LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 97, 20 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The British King, which left London for Auckland a day or two ago, brinpa 301 Government imtnigr mta. Upwards of 10C0 " sheep a day were brought into Wellington by rail last we il', to be slaughtered for export to England. The lonic is now loading there with 4000 carcases of mutton, Mr Booth, 8.M., of Gisborne, has dismissed a charge of Sunday tradinp, as the liquor sold was ' 3handy«gaff,' which is not mentioned m the Act. The Autumn show of the Bulls horticultural Society came off on Tuesday m the Town Hall. • It was the largest ever held m Bulls, and the exhibits were till of excellent quality. The Feiiding . Star is m a position to state positively that the HHon... -_.. W alter Johnston wilt continue to represent the Manawf.tu ' constituency m the House until tbe end of the session. ■ A contemporary finds that one strong reason for the abolition \of reporters' passes on the New Zealand Railways was persistent abuse of the privilege by two or three papers. A correspondent writes to an exchange asking how to lower the cost of meat. The only reply given ie, ' pay the butcher.' Bad debts keep up the price. A man named William Brown has bean arrested at Havveru on a charge of rape upon a child of sevea yenra of asje. The parson, au elderly man, is, a baker by trade, and will pro.bably be remanded until Friday. Dr Alexuuder, *bo examined the child, is of opinion that the capital offence had been committed . Says the Feilding Star : — " The more peaceful inhabitants of the B >rousjh were disturbed on Tuesday morning by a few njisy individuals who made the most hideous noises ihat the capacity of win] instruments could produce. The time .el'cctd, from about 4 to 5 o'clock, was most moppoituDP, and utterly idiotic. We are 1 ! to know that the > Senders ufe Dot resident m this Borough. ' V^'e are afrnid this paragraph refers to Palmer' sto-i. The police made a .'raid on the Wellington public houses on Sunday, and it is underwood that pro endings are to be t.<ken agninßt four publican?, for breaches of the Licensing Act. At the closing of the wool siles, unwashed Australian wools closed at one halfpenny lower than at close of Decem* ber auctions. Good medium Australian, good quality of fleece gcnera'lv, and me.fdium to good scour^ci, cl >sed m good demand. Faulty wools \ve;e >ne penny to a penny halfpenny lower than m D»;em> ber. The Lyttelton Times says : — ' In the increase of railway rates just gazetted we have a despairing confession of fnilure from the Government. Unwilling to manege the railways according to business principles, they have, after floundering through a period of ' concessions,' re« turned to the vicious method of high rates. They are hard up, and so is the New Zealand farmer. But this equality of misfortune doe 3 not pivvent the f »r— .mers of Canterbury and paVta of OtapbL from payingfa heavy penalty for the lack of ideas m high places.' The. R'.v. Mr Keating, formerly of All. Saints', now of St. Thorn is', Auckland, is infusing some of his wonted vigour into his congregation, as will be seen from the following paragraph from the Auckland Her>ild of a recent date : — ' The activity of St. Thomas's congregation reflects up>n it great credit. We learn that the people of this parish have secured the good will oF the Waitemata Minstrel Troupe, and that this company has volunteeied to give a performance m aid of the building fund of their proposed new church. The congregation want about £"70U.' The Marton paper regrets to learn that Mis Boddy, who' has for ! the I : oast ten years been assistant mistress at the Turakinrt school, 13 about to sever her. connection with the school and. to remoye to the mistress-ship of the Taonui-Buanyx thnrpe school (Manchester). Mia Boddy will be much missed by everybody m Turakinn. What is therefore Turakina's loss will manifestly be train to the Mancheater sohoul, on which feature we congratulate the Bunnjthorpe residents.