LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 120, 16 April 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The case of Kate Boyle who was convicted" of infanticide recently has been considered by the Government, and a recommendation has been made to his Excellency tor her release. Dr G-rabham, Inspector of lunatic asylums who is now on an official visit to the South Islund, has been instructed to report on the sanity of the- prisoner Uonoghue condemned for murder at Grey mouth. It is understand that an i examination haa been made, and that Dr. Graham's report will probably reach here this week. I The Governor has appointed Mr J. W. Marshall to be a member of the Licensing Committee fur the district of Marton, vice Major Willis, deceased. The Governor-in«Council haa appointed the following gentlemen School Commissioners for the provircinl district of Wellington : — Messrs J. G. JBoldaworth, C. P. Powles, Bnd T. Mason, M.H-R. The Education Department have ap~ poiated the following gentlemen School 'Commissioners for the provincial district of Wellington, viz. : Messrs J. E. Blair, and Sir W. Fox, K.G.M.G. Mr Gal rin, formerly of Palnwrston NofA, and lately|of Opunake, has been presented with an address and a purse of sovereigns. Mr Galvin, who. has been over four years on the coast, leaves this week for Wellington on bis way to Gs» borne, where he will be connected with the Press. He was formerly part proprietor of the Hawera Star, and laßt September started the Egmont Courier but discontinued it because the district was not yet quite ripe for newspaper enterprise. A somewhat painful cvse was heard at the Wellington Magistrate's Court when a man namod Frank Graham, a laboring man, was charged with indecent exposure on Sunday. The evidence fully proved the offence, and it appeared that Graham was intoxicated at the time. The accused evidently felt his position keenly, for he was unable to abstain from crying m the box. He was fined 40s, iv default, four" teen days' bard labor. Mr 'Larcomb is inviting tenders for the erection of a butter factory at Liongburn, near Palmeraton North. The house of Mr Row, of Karere, has been appointed the polling booth, to de« cide whether or not Karere Uoad No 1. should be carried out under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. One of the Wanganui contingent of volunteers had to bo removed to the • Lunatic Asylum, having show.cd signs of mental aberration. The Wellington papers remark that there appeared to be too great laxity, m the regulations regarding leave of absence from the Volunteer camp, on the occasion of the recent encampment, and it appeared that, for a great portion of the i three days during which the men were supposed to be getting an insight into active service m the field, a lurge majority of them were strolling aboafc town and enjoying themselves m anything but a martial way. This is not a& it should be, and more stringent attention to duties should be enforced. Mr Whitehead is m waaat of a good I lad. Professor Hugo is now lecturing m Wellington. We learn from the Martou paper that Sir William Fox is now m T aranaki, at» tending to his duties as West Coast Com* mißsioner. He will shortly proceed to Wellington to write his final report.

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