LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 137, 9 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English naval and military papers are deploring a scarcity of men for the Royal navy. It is recorded that the stock of men is so low that the two ships fitting out, requiring 800 , would exhaust all the available material. The authorities will have to give Jack better pay, and more liberty, to make the service popular. An English writer thinks it a pity that English orators are not permitted by etiquette to swear at one another. This reminds us of a speech of an old stager, who referring to the bitterness of certain ladies, brought down the house by saying, " If the devil had been a woman, what a devil of a woman ho would have been I"

The Wellington tramway guards have I been served out with caps, bearing the letters W.C.T. above the peak, and they now (says a local paper) present quite a smart appearance. Compared with the guards, the drivers at present look paltry about their head-dress, ono wearing a '• wide awake," and another a " Glengarrie," and so on. The Wairarapa lakes are said to be teaming with trout. Some years since the Acclimatisation Society placed a number of young fish m the streams m the Wairarapa, and it is supposed that the trout have found their way into the lakes. . By the late San Francisco mail a gentleman m Wellington received a letter from a friend m England, the chaplain of a lunatic asylum containing some 700 patients, and this is what he said about New Zealand meat : — " I dined the other day on New Zealand lamb — the frozen meat. The asylum now contracts for it, and' uses nothing else but that and the Australian and American tinned meats ; but the New Zealand meat is fit for a prince." Gratifying this.

Balmy sleep good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness m Hop liitters. Head and believe. Use Hop Bitters once and you will use no other medicine. Test it. Be sure and read. Agonizing Neuralgic' Pains. — Baxter's Anti-Neuralgic Fills have been named by the public " Magic Pills " on account of their marvellous action m curing Neuralgic, Toothache, Sciatica, Lumbago, and other Neuralgic pains. — To be had of all chemists and storekeepers, or post free on receipt of 19 or 44 postage stamps. — J. Baxter, Chemist, fVictoriastreet, Christen urch.