Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DATLY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 46, 23 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DATLY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

for-T. H- Hankine is advertising for a loßt whip, r v <■■ . Poison is Jaidf on^Mr J«ih.h : Manaon'sproperly, Kniranoa ant} Ranpji^ikei Road. •We'.'earii that a'fiumbeir of ralaable cheep w> re destroyed there on Sunday night. - The Railway Department is inviting tenders for the supply of fifty thou»and sle<pers, or for Hoy soialler . number not leas than L 5,000. Specifications can be seen at the post-office, Pajaierston North, Mr U, Whitehaad writes to ua acc'foU' lows !— " -WjM y°u please withdraw advertisement, as I have recovered piece^of brass belonging to scales, thanks to jour Valuable paper." There was no small amount of indignation expressed on the railway plrttforin yesterday morning ybyr persons intending * to travel to Foxton by the "special train, which was notified to start from Palmerstnn at a quarter to ten o'clock. Intend* ing passengers /waited patiently until ten o'clock and then began to rcake enquiries, but the officials were reticent, and_denied any information as to the cause of the delay, or .whether a. train would run to Foxton lii'the 'stead of the one ejtpeoted from Wanganui. One gentleman, wn]U known m Palraerston whp ; intended * travelling to Carnarvon becoming anxious, asked the youth who is temporal ily m charge for informution, but to hU asjonishment fdund the wiudow closed hnatily. Others equally curious, were grimly shown the notifies Uojn potted: around the platform. At last when nearly every person bad departed from- tho station, an engine with a carriage. at» 'tached, came to the platform and started o5 to Foxton. Why this official reticence and snobbery P Why, when it was found that a delay had occurred ou the line, was there not a notice posted up 04 the stations giving the public information ns to the alterations made m the hour of the "/Startling of" -the trains 1 , Verily lour civil -~eet«Anl(ip are 'bc'oomMig day by day wore uncivil^ and are evidently under an impression that they are the masters of the" people, instead of their servants. Kumnrs rjaye tee'rt floating 1 about lately (says a Wellihelon paper) concerning a change m the Agent Generalship. In the - first oiace, there is no reason .whatever to. ■■^n'ticipate -tbePretiremeut or witUdrawal of^ Sir Itilbn Bell from the. position ho occupies. In the fpcond place there is still less reason to regard the Premier .as his probable silccadabr. In ' the third place,' the entire statement is the merest fabrioution of a newsmonger; there is not a scintilla of truth m it. We say this autnontfttrvely, : |t is on ;: a s pay with many Qther Welljnglp»y y*r m * . wp»thy of Tom Pepper, who bore away^ the palm for solid lying from Old Nick himself. • - The O.utha lieader says:^"vVe hate had many enquiries regarding the~pro-~ ureas of ilio Ssujn^ Butter und Cheese FHCtoryi In reply to these wo have only to gay that we understand the iJfovjsional Directors have waited upon the greater number of the.aettlera m the neighbor* hood and have received all necessary en' . p'uragejugnt aoffar^a t|be : rminber,Gf cows is' 'fauqptj^Z As& ;^P? cfc they will meet onoof tßeie. ; r e 4 veriingß to report progress an<j take '"'atppij for raising the capital of the company; 1 / - The Rev. Lloyd Keating htfa' been an-' pointed to the incumbency of St. Thomas' %\}ck)%\\s. The parish iJj^Tlarge one having over (sss) soure m jt, v mostly Anglicans. Th^^K^eaialjU.jfferil'dbf the 6th inatuot, contains $ sketch pi. tu'e. rev. gentleman's oareei. fl ' ] 'fK A. *}t

The Urgest number of deaths m the four cities' of New Zsaland durinjr l«w& year was caused by consumption, which sarried off no fewer than 111 victims. Diarrboa i oame next m fatality, causing 134 deaths. Heart disease occasioned 7<J deaths ', bronchitis, 66 def.ths; pneamoni»> 48; typhoid fever, 35; diptheria, I**> aud scarlet ferer. 10. There were no fewer than 45 deaths from cancer, which were divided with curious evenness among the four citiec, Auckland, Welling* ton aud Christchurch each havhi* 11 and Duuediu 12. Only tw<T deaths "occurred iromgoufc. - : No fewer than nine persons diad last year from tha direct results of intetnparance (or « alcoholis-o ") m th« four cities of New Zealand, viz., four m Dunedin, two m Chnatchuroli, two m Wellington, and one m Auckland. This ought to form an instructive text for temperance lecturers. A visitor at a country cattle s\le was present when this conversation took place iry the yards between a doctor and his patient ;— •' Well, Mr I , did the bottle of stuff I jrave you do you any good 1 Patient I' I think so, doctor.' Doctor : I'm glad of that. It was only aqua purn. After you had gone I found that I had left the drugs on the gcales ! Patient : 4 Never mind, doctor, you can give me another bottle, and put the drugfc m this time. Doctor :• No fear ! What you had before did you good, ani I always leave well alone V An Imperial Act known as the fugitive Offenders Act, upplicubie to the Australian colonies, came into operation on the fist of January. Persona committing offoncea such as wife desertion, fraudulent evasion and defeat of creditors, even ordi,nnryjlarcenieß, may be arrested m any of the coloni* by a constable from anotherjcolony. The warrant for the ap» prehension requires only the signature of a Judge of the Supreme Court of the colony where it is to be executed to give it full force and effear.