LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 256, 2 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Each bar of gold stolen from the Commercial Bank "" m 'Melbourne weighed J9720z.- - „- L ;5.i... y .. ; . i v . \ The late Mr Nelson, who had .carried orii business as jeweller', m Ballarat; and' who recently died at Li yerpopli'leitifilOOOS 10 the Ballarat Hospital, and an equal! sum to,a wardsman.in an«^ospita[in New Zdaland, who tended .him very carefully: and kindly througho'utla lortg'haridj severe! jllnesa^ vwjijoh. oyertook.hijn when, he wa_s ' a stranger m the town where he became iti-* XX. X : x\"" XX'".'. x :iUU A Hebierißville correspondent wntes to the Auckland Herald as -follows ':— «« The j encroachments. of the, sand. inland, how> j >( gj^r; ,pictujreaque, are decidely . unglea- ! 'sant m- .thpir,' ; effects^ tc ; the Bettl'er's; In ! some cases 1 the sand is running down 1 tho , pullies like water* and has reached almost ! to the line'of the rail ways';'- Aged natives; point to Spots* nearly two miles inside;the■present line, . where m their, childhood stoadopahs a n .d ;;QuJtivatjonß,. now., buried j in'-.t_q.',tS ,k P d t'-:**iß !i^?7 arnn l e Pt; .w,i!lj ultimately have to face the difficulty, and, j as .the French Government haye'don'e' m; Algeria,, cqmbat the eneipy by planting j ailaritbuV ; ° r adopHng- kindred : remedies. j The -patient of the Mount View! Lunatic Asylum, John Coffey, whol ejected his escape on Thursday last, wasi apprehended, by Coustable Jamesßobin-i sqn at Pitchett'sjPairy Fai-m^ Qhirb^Onj Saturday last. The poor fellow, who had .qnly jusPafciv^r} at the farria, vet^y | much exhausted, and was at onoe taken! to the Asylum. Tbe Jewish* year of cOtnmencedi to-day X Pifejjtfnß' of tbe Hebre^faithi begip tp observe-fche festival this eve«| ning. ■ X; '■ j '■.:■>;: . , :y><.> y. :■-.■ h '■„-iitu-.ii-.'£|.! T '

A somewhat irregular commercial transaction has^ recently iaten place m Masterton (says th,« Daily), a settler| m humble life having sold the wife of his bosom for the sum of five pounds < -/to "a festive Widower. Some Httlehitch has'ihowever, arisen over the transfer, andithe argus eye of the police is being directed*to the whole vaffair. LL '\XX '^Xy'-yXXyXy--^ The Governmebt agentr.of the Indus* trial insurance branch in^'thojilastertot; district is putting a pressure on policy hold,ers;to give Up rtheir ' insurances and accept .the. surrender value of' themL - - During July and August 1878 persons -arrived' in* 'New'^Zeala'nd" 'from "foreign"* .parts and 1477 left our shores.