LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 246, 19 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tbe prospectus of 7the Manawatu Butter, Oheese, and Bacon Factory will ap.-* pear m our advertising columns to~ morrow. : A delapidatcd»lookjng customer was perambulating: the streets fo-day"appa« rjently m the search for stimulants. He is no 6 a pleasant looking: object, and might , be given a friendly caution to move on. The 'Frisco mail was 'delivered: here today after the arrival of the first train from Wanganui, which was sooner than had it beei brought via Wellington. -On Friday nexfc Mr Hardcastle, the District Judge will arrive m Palmerston on his circuit to the Wanganui assizes. He will stop till Monday evening to hear the application for discharge of the bankrupt, J, H. Copp, of Foxton, which was adjourned last sitting of the District Court here for want of a' trustee's report. The application 1 will be heard on Saturday at 11 a.m, Messrs Hankins and Baker are solicitors for the applicant. Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, there was a mild excitement m Palmerston Square, caused by a female who hails : from the fashionable quarter known as New Chum Town. Owing to the dulnesa ' of the times, she had evidently been keeping her spirits up by pouring spirits down, and desiring to obtain more of the fiery liquor, presented he self at the bar of the Clarendon, where the barmau de- j dined' to supply her. At this she became infuriated, cleared the hotel steps at a single bound, and with clenched ffats " went for " the astonished bystanders, sending them rig-hfc and left. One individual known by the cognomen of '* Billy Go-Easy " whs a particular object of her aversion, and found it no easy matter to escape from this feminine Virago. An old I man— a well-known carpenter-— tried to appease her wrath, but this only added fuel to the fire, and he was Boon perceived to make a hurried retreat towards the " Bush,"- while the barman, with blanched countenance sought protection behind his beer barrels. Having vented her wrath, and vanquished her fancied foes, she took a child by Hvhom^ae was accompanied, m her arms, and was last seen wending her way to interview the Palmerston guardian of the peace, who, on lea p ning the par* ticulars, determined to give her an oppor~ tiinity'of laying her grievances before one of our administrators of the liuv. A movement is on ifoot to found a Court of Forestera at Woodville, to be called Court Woodville. The application with the .usual number of signatures will be forwarded immediately to tne District Offices at Wellington, through Court Manawatu and it is expected the new Court will be opened at Vhe luttot oud of October ■. ■ Informations have bean laid by Timaru police against members of the Salvation Army, and against the " Progressive" or opposition army, for obstructing the thoroughfare, and acting m a manner calculated to provoke a breach of tho peace. The steamer Doric, which arrived at Auckland on Saturday, doea not bring a Government immigrant for Wellington. Those who may feel disappointed may find, consolation m the fact that the ship Westland left London for Wellington on the 15th August with 300 passengers, the I whole coming, so far ; as is at present known, within the above term. A man named Fred Hodder had the misfortune to get his hand and leg crushed whilst bushfalling m Kairariga yesterday afternoon, . Some three hours were occupied at the Outran. Court on Saturday (saya the local paper) m hearing an affiliation case. It was a noticeable fact that some bnsiness people wasted the whole of that time m listening to the evidence given. Either business is slack m Outram or some people have & taste for na3ty things. In Timaru last Saturday night a Hallelujah Lass was giving her experiences, She said that the' Devil had been trying to persuade her not to go to the meeting, but she rounded on him and said 'Get behind me, you old rascal.' The an« nouncement was received with roars of laughter rarixed with applause. It ia very remarkable that the Devil seems to be always prowling about clib Salvation' Army, if we are to believe jihe statements its soldiers make.