LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 8, 7 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Musicians all the world over will doubtless be glad to learn that a neat and easily-worked apparatus has at length been invented for turning the leaves of pieces of music. Worked by a treadle, the new apparatus is attached to the music stand: a sinple movement of the foot enables the performer to turn the leaf without noise or apparent movement. The leaf, ii gently picked- up, turned over, and" foul flat on tbe back page, The whole thin* is so simple that the only wonder is that it was not discover- d long ago. The in» v en tor is an Armenian mechanic, named Ounik Erghamen. He is patenting bis invention all over Europe. During SanJay of thr«e weeks pasfr,jsoit is stated by the JRiarigrora Stanford, two promising people met for the first time in their lives at the house of 6ne John a smith, and with all their -imperfections on their, heads determined ,to rush into the bonds of wedlock* No onewas to blame but themselves. The jcg-, gister scooped in his fee, and the clergy* man did difto on Thursday. The inarriagß took well — no complaints were made by either parties, and everything passed off Al. Two hnrrys make one scurry. The Fatea Mail gives currency to the rumour that " at the .next general election the Hon. Major Atkinson w>ll not .seek., re-election, at the naridai of,his ; Kgmbnf" constituent*. It is snidtjhat he, hag beenoffered a seafm the South Island, which ,, he is likely to accept. The Egmont aeif is to be secured to- the government by~the return of Mr J. R. Lysaght, who will be 1 run* in tbe Ministerial interest. W<a do not vouch for the correctness of the above, but pitting thiß and that together /we areiinclrned to think that there is ' something in it.'" ; '• A bird in the hand is worth two" in" the bosh" is an old proverb (says ~%bi Post) and a very trne one. Some time ago; a man holding a com forr able position in the city receive 1 a letter from hia father iu England, intimating his intention to forward him a present of £200. The son foolishly threw up his situation, -expect" inc tobe in receipt of the money by the uoxt mail. Several months have elapsed, and yet no further intelligence is to hand respecting the promised cash* The manand his family hare meanwhile been subsisting ou credit, and aro nowhuavily in debt. At yesterdiy^a meetinar 'of the committee of tbe Benevolent Institution, it w«s decided to supply the family with rations. V ai The hull and other appurtenances of the ketch Emerald, onoe a trader to Foxton, were to h«ve been sold by, auction in Wel« lington yesterday. A notice appears elsewhere in reference to the assigned estate of T. S. Dixon of Palmerston. " ," .' „ .... . By special request the Standaed is now posted to the Reading Room of the: Sailors' Rest, Port Chalmers- , :