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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 129, 30 April 1884, Page 3

Writes the Bulls correspondent of out Feildiug contemporary: — * v o lees than . aixxuaes of paralysis liave occurred m our inklst within the l*st , few weeks, jand iii two of the cases the sufferers are quite helpless. Such a number of cases' of this awful disease call for an investigation by j our medical men.' If was an open secret m Pulmerstun on Monday night, (s.tys the Sttfr) that tar and feathers would probably be the portion of the busy-body who is accredited with ' pulling the wires' to obtain the removal of Constable Gillespie, We hope tbii pnnishtuent will not be attempted, how* evei well deserved. We are sure that Constable Gillespie would be the first to stop such a piece of brutality. Much better to burn him m effigy or ride him on i a rail. According to the Peilding paper, the proposed removal of Constable Price is not to be effected without an effort from the settlers m the Borough and surrounding districts to prevent it. Two petitions against the removal are now being circulated, to which upwards of 300 signatures have already been obtained. It ia very seldom that one hears a really good genuine Irish bull. Much raerritnent was, however, caus d at the Wel» lintjton Jtt. M. Court lecently by the statement, m cross-examination, of a witness named Murphy, wlio said that he oould not renumber when a certain thing happened, because he did not, know what day o! the week Good Friday whs on. - ! The fruit-canning business m America is said to have derived its inception from a visit to Pompeii by a party of Cincinna* tiaus, who were there many years a«o when the excavations were just begun. In the pantry of a houae were numerous glass jars of preserved figs. One was. opened, and foand to be fresh and good. The hint was taken, and the next year canning was introduced into the United States. This ia Mr Dwan'a defiuition of the difference between a reporter and an editor ; — ' The reporters, gentlemen,' siiid he, 'are all right. Their work will be done all right. These papers must have a Btaff of reporters. They are men of ability. But an editor — he is only a man of Boap, gentlemen.' The Education Board sat from 10 o'clock yesterday morning until 10 last night, and then adjourned till 10 ibis morning, We are requested to state that the Rev. J. C. Dodwell will preach at the Thanksgiving service at All SainL'a Church to» morrow, service commencing at 8 o'clock. The offertory will be devoted to the funds of the Terrace End Sunday echopl, A respectable well-behaved lad is wanted at the Stand abd office, j "In- reply to a letter from the. Borough Council the lessee of the Foresters'. Hall, has promised that the nuisance lately alluded to m the Standard shall be abated, £n advertiser wants grazing for 500 lambs. ■ : - ■■ . :•>.,.' Additions are made to the catalogue of Mr Snelson's Fitzherbert stock sale next Saturday. The Oroua County Council is holding its meeting at feildiug to-day. Although there i? a cry for practical education, it would appear that there is very little of the ' practical ' m the demand. A Wellington firm adveitised recently for an office boy, and, within a day of the announcement appearing, over a score of boys applied for the situation. It would seem, after all, that tbe real want is a Brace where a living can be earned without doffing the coat*" , ... t ,.,,, . The EuropeHnMrtil states :ln continuation of his task of walking; tjfty miles a day for one hundred consecutive days, Sunday excepted, Weston walked on Marsh 8 from Brighton to London, thus voluntarily adding thren milea to his ordinary day's journey. He: bns now completed 4900 miles'. Weston is a total abstain"!*, and, wh»t is stranger, he never makes a, wager on his performances. At Meß.*rs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Feilditig yesterday afternoon ther« was a moderate attandence. The bidding (says the Star) was iwv slow, and a goud number of lots both of cattle and she* 1 p were pHSsed m. Those sold were at prices somewhat below the average.