LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 139, 12 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Mr: Larcomb lias been instructed to prepare plans for alterations and additions to the Grand Stand on the Race Course. We are requested to remind the members of the- Court Mahawatu No. 5655, A.O.F. that a special summoned, meeting of the Court is convened for tomorrow, at 7 p.m.. Business to consider appointment of •Court"' Surgeon for ensuing term, and to consider the 'legal steps necessary to compel unfinancial members to pay up arrears. The Mayor and Coporation of Feilding have been appointed trustees for the maintainance of the Feilding Public Cemetery. ', , We remind our readers of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at the Borough Yards to-morrow, commencing at 1 p.m. j

Two cases against Dr Sinclair heard m Foxton have been non-saiteil with costs the R.M. considering the plaintiffs had taken proceedings prematurely without allowing sufficient time to elapse to prove whether the fit was a good one or not. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next sale at Awalnui will be held on the 16th inst. The entries at present received are published iv our advertising columns. They include mixed cattle, fat weth ers, store wethers, three-quar-ter-bred Rumuey Marsh ewes m lamb, Romtiey Marsh iambs m wool, lambs iv wool, fat ewes, horses, etc. Gisborne is afflicted with a plague of greedy lawyers. A well-known settler there has thus expressed himself :— *' Look here, henceforth if a man steals my coat I will at once offer him my 'rest, rather than seek to recover it and again go to law with a Gisborne lawyer. I The marriage notice — Miss Clayton, sister-in-law of Sir Julius Yogel, to Mr [ D. Nathan, of Auckland, which was solemnized m London, was sent to the \ Auckland Herald by cable. j It is proposed m Wellington to celebrate Queen's Birthday on Monday the i26th instead of Saturday the 24th, on ;account of the 'Frisco mail closiug ou the latter date. : Mr 0. Pharazyn has been staying m the Pyrenees for a considerable time, having been detained there by the dangerous illness of his eldest daughter. As yet he has fixed no definite time for ; returning to New Zealand. ' '-The Government appears to be " stone ; broke," to use a common but expressive phrase. It has been found on enquiry that there are at present no funds available for continuing the Greyraouth harbour works by the Government. The deputation from Greymouth have been informed accordingly to that ' effect. A " Fifth party" has been formed m the English House of Commons con-' sistingof about 50 men pledged to temperance legislation. It would appear from a Press Association cable from England that Shortland, who;. was apprehended at Plymouth on Wednesday last, charged with the murder of his wife, is an Auckland barrister, and j notan Australian lawyer. .: The: lato Mr Thomas Symons, who met an untimely death last week, was One .of .the sons of Mr James Symons, of Goa'thurst Farm, and who was unfdrtn'nitely'' drowned m May, 1851,, while crossing the Otaki River. The; family arrived m Wellington m 1841 ■ m the ship Catherine Stuart Forbes. . . . - Owing, to the strong southerly winds prevailing latterly, two very fast pas-' sages havo been made from Lytteltou ; to Wellington, one by the steamer Ringarooina, and the other by the barque Examiner. The former made the trip from Heads to Heads m 11 hours, 28 minutes ; while the barque only took 15 hours to do the same distance. Attending the meeting of the School Committee last night, a Marlborough paper could not help being struck at the number of applicants for the position q£ master at the Borough School. Amongst 1 the applicants there are more than one' Oxford man, and several who are entitlv ed to write 'B. A. after their names. Mr. George Ross informs the Woodville paper that- on Tuesday the river was lower at the bridge than he had ever seen it before, excepting just prior to the " bij " flood. A reef which runs across' near tho bridge was so exposed that a. man could almost cross it oa foot without getting wet.