The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 274, 23 October 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Communication by cable between, Port Darwin and Banjoewangi is interrupted. We regret to notice that Mr James King, storekeeper, has been to call a meeting of his creditors. Mr King will hare much sympathy m hii adverse circumstances. Alresidetit of Karere writes 'us as fol« lows':—' 1 ! think if you would exert .your, influence m getting the ' OiJc'us Obmpatiy ' to give a; morning performance it wpuld ,be the mean/ of many of the children m. the neighborhood being able to" attend; and no doubt it would pay the Company to do so," , ' , | It is understood that Mr Bryce will pay another visic to the King country at an early date, and it is rumoured that s.qme important new developments of policy m regard to native affairs are impending. >: oi J By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that Mr Dinsdile ii now proprietor of the City Butchrtry.; .TVe wish hinv all success m his undertakings. '.; ., ' : ' v : ',"' i Daniel Mahoney, • a rough customer, . who waa committed for trial at Foxton on 'Saturday fast on a charge of malicious wounding was taken through by train to Wanganui on Saturday, with handcuffs on. . Owing to a collapse of a bridge over the Ngabauranga stream near Wellington, coach traffic between' that city and foxton is somewhat impeded, and will ; remain so for some days until repairs are ! effected. ' The Wanganui sittings of the Supreme i Court, which begin to-day the following ii cases are to be heard :-^-Mil v e'r,< horse stealing, at Palmerston ; Gildon, arson of I stacks at Waverley ; William Lingard, : fraudulent bankruptcy; two sons of the 1 late Mete King], foroible entry at Pu tiki: and .Nelson and Dingleday for attempted; smaide at Palmeriton. -■$ ] The William" Meek refold to m the' telegrams as having lost his life at Napier' )by drowning; is^^he/ nephew of Mr W. J.| Meek of Wellingt6nV v ahd a relative or Mr; -and Mrs Beck of Palmerston. ! The scheme for a halfpenny newspaper; iwhich has: for some time -been :n contemr /plation by the proprietors of iUa London Times, has undergone modification. The new journal^ called The Summary, conj. tains a summary of the news of the day -and other matter likely to prove of gene* ral interest,, nnd it published m time to apppsron the' breakfast /table. In. this abridgement of the great newspaper, 'leading articles are not included, but are ' -briefly described. ! fatal accident Is reported f rom' Petane, jßear Napier. f A daughter., of Mr Carswell; Bgeil 14, 'went 6ufe Ji f6rja walk on Sunday afternoon. Not return- • -ing to tea, she caused an alarm, and all night search parties were out. Next morning the body Wat found m the river; \ At Mr T. X.. .Macclonald's sole of city properties held m Wellington last 'week Bi lots were offerefd ,;ony behalf •of the Colonial Bank^and'all fetched satisfactory prioes except six lots , withdrawn. The total sum realised' ior^jthe fifty-five lots sold was £24,392. While some lots were considered cheap,/ and. -a *ew very chejap, the bulk realised . fair values m. the present rather depressed state of the ' Kodal property - market. , ..'T '.*,*"' ' Mr W. A; Long, the well-known Aus« , tralian turfitei has been interviewed by J the editor of the " Sporting Life." He scandalised that worthy by telling him that' he considered the racecourses lin Australia and New, Zealand were irifin* itely. better managed than the majority of" English ones. *; i. ; The Ghnstchurch "butchers "have #e« oided to raise ( the price of mutton one penny per pound. ; The case of M'Gregor y. Boy d ---a Wanganui case-r-jwhich is expected to occupy several days, has been 1 fixed to take place at Wanganui on the 30th inst. :;, ■ Hawke's Bay can export 10,090 sheep ' per month, and stook-ownera' are negotiating for one of Sbaw, Savill, and Cq's< steamers to. call monthly fora cargo of frozen carcases. . -• j Beyond his grey hairs, John Bright shows hardly any trace of time. ; . . Last year the actual expenditure on the British navy was Cetewayo has. Appointed a British) subject named William Grant as his resident' adviser at, TJlundL ; : f Twenty thousand "" Chinese 4 ' are to be* imported into Braxi], it is said with the objeotof fluWuting tot »nd coffee thir«,