LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 228, 29 August 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

<r Tho Committee of the Mancwatu Racing Club met last evening and arranged the programme for the nest race meeting which will comprise nine events representing £474, full particulars of which will be advertised m the course of a few days. The principal events are Manawatu R. C. Handicap 200 soys ; Flying Handicap 50 soys; Handicap Hurdles 50 soys ; Maiden Plate 40 soys ; District Produce 60 eors ; Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 soys eaoh,£2s added. W- Lingard, was too ill to attend the R«Mf Court at Wanganui yesterday. The case was postponed until to-day. Mr Snelson has given notice of the tollo-ving motion for the September meeting of the Education Board, That tbe re» suit of the inquiry into the action of the Inspector regarding the qualifications of Mrs Brown, and the extremely unsatisfao-. Tory manner m which the late examination for scholarships was conducted by him have satisfied the Board that the Inspector is not entitled to its confidence, and that it will conduce to the advantage of the publio service that his connexion with it should cease ; that three months notice from Ist of October be eiven to Mr Fnulis of the termination of his appoint* ment, and that immediate steps be taken ■ by the Board to obtaiu a successor to the office. There is a small corner seotion m Mos« giel for which the owners ask tbe sura of £750. The lot referred to is a trifle over one-sixteenth of an aore, so the happy I possessors value their land at the rate of nearly £12,000 per acre, a purchaser has not been found at the price quoted though { we believe, some £500 or £600 has been offered for the allotment. Dunedin possesses some remarkable pcI culiaritiei m relation to the liquor trade. One house m every 53 m the town is an hotel. There is one hotel to every 200 of . the population, reckoning men, women, . and children. There is one hotel for j every 50 male residents over 20 years of age, or, m another aspect of the calculation, an hotel to every 34 ratepayers. All the wards of the town are not equal m this respect, the south ward possessing one hotel to every 17 ratepayers, but the average of hotels to the whole body of ratepayers is one to. every 34. ( \ Mr Oostley, wheße bequest to the Auck--1 land charities has caused so mnch differ* ence of opinion, is said to have a relative living at Home. This is a brother who ' resides m Bolton, is 75 years of age, and past work. He is now taking steps, according to a London contemparary, to prove his relationship to his more fortune ate brother, with whom he haß had no • communication since they left Ireland. Those m position to know say that while ! the sale ofthe revised New Testament has not altogether ceased, the demand is light. About 2,000,000 copies were dis* posed of before the sale Blackened. The book had ths largest sale of any ever I published, and even yet its sale is about equal to that of any other book. The falling ot m demand is ascribed to the fact that it was not provided with a concord* anee. The New Zealand Shipping Company are advised by cable that their first new steamer, the Tongariro, was successfully launched on the 23rd instant. Messrs George Fisher, W. Hutchison and J. Maginnity, are mentioned as probable candidates for the Wellington mayoralty. The steamer lonic arrived at Plymouth on the 24th instant. This represents a . passage of 44 days from Lyttelton, includ* , ing all stoppages % en route, the quickest homeward run ever yet made from New i Zealand. . --..:--- ..-~ The' Civil List Act' Amendment Bill provides that instead of the sum of £7700 . for the salaries of the Judges, the amount shall m future be increased to £9200, to ' be appropriated as follows ; — Annual salary of the Chief Justice, £2000 ; annual salaries of four puisne judges, £1800 ' eaob. ■j An exchange has the following ;— The . New Zealand Times had a paragraph statb ing that Mr R. J. Seddon has taken an hotel m Palmerston, North. A facetious ■ member having heard that Mr Seddon . had been studying from some time past I to qualify himself for the law, m order to take advantage of Sir George Grey's Law Practitioners Bill, has congratulated the „ member for Kumara on being 'called to the bar." ■ Messrs. Nelson, Moate and Co., the wellknown tea merchants and blenders, are Tapidly extending their bnsiuess, hay- - ing now opened a branoh at Auckland m addition to those at Dunedin, V 5 ellington, and Christchurch, besides which) they appear to have agents all over the colony. 9 The Post is very severe on the present ) Ministry, and m an article thus deals with | them ; — " We have no hesitation m as* serting that they bave acted m such a 1 manner as richly to deserve extrusion . from office, and if this punishment is not . meted out to them, it is simply because Parliament and the country reluctantly *> recognise that just now there is an abk solute certainty a change would be for the worse. There are disgusting rumours afloat r ("ays the Herald correspondent) regard* ; mg the probable duration of the session, and those who had made up their minds to shake the dust of the Empire City from I their feet on Saturday or Sunday next, 1 begin to look glum and to fear that after all their hopes may be dashed to the - ground, and that they may be compelled to give the country the benefit of their 1 wisdom for another week. l The three Judges who are rumoured as likely to retire are the Chief Justice (Sir J. * Prendergast), Justice Johnston and Jus* t tice Richmond. The. three prospective Judges are now aaid to be the Premier J (Mr Whitaker), the Minister of Justice i (Mr Oonolly), aud Mr Harper, of Christ--3 church. jtfENTLEY Bbos. new advertisement now 3 appears on tbe first page of the Standard. r Honey-comb towels are priced at sd, Turkish towels lOd, strong blue serge lid, cotton > shirting 4|d, men's tweed trousers 7s lid, j children's sox 4d, girls' stockings 6d, ladies' hose 6d. felt skirts 3s 9d, Btraw hats.6d, kid > gloves Is lid, men's worsted sox Is 3d, men' l lambs-wool sox lOd, men's flannel shirts 3s lid and 4s lid, men's ootton shirts Is 6d, ' tweed hats 2s 6d and 3s, boys' tweed knioker--1 bocker suits 7s 6d white flannel Bd, lOd aud Is, twill sheeting 9£d, lid, and Is 3d, Scotch 1 tweed Is lid, 2s 3d and 2s 6d. strong brown 3 holland 4Jd, table demask Is 6d, men's trousers nd vests 12s 6d. For quality and drioe the aDnve are unsurpassed — Padvt.]