The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 25 August 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

As showing tha state of the roada af ler I a few nights of keen frost, and the shaking waggons are subjected to in consequence, it may be mentioned (says the Tuapeka Times) that a waggon broke down a few miles beyond Evans Flat on Wed* nesday morning last, shortly after starring oh its day 'B trip, on account of the shaking it was subiected to. I No trace has yet been fouud of the I Englishman, Malcolm Graham, who ar- I rived at Madrid last month for the purpose of cashing a draft for a large amount, and whose sudden disappearance has given . to fears of foul play. A man named Alfred Scrubby is in custody in Dunedin, for stealing fifty £1 notes from the person of George Dykes, | atthe Working Men's Club. - The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable of the arrival of the lonia at Madeira on the 19th instant. The refrigerator was working well and the meat ;. in good conditibnV ;The'Puric, bound to ' Auckland, was at the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th instant. A : - / '■"■ ; Typhus fever arises (says an exchange) from overcrowding and famine, but typhoid fever is ewenliallj w-aewagerfever ; thaj is, it is caused thy. the. of , decomposition of sewage, animal or vege* table, entering the human system, either by inhalation, iood, or drink. It is. not contagious, but the discharges from typhoid patients are infectious. The District Court will open oh Monday, on which day will be heard the civil case A. and H. Kuiaell v. T. Nelson,claim £25 for trespass. There "ill also be bankruptcy business as follows : — Applications tb have deeds of assignment completely executed in matter-! of .' M. Gbvan and Hounslow and Voigt'. Applications for' orders of discharge by T. Jordan, A. Lovejby, J. H. Copp, J. Coley, and T. M. Drummond. Probate, John Nugent and John Dav ey. Letterß of Administration, Chas. Marsom. On Tuesday the criminal case of perjury against a Native will be taken. At last meeting of the Wellington Waste Lands Board, a letter was read from Mr F. Gillett, asking for information as to a piece of land between the Eangatira block andthe road fronting the Paraekaietu block. It was resolved that the area be included in thrnext land sale. : - ' The death Jis announced in the Welling* ton papers of Mrs Ann Woouldom, the wife of Mr H. Wqquldom, of Ghuzneestreet, at the ripe age of 90 years. The deceased came into. Wellington: in 1810, in tne ship Mai-th* a and has since then resided in that place, where she * made many friends. ' i; ''■''"■' j To-mo^row.is probably the last Sunday,' ] that the Rev. Mr Leech will be with Us/ Many iin the. 'community; outside his own . congregation will hope to hear that his 'healtbj will benefit by his. .contemplated change of climate. We take this oppor* tunity: of wishing him good bye. Judge Richmond thus expressed himself :-r"The- reports of Parliamentary intelligence which appear in the Welling ton papersJare mere scraps of news. I an surprised that the metropolitan papers do not give fuller i reports.'- One would naturally think that local papers would do So. The fact.is, the local journals '■ are' mere advertising 'sheets. They are sold at a penny i What can you expect for such an amount." This kind of language is scarcely dignited pn the part of a Judge of the Supreme OouVfc'. -'••'- <■■'■'. ' ; L We are given td understand then is likely to be a very eager demand inflangitikeiiand. Manawatu for shares in* the Wellington. Meat, Pres er ving and - Be* irigerating Company, now being floated in Wellington ander most encouraging auspices. A Wellington paper states " that the Premier slipped on the floor of the Lego islativeLOouncilr on. Thursday night and fell ; but, fortunately^«ti»tßin^d no injury,! though he had a narrow -escape from fall-, ing against one of the tables." What was .the matter?

• y The Dunedin police hav* arrested the Town Clerk of West Harbour, on a charge of wilfully destroying the Borough pro. perty; "'-'■