LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 15, 15 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Considerable amusement was caused : la.te.lv at a meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board by the Chairman reading the following extracts from the bill of costs m a case m which the Harbour Board were concerned—" Perusing telegram a p." pointing; to meet me, 6s Bdf preparing; - \ Jielegra'ui id reply Jihat- 1 would meet- 'aff proposed, lis 8d : paid, Is." Prose. I ■♦-A woman m' Wellington'" receiveT last | treek her 35th sentence for being drank I and disorderly. During three years she : has served seven sentences of three-months - each, and during the same period has -either' been 6ned or sentenced to short terms,no less than twnty-siXttimes. | yilj tii^eStim*te^fthat -the,* Educational for next year will need to be £000,000 to meet-all] tha necessities of the Depart' ment. About 30s per head /or .every -m~aji< woman, nnd child io the colony. Private competition could. accomplish the, .work quite as effectually, aud great a deal' more cheaply,., and there would be no ; j trouble about Bi'tle-inaohoqlsaUd religious; teaching generally. .;• fy ; jj Meisra Nelson, Moate, ' and Hd., ' tea dealers, are reported to be the largest im« porters ofr Indian teas to New Zealand this season. On one occasion 'recently they imported 1200 packages (chests and balfochests) of Pekoes ' and Pek6B'«S6u« 6hong from the well-known tea-growing districts of Oachar^ Assam, Shy let, Darjeeling, Chittangong, etc. This shipment is one pf the many intended for use m blending %iWi theinumerous varieties of ' new season's China teas* ' '•"''■' The horse-tamers are having a j.gfty time of it m Australia. ■ Professor Sample has been doing an . enormous business, m Melbourne, arid by last accounts had gone m for a big tent, a la the circus,, m which he gave lessons co a large number of people; •Jack' Cunningham— as everyone fami' Harly terms him —has developed into a fine business manager, and Siimpleis making heaps of money. Litehwktk' is m New. South Wales, and his skill m handling horses i ishighly appreciated, and ,well rewarded. He quite surprises the Australian** , and is doing well. It was reported that during a reoent fortniiiht he took several hundred pouads. ." ; ' ■ -Further additions are, 'made to, , tb^ catalogue of Messrs Steverta and Gorton's -forthoomiag-Awahuri stock sale, which is expected to bs largely attended, m the stook entered are a grand-lot. .; - ) "• There are' evidence that circular saws ywere known to the Egyptians 4,000 years ;ago. I ■■■■ x _ a A.- >-^ x.. , Lately>a 'most' strange sight, was to be seen at Turin— a regular' cloud of butter^ flifes of every bright coVor coming , towards the town-; from Rivolii I '' They jadvahced m regular military order: .there was a ; Vanguard, the larger body m the middlei the rear guard, -while at the 'sides some of these insects m small number seemed to| be reco'nnoiteringy p1 a 'a\ i Writes the Waiuku correspondent of *he; ; Auckland Herald :—«' Mr C. W. Lnn«Btone, M.R.0.V.5., Lendon. has been iv district for thai past ten' days, spaying cattle. Most of the large graziers are taking advantage of his visit, and have had a large number done. Messrs Con* stable 1 , Bent, and 'Reid have had over 300 operated on, and I believe before the end of the present, week the, number will be increased to 50b! ' There UWo doubt tbat> with the present low price .of cattle, it ii a good thing, and it will tend to do away with a great number of the inferior cattle now ftiisbinz. It is to be hoped that other district) will feecure the service*: Mr Langstone."|fff -this the erstwhile resi?denfriof Bulls, &c.? ■ ■ '■