LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 92, 13 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ '■'-•' ' «■ '-■■■■ .-.■■,.•••. ,ii; .; , Alfred Groves, formerly a clergyman of the Church of England m Victoria, has been committed for trial at the Sydney Police Court for systematic swindling. A movement is on foot m New Ply* mouth to petition the Union Steamship Company to brinsr all their boats, calling m the roadstead, alongside the breakwater for the discharge and receipt of cargo. : The Caledonian Society m Wanganui is/inuking good progress. There are now over one hundred name? on the roll of subscriber*, and more are expec'ed. The date of the opening meeting has been fixed for April 25th. '"'" The special train this morning took away about a spore of people foi- the ton Kes;atta. There vyere. ibree. empty carriages. The Volunteer |$axd filayed ac the train moyedoff. ; : '• ■ '! '

Wo legivt to heur ih.-if M; L>. McUou- i oil, a son of Mrs AJcDoiitJl. of TJi ' Hoe, Lower lt'inyitikei, has been killed hi Mwpivr by a fall from his horse. According to iho Sydney Mail, a ne-v terror has been addod to laJiea' bonnets besides their costliness. Tue other day m that city the beautiful red cluzr.es|witLi which a servant maid's head gear, iresh from the shop of a walUknoivn ana fasti--I'inable artist, had been adorned,-xpluded. The heat of the atmosphere had expanded the air within the hollow artificial fruit. Usually it ia the husbaud who explodes ■ whan he sees the bill. ' At a recent meeting of the Hutt Couuty Council, Councillor Lancaster directed attention to the case of an ugod lmiian who has recently gone to live m the neighbourhood of Karori, and who is m a state of destitution. The chairman referred to a recant resolution of the Council affirming that the body discontinue charitable aid after the 3lst mit, owing to the want of tunds>, and that the Government ba notified to that effect. No steps were takeu m the case under consideration. A meeting of the hop growers has been held at .Nelson to consider the action taken by one of the leading merchants, m endeavoring to place this season'.-'uops at an unreasonable price. It was stated that certain merchants had 1 offered hops at Bd, and some growers said they could not be grown for less than a Is. The hop growers present bound themselves not tb sell auy hops for six months of this season under Is per Ib. , . is : : it is ramoured (aayg the Woodrille Examiner) that the Court-house is to be Btopped owing to the want of funds. The Government had better'iry such a job as as this and they will find their mistake. , The New Plymouth assessment, a8 a whole, indicates very clearly tke depressed" value of borough properties, it beinft some £500 lower than last year, although new buildings to the value of £8000 have been erected curing the year. According to the Examiner a movement is on foot to secure the services of Dr .Vlenzies for the Woodville district. Dt Menzies, we believe, was formerly surgeon of the steamer Triumph. A somewhat curious incident is re» ported to have occurred at the Public Wor"iß Committee of the Wellington Oily Council. It appears (-mys the Post) that Mr Travers was requested by a client to attend with him before the committee. After the formal business had been trana,acted he and his client were usherod into the Council Chamber and offered seats, which they took. Thereupon the Mayor rose and requested the committee to appoiut another, chairman, as he objected to meet Mr Travers there ' or m any other place. ' H e then immediately walked out of the chamber, The . ; hardened Mr Travers, it is further, said, retained his seat without any apparent sense of -.the' wrong he had committed. A recent issue of.tbe Auckland Star says :— Sir George Grey came up to town fromjhe Kawau yesterday. • .He has not fully. determined; whether h e shall go on a visit to Melbourne before the reassembling of Parliament, b.utgtijli meditates a yisit,to ; th&^Victorian ctipifoL' i£}ir George is m excellent health, and has occupied much of bis leisure time m preparing work for the approaching session. . , , . . - V Daniel M'JDonnell, manager; of $Jr John«tonVßtation, 'Mataikuna, jwhiie rid« iuj( from Tinui'races met with with a fatal . accident. He was standing on a bridge filling his pipe, and gave his rein to another horseman to hold for a second. At this moment another rider came galloping up, and this started M'JDonnell's hor^e, which gave a. plunge and slipped off; the planking of the bridge, rolling over his rider. At first it was not supposed that' the injuries were very serious. He wa* conveyed W the Tiuui Hotel and Dr. Beard was tiini for during the night, bul be must have been injured internally, as 'he "died about The statement that the 1 Uropg m the districts north of Wanganui had been severely damaged by the heavy rains of six weeks ago, and that farmers had turned their stock into the the fields, was largely imaginary.: The eropsvtfill turn out very well, lhe o*ts are particularly fine ; toe wheat is abundant. These fa*rn merß lhi3 year will do'very well-spite of all ..the fears entertained. The one subject for regret is the small are,a under Qropj it should' be largely enlarged ' ; American free trade journals have com-« mentedon the fatjt that seventy workmen, discharged from the Paterson (New Jarsey) locomotrve works, sailed on Decetn. her 11 for Liverpool, England, to fill engagements to work on iron shipbuilding yards on the Clyde. Each man pud his own passage. This fact they considered a powerful argument against the present system sf Ainericau protection.