LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 60, 9 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

4» The Duke of Westminster has decided to make a great experiment on his London property. He will not allow any new public-houses to be established oa his own estate, and as the leases of existing housies faU m fee wit) not perm.it t n eiji to c,ontinj»p as licensed housea. The Duchess qf WeaU miristar is '£ wearer of the Blue Kibbon A r in v badge, a9 well as her relative tha Duchess of Sutherland, ; There are added 10: the: catalogue for Messrs Steven* and Gorton 'a Awahuri sale, 40, large^amed bullocks, m forward condition'} ! 30 -mixed' yearlings, 60 tat sheep, and 150 store sheep. Further additions aie also made to the catalogues^ for the Borough sale on Tuesday, and Co" that for the great Kam Fair, The estate of Jacob Monteith, which has bepn pjaped jn the band? qf tbe Public Trustee for nianagernenfc,ia valued at under £3,000, The first meeting of creditors m the estate of O'Malley and Pepperell is convened for Tnursday, next at the Supreme Oourt Building, Wellington. Elsewhere . i» advertised one of the most genuine consultations ever offered to the public, we refer to the Wanganui Security, which has a reputation for bona fides that is unquestionable. Subscribers may rely upon the consultation beieg pro* perly managed, and everything fair and square. It is almost certain to be filled up ag all connected with, it are so well and. favourably known to the public. If . T. Flyger has been appointed post" master at the Terrace End, Palmers ton, North, from January Ist. Among the passengers by the b,B. '.fH ; aurotOj which left Wellington tar Sydney this week, was Mr H. J. Wil*" -liams, Grand Master of the New Zealand branch. of the Independent Order of Odd* fellows (American constitution), who goes over to Australia to attend the meeting of tbe Supreme Grand Council m Melbourne on tbe 18th instant. Ohinrim'd great circus troupe and menagerie arrived safely, (says a late Sydney Exchange) this morning m the Gunga, and aro ready for tbe opening of the campaign to-morrow nighc. The auditorium will comfortably seat 4&00 persons, Something like a circus this 1 James Hughes, printsr, Wellington has deposited a specification at tbe Patent Office Wellington, with a view-^o applying for letters patent foran_inve.ntjqn for the production from photographic nega : tives of phototype prints m ordinary printer's work m, a printing-press, and of plain or chromp-lithogrpabic process. The coach by which the little girl 4.nnie Fitzgerald, was accidentally killed at Johnson viile on Thursday,was not Cobb's coacb , but the l Pah«utan ui af ternooji coach, driven by a man named James London. In "bur paragraph yesterday referring to Mr Chamberlum having to go to Canterbury'for grain, it read as : if he was importing flour, whereas it Bhould hiaye bean wheat, of which be bas just pur* chased nine hundred sacks. Having to go to tbeiMitidle Island, instead of. being able to purchase m the district, necessitated the advance m price ot flour, as freight and expenses had to be added. The quality of Mr Chamberlain's flour is so tamed that bakers ond householders pre« ier it even if they have to pay a higher than that utling m the nurketa. : .Mile. Dudley, of the Ibeatre Francais surely is dovoted to her art, Sha has just had- six froift teeth drawn, m order that she may lisp m accordance with 1 the requirement of her role m ' Les Mau« croisV' : . Agonizing Neuralgic ' Pains. — Baxter's AR^ J^euralgic Pills have been named' by the ppblip '? Magjc Pills '' on apcount of, their marvellous action m curing JN eufalgic. Toothache, Sciatica, Lumbago^ and oth«s sjTeuralgic pains. — To be had of ail chemists and storekeepers, or post free on receipt-: of 19 jor 44:" postage stamps. -^J. Baxter, Chemist, Victoria- street, Christ-