The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 305, 27 November 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' One of the Publitf' wri|es :— *If you will permit me I will mak« a fe«r remark, m your uext i-sue m answer lo a paragraph m the Times, last evening: I afei*' the editor assails you as the writer. I dou't Buppose thatiwill antioy yod'muah, 'but if he so pleases he can call a£ your office, and you may show hrm the 6ri^ihk1 J mannaonpt, if that will be any satisfaction to the poor man.' ' •? a /: iv At Cabra, a Dublin suburb, recently, > burglar entered" the house of a Mr Crollyj whtf) with *his family, except his wife, was absent. The lady found the burglar under a sofa m the drawing room. She »t once lacked the door, nnd went out; fair a constable; but, meetini; a.man, she sent him tor the police, and returned her self to the house, where she covered the burglar with a revolver, keeping him a "prisoner until the police came. „,, it , . The We|lington Mayor quotes the rates imposed m New. Zealand In Dun* ediaihf said, the rates amount .d to #4 3d m the £ : m Wellipgttfn, J2s 6d ; church, 23 6$ ; Auckland, 2» v 8 'j '; JinV^ru, 2s 9d': and Ooiftru, 3s dd. . rating m th» town of OaWaru Uad, be said, had the effeetofdririnfr people out of the town,apd the rates had lately boon reduced Od in the £ owing to that rasiilt; ] „; , u . '. ,h ,'. Accordinjf to th« Berlin Prew, the moral situation of tbe German capital is deplorable. Murders, suicides, and accijJents of all df scripiions have pestared the I greit city during the month of May and tlwr firet half of June. On the 15th tilt. onjyjßircorpseßi were i delivered , :> at the • anapbithefftrqß or ati the iaorc'ue. ■ Among } them-; wer« t wo casss ot i inf aVitieidd-* ' ixvt women "and three men ■ xrho fctd^poisftaed theinßfilyes : thre.9 wonaen,: seven men," and ; a hpy 'drowned : and 33 persons who had ljE»tjth£jr unfcnjown causes. A The plebiscite in 'favors of Scripture lesUions f rom the Irish school-board books rbeing taught? m ; State i^cKdolc, recently taken-ia^'arrnainilool,' ntilaiom, ended m a very large majority of the parents favor- - ing the' u«e of i\fa books iv the schools. r* , At.Ealifax, Npjva jScotia^a 4lrer japbn the wreck jpf; .the jbJuglish .ateamer ' CJedar Groye, near Torbay oh Ib^GAncqi&n coVst, was suprised to come across another vee&el, which was lying clSse to the Cedar Grore, but m deep water. i.The name New Dominion could be distinctly read on the i stern of [th* slta'ager': . 'li appeared that the brig New Dominion sailed from Cow ■ Bay, ' Cape -Breton', yin -Pecember^'' 1474f', with a cargo of coals for Yarmouih^U.S. Sinct than nothing had been heard of the ),Teasell t or her crew until "thai} discovery made bj the. diver. I* fa assumed that .the New Dominion struck upon the samrockjas the Cedar Grore, Rfterwards slidJsg, off into deep water, and taking down with her all on boaFd. ■ -. -\ A Southern exchange referring co the telegraphic feat of receiying -the news of, the retu]t 0 of, the Melbpurne Cup 'half a minute 1 before the winner pulled up// remarks :f-If things; go//tjn at the same rate during the next decade, readers i on.^e%djng, th,e day three or four aaj^.be^oia^ the occurrences take place, and the proprietor*, we hopV can reckon on g^ttuig their accounts paid* week before they iiafe duV Advance Telegraphy ! T t % [id -■ :± fte4'l I.U