LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 98, 21 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

„■., ?., V/'.iJnTl 'I-* "■ !'" * ', '^The'poc^or' Take, who at Cbristchurch ■yesfjerday . jje^eived „.,i,three. i months'imprisonment with hard, labour-; for vio<?. timisin|; a'lbcaf jiotelkeeper, ia well-known,, vtd'Dunedin toWnsman, whom he also, victiibisea to A 1 large ahaouhtl He acted as resident Burgeon to ; the Duriedin bospi.* tal duriug tht» absence on leave of Dr Davi?. auxLppvf ifc is asserted, that there is goo'a reason, ,f or believing that he was not duly qualified. , #n there :-were a very large number of sheep yarded at Messrs Stevens and Gror« ■ ton's cafe : at , Bulls on Tuesday — some „ Mr rams (rrreninri-LiacolnV fetched one guinea and. The Gtovernship of Victoria ,?e etna to. be going aibe'^inf;. '■ i '■■ i '"- A rabKt- plagued selector m the malice, (Victoria)) is quite surprised at. a Melbourne paper aasuming that, because . 3Op,QoQ,j#kbit scalps were purchased in"'" t.hej la,st|h^lf-year t-he pests must be dimihfshing. . : 'He;believeß that; :| >if each per> ; 8on (tJ ih our' capital te, -eat oue ' rabbir tf day, 'the northern parts would i keep them supplied for five years.- Wby^ 1 300,000' (taken •> frbnf'ttie quantity ; there , >h*s about the fame effect as tilting 'a pint "°Cj?atSE-fiK )ni .thfl *Ya«*-Riv«*r-" — *-*°rrrz 1 Mr Bracken, of .Carop^ltown, has sold ; h'iß farm, containing I'OS acre?, to a -Mr France, of Wellington, for the sum of £7 per acre. The Marton" paper understands it is the intention pf Mr France to go m for hop growing- very extensively, as the soil m that locality-is very suitable. jMr Kennedy, a neighbour of Mr Bracken's, has a very heavy, crop, of ; hops this seag In Otago, a farpier has sold the whoio of the proceeds pi [his. pat crop .to a Dunedin merchant for 2s perjb^sb.ela.ithe bags , to be 7s 6d per dozen," ari&Mie grain to be delivered atrPalmerßijori'SoufH. The excellßDCefJdfHho grain sold may be judged fromithe/ statement of the r&thlbthan whOj^ought it, that- he would be glad to take five times the -quantity- at the sjanie figure. '_■■-. ..... i...... •,■ :■■ -■■ ■• ■' : We,ijeair that'lVir Goodbeherejßolioitbr, 1 ' ■-'■fit Feilding, recently, xgce^yecL intelligence ' of toe* 1 death of hkrjather at Hopie^the old"£6tatlem'an hay.ing r ' k reaohe4/ the g/aat; . -age .of 97 ■years;'' Iri'tslaculties wero'un^ '^paired toitheJalafc^ ' vU ; ; ;; '„" '■Tho bobkmak!eVs J 'wer^ heavily, hit, all througluthe -' Napier race l^ Vha "favourites for the ojlriefererits winning, 'w"hfle' a large number of/doubjes and trebled were struck. A! number pi long-shot- 1 trebles I depended upon Loch Tjomond wipningtthei'hnrdlep, arid it was a- moral forufnx ifhe, went, barring accidents.' ' „, , Tin mining ia^JCasniania^pipears to be atja low ebb. Urß'app6in^eji ( . shareholders are loud m their oomplkints. ylt is stated that the whole of the ; Hee'raskirk, started with such promise two^ears and a half ago, huve turned out rwit 5 failures. The ore found will not pay for crushing. The New Zealand^ Shipping Company have received the following, datedJJondori, 17th March :—' The^boric arrived at Rio JjTn^trot^lfirh^MateTrrTmo^wp^r all! well. The rifi;iawator| is /\{qriting eatisfactorily? v ana ' the meat is m prime condition. T^eißfitish;'<King sailed from Plymouth to Auckland^.. Wellington, and Lyttelton on 15th March, and the Aoratigl will sail frp&QPJydnpyrth'ior cPb'tti^flbß^ mere and* Lyttelton on 29, th. March.'; Ttre A gen ts nave" received neW that the Steamer Bombayleft; Rio Janeiro on the 16th .inst. r . Her , mean,., was in..go6d condition, and the refrigerator was. work- ; ing I ;u\.;'.-! : • clo- -l'..'-.-;.j'^ "■ e« ; ij) The prohibit jpn. ( , order/ against, W..Bt. Staite is also to take effect m Palmerston as well as Feilding, Awahari, andq Hal-, combe, '^■■■■■r- :n «•"■■-■ ' '' i -' i r"- 1 '■ ''■■:■•:- -<i,. ■'• '" • .' • ■ i -i > At the Ciiil 'sittings of the Wanganui District Court the case of Adseit y. chestier^ -'Rbatl Board WaS next-sittings. ■■■•••• |m " li |l " 1 The men employed "sinking a weH for Mr S. jT. Gam man's sawojill at Bunythorpe, encountered a gigantic matai truu£ at n depth of 90 feet from the. surface." -Tibereiw^s'VA stratumb^SO feet' of gravel above it. The truuk of the tree «vas aboijt, 3_ feet) U^i L diap}e;teiT, /. and 'the > heart! was , perf ectly^soun d. .Like, th,e ,fl.y ,}fcthe ombe?'ho 1 ft :> did iV'g4t;^nere! ' Here 13 a mystery for geologists'to elucidate, A case of miatkken ioden'ity s bocnrre'd lately, (says the Wanganui-Herald), the police bajviri&arrested onFri^ay. at Qta^, : a man bkmea rnbmas Minor^ aa answer* ■ ing &>; the description given of one House f wanted^itt Wellington on "a charge 6f false prentences. Finding- 'out the mistake which had been made the-eerviceß of Mr T. Bamb^jjj^P,. were. called, in;thisJmorn-' ing, nnd the man dismissed..^ Applic^ion was bade for some allowance for the Twrpngful imprisonment, but .the jj, P. iheld ; tha'f'^no J could' be given. 1 .!•••.•■ :i-.-;- ■= - ■■■■ '■■ ■•■• By I a late exchange we , learn that a debate on phrenology 1 ia i b'eing^^arran'ged for m NelßOir." THe'^aeba^teri will be Profeqsqr Q./E. Hugo; the. physidgriomist, and Professdr Niuashj, a phrenologist. The.discuaaion Bhbu-i be an jtoteresting bn'ev" : .. .... .. „... The c'oWif of puTjli'c education m Sfew South I Wales is becoming 'so heavy as to attract serious notice, as is also happening m this gqlony.' The Minister of Public Instruction fpi New "iSouth. Wales xc— quiresgth,is' ygar a, yot^e of j £845,755,( ja nd aU^apce of ' over 20 per cent, upon, last, year's vote! ' ' ' * '" In a 'can of peas sold m J^iyerpool r^* : cently thtf public analyst found twp grains of crystallised sulphate pf l c6pper, a quantity eufficitiutto injuriously^ "affect* hutoan health.' The defendant urged that^tHb' public on having green peas, and and th%t_.prtiapial means; (had to> ber re« sorted to to, sjscure. the. required l colour; 1 <.