Manawaiu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, SEPT, 18, 1883. LOCAL,AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 245, 18 September 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, SEPT, 18, 1883. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

t •' ' •- T>. -- ■ , -. f -T •'■ — r-- - ; , We' were to-day shown | some very like^ ly-lookinc quartz^ which the discoverer, Mr 1 - Anderson* brought f ifom- il reef m the Ruahine Ranges. He intends trying to get up a company on a small scale to ■ prospect the locality, which is Within' a day's ride ;of Palmerston. It appears that our information as to fc 'Linton's contemplated tour to Tasmania was incorrect, he having no such intention atthe present time. The intimation referred to reached us from what we considered a trustworthy source. We learn that Mr H. Wollerman has taken Messrs Hounslow and Yoigt's building, m the Square, where he intends open" ing up a branch of his business. The s.s. Australia, with the! Frisco mails'arrived at Auckland from Honolulu yesterday morning at 2.10. and the s.s. Wanaka. with the southern portion left Onehunga for New Plymouth yesterday at 9.10 a.m. Our Palmerston mails should therefore reach here too morrow evening,

■ The following appears m the Post :— Notice. —The Mean Thief ;';' who < stole a Norfolk Island Pine fromj^yfrontvgar"' ■ den on Wedrieadayhight last, had better * maice arrangements with his Undertaker previous to his next visit. — J. S. Gibson,, Levy«street» ' The Aorangi, the second. steamer building for he New Zealand Shipping Company, may be expected to arrive m "^Sew Zealand waters late m January or early m February, ' She is advertised to sail for London during the last-nauied month, following -the -Tongariro-. The new Bankruptcy Act comes intoj force on the Ist January next. The ap« . pointments of Official' Aasignees m accord- : anee with the , requirements of the Act ' will hot be" made' until Ministers have j reassembled m Wellington. ; ■> \ No decision has yet been at,'.W.e i (Post) understand, m regard to the case' »of. George . Longhurat. v We beiiere the! 'whole'' case will be reviewed afresh by i his Excellency the ' Governor personally, ; as well as by Ministers individually and hy the Cabinet collectively, soithat; if/any ; loophole can b 9 found .warranting', thte; exeroiae of the Royal, prerogative on the prisoner's behalf it may be so exercised.) The generil impression ; appears, to be that Longhurs't will be released, m ac-j cordance with the strongly expressed; opinion of Parliament. Serious loss has been caused to a number of farmers on the Waimate Plain*; by the .sale of , a r guantityJ of j wheat -for 'seed which had/. been heated m the stack] and Has failed to germinate ' after sowing; The settlers were probably quite unaware that the wheat was unfit for Seed.' : ;<; m a recent. sermon on "A Sure Foundation, " " pithily^ remarked; '" that if men got a firm grip of biblical truth now-a-days, 'ttfey' were termed bigots, and he felt almost inclined to start. a new denomination', : tb A be 'called Bigots, for they needed such a race m the world at , the . ' present time— people who did believe something." j ;c<m ! -- .: r The?Wa'inuto»inata' waterworks are' all but completed, and before the end of thecoming month Wellington citizens wil l derive the bulk of; their • water supply from the Wainui-o«mata Valley. The completion oo s the undertaking- is' to, be celebrated in'a'- befitting manner. ■■'-' ' # Wb'(Pbst)are authorised to say there is no truth m the statement that Mr Sedn don, into posessidn of IS puiarchouse m Palmerston North. :Tt is, understood'; that r; Mr Seddoh'was 1 negotiating on behalf f 'of "btheTS jfor an hotel m that locality, but the negotiations have, fallen through. : m In America is customary' ib bury the tbodiesof the Heatf ; ih c nietal ; 'caSfeets, instead of wooden coffins, as is done with r ns. The; At/alanta Constitution m a recent rissue mentions voase "where a man -named Jones had two children buried atrAtßlanta. !Re"ef n tly; he .moved to ariotherparir^f th'eeb'urft'ryi &Tid having prbsiPWd'rjihere^." thirty-five years after the burial of his 'children, wrote tofriendslat Atalanta to have the bodies 7of his chil» dren exhumed, and forwarded' 1 to "where he then resided. This was . done. The metal' caskets were found to' be quite sound, and on the: face-plate of one being 'opened it was found, that the body of the little one was m an excellent state of preservation,; and presented .quite a wax .like appearance in" every respect. There wbre jno symptoms of decay, i.boogh it hadh^en ao long.huihbere'd with the ; deacT. 'The, remarkable preservation of the body uY hot 'accounted for. . t, . ; An important discovery , of an.:aurifer« pus quwizlo.de; has.^recently been mide ,at Makara by ;a parbVilof prospectors,'' . We (Post) are informed that it is four ■feet thjck and shows the colour, of the p t re«, cions metal freely. A please* of several acres has been secured by the prospectors, i and Wcompany is in.course^of formation, and- the riesult will be probably be known m a few days: ' The Adelaide police took every care that , «f°,e c Sniith, one oftthe^lnvincibles, should not land uin that icolony,'! He" "goes! to Suez, and hones to make his way thejice to South AmeAca. To a fell ew passenger rby the s. 8, Melbourne, he said , that if it werp.,nptfpr_Jhiß.wijfe he would make it |hot;for someboflyybut he did not specify •whom. .His iwife%aß m a terrible state of despondencd — almost heart-broken. While at large m Melbourne he committed .a series'of savage assaults on pn* orTending people, but the polioe were] so glad-:to get rid of him that they would not take proceedings against him lest he ; should; be detained.