Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 31, 5 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

o . — We hear that Me James Linfcon is about taking a trip to Australia for the benefit of hia health. W"e trust ha will return completely restored and himsulf again. According to intelligence from Yoko- j ham-, a fire, resulting; m appalling loss of life, had occurred m a theatre at Katn« moto.uura Kamada Govi Sauuki. The building bein« of highly iuflimtnable materials, the flames spread with awful rapidity, and m a few minutes enveloped the. theatre. As the result,lls adults and 150 children were found to hure been killed, .and over 100 persons were aeriousily injured. The mania of a Chinaman at Lawrence took a peculiar form a few days asro, guys the Otago Times. Ah Choi was hia name, and when arrested m the local cemetery he whs m the act of imprinting some Chinese characters on parts o a pailing which he had pilled down, was usin^ his penknife for printing the characters, and, as a substitute for ink, was using blood from a cut, about half an inch Jon ■, made with his penknife m his third finjjer. He had pulled down a picket fence several yards fn lenjyth, and had dug under the grave of the late Mr Hinde with a shovel and ■"■ undermined the plants and flowers. The Chinese characters made by him .were the names of persons. The parting pulled down divi ed the Chinese portion of the cometery from the European, Two absconding fathers, both from Cbristchureh were prosecuted m the Weilin<»ton Resident Magistrate Court on Thursday. Thomas Brown, charged with deserting his wife and fivo children, was ordered to contribute £L a week to their support. Roland John Bates was charged with deserting bis boy by leaving him at a boarding house without payment. He was ordered to pay 10s a week. The Salvauon Army m Melbourne have resolved to enter upon a new aud im« portant field of effort, namely, to give a h'lping Land to prieouers on discharge from the Melbourne Gaol, upon t he sole condition that they desire to live honest, sober, and reformed lives. The proposal is to establish a home, or retreat, tor the objects referred to,nnder proper and experienced supervision, to give the discharged prisoners anwther chance. Pood, clothes, worlf, and shelter will be provided till the men can * turn theb»se;lves round,' and do something for themselves. The Wellington City Tramways, con., cession, goodwill, horses, engines, aud the whole, plant are t?o be sold as a going concern by public auction, m consequence of a dissolution of partnership. An Armrican piper states that S. J. Hudson, Belvidere, 111 , who came to Wisconsin lately, with two children, m search of his runaway wif<r, ■ found ' her dressed m man'd attire, f.nd calling hpr* self Prank Dubois. She was liring with Gertrude Fuller, having been married to her early last spring by the ]jev. H. L. Morrison at the home of the bride's mother. Muny persons thought that 1 EYink Dubois' had many characteristics of a woman. Under this naniH she had solicited jobs of painting, and was making sufficient money to support them both. The death is announced of Mrs Brown, of the Upper Hutt, who has died at the ripe a<re of 83, leaving a family of children, grandchildren, and great-grand children, numbering forty-eight individuals. The deceased lady arrived m the colony per the ship Blenheim m the year 1840, and for thirty-three years she had been a resident of the Hutt district where she was highly respected. The Boroujh cart was today employed removing some of the accumulations of dirt that some of the residents of the Square, despairing of its removal, had collected into heaps m front of their premises so as to allow foot-passenger traffic to get to their doors. It is to be hoped some better system of cleansing the waterways m the Pquare will soon come info vogue and be systematically carried out. Mrs Scott Siddons has been staying at Berlin for the last few days, and the newspapers speak of her intention to ' make a starring tour through oienrmny.'