LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 105, 31 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Lyttelton Licensing Committee announce ; their intention "of refusing license to three public homes, including the Empire. i ' Three to prospect for copper m the Hororata, were granted; bj| the OanterbufyLrtnoV ßoard last week; The lonic sailed from Lyctolton for London, jon, Satui}dAjjj With |160 passengers j 12,000 sheep'; and 2500 bales of wool. ' " • ' ' ; Mr Finn, of G-isbornfl, a lawyer.brought an action against a servant girl and her young man, who played high jinks m his drawing-room during his absence. He got 5s and costs. The action was; brought only as a deterrent to a common practice. Afj»r many difficulties,,, (says a Napier paper), Mr John Chambera has had freezing machinery constructed' on his new. principle, and mail advices state that it was to be tested m London this month.. Mr Chambers claims that his- system will* require only one-sixth o£ the coal now used, and that it will reduce the co<«t of sending frozen meat Home by one penny per, pound. ■ , ( A telegram f cam Fiji says, that the mission schooner John Hunt has been floated off the reef, and is now. safe at. Maenati. —A' return of the' transaction bf labor vessels for )ho season' of 1883 shows thai seventeen vessels were engaged' in making thirty-two voyages during > the season. 2218 laboiers w^re introduced to Fiji, and 1339 expired -..men .returned to their homes. „..-.. In connectiouwith : the >visi.k'of tylr.KL. ..G. Marsh, secretary of . the. t ty[el ßourne Young Men's Christian Aspo^iation, it may be of interest to his friends ttt know 'thaC when Mr Marsh reaches Melbourne he will have been away from that place 42 ;! dayp, 18 of which Were spent in> travfellinjf 3820 miles, leaving 24 jday3 for work, m which he addressed 20,67-1 per » scna.at 35 different ;moeti;n^B. < ■ .■■;•. Th^re are about 17,000 dentists m the; United States,~and -they pack into thji teeth of American people (says the Cleveland Herald) a ton of pure gild every y y ear. About five times ihat w^ight^of. less precious metal, such as silrer, \Slati- 1 num, and tin goes the same way. It is 1 estimated this amount of metal i^ worth 1,000-000 dollar?, aul that ir 1 r she pw^ defltaf methods 1 Bre ; 'ttept' up* ttil th« cQin ; inlh^United states will have been, buried ' io the/^raveyards by the time the jwijnLy--fitßJtlc^Kury rolls around. It is said thai ~Che demand for gold m denistry isirapidiy growipg, every year,. This is accountedfor m part by the ffct that rnanjj people with false teeth insist upon having thtfm' filled so that they may seem all the more - natural. ,T,ueroare about 4,00,0(30 J^15e teeth manufactured m this country every" year. The business of denistryi is not wli»t it used to be, however, ans prices h»nMs <*<M»e down wonderfully sitiOfijt/ho; -aky^ tiiten the^eadidgi operators could afford to retire afler a practice of eight or nine years. Still there seems plenty of vworkitd i be done m the future, seeiji^that the decay of teeth is increasing, j h / : "'- ■' , Afgainful .was .^a^sed Loioester iSicatihg Rinlt on January SVbj^ „Oaptain Austin, a performer, shooiibg •MfS 1 'wife m the head with a rifle m front >o£ a< large number or spectators. Oaptoiin' Austin who is a noted shot, fired, at^v potato on .hisj wife's inithje ordinary position with success. He next at« tempted to shoot a potato while lying on his back. As soon as the rifle wasp-ed woman uttered a scream andifellaofa' the st'jge, the" blood streaming frpm her forehead. The audienca-jprang (jo their feet ntterins;arlou<J';-pry3-jw.h|lp 9 a P tain to ' his idlsgLßlld^cftrrpd her into the retiring-room. A doctpr- who was present found that she was suffering jfHm ? a wjon)i^in,' ; the head 3inlongVl)ut heflties WoiV<JQn,Mder it of a dangerous character. The audience soon aftelrwtfrdr , , «A Boon to Mankind.— Baxter's Lung Preserver, by virtue of its balsamic apd. ; sop thing properties, cannot .hs. excelled' W a soother of PulnionicirriWtion. ! MaWy wbbse recovery had been despaireli of by medical advisers and friends, have been •aparedto proclaim the" astounding virttfea* of the Lunir Preserver. It haH been employed m the mansion as well as |in..,thef cottage, and has convinced the aristocrat, as w.eU.as the.pjßßsant that it is, indeed; a boon to mankind. It is pleasant to the palate and may safely be taken i'tfk'tt' cases. Persons suffering from .Brtmchial affections, who take the Lung Prjeierv^r, will find the apeedy effect to be diminu,-, tjon, of , pain and expectoration— first, be» cause the 1 mucous membranes are stimulated to throw thn phlegm up, and '■, second 'because ''trie 'medicine: tslfidapMl io thin ■ th*) disqhargejibefca;e : it leaves the bron* cWal ;l»hea tßnd lung?. This specific is highly, extolled by members of tbej mgdjcal ancf clerical professions and otjhjej^-r:*! To be had of all chemists andj store" j keepers. j J