LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 10, 10 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"j attention oil tbjelpublidj is directed ,jo,tta»M&'<lfiprfotl*g«(of the forthcoming, r^ee ; w.e«tij»lfe»t/7PiW«»!»wt.Qtt advertised tn am«ther column; Mr Snelson is to be th'e auctiaaeer n »Dd r th,e ral^wyiU t»ke place at hisToowt on Satnra«y f l -«*-2 p.m. Tbe insolvency of an aboriginal is else--1 ' "kemberaof tfa« Racing OiuH Committed «re requegeAM® W*t,nfr kfra jPommerrii 1 tfotetat Satwdar *£8 p.m. to receira .^tfie? J}n4;acc«j>jt»^p6f lor the; iorthpom* ing: meeting. / , ; b :■ . I> p ; Weiaiie iiorryto 'be^ 4fcat Mrg E. Wl Perkins is m a TBry cf itic»i atajta of haaltb;, an* S'aat evenwg'feirTrfe was desired ofj. Mr Perjdnsi«(«b^nt«|n atrip to TasiMr Bryce ia now flt Kawhia. and M? d will probably join him there id -. •»d«y« hence It app*nra from th^ % -nm«Dt Gazette that the first sale of Govei Ttevhu will take place at Auck4 ■S at - t"'e 23rd January. { T^>? °W% * C urio«itieß which the Old*} OneaatM , M h«td Tast week m W cli Knelysbe JRv „ , Ig ht to H«ht was an 80---iidgtoff^bas bro." . ma Weakly Despatch years-old copy v6t i«\ J^ba^fcigr. 180&.1 Wameiydated 'Sm>- '( wt $on of War belt contain* the I»ee nee f, mon g the 3 weeb?England J anrf : :'Fra. . p or^ mou th is • pipping departufjfl ; frota fuo g -rLor^d NeUv n ' , Mej!^n»nean.' y ; fc L *m th e i WilHam Argent Archer,* cle. t Government Inanrance Departmv. f , fa ; beeh dismissed Irom,; tbe serviue o. ! c6lony. ! ■ The mastur of a vessel (W. Australin/ | recently arrived from Crossack, reports hirinß^s*iSafe»e}i ..ppawntly a maps of solidified ashes or pumice stono, 4or 5 niiiee m extent, near Northwest Cape. Irh<» jaoaiinir iiwiw wa " mo v »'g in * nnrtVrly direction at a tremendnns rat", though the wind was light, the vessel itself beinjr aimost stationery. A bra 8 « ■ band m one of the Wnirarapa diatrictß has found it necessary to draw up rules for th» preservation of go-d order at' its meetings. One rule runs thus— « Not m^re than four members to get dfnnk »b one meetintr , for practice. Qiiite a crowd stood outside the practiceroom one evening likening to the band trvine to play * The Dead March m Saul, atidope poor ; fellow has not been n«ht since. Count SwbiUe, a former grand equerry ;or, N»poleoirllT,AJWnjf -to Weufchatel, Switzerland,- to-cociplain- of beug miolug by the Swisa gendarmes, was told, to his great astonishment, that there was a wnt of extradition, against him for forgery. He satdnwn to a tab!^ to draw.up, it was mlvMi i ' bnt drew a revolver and blew his brains out The remark ' Served at Trafalgar', j 8 Appended to thlrname of +be lat^-WiUum Ward Aikerf, who died at Napier on the 13th '"October last, an«l whose eiUie (• under £5M has been nlaced under the Wof-the Pubh'c i- Trustee. Seeing 'that the Battle .Of Trafalgar occurred nearly 79 yeara ago, the deceased, to b«ve 'served' at it even »s. a boy, must have attained a grond old age. : .;At the Auckland Police Court, a motf named .Tnmes Ooyle was fined 20s and costs, £3 : 14& ..f0r : cruelly beating «horse at Parnell. Hfcjs Rosalind H. Young is a resident Island. She is a descendant of the mutineers of the British sitrira Bo<lOty.. A^rcrtiirod sea captain, who visited the the island not long ago, draws the piotn ve , of Miss Ypunff.;^ '* Her fativer i* pastor of tlid 'island chut'cn «nd teacher of the school, and she |s orgawist assistant teacher. Phe is 'about 26 yeavs old, and weighs 2001bs, never had a shoe on her foot, ami if necessary, could sw(m oft to a slnp J four wires from Vhe island and back •rtfeaih fi>.the*bitfe. an^thon go into the little church and play vhe organ nearly as "weft ris any young lady m the States."