LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 29 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All the nece^aty V^paratidiis are^bei ing made for thVatarfcihg of a bi» weekly nefrspaffer 1 * "at- 'Bulls: ; The venture ia ; promised very liberal Bupporfc from all' over the district. r :il \ r The outward English mail via Sanj Francisco will close, at Palmerston North pn s Friday tjhe sth Oclober.at f. 45 p.m. > Mr W; E. Waters has been appointed] trustee. in the' estate of W. KrPascoe, of' Wellington, brewer. I '< ;Bya majority' k Bto 4 the' Wellington' City Council has decided itfWor of the appointment of alawyer. Town Clerks j .The Doric w.iU, take away .nearjy; ,6000! carcases of mutton from Wellington. * At a. municipal candidate's meeting m Wellington <*Gne*of~ {he"" audience inter-! jected the word f ' Gammon," to some ' remark made by the speaker. The chair- ! man ruled the term unparliamentary. • T he ratepayar maintained he was as en- ! titled to say " Gammon " as and body else Hear hear." Tfte'Provisien&l Direetors'qf the Katikati.Gheese factory company met on the 17th instant, -to discuss the matter of a site for their works. -'lt was 1 resolved ib start the) Factory as soon as possible and a.deputation was, sent to Tauranga to transact jjflsiness^for tho company. The machinery can be placed on the gronnd and be ready for work by the Ist of November. Sir hundred shares and upv^ar.d9 have been >?taken up.;- .Every expedition is b*eing used to" get the com* pany m ,work\n£ order as soon as pos* sibie. iJ (..tu/Aldl Here is a wrinkle for the wrinkled : — A-lady writes to a London contetnporary: c You say that girls who want to have a gobd,opmj>lexiqn should wash their faces m almost boiling wate'r^ Not only girlsr should do this, but women who do not wahf tp^ej winkles; I am about fifty, an& have not a*"irrinkle 1 This is due to my..having washed my face nifht and morning with very hot water. The water {lightens the skin, and ■ prevents, it t from wrinkling.' A* 'district visitor, going her rounds one moaning, was told by a young woman that her father was nearly converted, and that a little, more teaching, would com. plete the businessman ding^~ 'Eta quite be* li.Qyes he is lost, which, of course, is a great consolation to the old man.' "Above and beyond all cities of the world; ancient and .modern, London abounds m the possession of charitable institutions, 1 for the most .part, supnprted. by, voluntary contributions. _ ~ ~" „ An inspector '.ofthe i Oanadisn' Mounted JPojice.is^ai4 to have'realis^ieo/JOOby; selling ''his share m a gold mine recwitly discovered at Medicine Hat, ih^fch'e West Territories. "" 7 „ The receipt for tbo opening -week m New Yori of Barhum's threß-ringed circus, we're £12,0ft0. Its dariv expenses are said "tiTbl i £960r0f which £500 are spent m advertising the opncern. . t/ , , , „ Sergeant Bulforjd : left A-Hckland re"' centlyfor Melbourne, m order to bring back to Auckland a yoang man,' formerly employed jn'one of the local bapk.s,. ,whoj it -ia alleges, ism difficulties Respecting hig accounts, ■-■and;: has .been ( arrested m Melbourne. jThe defalcatipny'w'ere dW J covered ,, it ,ft stated, after 1 his departure from Auckland. "'■'■ ; •: - It is repprte<i, that the BMiop pf Manchester contemplates resigning i his BQ6. '" -t ' •''"< ■••'■ -..u\ ' It is^no^statied that^he.DukeofiJWelH lington's statue is condemned to,be broken UP. ■■■:.■ New York has 147'pawnb?okers, who are said to hold property to~ the ainouht of £4.000,000. In France the sword is, still the final re* sort among, gentlemen for the' satisfaction of wounded nPniouT. ;i - : . <■■■* I- ; The German War Office has ( renewedjjhe prohibition against the admission, pf strangers inside fortifications. . „ A survey is aboutito be taken of the remarkable country lying between Lake St. John and Hudson's Bay; A stained glass ) Windowan memoir of the late Lord F. Oavendi'h has just been unveiled inSt. Margaret^ Ohjnqh,,yfest« minister. ' • .• ■■ .•-.., -. „.,, ;-/ n >i. ...,:; ..i:t~