Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 114, 9 April 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNES DAY, APRIL 9 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, During the hearing or one of the charges of forgery tigainat Watty at the Supreme Court on Monday, his Honor remarked that if busy bees went on charging 200 per cent, for money, they would make honey fast. Counsel for the accussed observed that m London, he believed money lenders rather preferred discounting forged bills, and that might be the case here. At a public meeting of working men held m Wellington on Monday evening the following resolution was car-ied ; — j " That it is advisable to form m W«lHne" ton a trades nnd labor Hsaociation similar to those existing m Auckland and other Centres ; and that a committee De nppomted to communicate with those societies and obtain necessary data.*' The Australia brought 30,000 Irout or» from California for the Auckland A ecli matiaation Society. The ca»es have be^n examined, and the whole consignment found worthless. A seduction case," m which £250 damages are claimed, was heard at -the Supremp, Uuredin to-day before Mr Jus tice Williiams. The plaintiff is Terence Dunn, a commercial traveller, and the defendant ie B ugh V. .Morris, a iihotoerapher. The plaintiff alleges that his daughter Mary Christina, aged 17 yars bore to the defendant a child, which died on 'Febrna'c^. 20 last. The defendant denies the allegations m the plaintiff's statement of the claim. Mr J. C. Mason, ex M.HJR. nnd a supporter of thie Government at the lust eeneral election, addressed a meeting nt Ashburton on Monday eveninpy and eevnrely criticised "the administration of Major Atkinson. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, '. James Joseph Wilson pleaded euilty to h charge of forging a cheque on the B<»nk of New Zealand for the amount of £2, and j purporting to be signed by O. P. Powles. Tho prosecutor stated rbat he wns satisfied that accused was out ->f his mind from the effect of drink when he committed th'e offence. His Honor, m seot«ncin? accused to one year's imprisonment, paid that if h<» would put a worse minH into himself thnn he was endowed with by nature, he must suffer for it.

The Wairnrnpa Daily hears that a pecnliar licensing dodgre has bean played m the Knikoura district. At the last election the publicans nominated five men and the teetotalers four. Just before the election the; publicans induced their cap - didatea to withdraw so that no election could take place. It is said that among the publican's candidates there were four Justices of the Peace. The question now arises whether the Government will ap« point these Justices of the Peaeo who have been parties to this peculiar proceed* ing ?

Sointi excitement wsis o-iusud during the sorniuii at St. Paul's on > w iri<l;iy moriiinp (-mys lhi> Post) by ii voting man l'c : uj aeizid with an epileptic n>, Shortly ,-tft«r Utthnd been removed, screams ««iv l,e.ir<! from another part of ihb church, ami then it was discovered that a lady h-K> f.iinled. The patient m this case nlso wn* tnkeu out of the church and attended to. By this time a unrubpr of ladies had ibeii nerves so unstrung by the double scent that quite a procession of them left thi i church. . Some new «nd very handsome photo graphs are now on view at Messrs Cuzneau 'and Oonolly's photographic establishment, on Lambtmi Q'«»y, Wellington. Cou« spicuous nuiony; these is a large and magnificent picture representing Miss Watt-Phillips as Bess Marks m the •' lights o' .London." The delicate effects of the half lights are beautifully brought on', but the chief charm of the picture lie 3 m the " snowstorm" effect, which is exceedingly natural. By the 'Frisco Mail it is reported thatseveral children m a London suburb were poisoned by eating New Zealand tinned meat. The Minister for Public Works left Marton, not " Masterton," as stated m n telegram m last nights issue, yesterday to personally inspect the Central Route frjin that place to Te Awamutu. Mr Larkworthy, the Lond >n manager of the Bank of New Zealand, sent a frozen lamb to Mr Gladstone for the Ministerial dinner held m February last (writes the Marlborough Express), and some time previously Mr Larkworthy sent a couple of lambs to the Prince of Wales. In order to further advertise •New Zealand mutton, it has b^en arranged to have six frozen meat dinners afc the forthcoming Health Exhibition m Liondon. ''The Marton paper is glad to Bee that steps are to be taken to obtain the money for the construction of the Cheltenham cross road, which is a work of great im-* portance to the Kiwi tea settlers, as it is the only means of communication between the eastjand weat sidesjof'the block, with* out going sound chiough Feilding, and the road, as it is at present, is' next to being impassible m the winter months. The road has been declared a mf.in road, and all the outlny to the ratepayers would be one»fourth of the cost to be paid by ten yearly instalments of £33 12s 7d. The poll will be taken shortly, and we feel sure that the proposal will be carried by a large majority. Amongst other changes m the Civil Service contemplated for tome lime, was that of m king the Chief Surveyors do the work of, and, become Couir. missioners of Crown Lands. Acting pa this principle, Mr J. W. Marchantj, will henceforth also do some of the. work done by Mr Holdsworth. In a short time it id more than likely <hat all the Crown Land Commissionships will be held by the Chief Surveyors, thus maksng a turtber saving m Civil Service expenditure. A very rare operation was reoently performed at the Alfred Hospital. MeU bourne. A patient had an arm amputated some time since, but owing to the; disease ' extending the staff decided on removing the entire bladebone, and this was done wi'.h every likelihood of the patient recovering. - The nominations for the Wanganui County Council are fixed for Friday tht i tlth instant. That is Good Friday, and therefore we (Herald) thin* a mistake has been made which will vitiate the election. At anyrate it seems that a grave mistake has been made any way* i At Newton Abbot, the Rev. T. Yard, a Church of England clergymen, was ;fined £8 for having allowed a hprae to renuin five weeks m a barron orchard without a particle of food, until it was literally it rved to death- He knew it was m the orchard, and when expostulated with said he had wished to have the horse de» stroyed, but his mother»in-law would not allow it because it had been so many years m the family. The Post Office will be closed on Good Friday, and on Easter Monday the boors of attendance will be from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. Good yields of crops have evidently been secured not far from town. We learn that Mr Stone of the Go vt Valley, threshed out one acre of his oats, the lesult being over • 100 bushels. In wheat he secured about 45 bushels, and the returns would have been larger but for caterpillars. | . An Auckland journal called ".Labour " says : Some of the Southern papers say that. Sir Willium Fox hag nearly finished I his work on the West Coast. Those who thus write know very little of Sir William's character he will not finish his job while he can extract another 'pound from his paymaster. Like many others I could name the only way m which Sir William can be got rid of is to stop his pay and :send him about his business. For nearly forty years he has done nothing but live at the public expense. He has never proved himself in. any position worthy of his hire. As a rule it has always taken at least the labour of six men to keep him and hi* be'ongingp. He adopted politics as a profession because he could not get a living at the law. Messrs Greenwood & Son, Dentists, Wanganui, Registered under the Imperial Colonial Acts. Dentistry m all its branches Next visit to Palmerston on Thursday 10th April, (Walkley's Hotel.)— advt.