LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 234, 5 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stevens and Gorton 1 willlioid their first ■weekly Bale of produce, horses, &c, on Saturday.September Bth, ;i , , Tqe bf.rque Cambria took her departure for London yesterday afternoon.

W. Lingard has been commuted for trial on five charges of alleged fraudulent bankruptcy. The Goodison case ig now assuming another phase. He is suing the man who bought the goods the cause of the recent charge for the sura of £30, the value of furniture he asserts he left with defend* ant for «ale, and which has since been surrendered by him to a third party. Mis 9 Anglelique Therasse, the young lady who vas wrongly convicted of theft by a Wellington magistrate, was highly reccom mended by the Duke of Roxburgh's daughter. Mr Notman, we are glad to find, has recovered from a rather severe illness, and is able to attend to business again. We (Herald) hear that Mr Cross has chartered the barque Natal Queen, 230 tons register, to load for Roekhampton with timber, taking a similar carpo to that lost ie the Alma. She will load for Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew, of Feild* i?K* We are sorry to notice that Mr J. Weight, of the Princess Hotel, has been obliged to call a mooting of his creditors. After a brief "spell of balmy spring weather, a cold bleak rain set m to-day, rendering out of doors very disagreeable. The Borough Council will meet this evening, for the last time prior to the election of the* new members, for- which the nominations are"to*morrow. The liris full of rumours as to the probable candidates for the vacancy for the Manawatu seat. * So low was the Manawatu river to-day that the punt could . not get m to the bunk. Probably there will be enough , water after to-day's rain. We are. sorry. to learn that a valuable young bull, lntely imported from Canterbury by Mr H. McNeil, was run over by tne train, yesterday,, and received such injuries that recovery is very improbable. Th'e animal was a valuable one, being pure«bred, and had been carefully housed all the winter, every possible care having been taken of it, -till it met with its un» fortunate misadventure. The Taranaki Herald is informed that an hotelkeeper m Wanganui writes Mi own, bill of fare, thereby saving the cost' of printing. It an u ounces': ••'Ooffy, soupe, roate beef, fride am, boyled and baktpotaties, fride could puddin, and mins py % " New Zealand flux is now being put' to practical use by the Railway .Department, and the carriages on all lines are provided with flax matting m place of the cocoa-nut , formerly used. This matting is made m Anckland, and Mr John Anderson, who has some of it m stock, informs us that it has much better wearing qualities than cocoa-nut. A Lansingburg firm has almost completed a paper steamboat for a Pittsburg company. It length is twenty feet. It has seating capacity for twenty-five persons and a carrying capacity of three tons. The sheathing is a solid body of paper three-eighths of an 'inch thick. A bullet from a distance of four feet neither penetrated cor made aii abrasion m it. i Mr J. 3j. Stevenson received a telegram from tHe> Secretary of the Hawera Football Club this morning, ("says Mondays Her*. aid) challenging 'the Wanganui men to. a match fo be played here on Saturday next; It was originally intended to have the return match with Manawatu County on that date, but as it is not convenient for them the event will be postponed, and if possible the challenge of the Hawera men accepted. Arrangements are being made to-day to ascertain whether the •vent can come off, and a telegram will be Sent to-morrow morning: The Wanganui Carriage Factory is busily employed just now m turning out new work. Mr McDuff, is building a pas=Bager break for Mr ChaTles Gordon, which that gentleman intends taking to Tauranga with him. A larsre sociable, pacable of carrying 18 passengers, is also being built for Mr Smiley. A dogcart of new design, having the front seat raised and a lately introduced style of carriage, is being completed ,to the order of a Wanganui gentleman : and m addition to various other pieces of work, a butcher's cart is being made for Mr Hurst, of Tura«, kina. At the annual meeting of the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation (says the ' Evening Post') the Chairman (Majors General Feilding) said that the Manchester block, which at the beginning of 1874 was almost uninhabited and which cost : < the corporation £75,000, was now' valued at nearly £600,000, tp.which might be added the value of stock, <tec. A Mrs. Davidson, who has been a resident