LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 43, 18 January 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the course of an artidd upon o'ir financial position, the Press remarks : — The author of the borrowing policy foresaw plainly enough what the result of it would be, . when, speaking on it shortly before his departure from the colony he had debauched, he said there would be occasional periods of great depression. Bis remedy for these was to borrow, and to borrow, and to borrow again. That remedy -has been resorted to only too steadily by those who came after him ; but it has not had the desired effect. New Zealand has now got into a chronic state of borrowing. Her regular drain, so to speak, is a million a year. But it has ceased to stimulate the social system. Two valuable properties are advertised for sale. Application to be made to Messrs Pulmerslon and Scott, Exchange Building*. A notice from the Oroua County Council, m reference to dog tax arrangements, will be found elsewhere. Fruit is so plentiful m this district (states the Mount Alexander Mail) that a Melbourne buyer haa been enabled to purchase the produce of several orchards, cherries, apples, pluuia, and goosaberries, at Id per lb, picked and delivered at the railway station. He speaks highly of the fruit of the Oastlemaine district, and pnr* poses, shipping a quantity of it to New Zealand. From one grower he has taken delivery of over a ton of cherries. - So destructive are the depredations of the small birds m the Oatnaru district that m one instanco,says the North ota>{o Times, two men have been employed for somd weeks past, to drive off these pests from. a crop qf barley. In a letter to the Duneclin Herald its Wellington correspondent says :— One thing is certain, that over the whole country there has arisen a strong, feeling of discontent with the present holders of office; and nowhere stronger than m the electorate which has the honor of being represented by the Premier. He is, however, not likely to Beck its suffrages ngflin, having resolved at the close of this Parliament to appoint himself as successor to Sir Francis Dillon Bell, and enjoy for a -season "the gaieties of the English metropolis. Two sisters, who are said to be twins, gave evidence m a trial m the Wellington Supreme Court. Their evidence related 'Id the time at which, one sister had an dpileptic fit,' The other twin sister was m the witness-box testifying as to the exact time at whioh the. flrst sifter had the fit, and while being, cross-examined the witness fell down herself m a fit. She had to be carried to a room adjoining the Court, where she recovered a little, and then had another fit. Dr GilWm waa sent for, and gave directions for he* treatment. He vfses caljed, in'o the Court, and 'stated that the witness , was unfit, mentally and bodily, to be ; further questioned at present. The two sister?, he said , whieire sjtmlar jig nervous organisation, and were subject ~fco the same kind of epileptic fits. The Judge ordered the witness to be removed to her home. ' Senoussi, the Tripoli pretender,' rei ' ferred to elsewhere m our cable nevs id without doubt the wandering dervish who origrielly represented himself as El Mahdi, or 'The Messiah,' and who was for some tiaie.the auent of the Sultan of Turkey. If the fighting general m Upper Egypt also eives himself the same jtitle, there pust be two sham Measinbs, but Senoussi w.is certainly the original impostor. The defendant's name m the Native assault case heard yesterday, was m error stated to be Wi Mahuri, whereas he was the. complainant, the defendant being a Native nnraed Rfipana Te_. Matai, for whnnj Mr Hawkins appeared: No damage was done to the New Plymouth breakwater by the heavy gale, and the si rength of the structure was tb.ovougb.ly tested. Ann Russell,^ who was arrested at Paltneraton last week, was charged m bhe- Wellington R.M. Court, on Wednesday, with indecency on the 15th of last month. She pleaded. Not Guilty. Evidenoe was given by Augustus Paul to show that On the day m question he saw the woman appear m a state of nudity at the door ot a house occupied by a man named Carson. The neighbourhood was much, annoyed by the in'decenoy and riotous behaviour of the accused and her aoquain Lances. A sentence of a month's imprisonment wab imposed. .