LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 295, 16 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Aprbt>isa of an article which appeared m ; lasfcpighVs STANbi;ap re 1 artesian weals', we ard informed that Mr. Burmeisterof ! Kairanga, d r ove pipeV oh his Bectibh^tb j the depth of ? 4<J feet, and the water rose j ;irr the pipes and overflowed and he can j get. a jetrof.-waier- J -risin^tp i^e ; -"heiffht of : 12 to 15 feet. -No --otfb'P-artesiati '"Wells , can be obtained in^m^py. places? Ip "the ; , locality," and, driving; „f or water ja vjßjfy j much less expensive; .' thaii byrjipgr for- it, . ...as) rhetbtal coat fit,MtZß^f^e^ijet f a .well l was very little pv^r three^buadß,. ■.■l. . : Victirp Vvvvrites'to Otago Daily ; .Times : —There is an individual amonj? 7ua victimising,] pur shopkeepers ', in f thejEpHowing ; njanner,:-rfle purchases ■ Lgpme small" articles^ and tenders m pay»! -ment. a half-,soveriegn< ; i^hen you have j given him iris c|iangg.j Ji'ej pffers togive! you silver back ; ror it: you oblige him, but m the 1 meantime he offers you change ~and his half-sovereign for a pound note,; asking ineaPtinfe for some "other trifling; article, and throwing down- silver for -it. Waat witlilthinkitiitt :! the - half bad (or why such changing), ho quietly, walks off your £1 note' -for his half-sove^ reign. •"-*- j Whgejtjie^t^aPiierjTui; iw*s off Mana early 'on Wednesday morning she picked up pr lifebftoyi with, the n%me ; *' ( VVay:e ;of ;Jjife,'V doubtless belonging to the schooner of that name*"y;No 7nev?s is obtainable as WJthe. ; wWeabQuts-l of .that , vessel, nor whether she had met with apushap.r p. j • Strawberries . are already plentiful at Auckland^ - ~- zr-y^a^ "A meeting that waa to have taken plnca stfFeathersion re'.'t-fU?of iriation of a butj ter -factory lapsed m consequence of the; .weather,- *XX.. } c.\ 7 ;' ...v. j '■'■ 'The' Wairarapa- 'Baily 1 '-ha* -'lhe follow* ing :— Messrs, Mujr & .Dixpn's double seated bug^V^that^ was pihioited at the late pastoral show, and though undoubtf ly the 1 best Vehicle '* therp'was passe'd-un-j noticed by the judge's,' has found a pur 4 ' chaser from Fal_ier_t6n North, and has been taken to K that.; place.. .Tbe.abovd firm hare j?ained Jguifce a notoriety 'in the Manawatu district as caachbuilders, wher6 Uargaliiuni-esEofitlttafrJyehiclea are to be found. j