LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 27, 31 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To»day at 12 o'clock the Debtors and Creditors Act. 1876, oame to a finish, as far as receiving declarations is concerned. When the Court re-opens a debtor must petition to be made a bankrupt under the provisions of the new Act. His Excellency the Governor is to leare Wellington this week on a visit to Dunedin, Inrerc^rjrill, and th* Sounds on the West Coast, returning to Wellington via Hokitika by the Hinemoa. Sir William Jervoia is expected to be absent for bo me weeks. Tba Frisbane Observer states that Captain Williams, of the schooner Pearl, rt-. ports having discovered six new islands to the eastward of Normaiibj Island, near the south-eastern extremity of JNew Guinea. Some of those Islands he describes as magnificent, with plenty of fresh water and thickly populated. Some women would probably like to have a law m force similar to one that obtains m one part of the United States of America. At Brooklyn, according to a late paper, two wives sued publicans for selling intoxicating liquors to their husbands, and recovered respectively £500 and LIOO. What a haul some colonial wives would make! In Brooklyn a good drinking husband must be almost as good as a gold mine. Our cable news on Saturday announced the dent)) of Professor Hollovray, the pro* prietor of Holloway's pills and ointment Irrespective altogether of the curative pro* perttas of the medicines: of which the deceased was the inventor, Professor Holloway may be regarded as the prince of advertisers, and hence the success which has attended him through life. There is scarcely a newspaper published m the world which does not insert an advertisement of the proferaor'a business. The .Napier Telegraph Times says :— It is tolerably well known now, says the Law Times, what the. future operation of the new (English; Bankruptcy Act will be. The best informed anticipate that there will be more work for lawyers than there was under the old system ; consequently, that the administration of the Act will be more expensive. Just so, and the New Zealand Act passed last session, thanks to Mr Conolly's intense admiration of Kng» lish institutions and laws, is an exact copy. The first number of a Socialist paper, "The Will of the People," printed abroad, reached St. Petersburg ou the 22nd October. It contained a letter from the Nihilist prisoner Netsthapiff to the Czar. Netschapiff was condemned 10 years ago, and was supposed to be dead. It is a written complaint of his terrible treatment. The journal adds that the letter was originallyjwritten m blood. It has created great excitement among the Nihilists of St. Petersburg. Says an Exchange: — %< We have often expressed ourselves so entirely out of sympathy with the mode of operations adopted by the Salvation Army, but are equally disposed to record anything m their favor. In Launceston they have purchased Apaley House, at a cost of LllsO, as a home for fallen women. This is the first real practical effort for good which we have noticed as being recorded m their favor. We wish them success. They are about to visit Hobart, where there is abundant room for a similar effort, as that city absolutely swarms with the uufortunate class alluded to. A peculiar fish was recently captured off Falmputh Heights. It measured over 75ft. m length, and its circumference wna 4£in. Old fishermen say it it the first they erer saw or heard of.