The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 108, 2 April 1884, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY .) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lH ifresssrs Hawkins „&. Baker have been tpptorited solicitors to (lie Official Assign nee in< : Bahkrup;icy for tnis district. '"> --1 ■- i' > ■■•■■■ ' : A!s a .head-teacher of. the State school at Campbell's Creek ; (Victoria) was recently piinishln^ a scholar, he was Bet upon by: the chastised one, whose ixample wasiapeedily followed 'by other pupils, and a general fracas took place. ■■ ; ;Lord .Garnatvon (says London Truth) has recently made some extensive investments m Australia, tie has purchased a considerable property m Melbourne, and has also a lar^e estate m -the neighbourhood of Sydney. Following the example of several other Wellington citizens, Mr Rous Marten, editor of the Post, will Bhortly leave for England; He will sail m the Tonpariro next month. Mr Marten's health has. been falling for some months past, and his .medical adviser lias strongly urged the need for r.est and quiet Long years of heavy work on the paper have told Mieir Vale, and rest is Absolutely needed. We wish i Mr Rous Marten a pleasant trip and v rapid recoverj. . 'Two bases 6f aggravated cruelty to fttiiniiils came under the notice of the Bench at the Wellington^ Magistrates Court on M<md«y, during this hearing of cases of actions for damages. In o;ie instance a man proceeded to the house of his neighbor, and deliberately stubbed bis dog till it died. In the second c»Be it appeared thai, a driver had flogged the horse, he was . drivinp over the head to, Vuch an extent that it lost one of its eyes. The revolting nature of "both these trans* actions (Bays a Wellington paper) suggests the advisability of the formation of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals m Wellington, for, while 'in-> humanity of this nature is allowed to go on unchecked, there is no saying to what depths of depravity m this, direction inhuman nature will sink. France is rapidly reaching the condition, m which th* births are only just sufficient to supply the waste caused by death. J - 1882, as : eompaWd with 1881, there wer. lU,UOO more deaths and 15,000 fewer m uridges. Sixty years ago, , under the Ku-at-ration m 112 yeaYsi at the present rate thejdonbling would occupy ?67 yeart, but for the steady, immigration of an ! enbimdus 'body U 6E 'foreigners into the country every year. . The road along the south side of the railway line from Buunythorpe to the borough of Feilding has been gazetted a main road under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. A refugee from El Obied, who has arrived at Khartoum, reports that he saw Mrjor Von Seckendorf • stabbed whilst lying m bed m the hospital ; and that Edmund O'Donovan- (the Daily News correspondenQ''' Was killed near General Hicks. Mr James O 1 Kelly, M.P. for Roscommon, is now the Daily News commissioner m the Soudan.The Bay of . jPJfehty ...Times relates some marvellous cures of rheumatism and skin diseases which, have , been effected" at the Rotoriia bfltbsi ' ; The Same paper asserts thut the Government have received notice of applications from five hundred persons who are anxious to become patients at the hospital Ht Rotorua as soon as it is finished. When the inland trunk railway is completed, the Taupo district will, no doubt, become one of the' greatest resorts of afflicted humanity. A Southern exchange 'says :— Has the Minister of Immigration, as well as the one of Work.--, reached the end of his tether t It would seem so from the fact that several local nominators of immigrants have received official notice that their papers have not gone forward, owing to the " nominated immigration being stopped." An exchange says that the Gorernment are now charging Is each for copies of the Fducation Act. Formerly these were supplied gratis to Education Boards and School Committees.