LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 166, 19 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LMr Davis who - is about, settling)] pear Aiiurst has accepted tenders for, feLl jug 100 acres of bush, which will be put m band at oice. ->'■ ■■' [ \' ■'■• ' '"■ ■'■/'; ; : j -•■■' A lar^e section near'AisKd^sti^tfiib'duktfd lie bougnt under cult ivatiou for a hop plaotitbDi which product- ,WeIVM repays 'the '-labor lestowed on it. i The bush is disappearing by.; rapid stages all along the Stoney Creek road and around Ashurst, year by year, the, area,of;open;;land being on the increae." * ' Several extensive land .^ips h^ye;,, taken I place on, the 1 terrace back' fro in ' the" 'StoneyCreek road, m ooe place tons of soil haying come down and carried '■& way 'serer'ai J panels of a fence. Ihe slips are due to th.c .recent heavy rains. ■,: ..; ;iii .■■;.■[■•■.» ''■)■■■•■■ : i . There, can be no doubt that from a variety .of causes the statt of the AVanganiui bar has mucb improved ol late. The Oreti came m on Saturday morningand found ,12ft, on *he \ bar, neap tide. A Supplemenatry Gj»3ettej contains among other matter the names of gentlemen elected to various Road' Boards. 1 Those ior the Sandon and Carnarvon.;Road'Bciard,' oobtity bf Manevwatu, are as follows :— Subdivfsibb 1, George Farmer j.aubdLvision 2, Robert Wjlliam. Pisbop ; subdivision 3,_janiea Bowater ;'i subdivision 4, Pjenqy ; subdivision 5, William Davies 6, ; Roibert)Bruce Me Kenzie j subdmsion.7, Hamilton Andrews Moore. : \' : '/'...■/,.. '.:.,'. y [ The Wangabui fo6tbalJerg are Itfotipff fori ward to a challenge ttdin ei&er ftie Tefliing or Paimerston team. j A Wellington exchange saya :— The state of the Manawatu bar .is ..bgginniiig to be a serious" matter-, fait "\tracta' with Foxtbh, for unlessV change for the better lakes place, fjuods will have' 'to* be"; ior» warded to and from that place' by wdy 6f Wanganui. . . :;: :• -L ; The authority; to frank letters hag only; been withdrawn, fro mi Chairmen of Edubatipn Boards, not irom Secretaries^ ; ; At Palmerston South, Otago, an un« fortunate indmbual' has been fined £5, with four guinea&costSj for having an illicit printing press, and usin^ it to print the programmes of "a" village cpricert. ; :There is much comment cays the Wanganui Herald on the altogether inadequate sentence on the man Flowers, for biting an ear off m a quarrel. The Bentence is looked upon aY a premium upon* acts of .violence and savagery." ', ; '[■ ; Palmerston is : doing J well this Week* (says the Wnnganui iHerald) We are informed that by to-night's trnin two more prisoners are expected* to arrive on a shoi-t I visit to the establishment, on the hill. These -will make 'about the sixth or seventh this week, and to judge by the, present, state of affair*,- -there i» no ■ liiml'to c the Manawatuinipprtations.. fi . : ■•■- The first telegrajjh 'pole in rN^w.^ealaijd wna erected m May, 186^; an 4! 'iti I\ija^, 1882, three thousand sev'eh : ntindred-'arid-fiftjrieieht miles of line w.ere m working or;derr : j ■•'■'■■•'■' >■■-'■> '-'-'^l ;. In the course of a review of Rusden^s History of Now Zealand,] the Melbourrie Asa says ;— " It is worthy of remark, m | of .recent events, that dqring tha first Governorship of Sir GBorge.Gf.rey, m 1848, he oh more 'tharion'e 'occasion urged the .Colonial Office . to extend, the Imperial Government throughout' *he Pacific. New Guinea, he thought, ought to, be anne±e l d, arid Tonga and Fiji; were ' theb tendering allegiance.*' ' : ;' ; A gentleman,^ resident of Wellington, informs a local r paper that innumerable quantities of good, clean, wheaten and oaten straw are literally rotting aronncl Bulls. The. '.gentleman referred to states •that straw:: of a similar -sample is fetching £4 per ton m Wellington. This is still another instance illustrating the benefits which must accrue to the province from the completion of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway- ; In India, after a woman's husband dies (suttee having been abolished), the widow is compelled to perform the most menial duties, to eat the poorest food, and is avoided as a criminal who has forfeited the ritfht3 of a human being. It is reported that there are \ more than twenty millions of widows m India, among whom is to be heard the bitter wail, "Suttee were far better'.thjan lives of suchwretched-Jiess-.'^^i--"-"""''" ; Those m search of useful -information by which they can save money should carefully read Be'ntley Brosu. advertises' men't that appear on the Erst* page of this paper. The firm has established a name f£r selling' [useful '.dr>npery and clothinz at reasonable prices, which combined with 1 jciyility and attention to customers has caused Mnrlborough House to become very ,popular> ,|~ A t>vt 1 ; ■. ■ ; ; •