LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 9, 8 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Good Templars to a man repudiate having written, instigated, orau/hori»ed the letters m the other paper signed ' 3o.>d Templar,' making reflecti«iua on the management of the Claruudon Hotel and the conduct of the poii c m regard thereto. There must be some viiry contemptible underhand work hero. People .generally g°em to have m«deup their minds to have no tine weftthe'r thia auuimer. We hare now had about, eight months of wiuter, and still there is no indication of a chauge, this morning being colder than many days m July and August. Tbe Rev. Father Kirk, of Wannanai, was a visitor to Palmers ton yesterday, "n rpnte for Wellington. Father Carew accompanied him so far as .Foxton. i The Uhriatchurch Telegraph understandthat m view of tbe prospect of further miliUry operations m E>rypr, it is pro posed to form a New Zealand Volunteer Contingent, and communications are being opened with the Government as a preliminary step. As «oon as possible after h reply has been received m this city, h meeting will be called of all those willing so take part m the movement. A young lady compositor, employed on the Auckland Evening Star, was recently obliged to resign her situation, m order to accompany her family, who were removing to Wellington. Her sister compositors, on hearing of her intended departure, met together and held a consultation, the result ot which was thq. presentation to the young lady of a very handsome and valuable souvenir of their affection and friendship. The project of the Auckland Meat Freezing Company to bring sheep over* land from Hf.wke's Baj is likely to be jucceeefully carried out. Messrs Hicks and Stubbing have returned to Auckland from their trip to Napier, and report very favourably on the facilities for establishing the several stations for sheep-driving proposed to be made between Patetere and Napier. In a paragraph m last nights Times the following sentence appeared : — lt is quite true that some months ago our canvasser waited upon Mr Carroll for an advertisement, but he then explained, that ihe advertisement referred to was placed m theStxndar.l beciUß3 several of the youths m the Volunteer Band were m thit office, and he did not desire to fall out with (he mnnager of the Standard m cage the Band might suffer !' Thia is not exactly m accordance with facts. It was Mr Russell who pleaded for the advor* tiseuient, not the business man, and the advertisement w?s simply refused to him because, as Mr Cnrroll remarked, ' it was sufficiently advertised being m the Stan* dard.' The ' cunvasper' pleaded very hard, offered to insert it for next to nothin?, but Mr Carroll was firm, and the interview was fruitless. How is it possible that the advertisement appearing m the Times could cause Mr Carroll ' to fall out with^he manager of the Standard.' Will the ' canvasser ' or the bu^iuenß man kindly explain ? In Auckland the Sanitary Ins»petor having examined some veal discovered that it had been ; blown' with a tobacco pipe m the usual trade style, and whs so redolent of ' baoca and beer' that the effluvia might b» cut with a knife. lit is aid that £(iUO,<X)-i will br required next year to u>e> t the necessities of the 1 Education Department,