LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 20, 21 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The coach failing;' to reach Foxtpn m time to catch the train, a speciat train wasdespatched reaching Palmerston near midnight. The mails for Feilding and Halcomhe were sent on by the first train. Marton had its mail by first train yester* day, via New Plymouth, but ours is nearly twenty-four hours later via Wellington. ■■'■') ■. . y *We aro pleased to hear that Mr H. H. Godwin, former'y'of the collegiate school," - Wanganui, and well-known m this district, is doing very well m Australia. He has taken to journalism as a profession, and is now editor of an agricultural paper published at Wilcannia. He writes ih high spirits, and is very much pleased with his prospects. He had his vicissitudes across then. water, but appears- to have dropped v ollr his 'feet, 1 *»nd to be occupying a V6ty good ''foetal poSitionr] Hia friends will i>e delighted to hear j£f his Buccess. Mr Godwin possessed talents of a rare order which Bhould qualify him for almost any; position m the ranks of ad uca tion or journalism. The New Zealand Railway Department have- recently issued a- map' of the ' two islands, accompanied with .explicit information respecting the price for. tourists' excursion tickets, and the different lines over which the tickets will he available during the months of December, January, and February next. It gives tourists accurate information of the lines whioh are under the control of the Government, as well as showing the lines belonging to private companies. It states that tb ere are 135$ miles of railway open for traffic, . and that a ticket for six weeks will en« able a tourist to travel over any of th» , Government railway sections he may wUh for the moderate sum of £8. This is evidently a movement on the part of the .Government to provide the colonists with facilities for visiting some of the most attractive and interesting spots' m the colony, and it ought to be largely appreciated. Mr Larcombe is irviting tenders for alterations and additions to a residence. Writes the Woodville Examiner £7 We are m a position to state that there ia not the slightest truth m the runjonf that is. circulating through the Island, that two hundred settler* are about to leave Norse wood for America. : Our informant states the settlers m that district: are far too well pleased with their sections to even contemplate taking euch an unwise step. There exists at the Tahoraite pah, an old Maori, who affirms that he resided at Kidnapper Point, Napier, when Captain Cook first arrived at that portion of the - - Talanrlr T_» old -gent,- m oomeWhore about 120 years of ago, and ia still hearty and nimble, and most vigorous m conversation. -'■'""'"