LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 183, 10 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English railroads have paid, since 1876, over a million sterling m damages for personal injuries to passengers. la 1876, £287,000 were paid m this way. In order to abate the wild dog nuisance m Victoria, a bonus of £3 per skin is offered by Government. The transfusion of blood was successfully employed aiew weeks since m New York m restoring to consciousious a man who had been found m his room unconscious from inbaling illuminating gas. Two physicians being called, one of them suggested the trial of the fnfusion of Hooa. A coloured man attached to the hotel consented to furnish itie blood necessary for the operation, which was successfully performed six hours after the man had been fouud, during all of which time he had been perfectly unconscious. The meeting for final settlement of everything m connection with the Wanganui D iiry Factory was concluded on Saturday. >vben Okoia was definitrly decided upon as ft site, and a permanent directory was appointed. " Truth " thinks that £50,000 per annumn wo Id be a very handsome annual grant tn the occupant of the Throne, whilst £5,000 per annum should suffice for the heir apparent. Why other members of the Royal Family should be allotted sums of money is an utter mystery. The various Bible societies now represented m Japan make it a rale never to give away the Scriptures. They have sold altogether 115.000 copies during the past year. It is stated that at Kioto a single copy of St. John's Gospel led sixty families to renounce idolatry, and that mass meetings for prayer have been held m Japan, where m one case more than 3,500 and m another 7,000 persons were present As part of a varied and interesting pro. gramme, an able paper hy Dr Curl, on 'Evolution the law of Mature,'' was read at a recent meeting of the Wanganui Free--1 thought Association. William Murphy, the man who met with the terrible accident m the Fahiatua bush a few weeks ago, expired m the Master ton j hospital last Friday. "We need hardly say that he received every care and attention at the hands of Mr Bulpit, the custodian, but as we intimated last w ek the nature of the injuries to the spine made the case a hopeless one. Murphy was tweniy-five years old. Ha was born m ludia,ana ha?, we [Dai!y]believe, no relations m this district. A contemporary publishes the following cure for lnmbago :— Take a piece of oilskin cloth such as is used for covering tables, but of a soft pliant kind, sufficiently large to cover the loins, place it over a flannel bandage ; profuse perspiration will ensue on the loins, and you are quickly rid of this troublesome complaint. Burglaries are greatly on the increase m Melbourne and suburbs. Three or four shops are sometimes entered m one night. MrD. E.Nathan formerly of Feilding, has been heard of from California, where his prospects are said to be good. His address is >( Modesto, Stanislaus County California." It is a splendid grain district. Wednesday was the one huodied and third anniversary of the declaration of the American Independence. The day so dear to all | Americans was permitted to pass without the slightest recognition m Wellington. The Vmerioan Consul even failed to hoist the Stars and Stripes over his warehouse, The twenty-year-old daughter of a Brisbane publican, who was examined m. Court on her father applying fov a renewal of his license, did not know the meaning of God, had been to school but two days m her 1 fe, and did not know the difference between a week and a month ! A million and a half of kangaroos, 178,000 rabbits, besides walaroos, wallabies, paddy mellonß and native dogs were destroyed during the past twelve months m New South •Vales. The total amount set down for Hospitals this year is £50,000. For Charitable Institutions^, £36,000 is set down. Powdered horse is a new meat preparation for the artificial alimentation of the sick. It is made by reducing to impalpable dust the dritiJ flesh of the animal. It is of a grey hue, and has the odour of pate de foie gras. Great nourishing power is claimed for it, while its fineness hasten assimilation, and as an incentive to action by the stomach it is to be unsurpassed. The death is announced of Captain George Mariner, Magistrate and Inspector of Police m British Honduras, who was thrown from his horse into a river and drowned on 27th March. He served wfth the f>Bth Regiment m New Zealand and will be remembered well by old identities. In the Welline'ton R.M. Court, three srna'l lioys, were adjudged a whipping for having stolen a German sausage from J. Gate butcher. Miss Smith asked " the pleasure of Captain Jones' cotnt any to tea." At the time uouointed the captain, being m command of the Rifle Corps, made his appearance with the whole of his company m parade dress. A nsw Act of Parliament has oome into force m New South Wales, which prescribes the lash for " larrikinism " — the rod for the fool's back. The business people of Feilding have become alive to the evils of the credit syfitem (writes the travelling reporter of the Wanganui Herald) especial'y as a section of the community is a migratory one, and an attempt ia now being made to stamp it out. A. trade protection society, on a similar basis to that established at Hawera, is m course of fonmtion, by which the position of any doubtful customer may be at once ascertained and commuuicated to those with whom they are dealing. We are requested to remind our readers that the outward English mail via San Francisco will close at Palmerstou on Friday the 13th July at 7. 45 p.m. Mr Stevens, who is still verj far from strong, conduc ed the sale at Palmeraton today. We regret to hear that Colonel Gorton is also seriously undisposed. We trust to bear of the speedy restoration to health of both gentlemen. We have been requested to aunounce m our local columns, that the regul»r monthly meeting of Lodge Manawatn Kil winning, 5.0., will be heln on Thursday next. We have just received a Parcel of Clothing from the Kaiapoi Wollen mills. These Goods are of a Superior Quality and should be m Great Demand. We have also m ■»took, Rnslyn and Kaiapoi Blankets, Flannels, Tweeds, and Wool. All these Goods we can Confidently Kecommend to our Customers. \ Special line m Trousers and Vests, m cross sizes for stout men to be seen at Bentleyßros. Marlborou?h House. — [ADVT.*|