Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 89, 10 March 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As an evidence that prosperity is with U8 again, may be adduced the Dumber of marriage's 'which* are' either happening or about to happen m town. Tn England it; ig always found that cheap corn means a plentiful crop of marriages. If this is to be the rule at the Antipodes we may expect a many marriages soon, and the clergy will be cummensurately busy. The .CBAck : light weight jockey m England is a lad named Martin. Though only 15 years of age, and si ill going to school, be makes a comfortable income of £5000 a year. He gets holidays to ride races. A cool, clever lad, with good hands, he 1 has become the most fashionable of the light weights, and gets most handsome f«es for winning. If he does not grow to much he may earn £10,000 a year before >he reaches hit majority. A convalescent invalid, Mr B , brought a suit lately against his doctor,' and alleged that the said Eaculapius had persisted m calling on him personally after he was cured, fees for which he no.w refused to pay. Vr F denied the fac r , and. iCftUtd m a nurse who attended the invalid to prove it. 'Is it true,' said the Court, ' that Dr F— — continued his visits when Mr B ■■ had no neceesity for themP' ' Upon my- word, sir,' naively answered the witness, 'as long as I saw the dootor with Mr B-— — I thought he was ia considerable aan» . . ,SmUh,a,tentniftW;in Elizabeth»itreet. Who ibsconded- to England /arid r wa»? brought back to Melbourne, has been sentenced to two and a half years' im<> prisonoient for fraudulent insolvency. Tho Judge remarked the eaße was one of the moiLbarefaced which had ever ,come. T before him, and he wojild have sentenced Smith to three years' imprisonment if-ht> J he bad not been six months m an Ens« lish gaol. i ; /' ' | . '..'". • )

A Sidney telegram states that recently a young girl, about 20 year's .oi_age,.dißappeared. The police received information, and proceeded to starch for her, as it wai reported she had threatened to drown herself. The Brogo River was dragged, and hoc body was found m th« afternoon. Tho girl's name was Annie Uumpff. She was the daughter. of a Mrs Rumptt who, about 12 yeara ago, tried to •luiiraer h#r thr«e -bhlldren. Two died and Annie recovered, Mr Gladstone, epeaking at a tenants' dinner at Hawardtn, chaired tha-farmers, and told them to work and take heart. He osjiid jhafc a gentleman from New. Zealand , two years ago bought some farms m Derbyshire, the leases of whioh had fallen m and no one would ttke up. He took to stock breeding, with this result, that m two yeUrs'he waV'got'tSng 12| per cent, yearly on his capital. The Premier of .England urged his^ hearers, to follow this Tj O''l .:• We (Taranaki Herald) hear that a writ for damages fixed at £6000 has b«en *erved on % .-New., Plymouth lawyer, at the instpnca! o£ a Jdeal physician, for alleged ; Üb'eF tM 'the Matter's wife. 'Mr Hutchison, of Wanganui, has been retained .for the- plaintiff, and Mr Heaketh, of , ii4cklkn&, fo^ -the defence; It is stated that some spicy disclosures will be made, and aheady gossip Whispers some- very naughty things. v . Mr Greenwood, dentist, will virit Pi\merston on ThuredHy r l3tU; March, Painless extraction under Nitrous Oxide gas. W»lklfy'B Hotel, private .entrance.— '^" ° ( •" '"" '••"■• :;: "" Indigestion and Live? Opmplaints,— -For these complaints Baxter's _ Compound Quinine Pills.have, proved a; specific, act* ing powerfully on tne liver and mildly 6h the stomHch, Sold everywhere," or post free from J. Baxter, Christcburch, for 19 Or 44 stamps, Qure for Indigestion— Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills, used according to the direction*, bare pro/ed a certain and j speed,?; cure for inaigeation, bilious and 'liver com wind m the stomach and bowils', 0 nervous de 'nlity , &c. Their ob ■ ject is the removal of debility and derangement by assisting nature, and imparting tone and power to the ay item.)— To be bad of all chemists and jurekeepers, m boxes, Is l£d and 2s 9d each, or post free on receipt tf 19 or 44 ■tamps.~J. Baxtdr Pharmaceutics tl Chemist, 21, Vicpria-. street, CarVt jhurch. , '