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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 54, 1 February 1884, Page 3

; It is-underaiood that the Native-Lands Court is not likely io eifc at Mar ton before A'oriljievenif it holds a sitting there at ; aiL :, ■■ - „!■■.■ Yesterday morning in" Wiingranui the I hpod of a buggy was broken off by coming ii| contact with the branch of, a tree overhanging the roadway in Glasgow-street. Notice has since been given by the borough authorities to the occupier of th« land on which the tree is growing that I the branches must be but immediately. : V/e are sorry to learn that Mr J. Vivian met with a nasty accident yesterday after* noon. He left Bulls tor Pulmerston abodt 4 p.m. and when about half way- to Sandan he met a horse bolting. In trying to catch the animal .Mr got his leg jammed against a telegraph pole, throwing him to the ground and ctmsing a na'sty cut under the let'tkoee. Notwithstanding the ps iri of the wouod Mr Virian 1 continued his journey through. To-day he is unuble. -torise, being very considerably shaken aa well as the injury to his leg. We again remind our readers tbab the outward English mail via 'Fri«co will closer at a quarter to eight this evening, A Wauganui exchauge states • that the telegram from Wellington, atmounciug that the lowest legal penalty for drunken'* ness is 20a is, of course, inaccurate as it Stand?. But it would be correct with the addition of a few word?, as the minimum penalty- for being found-drunk and dis^ orderly is that sum. The minimum peua^ly fpr simple drunkenness is ss. „ , Timber is being, carted to Awahuri for the construction to the bridge over the Oroua. . \ : A policeman in Leeds got a decided anrpriao recently. H« was on du.ty near the Corn Exchange, Leeds, when, observ* ing a amall boy loitering about, he 3poke tb him: ' The lad immediately pulled out a pistol and fired at the officer.' The Weapon was loaded with buckahot, which struck aud splintered the wall of a building within a yard of the policeman's head. The youth., who proved to bo the son of a chemiat) was at ones arrested, and powder nnd caps' were found in his possession. He said he hud been at a theutre arid was afraid to go home. ' r; A man named John- Twomey, was this mornipg discovered by Constable G-illesn pie taking a siesta in one of tbe streets in tbe- Square.. When the constable awoke the man,, the latter u«ed .expletive language. Mr Gillespie thereupon, to keep him out of daiiKer^ave him lodgings at the rear of the Court-housei Th^'rosy Hebe who dispenses, at the Koyal Hotel, the glasses which cheer and ihebriatb, waa'in luck yesterday . Prom'j^" ted idoubvleas by feminine curiosity, she picked < the label off a bottle containing Wolfe's schci a ppß, and found there, a piece of paper contaioiue an order for Ll on Messrs Moss and, 00. of Sydnejj the number of the order is 519, and dated October 23,1882. ; ■•■- During the last yflars £Itf,OOO,COO have been' spent in India on roadsj bridge?, railways, telegraphs, and irrigation works j and the difference thus created between India undei under Lord Ripop. and what it was under Lord Ellenborough, is said to be as wide as that between England under Queen- A tine and the England to« day, : It is notified that the Awahuri Bridge will be ready for light traffic to-morrow, Mr Partridge had a rather' 1 narrow escape yesterday from a serious accident. He ' was driving a horse attached to i a cart across the railway Hue neir tbe Uommercial Hotel, not noticing that a train i was coming along by the tanks. The shouts, of pe'ipla warued hiai of bis dangerous position, and he just managed to get clear when tlie engine reached the soot. Rather too close a shave . to be pleasant. Tenders are wanted for the erection of a shed in the Standard, hay paddock. Mr G-eorse Downes, who, has been one of the "proprietors of the Pier Hotel, Wellington, since, it, was built in, 1864. purchased his partner but last week, girng Mrs E. E. Btown £7000 for : her share. Mr Downes now proposes -to effect great improvements in the building.