia ' a J brilliant : green -j by contrast with the. blackened stumps of , the-erstwhile foreat. ' ' T!L ■ Mr Lowes has made a start, with the additions to the Otangaki Ho f el, iwhich should be m a forward state by the end of this month. . . ; . The heavy traffic on the Stoney Creek Line necessitates frequent repairs to the bridges. It would appear that if the work were done more substantially at first it would be cheaper m the loner run. The timber is frequently thrown off the dray 6? . waggon with such force tbatbeinjr very brittle, it breaks whenever it reaches the ground. Mr John B. Goughr it issnid, is once more m full work. Hens "in"liis sixtyfifth year, and it ts estimated that he has travelled , 44:B,ooo miles, and -delivered 8,480 lectures to no leaa than 8,500,000 persons. "''."'. . . . , ; The traffic receipts for the whole colony dnrine the last four-weekly period are £88.299, and expenditurel£49;d4l : per*, centage of receipts being 55.54. For the corresponding period last year the tigurea were — Receipts, £92,250 ; expenditure, £43 920 ; the percentage of receipts; being 47.59. '."..■■;; ;■» | -The unexpected arrival of the inoted Orient steamer Austral at Auckland, must no"" doubt have astonished the: good people of Auckland - not a .little. Fortunately her arrival was not due to any serious accident, and was only m consequence of the necessity :of ;overv .hauling her "machinery. She made the passage from gydney m the unprecedently short time of three days and a-half. t The people at Akaroa are very sanguine "Rs"ts'tHe i iii excess J of their proposed jam factory.. • The cheese-factory. at^Le Burl's , Bay is s»lso m a' very J f air way Wcothmence operations before very lonur. ,-r : ■ Agents for the diatributip^.'o.f literature supporting the. land nationalisation move- : men tare being established thr6ugh6ut NeW Zealand by the Ota^o r Association^ and ' every'mearis taken to" direct public jattens: tion to the subject. ; •■■'-. His Honor Sir J. Gr. L. Innes, whieri recently dplivering a charge m the Maitland Circuit; Court, aaid-.:-j — '*, .You may slander a man: as long as you like, provided, there is no third party or witness present.! He Jias.nb redreßS m a Courts of law." ■ At Ormondville (Hawkes' Bay) a little boy, w&b. playing ; with a bottle /the 'other day when he /iell, ;andj cpming on the broken bottle, the glass inflicted a fright* ' fill gksh * iri his : throat. ' -: According to :the Wanganui Herald it is stated that a business man on a large scale m the town is -on the point of calling his creditors .together. The liabilities are said to be very heavy. | There seems every probability of to-, bacco being a New Zealand product bei, for** long. The Royal Commission on' local industries reported to Parliament last session that this industry would pro* bably be the most important of all', and the duty has consequently reduced; from: Sa.jßdto la per lb for colonial tobacco, for not less than five years. Cavendish to-., bacco was successfully grown last summer, near Stratford, m spite of the 'went autumn ; and a Tobacco-Growing' and Manufacturing dompany' is baing floated m Wellington. An experienced American grower and manufacturer has been secured as manit&rer;