LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A. Wellington paper has the following: — " Report says that Mr Ballance is meditating a change — that he will abandon politics and newspaper work and become instead, a freethought lecturer — a colonial Bradlaugh. He has been president of the Wauganui Freethought Association. With practice, he would soon have a list of very effective lectures, and would probably achieve success." Information was receired by the Wellington police on Friday night that the girl Fanny Thalford, who has been missing from Belrnont since Tuesday last, was found at Thompson's Clearing, Pahautanui,, at 1 p.m. The two dogs I she took away wore with her, and the girl is said to have been naked and covered with mud, presenting, altogether, a most pitiable spectacle. Tho Tauranga Cheese Company's work have been fairly-busy during the season, and have used 60 gallons of milk per day, the produce being 153 cheeses, which are to bo sold when old enough. At a recent meeting of the shareholders it was resolved to increase the capital of the company, with a view to obtaining a larger plant. According to a telegram m a Melbourne paper received from Sydney, the stoppage of the Oriental Bank has not been productive of any great harm m business clrcies m the latter mentioned city. Mr R. A. Kurts, tailor, of GeorgeStreet, on May the sth, announced his willingness to purchase notes of the Oriental Bank, and before closing that night he obtained notes representing 6203 at 17s 6d per pound. On Monday morning bought 600 m notes at 15s, and m tho afternoon, £300 at 12s 6d, per £1, and received £300 m Oriental bank notes as payment for clothing, no discount being deducted m the transaction. The last mentioned prico of the notes to-day ia 16s. Close on to 50,000 sheep have been taken out of the Hawko's Bay districts this season the supply J Wellington markets.

Travellers through the Seventy-mile Bush says the Napier Telegraph will be glad to know that, m the course of a very few weeks, the railway will be opened to M ataman. The Section between Makatoku and Matamau is being ballasted, and this work is nearly completed. With the opening of this section an hour and a-half's coaching over the worst part of the road m the Bush will be saved. How news travels, says the Napier Telegraph. Some few weeks ago we extracted from an English paper an account of a confession of murder m Canterbury (England), m which a man on his deathbed made a confession, and asserted that two men who were than dead had also participated m the foul deed. Our extract ommited the word England, the paragraph was copied by a Wairarapa contemporary without acknowledgement, and now that paragraph has gone the rounds he has been heldresponsible for it, and the murder is assumed to have been committed m the colony. A meeting of creditors m the estate of S. J. Gamnian is called by the Deputy Assignee to be held m the Court House, Palmerston, to-morrow at 11 o'clock. As a proposal of a very important nature will be brought forward, claimants m the estate should make it their bnsineßs to attend. A London journal, referring to Mr Gladstone, says : — " He, no doubt, thinks himself quite blameless for what has occurred m the Soudan, but, nnlessthe faith which he is believed to live m is a lie, the time is not far distant when he will be better informed on that point." The Roman Catholic body m Woodville are now proceeding with the erection of their chapel on the Napier road, and we understand they are meeting with liberal support from the general public m providing funds for the work. One of the oldest patients m the Wellington District Hospital died last Friday night, namely, Patrick Kelly. He had been an inmate of the Hospital for fifteen years, and has no relatives m the province. At one time he was on the Thames Goldfield, and will be well remembered there. According to the Woodville paper, a Palmerston draper intends opening a branch m Woodville shortly. . At the Salvation Army meeting on Friday night one of the officers requested any Christians present to rise and acknowledge their faith, when one of the audience stood up and stated he believed he was a Christian but that the proceedings he had witnessed he felt sure were calculated to do far more harm than good to Christianity The adjourned special annual meeting of the Borough Council will be held tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. The Marten paper says Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Awahuri on Friday was one of the best held m the district for some time as regards the number of stock quitted. Of course the prices were somewhat low. There being a rumonr m town that Colonel McDonnell had received news by a native from Tuhua stating that payable gold had been struck, we(Herald) are m a position to state that no such news has arrived. The Bulls correspondent of the Feilding Star says the doctor holds out but faint hopes of Mrs Scott's recovery, who was injured last Saturday. Balmy sleep good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness m Hop Bitters. .Read and believe. Agonizing Neuralgic Pains. — Baxter's Anti-Neuralgic Pills 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, Victoriastreet, Christchurch.