The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 6, 5 December 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Palmerston Borough Council will meet this evening. We remind our readers of the meeting tit tfae Commercial Hotel this evening, m connection with the formation of a Druids' Lodge* The Oroua County Council nra inviting applications for the post of Collector of Dog Tux for the year 1884, The weather continues exceedingly boisterous, and during the ni#ht the e)ements were most unseasouable. Early on the morning of the 26th July a Urge steamer, on the Volga, which was carrying 680,0001b5. of naptha, was struck lightning, and was at once wrapped In flamed. It burned the whole' day and nifjiit, it being found to bt* impossible to extinguish the fire. Several men who were on board at the time and had no means of saving themselves, perished. Tha collector for the County Council attended at the Highway Board office todky to receive the rates ot settlers m the vjcinity. Ho will be al the Corporation otece Aahurst on next Wednesday from 10 o'clock to 3, which opportunitj settlers should not neglect. The police are inquiring for two runaway appenticea who are missing from the Bhips Ptaione and Orari, now m Wellington. The Wellington Meat Export Company had 4500 carcases of mutton prepared for shipment by the steamer Triumph, and these will now be kept for the Victory. There being ample storage room at the company's work*, there will ba no delay m preparing tha next shipment. Mr Rolleßton returned to Wellington on Saturday evening from the Wairarapa district, where, m company with the Surveyor General, he has been making arrangements, for the sale, shortly of a large, quality of fine bush land suitable for agricultural settlement, m farms of moderate seizf, upon deferred payments. There is altogether, at the back of Masterton, an aren of about 100,000 acres of land,«c[ual to the best m the colony, likely thus to be opened up. Her Majesty the Queen has by Order m Council declared that Part 11. of the Fugitive Offenders Act of 1831, paßsed by the Imperial Parliament, shall apply to New Zealand and the Australian Colonies on und afUr the Ist of January next. Bis Excellency tbe Governor has issued a proclamation to this effect. From New Year's Day, therefore, wife deserters will have to. seek somelother eliraes than the Australian Colonies wben they forsake those dependent on them. On September 2nd, 1,600 quarters of beef from Russia were landed m the St. Katherino's docks, inaugurating what prooiijea to] ,b& a successful attempt to bring that enormous country under contribution for the supply of food to England. The venture is that of the Russian Produce Company, who have no? landed their seventh cargo of beef, realising thereon a profit, after paying all expenses, of one penny a pound on the consignments, which have yielded an average m the metropolitan market of s|d wholesale. Tbe idea of the company is to utilise the port of Libau, m the Baltic. The Hawaiian* .appear to be tolerably god judges of a woman's smile. A Honolulu paper m describing such an affair, aaya :—' Her rich r«ds lips parted, and there flushed upon the landscape two rows of beautiful white teeth. Slowly her mouth opened wider and wider. Deeper grew the wrinkles m her bronze cheek*. Brighter danced the sunbeam* m her eyes, until a stray ray, darting through the foliage ot an overhanging bough, illuminated the deep cavern of bar mouth, bringing into view the back of her litad. Then seeing us gazing intently upon her, she shut her jawi, and darknos* fell upon the scone*' Mr M'Elhone en the liquor traffio makes the following remarks :— I< l believe that for every £1 we receive as revenue from tßUfinfernai liquor traffic the country has to spend £2 on criminals and paupers, and lunatics which the traffio creates. Through thfcttraffic murder is caused, wives beaten, homes destroyed, reputations blasted, prostitutes created, and little children sent out to thieve, to enable their lazy scoundrels of fathers and mothers to live m drunken idleness."