of. Cohurg, Victoria, for the last 42 years, died on 10th August at the age of ' 1 00. Within the last three years she wa s able to walk to church, a distance "6f nearly a mile. Through her long period of life she has enjoyed excellent health. iL The Brisbane Couriei states that a letter has been received by a Chinese resident m Brisbane from bis brother, .who is m Canton, stating that the Chinese Government seem to be making every; precaution for war, and that an early beginning of open hostilities with France .is expected, and is being provided for. , , A Wellington paper has, reason to believe, that the question of changing the Legislative T Councii into an Elective Chntnber will be submitted m the form of a Bill, which| the Colonial Treasurer will ask leave to lay on the table of the House. The same course will be followed with the Treasurer's scheme of National Insurance. These Bills will be laid on the table by leave, not for the purpose of discussion this session,but to submit them as imports ant "proposals m a definite form for general consideration during the recess. In the Dunollv Court, Victoria, recently, Mr Phelps, a solicitor, while cond ucting a case, used the words "That be d d " m reply to a remark made by Mr Barnett, solicitor on the other, side. Mr Cass, the police magistrate, ordered Phelp3 to apologise but he refused to do so v Phelps was then requested to quit the court, and having declined, the police carried him outr He returned, but would not apologise, and again the police re« moved him. The court rone, and he was subsequently permitted to re-enter, when he apologised,' adding. f'The Bench is d— — — a'hardon me." Owing to the adverse weather experi* ended by the s.s. Wanaku on her trip southward on Friday, she was unfortunately unable to land either her mails or passengers from Wellington m Lyttelton m time for transhipment to the British King, which vessel left Lyltelton for England at 5 p. m . on Saturday last. The operations of the Wellington Meat Export Company may be said to be al« most perfect. The machinery, since Mr Thomas McGuire, the chief engineer, has taken charge -of it, works smoothly, and, upwards of 250 sheep are received daily into the refrigerating chamber. *The engines, both steam and atmospheric, are kept going constantly, day and night.. The premises have been so far advanced towards completion as to enable the clerical work, under the superintendence of Mr Wright, the Secretary, being trans, ferred to the factory. The following ought to act as a warning to smokers, against the habitual use of the weed : An inmate of the Uxbridpe Union workhouse, named Ann Wood, died a short time ago m the 103 rd year of her ace. She was an inveterate smoker, having contracted the habit m the early part of the century while following a regiment m which her husband served. She was never deprived of her pipe a short clay, during h9r sojourn m the workhouse, receiving the tame allowance of tobacco as a male inmate. She retained her faculties to the last. The Chairman of the Auckland Educa* tion Board has given notice of his intent

tion to move the following ;— " That, m pursuance of the resolution of this Board paesed on Srd of August 1883, relative to holidays the rearrangement, subject to the time of teachor's examination being altered by Government, and exclusive of ■Binde holidays, and, excepting m respect of the Girls' ' ligh School, be as follows : — Three weeks at Christmasjin lieu of 6, 1 week at Easter as at present, 1 week at midwinter instead ot three days as at present, 1 week at Michaelmas as a* nresent, making an aggregate of 6 weeks instead of 7 weeks and 3 days ; provided that committees of country schools may alter the same m accordance with the regulations." Factory girls m Melbourne who have to entirely keep themselves by their needles have a hard struggle to do so, and only succeed by working a good deal of over* time. One of the witnesses before the Shops Commission slates that she has to work 60 hours per week for 235; which, as she has to pay fer board and lodging, is only a bare subsistence. \ Marl borough Honse was crowded with buyers on Saturday ths opening day of the sale, bnstomers expressed surprise at the wonderful bargains offered by Bentley Bros., and tiirge sales were the order of the day. Intending purchasers are reminded of the ffcet that the sale will last for one month only, and it would be well to pay an early visit to this the most genuine of sales.*- As a- guide for the public we have erected a large sign, with the word sale m white letters on » red ground. Bentley Bros., The Square, next to Stewart and Co., City Butchery.— LAPVT.l