LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 288, 8 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

The Poet and Telegraph offices will be closed tomorrow. , - Returns tickets at the railway will be available to-morrow. Mr Platt, engineer, undertakes to drive for water, and accomplish other similar undertakings,on a moderate-scale of charges. A rumour is abroad that Mr Ballance intends contesting the Manawatu seat. VS hen we say that this rumoar emanated from the Martoa paper, we need say no more. The programme of thei Lutheran celebration to which vie referred lately is elsewhere advertised 1 ,; and v promises to be a mostnuccessf ul and interesting demons stration.- ~ t' ■■ s."> '•■ ; . Mr J. P. Watt has conrmenced opera* tion at the Ridgway Brewery, "Waneanui, the first brew having been turned out the" other day. -Of his quality connoisseurs speak m the highest terms, and Mr Watt, having procured the services as brewer of Mr Heffer, (formerly of Palmerston) a gentlemen who has* had considerable home and colonial experience, is no it m a position to supply beer of the farst quali* ity. , .. .. The death of Professor Denton was very sad. He was not a young man, and at his age he might very well have ceased from active labor m exploration, especially m Buoh an unwholesome region as "New Guinea. But it befel him as often to men of and enthuiastic temperaments — he .miscalculated his powers, and when the strain oame succumbed m silence and almost m solitude^ .Mr Denton was emphatjqally a self-made man, and wrote ' much on many subjects oj which ha made himself master by idomitable courage and exertion. His writings have had a wide circulation. ; Seventy Railway truck loads of Btock for the Ohristchurch Show left Oamaru on j the previous morning. The Auckland Herald of a recent date mournfully observes: — "There was not I a solitary prisoner m the look-up last evening," Very sad, , r, It is understood- that a good coal seam has been discovered m the Hunua district, near Auckland, and that after Christ, mas steps will be taken to develops and . work it. From the. proximity of the mine to the Auckland market, the promoters . are sanguine of: the enterprise proving a profitable one. The death is announced of Mr G. Q. Orbelf, who was ; at one. time wetland 1 favorebly known m "Wellington as a Government employe arid the secretary of the Port Nicholson" Club. i Spurious :ftalf»3o.vereigns, bearing the impress of the Melbourne Mint, are being circulated at Ha wea and Opunake. t A verdict, with £5 damages, has been given against the Leader for libelling D. \ 0 rich ton, a, journalist. r \ Another application iv to bo mada for ' the removal of the lunatic Oresswell to England, but it will bs again opposed by the Attorney»General on the ground that the identity of Cress well is fully eatab* liabMl.; Further supplies of Goods have been re« ceived_ at the Bon Marche during the week, whicjb. are; now ready for selection m the various departments. Purchasers of drapery and clothing are invited by ad« veriiseaaent elsewhere to inspect the goods. — r^DVT.3