Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mt Pascoe the lessee of the Bell Brewery is turning out beer 'of a quality far superior to any yet brewed m the district. We saw. ft complete' 'brew. going down the cellars of one of our hotels yfesr terday afternoon. Vanity Fair ; states that Lord Derby's' income amounts to £200,000 a year. Nevertheless 1 he' is willing to' receive £5,000 per annum for acting as Colonial Wete'retary. . 'A movement is on foot in 'London to erect a mon^mei tto Cbarle.g-Dckene. It is proposed to^ti^e hira a and also,. to place plaques oh toe house* m which he resided. Emperor WHha'af sent Von Sc'hilHngj the sculptor of the Neiderwald monument of ''Germania," an- -autograph letter, conferring a decoration- -and enclosing a gift of 30,00Q marks, . . -„;•;, Mr Charles Russell, Q.C., may fairly be callad the loader of the cqmowns lay? bar of 'JJEn^land. Ten years ago he was an unknown man — unknown to the geqeral public, if not to'his profession. 'Five years ago he was Bpoken of as a man who was making his way to the front.. To-day he is one of the few lawyers eminent alike m the conduct of atjauJeberpre^jju.ry and m arguments before the Court of Appeal. Victor Hugo who is now an hale old man, rides every afternoon on the .top of an omnibus through Paris. He ifk<4s to view the city and to chat with 'fellow ~ passengers. A few years ago tie disttfi* bated about £500 as anew Year's gift among the omnibus conductors m Paris. „.The, , death as announced of the venerable Earl Of Mount Cashell, the oldest peer m the House of Lords (he having sat m that assembly- -since 182o); The late earl is succeed ed^inibe-f ft aaily honours by his eldest son, Stephen, L r >rd Kilworth, born March 11, . 1825, and . educated at Eton. ' . \ *" Mr W. D. Howells. the novelist, is forty- six year* old. He loves quiet and home audshuna.aocietjr and fields sports', His revised and interlined proofs are a terror to the printers. The two children of the Duke and Ducheßß'of GonnVughl are to be left at. Windsor Castle and Osborne during the absence of their parents m India, which , looks nice and grandmfttKerJy. I ' '. J, Mr Vandtrbilt has placed a splendid suite of apartments m his New York mansion at the service of Mr Henry Irving, for who've use a lar#e mirror has been purchased by the American millionaire, that ho may study and pose before it, — — The a younger members of our royal fanuly-ftppear to take' kindly to English sports. The eldest son of the Prince of Wales is very fond of deer-stalking, a sport of which the Prince Consort -was never tired, and :in, *vhioh he was very proficient. ... ..Mr Ralph Modjeakq, son of the actress, fa nineteen jears old; and- graduated lait "Spring afnthe'" Ecoie Holyt'ochintque' m Paris. His special study m civil engineer^ ing is of roads and bridges. He resembles his mother m -features, and is a good pianist and billed; phi jer.' U.f! 1 ~ "' ~ ~ ' Mise Annie Baaant, the Malthuaian apostle and editoral colleague of Charles . BtradlttUfch, isidi>w albDut forty years old, and is of IrUh birth. When young she famed for her beauty, but. an .attack of brain fever destroyed tbe charms of her countenance. She is ; now a; large well,» proportioned woman, with dark brown hair and dark grey eyes full of fire. Her face is leonine, energetic, testless m .ar-«-preaaion. She is finely educated, and b»s. a particularly logical mind. She is planning to go to America soon on a lecturing. It is said that 100,000 children m No*.. York city support themselves. Many of them probably have to support their parents also. The lollt'Wi g is a list of civil cases for trial at the civil sittings <>f the. Supreme Court, which ar> seL dowa fjr the 14tli inst. : — Keep v, Travt-rs, Harris v. Gro t ex, Pomfrey and another y. Marshal linger v. the Robinson and olherß, Me Giath's Trustees v, the Oorporation,Bonk of New Zealand v. Miller, same v. same, Me Lennan v. Rockstrow, Jones v. Duthic. Martin and another v. Brandon and others j Forbes y Wakelin. Wilh tbe exception of the case of Harris v. (ireatrex, which is to be tried before a special juiy, the whole of these cases will come before common juries of twelve.