Manawaiu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 284, 3 November 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ yj ey "- Tbe^Viotorlan Barby? will be rim to day.and an Exxha. will be issued from the §fi^bAßp office /.giving the result immediately tHe k 'cable news ia to band. Tbe meelinsr of creditors ot Frederick Hunt, of $ulle. if . altered , from Tuesday the 20th instant till tbe ' following, days, at the Qourt house, Palmerston, instead 'ofat triedfilce of Messrs Hankins and Bafcer/ Miss Anna Arkwright, 62, of {Mark ..flail, near Marlow, Essex, a lady! much ' respected m the distiict, has died from the sting of a wasp which bad (rot into "her pocket. She received the injury; on her little finger, and died from the pain m half au hour afterward*. a 'A train m Kentucky ran .into ;t_e fast i car of another train at a crossing The collision causing tbe explosion of- 400 } kegs of giant poivder, the station was wrecked and the engine blown to atoms/ Several persons were killed or injured; «rjsn«-488^ m Victoria m proppr tion tothe "population , tf as loyer'thlattin _ny <6f the other Ap«* • tfmhan^colpnies^ ' t Tbe : South Australians 'had the highest average! A Queensland bad the percentage deaths, audi New Zean land the lowest; fr .-A cable, message has !be'en received, by [ the^ vernment from|th» Agent-General, INew* Zealand ' Shipping Company's ihip~ WMtangHiWsailed with 808 irnmigrantafor Canterbury;, whilst the/* B9<V icto *yf owned 7 the Shaw, Savill* Albion Gonmany , had left with 334 {immigrants for Otago, Oanterbbry",' and! Wel« ijngtbo/ •; ••■''- y■ ■ ::o y j f A verdict -of "manslaughter" was re* turhed by the odronerte jury, twbo met to inquirers to the; fall of .earth which caused the i death; of tMo men on the Wellington r Manawatu. railway works. The, foreman, Edmund , O.'Maliey ia an old man, and seemed much affected with grief while 'giv-ine-evidence. 1 After sbmo J hesitation he admitted 'can*' didly that he had -'been... watching the slope of earth-three days m expectation of ita falling, and as it did not come down he thpught it would hpld up a, little longer till the loose stuff was carted 0 from the* bottom, ipreparatpry t o itimber* ing np the side of the deep cutting. The J jury had no hesitation in'- blaming' him'/ but they did hesitate to. ahapej their i vers diet as one of manslaughter, becabse they thought, the contractor . .was also to blame. The. Coroner pointed' out their fdfity, -and they then altered theiir verdict iio|s tp direc'«ily blarpe the foreman iri "charge/ His trial foir manslaughter-will' take place hejr.t January. j X'" : '. ; '" 1 "''' X : x-x.- • 7-»' :,i\ j .'ii Ulav

Those m charge of Public Libraries should take note of the. following which appears m the last Government Gazette : — ' The distribution will take place on the 3lnt January, 1884, ' and no olaim will le considered that shall not have been sent m due form and received by the Seoretary for Education, Wellington, before the 22nd January, 1884/ "• The Governor m Council has appointed the Ist of December next as the day on which 'the duty of three' farthings for 20s of the value of all property shall be paid.' Thursday's Government Gazette noti fies the promotion of Sub-Lieut. James Carroll, of the Palmerston North . Rifle Volunteers, tb a lieutenancy. * ~**"~.*~*” -" It is understood (says a \f ellington contemporary) that the Wellington and Manawatu railway loan,' referred to m the telegrapic cable news published yes.terday morning, is put on the London market by the .contractor, who. purchased the first issued of debebenturds. covering, the half of the loan frutn JSiKTuhns Vbgel, the company's agent, and' had the; optionof taking up the remaining nalfl As faf " as the company i 9 concerned, all the debentures have' been disposed of. .These bear interest at 5 per cant., and have a twenty%five. years' currency.. It is the intention, of the Cdirectors-R npw that 'they have secured the whole lSan to carry^out the work with all possible despatch. - Tenders are called- for. a further portion of hve miles of railway. In addition to this, preparations are ao advanced tbif tenders for two sections, bringing the^hne down from Palmerston end" to ° the" neighborhood ;qf-l,Oiaki,.aLdwta:nce of 31---miles from the junction, wili be called for within a month. — ~- — — ■