LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 187, 14 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government Life Insurance travelling agents are frequently m this district seeking to take lives. Althouyh things are dull m Palmerston labour is abundant and an unemployed man is scarcely to be found. The conveyance of the cement for the bridge m course of construction beyond Woodville is giving profitable employment to quite a number of three-horse drays, a numL J are alwaya on -he road. „ Mr Hankins' new partner, Mr Baker, will enter into the practice of his profession at Woodville immediately. The firm will henceforth be known as Hankins and' Baker. Mr Byers, of Stoney Oreek, is laying out and planting what will be in'course of time an excellent orchard. We would like to see other settlers m the same district following liis example. ° ' The Stoney Creek Road will soon require i more attention than is being at present bestowed on it. Tbe traffic is abnormally | heavy, and is telling seriously on the general condition of the road. The recent slins are I being removed by slow degrees. §We regret to notice that the publication 1 known as the New Zealand Schoolmaster has ; beencompelledto announce itsinteution to discontinue publication, through want of sup'...T*. unless guarantees are given against further loss. A Masonic Hull is about being erected m W»nganui. The two Wanganui Orange Lodges now number 90 enrolled members. The Timaru Harbor B .ard have voted £50 to the family of the late Captain Bascand, harbormaster. The Wanganui papers complnin of the delay m forwarding their mails through some negligence of the railway or postal officials, either at Halcombe or Foxton, Mr Shannon's Shetland ponies which were killed by mastiffs were only 35 inches high, and were quite interesting little animals. The mastiffs, also valuable animals have since been destroyed. In the case Crichton v Jones, (a f eilding case) heard at the Wellington Sapreme Court, judgment was given for 40a and costs. The amount sued for was £150. A contingent of the SaJvatien Army Corps has arrived m WaDganui, and is about to start a campaign there. ' Sampling ' horses m Bangitikei and Manawatu is being carried on with vigor and perfect success. The Wanganui Orangemen celebrated their fifth anniversary on Thursday evenin>bY a soiree and dance- At the former, about 120 persons were present including a good sprinkling of ladies. The Daily Courant, the first London daily paper, issued its first number on Wednesday. llth March, 1702. y ' afcThe other day a boy m Westland was sent to find some cows. In order to get a good view he climbed to the top of a shimp about eight feet high. But the stump was hollow, and he fell into the cavity which contained a couple of^eet of water. The poor little fellow's attempts to get out were vain, but fortunately a digger passed by about Bo'clock, and hearing his cries rescued him, just m time, as he was nearly benumbed by the cold. Members of Parliament are becoming complimentary. On Thursday night Mr Fitzgerald designated Mr Montgomery's motion as unmitigated humbug, whereupon MrMcKenzie retorted that Mr Fitzgerald's speech was the most unmitigated Twaddle to which he had ever listened. Seventy-seven thousand pounds were levied and collected by the road boards m New ?li a nnn liQ i! 8 ! , i Thei * J . to^ receipts were 181,000, and total expenditure £246,000 during^the year? Heathcote was the richest road board m New Zealand that year with receipts amountingto _6378 ' TtisrumouredjSays the Hawera Star, that a movement is on foot for the erection of a large Catholic Church m the borough. When fioman Catholic churchmen set about such matters they generally do them both quickly and well, spanug neither labor nor money. An enquiry into the matter of the proportion of butter and cheese obtained from milk has led to the following statement, viz :— That it is fair to estimate one pound of butter to 25 pounds of milk, and one pound of cheese to 10 pounds of milk. These conclusions are arrived at by comparing the report of 13 factories, and 3 creameries. A wide Jand exhaustive enquiry has been made on this subject m America, A sad accident occurred recently daring the celebration of mass m the church at Llodio, m the Bassee L'yrenese. The porch which had only recently been erected, suddenly gave way under the weight of the snow that had accumulated on its roof, three persons being killed and upwards of twenty more or less being injured. He was a heathen whitewashed colonial Chinee, and had plenty of cheek. When -isked how he would be sworn, he said— 4 Oh 11 me no care : clack 'im saucer, kill im cock blow out 'in matchee, smeH'im book — allee same.''