LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The new railway time table ' came into operation to-day, the train running right throueh from Foxton to Manutahi, a, total distance of 129 miles. The only alteration^ this section is that the first train from Wanganui reaches Palmerston at'l 2. 35, and proceeds to Foxton, reaching there at 2 p.m. daily. At the special meeting oE the Borough Council yesterday, afternoon Cr Ferguson's motion for. the introduction of abyerfaw to deal with unsafe ' flues and chimneys was agreed to, and a deputy ranger (F. MaUle jun.,y was/appointed. W. Lingard was yesterday committed for triaibh thefirst ofjeiglit charges of alleged fraudulent bankruptcy; . Mr Greenwood, dentist, will pay his periodical prof esaional visit to Palmerston to-morrow. Mr Hector McKenzie, the contractor for the Awaparua jßridge,, on the Mastertpn Road.is m want of a good circular sawmill hand. The other day Venerable Archbishop of Warsaw, who had been exiled to Siberia twenty years ago, was "graciously per* mited by His Majesty to leave his exile," [on condition that he would' live elsewhere I than m Russia. |. An article m the New York Irish [World, headed * Daniel Ourley's Murder, ' j comments upon the ' brave death of the patriot and hero." In another part of the £aper, under the : heading .'.» The Martyr's 'riend,"an appeal is made. ' The writer : i says : — "lt is. the duty of the Irish people to provide for the families of every man who dies, or exists m a living death for Ireland. We propose sending one thou* dollars to Joe. Brady's .mother, ' one thousand dollars to Dan Ourley's wife, and one thousand: dollars to the family of every one . of . those men who has been either murdered m the name of the law, or sent to penal servitude without naving pleaded puilty. This money we want at 'Ortce. (Signed Patrick Ford)." Nothing has yet been heard of the .three escapees from the Kohimarama Training Sphopl, and the boat is still missing. A member of the House has drawn' attention to the curt letter sent by an officer of a land board m response to a re« quest for the issue of a Crown grant. The i tetter ran : " The Land Board decline to issue a Crown grant.'' He thaught that officials should not be allowed to. snub the public m that manner, and that the official referred to might have given some indications of the Board's reason for refuses the issue of' a grant. Efe thought that officials, " olothed with a little brief authority," should treat the public, with respect. During last 5 ear there we*e 1«7 twins born m New Zealand.

Tbe criminal charges against W. Lin_ gard for alleged fraudulent bankruptcy were commenced yesterday m Wanganui. It is expected the hearing will extend over four days. There are eight separate informations. The building on the section at the corner of George-street and Main-street was toaday m process of removal, Messrs Mey rick and Perrin being the contractors. There has been organised at Paris, under the direction of the learned Abbe Moigno, the founder of the Cosmo, a -society having for its object the dragging of the bottom of the Bed Sea and the Bitter Lakes to find the chariots and treasures of the array of Pharoah, sup« posed to be at the bottom of these waters covered by saline deposits. A sum of 750,0d0f. nas been subscribed for the expense. Divers, it is said, will search the Red Sea and the Bitter Lakes to discover thp arms, the armour, and the precious stones that were m possession of the" Egyptians when they were engulphed. It may not be generally known that by the new Road Boards Act, the seal of the Bo.f.rd must contain the words " Common seal of the inhabitants .of the— —Road District." , County Councils are also, re-, quired, under tbe Counties Act, to have the words "Common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of thej county of "on >he die, in' ordpr to render documents under seal valid m a Court of Law. - The Lord r .Chancellor- >has refused to confirm the nomination of MriDuncan, of, Cardiff, and Mr Ramsden, of Halifax, to the- office~of Magistrate,' because they are newspaper proprietors. * A lad of 14 years has been sentenced at Birmingham to two months' imprison, ment for having scratched a pla're«glass window. At the same time, a man who had split his wife's head open received a punishment exactlyl similar to the small window-scratcher's. The remains of John Davidson , who within the short space of six months had committed two deliberate murders^ and -made two distinct attempts— -the last one successfully — at suicide, were interred m a gray^e dug just outside the boundaries of 'theN'eison cemetery. The late fearful earthquake m the Island of lschia has naturally brought up as .a! subject of conversation the earthquake which destroyed' Lisbon on the Ist November, 1755 V The number of lives lost on that awful occasion was 50,000, a very large, proportion of whom were drowned by the tidal wave that succeeded the shock. The whole of the double calamity by which this enormous number fof. human beings lost their lives occurred within eight minutes. \ i iHentleyßbos. new advertisement now appears on the first page.of the Standard v -Hpney-combltowels are' priced at sd, Turkish" towels 10d, t strong, blue serge - lid, cotton" shirting 4 Jd, men's tweed ; trousers ; 7s ?11<L children's sox Id, eirls' stockings .6d, ladies' hose 6d. felt akirts 3s 9d, 'straw hats' 6d, kid gloves Is lid, men's worsted sox Is 3d, men' lambs-wool sox 10d, men's .flannel shirts. 3s lid and 4s lid. men's cotton shirts Is 6d, (tweed hats 2s 6d and 3s, boys' tweed knicker-. bocker>surfcsl7s|6<l white - flannel Bd, lOd and Is, twill sheeting 9sd, lid, and] Is 3d,. Scotch tweed Is lid, 2s 3d and 2s fc 6d, strong brown .holland 4£d, table demask Is 6d, men's, trousers and vests 12s 6d. For quality and drioe the aDovo-are unsuTnassed —^ADyT.Y \