Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume iv, Issue 68, 19 February 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

~ Mr S. J. Gammon, of the Bunpythorpe Sawmill, is m want of a good, logging bul- r lock-driver.' :' ' a ~" J '- '- ; . -Three valuable small farm? are adrer^ Used for sale elsewhere, all being very desirable .investments, and such as should , soon and purclfiaer^. ' ' '" A Wellington paper heads a paragraph ■ fftel' drowning at Christchurch. Drowniocs that are nut 'fatal' are of rare occurrence. It is rumored,; Bays a Wellington paper, that McDertnott. who is suspected ; of defalcation .from the Government Insurance Department, has appropriated the moneys for a certain presentation, of which he was the treasurer. \ The Melbourne Telegraph has the fol* losing : — " About fourteen years &uo, r t Mr Joseph Osllfr, at that tinae secretary, j of the Moarabbin Shire Council, abf, f sconded wilh some of the moneys of the council. At theimeetihg held on Montfaj lash, a letter was re d from Mr Ostjler accompanied by a draft of £447 14s lOdV

lieine the balance of the nmount he had taken, a previous draft havib? been received from him some timo, \)ack. The letter and money were received, and it wa9 r^solvpd to send Mr Ostler a letter of acknowledgement of its rcp?ipi. Oivin^ ,. to the . circumstanca that Bteamerß do riot \^bistte pn Sundays, n gentleman who was Vaying^eood-byetto a friend m the saloon of the Taknpun^r'last Sunday afternoon very, .nearly- became a passenger against his will, and only es^ capecThts fate by tnVmg a'flyinS leap on to the whnrf, to the great amusement of the spectators. An Australian paper, notininp- the ciis cumstnnces under which the steamer Triumph ran on to the rock 3 at Tiritiri, say 3 j— lf ffnoveliat were' 'to "Bepict" sncli a sc?ne, we should demur to it as beyond the license of probability allowed m fie" tion. •.•■■.- / ; i .:■:■ Profesor Hnxley ? 9 . son iii .'aifcjfctinjr considerable attontion m England as a poet, and some ofrhis friends predictihai he will some-day be poet laureate. '' A'lpoal has been .jjoibg ihe rounds of tne Press f(»r the last week or^sttto the effect that all staionmaaters m Che'colony ar« to be supplied with umforrnaf We (Feildinj? Star) now learn thatVtheonly foundation for the rumour is thatpome of porters are to be|put m uniforo?,and these . only.' 'This .will be very disappointing newjf to' the said officials, and aldo to the"' expectant public. •'."■'' ' '"'■'"■ nft IVTi-P.' K.^Vatty ' be?h ; sr unable to fini| :^the necessary sureties, ia still m custody! it is freely rumoured 1 (says /.tho Post)' that the Colonial Architect's 3)epartmen( ; wiir be araonir those shortly to be abolished, or absorbed intb' others, under the new Givil Service reo'rkanisatioiKscheme^nov ainder the, consideration of therpabioet. t ' ■ :;

The* steamer Tni leaves Foxton for Wellington at 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. i . Mr tJ. V. Bates, of Hawera, is a candi-^' date for one of the vacancies m the Wan--ganui Education Board, In his circular he thus alales -ha ■platform: — ' 'Should I be elected,. I wiil use my best endeavors to give expended powers to the. Committee,*and would at all times U>"go the''Boavd : to proceed m this direction; I shall always be found dppo'sed to any attempt to set up a High School m Wauganui, or to introduce any system : of ..secondary, education m the district which may. be calculated to? interfere even in-, directly with funds entrusted to theßjard for'the purpose of primary education. , C;ir9 lor Ipdigestipn.-r-Baxter's Com?, pou^ncl Quinine Pills,' used according to the direction", bare pro red' a i'ertain arid •«peedy- cure- for- indigestion ■, 'bilious.ian<L, liver complaint*, wind, m the stomach and bowels, nervous debility, &c. Their object is the removal of debility and derange--ment by assisting' nature, and imparting tone and poveqr to the. system. — To be had of aH' chemi -its 1 and storekeepers, m boxes, Is l§d arid 9d eacl), or post free on receipt of 19.0r.44 stamps. — J. Baxter, Pharmaceutical/; Chemist, 21. Viccoria« street, Christchurch,. i Apon'zing Neuralgic Pains. — Baxter's . Anti-Meur^leic Piiis have been named by, the publib-" Magic Pifls^' on account of their marvellous action m curing Neuralgic, Toothache, Sciatica, Lumbago, arid other Neuralgic paine. — To be 'had of all chemists and, stpreke'epers, or post-free on receipt of 19 0r. 44. postage, stamps. — j. Baxter,. Chemist', Victoria- street, .phrist* . church. . , :.' ■;j. ' Indigestion and Liver Cbmpiaints.-vFor' .these complaints ' Bkiier's Corap'oundM Quiniiiff'Pills have proved a specific 1 , ( act* ing powerfully onthe liver and mildly on ; the stomaoh, Sold! ;ev!erfwherej : -.oii post, free froui J. Buxtef,, ChristohuEoh, : fpr 19 or 44 stamps. . '■>".:•■. >■ ,v •/'