LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 24 August 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The prospectors of the Gear Meat Pre•erving and Frezine Company will be j published m to«morrow's issue. The new proprietary of Jordan's Horse Bazaar have an announcement m our advertising columns to which special attention is directed. An official notice from the Railway Department will be found elsewhere. The first load of furniture for the Club Hotel *vill be sent out about the Ist prux. Mr Sed don is to take possesaion about i the Ist of October. We remind our readers of the Christy Minstrel entertainment m aid of tbe Town Band to take place to-morrow evening. The Whareama correspondent of tbe Wairarapa Star, writing on Friday, Bays ; — "The mainmast apparently of a steamer was washed ashore on the Wairongo beach. The mast is 76 feet long, aDd had some of the rigging attached. Near the same spot part of a boat and two ash oars were also found, but no name." Messrs Widehouse and Armstrong, the patentees of anew system of electric lighting, which has been successful at the Fisheries Exhibition, ' the reform Club, and several theatres, are about sending an agent out to New Zealand yi& 'Frisco, to explain the process and push their wares. „ The Emperor of Russia has presented to Lord Wolaeley a magnificent gold snuffbox, studded with diamonds, and worth 400 guineas, as a parting present. Upwards of 1000 emigrants will receive assisted passages to New Zealand between 25th July and 11th August. The vessels they go m are not fixed upon yet, but the s.s. Doric will certainly take a large number. Sir John Hall is still m London, and may be seen constantly m Westminster Hall or the lobby of the House of Commens, conversing with Parliamentary notabilities. The Government do not intend to offer any facilities for tue establishment oi dis« 'tilleries m the colony. ■' Gporge Climo, labourer, respondent m the Divorce case heard m Wellington, was at one time resident at Haloombe. We are sorry to hear that J. H. Monrad ia about leaving Manawatu for the United States. He will be much' missed as an ardent and euthusiastic promoter pf improved systems of dairy farming. ' Tne plans for the residence for the Rev. Father Carew are being _ revised by Mr Larcomb, and will be of a very neat and appropriate design. The election for Nos. 2 and 6 wards, . Manawatu Highways District takes place on Tuesday, at the schoolhouse Taonui. We regret to learn that a respectable young man named Mansfield has developed symptoms of insanity, and has had. to be sent to the Lunatic Asylum. We are sorry to hear that Mr E. Marsh's health continues very feeble, and his general state ia exceedingly low. There will be a meeting of the Mana. watu Road Board to morrow to open tenders, &c. We are requested to state that Messrs Stevens and Gorton are the only authors ized Brokers fpr the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company for Rangitikeijaud Manawatu, no bub-agents having as yet been appointed. Notice is offically given that there will be a sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Foxton tb»mprjow : at 3 p.m., to hear appeals against • Ratepayers'' • Rolls for ihe Counties' of Manawatu and Oroua. Jurors, . prosecutors, and witniasses re« quired to appear at the District Court of Wanganui, to be holden at Palmerstou. North, oh' Monday next, 27th instant, are notified that they need not attend un>/ til the foilowingday,TueBday, at 10 o'clock m the forenoon. An amusing incident occurred a few days > ago afc a wedding at a village church near Stafford. The officiating clergyman was about to perform the ceremony when, ohancing to glance upwards, he observed m the gallery several wearing billycock? shaped hats. Addressing* them, said, '- Gentlemen, remove your hats." There was no response. The request was repeated, atid again not being complied with, the clergyman m a great heat directed the clerk of the church td go and ascertain the names of the offenders. Before he could do so a lady m the congregation rose and, .admiat laugher, informed the minister that the persons alluded to were 1 -dies wearing Lgehtlemen's '/hats. The ceremony was then proceeded , /with. / ■ A a.-. , The last sale of Government bush land . at -Waimate attracted a large number of buyers. The land was sold as a village settlement, andthe upset price was exceeded m every case ; as much as jS24 acre being given. A.' Wellington paper thus alludes to decision given by Mr Hardeastle, R.M., m the case of the woman Therasse. " This decision must strike all who read the report as very harsh, and not at all calculated to meet the ends of justice. The woman had just undergone a «hort J sentence for larceny, and a certain degree of suspicion no doubt attached to heron that account ; but that was no> reason why she should be denied the opportunity of having further^evid ence brougbt on the behalf.Todeny an accused person the opportunitymaking the f ullestdefence istodenyhim ofjustiee,and to place a power m the hands of prosecutors which must eventually em* danger the public peace; ]? The publishers of the Post are to be brought to the bar of the House for breach of privilege in s publishing certain proceed- [ ings m Committee. . "For the Wanganui Cavalry Ball to« night over 700 invitations havebeen issued, and it is probable 500 will be present. "