Manawaiu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 40, 15 January 1884, Page 2

Manawaiu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1884. LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

Mr TayloT, oE Auckland, the successful tenderer for, the Pukerua contract of the West Coast Tailway, brought down be« tween 20 and 30 natives from the Northern city for aniploytnent on the work. At Napier i man was charged at the Police Court with vagrancy, and sentenced to a month's hard labour. His offence was, that he contented himself with playing a penny whistle for a living, and had previously been before the Court for lunacy. Musicians beware. Mr Carkeek, Government Surveyor, passed through Wantfanui on Saturday last, on his way from New Plymouth to Wellington, He indignantly denies the statements publicly made that Mnjor Atkinson' bullied him' m connection with the inland railway survey, and cannot imagine how such false statements originated. He describes the territory through a railway can be taken as 'awful country.'' A story is told of Theopbile Gautier. The author of ' Mdlle. do Maupin' being troubled with a severe toothache^ culled on a dentist and had the teeth which offended him removed. •' Now,' he said, ' they will not plague me any more ; and lest the others should ever worry me, I think that you had better take them out too. I have had enough toothache to last me for my lifetime, and I want rest.' And it is to be hoped that he had it, for he left the room without even a sunup id his head. Connecticut seems to run to semireligiou? stories. At a dinner party a good dencon was assigned the head of the table. Feeling th*»t a blessing should bo asked, and too modest to officiate him-elf he ran his eye down the table until it rested upon a man with a v<-ry solemn countenance. ' Will you ask a blessiug, air?' The man addressed put his hand behind his best ear and shouted; 'I would thank you to repeat your remark. lam so d d deaf that I didn't hear you.' A gentleman who is a agent for a 'glycerine' sheep dip, visited Messrs Hunter and Nolan's saieyards (says the Auckland Herald) and interviewed Mr Neybet, the Sub-Inspector of Sheep for the Auckland district, informing that gentleman that he Was prepared to dip any flock of aheep infected with scab, without any pay, as he was anxious to test thus publicly the efficacy of his ' dip.' Mr Neybet, however; informed him that he did not know of a single flock so j iufncted m the whole of the district under his jurisdiction. This will be accepted by I the Auckland flock owners as a very satisfactory state of affair*. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says that, considering the Draconic measures taken by the German Government against the importation of Ameiic.in pork, it is very strange that a most alarming outbreak of trichonoais ii reported from Saxony. In some 10 villages nearly 400 persons, including entire families, are prostrated by the terrible disease. Deaths are occurring daily, and over 50 cases are stated to be beyond hope, while the physioians expect still further spreading. The police are actively engaged m searching for the origin of the epidemic. iEgles, m the Australasian, writes : — The tanner hadn't been to the kirk for four Sabbath days, so when the Rev Mr Sawdust met him on the road he resolved 'to take lion to task, tie began by asking for the wife and children . He was told they were all well. <- You'll not have been well yourself — I haven't seen you for some Sundays?" This m the accent of insidious interrogative. " Well the truth is minister, yQu've been here four years, and never a bit of green gruss have I got. l'ai just clfan peiished with the drought."