LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 285, 5 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

._ Tne; following is 1 the kind ot letter we frequently receive atiour publishing office, showing the estimation m which the SxANOAED.is hel&by all - classes of sub-scribers,-and the .reading public: — ". B.unnythorpp, November,^, 1881,-r To the. Editor pf tb* vMawawattj' SiaW niTRD.-rr-Sirj— Havipjf left the Trondjem . oiill, threirdays ago, I .am; without any news whatever. Haying read your very TaiuaWe paper.for. thej last; 28 months, I oinnofc very well be with; out. it* ,^ill you please send a copy every day, com- j mencing at once, to the; Bunny tijorpe; ■Station; "lAddreS^j*^. Please excuae bad writing; I am, a German." , \ t v ■;." . The recurrence < of tfiatry ,jr eather a> . the elose : of last, jreekt^ (says' the Daily) 1 prored f to uj flo£k»owners' who', had commenced' shearing.; A, traveller^ j'firpm, Whareama reported seemg 1 hundreds'of newly-shorn sheep lying dead about. flax bushes where they had sought '• 1 "* '■ '?.'" S a'i r -oThere is m Schulyer County, Ma, k° young!>old> antfn} who without apparent oaqs^OirineJ plainly on a farm, -hsa mlB .years passed through the physical changes 'tif four acore. At the age lof six he had all the development of i strength .and muscle iisually m! a' lad of 15. ; Ai 12 hia beifird 'was grown and gray hairs ap>, >peared. Now, J at iß,'h9 is aa decrepit! aa any old man of 80, and seems tottering : on the verge of the grave, j ?.? v '■ On Friday evening n«t> .a gra«d amateur 'concert will bejgiven the. Woodyille School-room, for the purpose' of raising funds'for the purchase of prireV ! for, the school children. A; special f feature* will be" the performances, off the -children who h»ye'"b'een ( !>raiaed; into great, jaffi* s iieiicy, iiid which may^bej looked 'upon ai !a: cpfming treat. Several lady .and r who are" afcrangers to ' Woodville audience, will also take p a -,^:n:-u j -— --— rpu cargo of frozen meat sent from k ,-i-ne ; ; tytthe'^Teviotdale compirisea the liTOWWF.j r v on ttf b' e obtained 1 m New South beatmuu and attention being xWateg, w4« Th B Bte atner alao takes ! „ several jnunarev . . , . „ { ° P £ { There *&' M'KJ^ emries for the W'f?Wiirf^ik"nV^ »» wen,say V a numbetof entries is doubtless w «9iWM fact. „ ! • oJ^i<>w Late F-nglish filea announce fte-3WPUi s f of Lady Tringle, relict of the lace/^arp,. net of that name. This lady's who is heir to the baronetcy, which utfcarries no property ; with it, Ha well-known m Rangitikei, haTying been b/ewery;bußihess there iifor some veara past. j .;.{>-•■" •■-Earther supplies of G-oodk hayebeen re« -jfieived at the Bon Marotte during I 'fhe* week, which are now read]e forlselectibn'' m the various departnoente.; Purohasera 6b'and clothing are invited by ad-: yielueaaeht t& inspect, x th;e. gooda.-CA'bvT?:] I „:,i :i. Letters of naturalisation have bean. " isiueaHo'Mikel Koletand jPelir Voitre^ i; kofsky, both of Puketoi, WjoodvilU. q A Wellington contemporary m its commercial isummary r ;— " We ] cannot report generatlyiarVery^bnsk month's trade; indeed, aome reports show' that the past fmonth has been very dull. Business is not sound, and a few small failures are , reported, which, although not of any ' magnitude, if taken m connection with the- application for. . assistance, do^not e^ hibit that soundiieas* which •fs^neißeVsaryrconsiderinsr the small profifjaUhat aT« nowi made by importers. The money market is unaltered, and the remark^ made by the Chairman of Directors -<o^t'he -ißank 6f r New'i2ealan'd,',pqintftp.the present high rates existing for the nextHiix (montbif ] The wool reports from London r are, nwa,^ discouraging, several hobsei : rdporting that. they , hp,ve not seen wool so low forthe last fifty years. I Thebody-of the unfortunate young man Georgs-Rearden,-who was drownedjin. the , • melancholy b'pftt, accident which occurred on Saturday, October 26thj was recovered on Monday last by two fishermen" residing* at. the. Spit, named 0. Jphnssn and^'i>GalbVaith. 1 The two men; started out at hali pastf four m the morning>,te-jsearch,-and succeeded is discovering the body about 4°o yards from where the accident of water. , ( „ A man will die for w»n|t of air m five, minutes, for want of sleep m ten days.lror want of water m a week,! but authentic Hsated 'cfts'es "are'ibh record .m 66< yernment Service of men liyingjor^a respectable lifetime, although vsuffe^ng permanently of want of brains. Of 'boufs'6'thia ? i should nTofe '.possibly apply to New Zealand. There is no " red tapeism,' and never was— oh Jno if— in New Zealand. ' -^Mr-Henry M. StanleyFsimotharlis.ani • ton»keeper at the little Wftlsh^lage of, \ Poxes, The explorer's stepfather . ♦ thatcher and tiler m the, village, and; v* m ' flever seen London until his' devoted "^ i Sought him thither *ben the Afripan J&Valtf^r was the lion o£t H rd^' " f "' ' 6 A«H.uid« 'daughter of Kobert Burns is. ' -•* A S, » at present m 'receipt of relief ? the* Lo^en 5 Scottish* Oouporatioi. 5* ■ It* w Mi* Pjrke. J She is. the. wi|§ ; S'rwTkinJm^ who Has, through no #1. fhiT own faUeninto poverty, and fault of hw , r . at Somerset Hc'use. j . ; \ . v . " ■v Th^Wboui-ne police, fiave g^V* 1 whofefPueseei Uon D^^| i & motew, eighteen of whom-werelaWetted^ Quantities of tkke t«, prospecius^, lett«c, ehequM amd stamp f have beea aeia<«