LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 25, 28 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Writes a lady correspondent of the Auckland Herald : — VAnd yet clumsy fifth-rate actors, performing plays that are 'a little coarse, you know, but such fun !' and variety«mongeis singing profane songs' and making indecent jests, take away from ourcity hundreds of pounds annually/ while Benevolent Societies die out, and Young Women's Institutes are wound up, and Sailors' Homes languish; the* needy sick get on as they can, and the friendless girls are left to go where Satan and pleasure* loving men choose to take- them, and our sailors throng the gates of hell at all our street corners." Charles Kingsiey says the human race may for practical purposes be divided into three parts— -Ist. Honest men who mean to do right and do it. 2nd. Knaves who mean to do wrong and do it, 3rd. Fools who mean to do whichever of tha two is the pleasanter. These last may be divided again into black fools, who would-rath'er do wrong but dare not unless it is the ! fashion, and white fools, who would rather do right, but dare not unless it is the fashion. A correspondent writing from London says ; " That all difficulties m connection with freezing and thawing milk have been overcome, and m the case of the British King, which took a quantity of milk m the freezing chambers for use on board, tbe milk was found as fresh and pleasant to drink as if fresh from the cow." This is an item of importance to< farmers and others who can thus find another industry open to them iv the future. Mr F. Beaven has just enlarged his store m the Square, greatly to its improvement. He has it fully stocked with a large assortment of goods. Mr John Davie s, of Wirokino Station, near Foxton, is m want of a boundary rider who is accuitomed to sheep. 'Mrs George Cotterill, ' nee Miss Carandini, long favourably known to the musical world, is now on her return to Wellington, from tbe Rome country. The wife of a Ballarat East tradesman, who had been sorely troubled with nursegirls, having had to change them about once a •-week, asked her husband to pro* I cure a model girl from the country. A girl residing m the Hamilton district was recommended to him, and a letter was directed to her, She replied to the effect that she would like the position very much, but could not accept it until after Christmas, for two reasons. In the first place, none of the family had ever been away from home at Christmas, and her mother would be grieved if she was absent during the ensuing Christmas time. In the second place?, her music quarter would not be up until next month.