LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 239, 11 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

y - '- In our report of the funeral of the late Mr Marsh the number of those attending .•should have .been stated as over one thou, 'sand. and- not between three and four hundred. *"*'THe 'iafce John Goold, the eniment ornithologist, possessed a, .remarkable, faculty for imitating the "calls of ' birds. He would pften bring wild birds to him by exercising his power m that respect. At a meeting of the Statistical and Local Inquiry. Society of Ireland, held m Dublin, one gentleman present said that when he was boy the late Earl of Dungarvan planted a quantity of timber -which was now worth about fifty thou» sand poun ds , sterling. . The riflemen at Wimbledon this year can travel. about the camp. a mile^orjso on au electrical railway, which is to be conn atructed there for the Nationarßifle Association.' The motor will be powerful enough to pull a train of six cars holding! One hundred and forty-four persons' /.in all. The discovery has recently been made m Russia; that the current of'theßiver^ Neva,.. oiL. -which, stands St., Petersburg,' moves twice as fast m summer as m winter. It is believed that the outflow from t Lake Ladoga is checked by the acoumu* lotion of ioe. | Professor C. G. Rockwood's record of earthquakes shows seventy-two distur* bahces iniißß_, of which thirteen may be classed' as : doubtful.' Forty-eight out of the seventy-two are. assigned to the Mississippi. valley, the Pacific coast and Mexico, and central America. Venezuela and Peru have only one earthquake each. .The new electric railway m London, authorised by act of Parliament, will run under the Thames through iron caissons. The Hue will be worked by means of a stationary engine " transmitting the power to the carriages, which will run separately, start aB Riled and occupy three and a half minutesin the Journey betwepn Charinj? Cross and Waterloo Station" Pope Leo's income is given at J6JSQ,QOO a year. Although Russia has vast beds of excellent coal, she imports nearly half of what she uses. The tallest Princess m tye wor)4 is said to be the Oroijra Princess of Denmark. She is 6ft 2in high. Mr gohen, a Wellington publican, has been fined 4Q3 for pernuttipj? liquor to be consumed on bis premises after tbbolos*' ing hour, .

The Auckland Tobacco Company has a quantity of cured leaf on hand estimated to be capable of producing a quarter of a million cigars. Not a single member of the Opposition was present during the prorogation cere? mony m the Upper House. The Salvation Army m Wellington is disgracefully annoyed the larrikin element of the " Empire City/ The oyster industry of M >ryland, m all | its branches, employs 25,000 parsons and attords a living to 75,000. Like Mr Gladstone, the Emperor of Russia has a penchant for chopping wood. He does it for pleasure and excercise. Lord Beaconsfietd's portrait now hangs near the entrance to the Queen's private dining-room under an admirable portrait of her great grandfather. . . The constant visits of the Grand Dnke of Hesse to England keep alive the report that he is a , suitor of the Princess Beatrice, and supposititioualy, a favourod one, if only the interdict against marriage with a deceased wife's sister could beset aside.