LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 1, 29 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A writer m the New Zealand Wesleyan soya :— « Of the death of Pr.-fe*or William Denton, many will be lead to say ' He departed irithout being desirjd. 1 Baginning life as a Methodist preacher m America, aud devoting the greater part of it to an attempt to destroy ihe faith ho onw preached, his passing iway m New Guinea ,is the sad close of a strangely misguided- career.' Another visit from the 'healer,' Mr Gh M". Stephen, may be looked forward to. According to ad dees received by a Wellington lady., the other day^from Mrs Stephen, her husband and self are at present ai Brisbane, and doing well there. Mr tephen's power* has increased rather than diminished. They purpose leaving Sydney for New Zealand by the 'Frisco mail steamer on the 20th inst., and will work their way south from Auckland, as they did at their last visit. A fa* horsed which, escaping now and then from the' paddocks of colonists on the edge of the settled districts of Australia, have made themselves at home m the freedom and .abundant pastures of the interior' have multiplied to such an extent tliit, notwithstanding the numbers captured or shot every year, it is estimated that there are something like 100,00-) of them m the moat populous colonies — Victoria and New South: Wales- or.roam.' 1 . ng the plains contiguous to their borders. The Auckland ' Berald' says : Within the last few years several natives who were supposed to have, caused death by witchcraft have been murdered, aud now we hear of another case at Murrwai, on the Bast Coast. I« we remember rightly, we had- instances at- Mercury Bay-and at Katikati, where old men who were supposed to have caused deaths were Killed but the Government. did, nothing, and the natives who commjtrtel the murders were not troubled for what" they hnd done. Probably tbe Government will now consider that such, acts, should be put a stop to. 1 - ''AaA'. - ■ :CA '■ Last-. Friday, says tbe Bruce Herald, a truck laden with chaff passed through Milton railway station addressed ,tp G,jre. It came from Rangitata Island, Canterbury, a distance of 255 mile* 19 chains. Chuff must ba extremely scarce m Southland. Mr. Justice. Gillies, m sentencing a couple of Maoris for cattle stealing, said ' the law is cry severe m crimes of this sort.' The way vhe interpreter rendered this to the Maoris was — '.The -law ia very bad m crimes of this aortj' The Maoris no doubt agreed that it was bad, but bis Honor did not say that. i