Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1884. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 52, 30 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1884. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

A meeting of wholesale and retail grocers, to teat the Waika.t6 versus the Aabbniton Factory Cheeße, decided unanimously m favor of the quality of the former. Six factories, are working m Auckland, with a producing capacity of half a tou to fifteen hundredweight per day each. Ten or twelve good strong active boys are wanted for the Paiaka Flax M ill, Foxton. In the pocket pf the clothes on the body found at JVlunukuu last week was a paper, on which was written ;=-' I am almost mad with myaelf, und almost mad with delirium.'

i Two Wanyanui bicyclists (Messrs Uinvannes and Townscml) on Sunday started from town Mboufc five o'clock, and had breakfast m Marton. From there they went to Feilding »uid on to Awahuri returning to Turakina the s<nne evening, the wind there being; so strong that they were unable to face it, and they put up i for the night, coniins; on by train next mprnicir. The trip was a most enjoyable one and beyond a few spills and sharp turn 9Bt »-he corners &c, they had nothing to mar the trip. The Wellington papersre cord the death of another early settler, Mrs Ann Bould, relict of the late .Mr Robert Bould.. Deceased and her late husband arrived m Wellington m the Lord William B ntinck, m 1841. They lived m Wellington for some years, and removed to Johnsonville m 1853, where Mr Bould died some nine years ago. With reference to the restoration of the new Wellington waterworks so seriously damaged m the recent floods the Post states that some o'ltsiders, engineering experts, freely express the opinion that the work will not be rendered permanently safe and durable, except at a further ex* penditure of £15,000 or £20,000. 1 Pakeha' writes to the Otago Daily Timea as follows : — ' In cpnnection witn the extremely unseasonable weather experienced throughout the colony this year, it may interest your readers' to, learn, that there is a Maori tradition extant that whenever koradieg(flaxßticks) appear early m the year a bad season follows. That the flax has been prolific and early m sending forth its flower»atems this season is a well-known fact, and I believe the Maoris predict a continuance of bud weather during the remainder of the sea* son. Parisian women are powdering the hair, and ar.-anging it a la Mary Stuart m the -evening. *