The Manawatu Standard (Published Daily.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 275, 24 October 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (Published Daily.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' The Government arranged- fof the conveyance of cablegrams by the Java, between Fort -Darwin anBanjoewangi, pending the restoration of - the Eastern Company's duplicate- cables. < . Lord Eandolph ChurchilLis a lover-of-chess, Sir Safford Northoote plays croquet skilfully, 'and Lord Salisbury dotes on the mediaeval tennis. . . ! ;New has its' ups and downs, but it ~ is doubtful if . the financial , barometer hew ; has ever indicated such 'changes as it has lately m Tasmania. In JLB7O, the deposits mall th'e < Dan > ks' c tUere "amounted to .only ;.at the present time the figures are increased to £3,532,102, and if Savings and Post Office bank deposits were included, the amount would be upwards 'of £4000/100. : Not sp bad. for a little island with a pbpnlaticin of not much over lOO^OCW.' \. s ' a „ '.. ; « !,; - A London "correspondent of a Southern journal writes :~I r beat-.[f rd'mr.' a'private "source t£at the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge,! and other* i members of the Royal Family are m a fever of apprehension lest the Poet L Laureate should make the Queen ridiculoua by some pverstraine^dj tribute to t thevirtues; of j,hat.intfch ? fusled over menials the late kmented John' 'Brown.v t it seems that the. Queen sent for Tennyson the other day, and wbb oloseted with him' for near* lyhalf^an hour. The conversation ig . known'taljave been: principallyJaboui the deceased gillie, and as that worthy Was usually pretty civil; to the pfeftfetheiwoht is feared. Her Majesty's judgment -seems sound enough on business matters,' but her regard for Brown, carries Jier to, extravagant Ung'th^^,,^^; 1 ; 1^. t ;; ;;;■;. ; /,.lu ißorrisoglebtdjiin Busaia,!the loousts , are; ravaging a .tract pCiabout ,70,000 acres. Six thousand Boldierssßnt to the assistanceof the inhabitants; are powerlesstocheclc .the appalling destruction, : ,url ■■ :■ i | v Mf Breeoher'fl popularity 'doeS.rlbt appear to have -greatly dimihish'ed... The annnal' ; sale ; 6f- the' : pews off r his :: xnuTch "fetched =£4740, angaum £7640 last year; ; -The 'first choice' of sittiugs released ■WV-.-T - re "- r O i French papers annouhe'e tn'at a man >named Hilarion Balsafl, of tW village] 6t n Millan, m the 1 AveyroD, is on his way. to" (Africa .. , tp make r . the niSame'attempt Jas . that m which Captain t^obb' lost ihisihfe. {Balian is a-po^rerful,young .matii twenty,*,, five jears o^agej who has;ai.greatireputa« tion as a swim ner. He asserts that Captain Webb perishe^ because he^was a swimmer instead pta^er./ The: French people have a taste for auicide. | The following) advertisement appears m the Egmont 'Couner :-l" Tenders will be v reooived, up to Wednesday, 31st October, for' all the wild cattle belonging to me running between the Waiaua and Pubehu river9— f rbm 'the' sea ip tlie "blase of Mount Eg'mont— about 2000 jhead (movre or less). The successful tenderer will be req[uit«dito pa^f cash, immediately after acceptance of;; his tender. The highest ot any tender not necessarily accepted. jTender3 to b,e left at [the • Egmont Ceurier oMce, Opunake. Hakaria, Puketapa.; „,'-. it \ ,i ; ; r ./. „'.•-; 1 .-.. v In the case of Thomas Nelson, of PaU 1 ' merston r who was charged at 'the Wan-^ gantii Supreme Court with' Attempted, suicide, and against whom : no : bill jwas fonna,Hia Honor, on r disoharging 'the. accused'/ enquired What was to become of him. Q'hq accused who was an old man, and trembling frbm the effects of drink,'; seemed quite dazed and unable to under' stand the position at tll t -It, was stated that he had a daqghlerj m town, but; no one knew what would become of him. | ' During'tW last month j ; the receipts frotn th^ Wanganui aection of railway were £8424 3a 73, as against £3718 \L9a lOd for the lame period 'last ' jfear, \ '- ■ ■: -r -•' r t ; ■: :~ j j In his charge to. the Grand Jury, at Wanganui, tne Chief Justice 'remarked there were two recently committed oases fof attempted V Buidide, i 5 and it would appear that from 1 ardefact 'm our law, these cases are committed for trial, which he con* sidered quite unnecessary, as they might be easily dealt with by the J.P. before whom they were heard, They would pro* btbly.find a true Bill against them, and he would -have to bind them over to find sureties not to repeat the offence. j