Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 91, 12 March 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dreadful difense baa broken out among the Qivil servants (says a Wellington paper). It has proved fatal to one department, and has decimated the others. It threatens to spread everywhere, »nd coihnnt still more dreadful hiivoc. -B ia iv species bfscnb. -Thw is bow a wiity but irreverent clerk spells it— (S)eed, i^Ojooper, (Aijtkiaaon, (BJalkin,

The Uev Father Lo Menant des Chesnais who has been on a short visit to the Nelson distiicr, has collected "ver fc3oO towards th« Catholic College of St. Patrick, Wellington. The natural increase of wallabi at Kawau is so great that, although last season upwards of 30W) were killed, there U no app-iront diminution m their nuuibers. A shooting party killed lately 130 m three days. The late Professor Badham, of Syduey University.,, who died- recently, wnstlescHbeS by ' Cardinal Newman as the firat Greek scholar m England. Though 1883 wag a fairly successful business year for the colony, wo learn from a contemporary that there wore 1461 bankruptcies m New Zealand -a larger number than any since the colony gave birth to a bankrupt, exceot" when they reached 1587 m the year 1879. It is calculated that m < the last seven years the lost by insolvencies has reached the magnißcent-. total of $1*500,000. No wonder people atV hard up andooaiplain of <i« on ey. being tight,)- Let U3 hope that I 1884, which, has begun.. well, w in k ee p U p I its reputation. ' ■ Sir George Grey and- Mr Dargaville I hav^.intiraated their . intention to support I the oroposal to amalgamate their consti- < tuencea. . ! We are informed that m the Little (Beauty Novelty Company five horßes go to Knikoum, two I o -Fox ton, two to ; J£ticffri t andthe rest to Wellington. . Hales, the well-known Victorian jockey (according' to' the Melbourne Sportsman), is now, after his 12 years' sucoosa on the turf, ft' very wealthy man. Besides other property, he has a half Bhare with Yeoinnna (also a jockey) m a station on the Lachlan, on wbich 15,000 sheep are running.' It is said by those m a position to know that he can write hischequ? for £50,005. At present he -has a retaining fee from the JHo.n. J. White of £400 a year; During the whole of his professii nal career he baa never once been reptimanded by the ttewards.fr foul of riding or'iualpracticiS of any description on the turf. ■ • ii; , The Feilding Star says that traffi.) over the' Awahuri Bridge nihy be expected to be resnmed m a few days. Tbe population of Melbourne and its Buburbs i. is. paw estimated at'.SOO.OOQi, Last year, for the first time, the births ex* ceed.ed 10,000. . , ■ ■ The FreWch 1 journal V are tearing Queen Victoria's book to pieces. One audacious writer, remarking on th« prominence of John Brown therein, declares 'Her Majesty takes her second widowhood to heart as much as her first.' The book has been snl>jtictedto caroful revision, but it deals with the Earl of Beaconsfiold'career and character m. such a way that must necessarily raise a con foverey. ' ; Over a hundred applications have been received by the Otago Harbour Baard for the appointment of a clerk at £250 per annum. On the 18th December, Sir James Ilannen granted the application of Mr Naylor to presume the death of his two daughters Mary Ann and Alice, who, it will be remembered, were lost m the Waitara m June last. The object of Mr Nnylor's application, it was stated, w<is to J lie able to recover compensation from the New Zealand Shipping Company. The Pope is about to issue an encyclical letter regarding Freema«onary. The return, . Oroua, y. . Hangitikei, county cricket maich "will take' place at Marlon on, Saturday next. • At the Wanganui R.\l. Court je terda.v, Mr War.d remarked that (a proh bitiqn order should be uiade agaiust Jore^b Peaples, who recently attempted to co amit suicide. Inspector • Jaiaes seated that he had intended to make application for such order, Hia Worship ordered that the request to be granted.

A petition is being signed asking Sir William Fox to stand for Manawatu. Mr F. Mowlem has brought us a complaint to the effect that the Dairy Factory Company have not treated him- fairly, m that th-y have refused to m -ke him any allowjanco for rent of office, while obtaining his services as secreiiiry at a very low rate of remuneration.. Possibly there is •mother side to the 'story'/ By cable we learn of the death 6t William Blanchard Jerrold, author and journalist, aged 58. Very heavy rain has fallen over a large portion of .New South Wale?, A Borough Council notice will be found else wb ere, referring to the special rate. Attention is directed to notices from a Chinese resident of Palmerston, which will be interesting to many of our readers. A special notice from the far-famed Victorian" \House Wanganui will be found m our advertising columns, to which pub* ; lie attention is directed. ».":.." : KrE, Leary has been appointed local agent for Mr Baxter's famous reuiedirß, which have recently . been successfully iutroduced into 'this district through the columns of the Standakd. The Melbourne papers are giving a ffood deal of » Mention to this Colony just now. The Australasian has a Commissioner doing the agricultural districts of Southland ; and the Australian Federal's representative Mr Arthur Smyth, has been told off to write up the industries of Dnuedin aud neighborhood. In respo'ise to a numerouslyVsigned requisition, the Mayor of Martian has p;o- --: claimed the 17th instant (St. Patrick-'* Day) a public holiday within the Borough. The Patea Mail apparently knows all about it, According to it, Mr Walter Johnston, who resigned the Public Works portfolio with the intention of visiting England, has abandoned 'hat intention, so there will, be* oo; vacancy for 1 Manawatu/ The Dairy Company are m immediate need of a Secretary, Particulars can be obtained from Mr Ferguson.