LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 169, 22 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

1 •- - * a Hiursd«ywaß : ihb46th anniversary of Her Majeßty's accession to the throne. An information has been sworn against Mr Henry Alexander, tobacconist, of Welling, ton, for selling tbree sticks of tobacoo on Sunday last. The information was laid under the hitherto almost Obsolete Act of Charles 11. The Otago district of Oddfellows now vn* eludes twenty-three lodgeß, numbering about 1,550 members, with fuud* to their credit to the amouut of £33,000. The following notice appears m the Wellington papers :— 4i 18th June, 1883. George Harrington, of Riverto.>> is Open to pull William Hearn, or any other man m New Zealand, for One Hundred Pounds a-side ; Twenty Pounds allowed for expenaes. Match to be rowed at Riverton. Distance: Three and a half miles. Challenge stands open fourteen days "from above date, tfilliam Bonifaoe." A West Australian paper nays :t- William Sloan has been fined 5s and coats for making faces at a woman m the street. Six Chinese have been fined £11 each at Wilson's Downfall, near Stanthorpe, for entering New South' Wales without paying the poll tax. .Seven hundredweight of, cake, 100 loaves - cut for sand wiches,* and VOO gallons of tea were supplied for the Salvation Armj tea meeting held m Dunedin last week. . During the first year of its existence the Hawera Fire Brigade; has expended £165 on plant, nearly all of which was contributed by the Borongh Council. What a reflection this is on Palmeraton 1 Speaking of the politioal situation, the Hawkb's Bay Herald says that •• more than • half the vieixibbta do not ,c»rp bow legislation goes, provided plenty 'of public money be ■pent m the districts they represent, ' ;■• The Pioton Press Bays : — Two old residents of Picton are likely to fall into a good thing m the shape of a legacy of £40,000, th«ee \ forkUMto iudiriduuli being Meieri Wm, and