Manawatu Standard (PUBLTSHSD DATLY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 53, 31 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLTSHSD DATLY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.'. — — « : — The New Zealand Shipping Company have contracted to take seventeen millions of pounds of frozen meat to England during the year. If we think for a moment what an increase this means to the wealth of the Colony, we should enter upon the new year with good hope of the removal of the depression. What with frozen meat, the direct steam service, an! the new Bankruptcy Act, trade should begin to look up again. Several heavy draught horses were taken through by train last night. Strange tojeay they were being sent m cattle trucks, three or four m each truck. We should not think that was a veiy sensible way to transport heavy large-fritmed horses. To»morrow is the day of Dr Curl'? usual weekly visit to Paluierston, and he can be consulted at Remington's Medical Hall, Rangitikei Street, during the after* noon. We again remind our readers that the outward mail via 'Frisco will close at the Palmerston Post Office tomorrow even Ding, at a quarter to eight. By the latest gazette to hand, the boundaries of the following district?, viz. , Oroiia (Maiiawatu County), and Kiwi tea (Oroua CquutyJ, have been altered so as to make each district coterminous wi.h the riding of the same name. The London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury writes : — Mr Justice Day has set an example to the parents m London who do not know what to do with their boys. The learned judge uatd to reside m Bath — m fact, he did not remove to London until his promotion to the Bench made it necessary. While he was at Batb he apprenticed his sou to a mechanical engineer, and the young gentleman has lately established himself m business there as an engineer. The Minister of Justice has iiguei a circular which forbids magistrate?, wardens, receivers of gold revenue, and cleiki .of all inferior courts holding shares iv any gold or other mining company. The. Bruce Herald Rays that 'if the principle thus intira vtid by Mr Connolly is consistently carried out, the disabilities of Ciril servants will be so numerous and extensive that the poor fellows will hardly know what to do or what to avoid. It seems to us that the Minister is over" stepping hia^authority, and that an Act of Parliament is necessary to give effect to theae stringent regulations.' The Timaru Herald says:— 'The notion of an isolated country such as New Zealand employing torpedo boats is. too ludicrous to .call for any* refutation, j We shall -be curious to hear the Ministers' version of the reason why these boats have been obtained, and also what is ffbing to be done with them. Four white elephants would (have been cheaper to kenp, less dangerous, more instructive, and quite as useful.' Sorghum, as a crop, is. now being increasing cultivated m the United States It has just been discovered that the saccharine juice m which it is so rich can easily be converted into sugar, and as tl.e United States consumes 200 millions of tons of sugnr annually, nine»tenths of which she imports, the cultivation ef torghum will doubtless increase, and may probably interfere with that of wheat, so as to increase the price of the latter cereal. An Aehburton oaper furnishes the fole lowing :— Here is an anomaly which should not ixist. A merchnnt of this town r< quiring to send a parcel, weighing about three ounces, to Dnuedin, took same to the railway station, and before booking \t to its intended destination inquired the cost of ponveyance. He was somewhat surprised on learning that the charge would be 3s lid. Not being satisfied with the exorbitant ta>iff, he. took the packet to the Post Office, and m answer to his question, the posttnastjef iqforraed him that the cost per royal nil il would bo §d. Jt ja need.ess to say that the gentle" man m question tpok advantage of the cheapest rate, and sent his parcel per post. A man being toimented by coin c , kicked his foot through a windciyr, and the pap was gone instantly, 1