Matawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 126, 23 April 1884, Page 2

Matawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. ■♦ ! Tire civil case, l^an -r. MeCaithy, heard at the W.llin^g on Magistrate's 'Court recently, developed .what,'. looked 1 irery much like good h«.d swearing. "The plaiu tiff a,w ore positively ..ih^t McCarthy had obtafi'ied a receipt from him frauduH leatly, while McCarthy, on the other liand, was equally positive, .that he had jaid tho full amount of the receipt, Mrs : Egan sided with her husband, and MrsMcCarthy eorro.bor.i led everything that fell from the 1 lips of her lord and liiaster. Tho decision of Mr Wnrdell, however, jieii<red both claim*, for he gay« judgmont for £2 of the amount claimed (£81: \ A Melbourne! paper: of the! 26th Mnroh snjs : — ' An toctraordinarv ctise has beea ■reported to ike detectives. AMr Clark and his wife ariived by the Waihorafrom Napier New Zeal-nd, on Tuesday last. (Before thtir ar.riv.aL Mrs. Gla.^k.. became,, ■suddenly ill, and oh reaching the wharf jlhe hu.sband went for a doctor. On hi" j return -he-found-hix .wife dead^and. .alleged., that she w*s stripped of jewels and £90 m gold during 4)is absence.' ; One, of .the best* crops yet heard of m the ; North Canterbury district is (says the i Press) thaVof Mr v tf. Mahler, of Sefton, who last vreeJt threshed out 31 acres of oats, which gave' a net yield of 3379 bushels, equal to 109 bushels to Abe aero. The terrible- wreck of a woman found" dead m a waterhble'near the Royal Park, and of whom the doctors could not decide : whether sift) dad been «truogled or drowned while intoxicated has a sensational history. She w;tß a jsisfei- of the" well-known Lady iVlorotaun4,,*-wrk» fii-uVed m & oeleWated divorce case m England. She came to Queenelapd ,w,ith a captain, who passed as her huß^a'ntli arid afta'r-affewflnonths-gave 1 way to intemperate habits, going entirely to the bud. She went to Sydney, and from there to Melbourne, m both pi which^ citiea she made'freqdint 'a'ppeafances-i-nt the police courts. She ft h»d an income of , £2' < i) pe^\ani)m^i which BBf© ( .v|6?eivedv quarterly. Vnd'allhere l is evraerufo^tfrnt* she was atrangled before the bod_v*"was i thrown into the clay bole,, it was probably. ; to (fet the money that some sooujfdrelMid j the deed. ' A private letter from an Auckland rest-, dent to a friend at Oamaru has been placed at the disposal jof : the! M»it l The i writer says: — 'Times are very dull m" i this city, and money is getting tighter. 1 hope there will be n > collapse, and believe •>hat< such a e'almnity may be staved off for twq years, because no leas than a quarter pf, ,a million sterling will be expended here during that period m local workp, besides other lar^e sums m private enterprises, ''All this must haye 1 a tendency to' ehabre people to hold their own;' Property is steadily vising iv value., but. there is no such thing as buying. 1 .. The following .hotice appears m the Wellington Post I — ' Unless the low scoundrel who wrote the letter received by me by this morning's poet, and signed " Brains," calls topon me this evening with a tu:t and most übject written apoloety, for publication m this and otnpr papers I ii>kU at once place it m the hand§ of the police '

by the Jane Dougl'is there arrived on Saturday last some 25 navvies, who are to work on the railway contract neir Moutoa. Another contingent of 25 more are ex« pected m « few days. ! The gill Kbte Bnyle. who for some time paH has t^een confined during the' GJoyer,, norm's pleasure,' and who, it will be VecoU* lected, was at the criminal sessions before last acquitted by a jury of the murder of - her iutaut child, was o.n Monday released from Mount Pleasant' Gaol^oiv the order of the Governor.' - ■•-■*•■ - '■-•'■■ - Passengers travelling by train at night are continually complainiing to us ( '"V^n* ganui Herald) that the -carriages are very badly lighted. Long carnages which.should be provided with at least four lights have only one, and it is' absolutely impossible to read while travelling m such caniajes. In some c ises where the cam ages are supplied, the lamps are out before the distance is half completed. We tuny mention that trains leaving Wanganui are somewhat better provided for than thoee which arrive here, but there is room for lota of complaint." Air Chamberlain left Feilding yesterday en route tor Sydney, where he intends to spend the winter, m accordance with, medical advice. He will be followed /says the Star) by the good wishes of many that he may greatly enjoy the change and return with much improved health. . tA. meeting of the Oroua County Obun-- , ? oil .will' be held »t tt^e Council office; " feilding, on Wednesday, 80th'iApf1i, at noon. ..,...., , . „, . ..,., T Souih Aua'traiia nas- ia full • 'sliare •of noxious birds and beasts, and seeuis to ' devotH attention to the destruction of a greater diversity of them than Yic'oria or New South Wales., In , the last half 18^3 one of that colony's 'Yermtn Boards billed 626 dogs,' 77O'i ; kangai'oos, 3838 wallabies, 35,77U rabbits, and 235 eaglehawka. The cost of all tbis^w.as £178$ 17a 6d, whilW the receipts from rates weVe i1432v ■ .:■. .i i; \ ■■: ■ „,: ■'■ -.;..-•»«: There are 6hly < 175 i perKona ; in; COio vents m Poitugal, m siscty flight eat tbiishments., . Thdse persons, are fast dying off, . the youqgeat at present being from sixty to seventy years o'fage. Under 1 a law 'passed' fifty years ago no further ininates'oaio : b« received, so that convents will soon becoiu"e"extmct m the country. ..The _,' confidence , triok ' h«i3. be.en flourishing lately m London with peculiar vigour, "fhree gentlemen make ati- : quaintance • on the top 6'f 1 an omnibusi One of them has -£600 m his pocket to give to the poor,' and seeks the advice of the two others* as to his, ' All he asks- for, A beyund a; judjeious benevolence, is a proof of "confidence,, which of course results m a fool being cleaned out by a thief and his confederate. The marvel is how any man could be so great a fool. :<.:.. The next project m the direction of archaeological research i», it appear.*, to be the very remarkable one m the direction of a search m the of Salamis for any relics of the Greek and Persian g.illays I which sunk there 2364 years ago. The j water rs not deep, and with modern ap» pliahce.s the bottooi of the «ulf can be very thoroughly explored. Metal articles will ptobubly not have perished, and it is ■ thought possible' that a whole ship may have beeu preserved by becoming em*-, bedded m tha sand, as has happened to, more than one ship of the Vikings. ; . A pork butcher fn i Wellington, me*! with a nasty accident on Thursday last.! He. wbs> driving ,a cartload.of .pigs- into! tqwn,frptQi.the Hutt w^hen one of t-^e ftni"; mals endeavoured to make its escape.' la seeking tp.se.cure it he drpppesdhisreins,Biid; the horse taking frioht bolteH and tli'e! man was thrown out, sustaining severe in«| juries. Singular to say, he had only the; previous day- received notice' that the annual policy' against -'accidents! which,he held would^-expire within a low; dajs,/and he Jia'd rephedythiit he -did npt; intenfl to renew it. He-'has-reasojcL.to be; tbanlrfur't'h.ai the .accident occurred be-j fore th« policy expired, as wiiile -laid.-UJ he will now receive an allowance of £q per week. ■•■--..-■ ; "Hop i Bitters gives good digpßtion, actKe liver, -good circulation anjl buoyant sprits.