LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 57, 6 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By cable we learn that dry wentiher is now being genera 1 ly experienced throughout Nevy South VVale3. A nofcica m raference to the estate of W ; Wi Whitemnn appears elsewher^f ■: , Mr' S., J. Giimmon ia advertising for three a->od busfallersfor the Bunny thoroe Sawmill. The Bishop of Lich field announces to his clergy that he has founded a new clerical order — for -vKat precise purposes doea not transpire -to which, ''after much deliberation and prayer," he has decided to giro the Qime of 4 tue "Pastoral Order^of. the Holy Gjiioat.^ ' Mr, Blaokott estimates the damage oc^cassioned to the Wariui water works a)t less, than, many of the Councillors Who visited the works immediately, after thje flood anticipated. T.he? : Government engineer considers that the necessary re> pairs can be effected fqr about £.2000. Should this prove to be corner, .tha'ra'tapavers may congratulate theqisal^ps, , r • •.'■.■• i i it ■'■ ■ The W aita r a Press says $ha,s ; & j Ige t,| of ' considerable maffnitude,wa3 made m New Plymouth on Tuesday niabt, between two highly respectable and knowing individuals, that a pav^ble. g.old :; neld will be 'found within 18 miles of New Plymouth and 18 months froni date. A Tikorangi settler who heard the bet made, hurried home, and very likely, now, instead of • looking after his grass seed, is forking about with a spade. , , : Writes the Woodville correspondent of an exchange . — There rare nt .presents no lessa, tjhap ten good buildings under course of -construction inLOie-itbwriahip, wßilat progress and prosperity is the watchword nf the people. Three' ad'Jitional-fiterieral stores', a chemist's chop, and another bakery_.are under way, ( s6 that^will be seen that Woodville is last malting .heads way intoprominence. .. / •. ■ Most, people: have "felt (says tfae Specta* tor) at some :tima or. other what was e3fr pressed by the dying man, who, wh>n told that he was going where the 'wicked man would ceaße frqm troubling, Responded, earnestly. .|* And the Kood, t<>o> 1 hope ■!?•'< For ourown part, we'have spmeunnea'Hhought that if the .gedft Would cease from* troubling, we would gladly -take our chance of the wicked. Even the hero may inspire tha.feeiinjjy-aa-well as the «aiat: - -v- i- •'-•- -Ul- 1 "-*- " l ---*> . . A sad; fatality fiffrep'ortedsfc 1 Leicester.' Susanna Wilcdx, while returning home with her son, aged seven, to Ortan-on* the»Hil|.; bad to. pass through the floods on the highway. Sh,e took the boy m hgr arms and .endeavoured, toiiwade through^ them, but both" were carried away. .The ;wpman> was < drowned, but the ladiWias^yvepJfc^against^ gatepost ie a shallow j where he was found unconscioup, and- was -afterwards; featpred to animatioijj < jSubieqiienjly, &:genseman with |a trap saw' by "the side of a bridge tHe 1 hands just above the suf« face of the stream, and the body was rei'cotewff with the Grins' upliftedpas' if m - the ; aof of fldldinjr hcr-sdo 'above the ;Ai.vety reprehensible ' " joke " was perpetrated tbe other egjehincr at one of toe most popular theatres m Pari3. An id* dividual idrppped a numbe^of small glafcs globVs filled with assnfcetida m the fayer , and? passages. . ; Th» glpbes orushed^piaai lessly beneath the feet of promenaderfe, and the result was a&mell so inconceivably nauseous thatjß large proßprtjon; <j>f the audience. abruptly, gutted the thjealre, _U:_U L.J 1a U« llw\*ntinV>lir f nmiflra'.afl (m Vhjeji.f^llowiDgid^y/iqif^fl? 1 to get rid Of _the sickening odours. . : The now famqus athlete " Donald Din* hie*" nb£ only shine's' at his own peculiar games, but also at hqrsemanship. The : other day s wjbile, tt'Wynclham, he undertnok to f ride a- tir'ottW horse for a wagpr, • kilts v and, : all, and did .so. He did not J win it'i however,' and rfd wonder. Tbe horse, no doubjt was so amazed by the ° wonderful display 6f 'fib'n^ia's int^umeit that he did not kno^'^Hat He was doinri. '•' S'^onte'roporßry 'aayy that the following is the fcort of thipg, whic,h T a.Preßs .Aesocia* tioa.aaent'th.ought worthy ; of circulation throucho ; ut f the' 'colony^:— " The Dunedjn Mjffixjial '• Assignee, '''■ Mr Jamas Ashcrofjt, made a joke yesterday at a meeting of creditors, The debtor's debts amounted to £1461, and the assets to £100. The: Assignee added that the only property m the estate was a microscope, which might proye'^f use to see the assets with." That J)cn|edin Official Assignee should b.e plaMd'in^the first rank of modern witjs, "and'jhe^ress Association agent mi^ht be engaged v (att' a heavy «alary) to laugh at he -AB^igtiee^i' jokes. .' v ;\\"; v. v,-\ <, ; i.V lißßiVeiir-Jlohn Wannamaker, of Phip .'adflpfhii*. jitt^e;.L4o,ooo for advertisings ■ t pjfrposgfi, bivt^it made L 200,000 for him., m traSe, and he still thinks well of the^ newspapers ) "?. Roughs, Coldsyand BronchitiP, &c, ate Jquickly cured, by using Baxter's " Lun? Preserver." ..ThU old-Sstablished mcdi- . pine-is ple.asa.nt Jo the palate, and highly extolled by'raenibeVf/of the medical and clerical profession. "Read advertisement-, • lodigestion and Liver Oomplaints. — For these complaints Baxter's Compound Qu^niOe Piiishave proved a, specific, act* ing powerfully on the liver and mildly on the stomach, Sold everywhere, or popt *^reVfr6in Jt B ixter, Christohurch, for J9 or 44 stain p£ !