LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 148, 21 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Marton water works are to be put m progress this wiuter. The Wainui waternow being turned on m Wellington has saved the risk of a water famine. It is strange that m the Wellington morning paper there is no mention whatever of the narrow escape the steamer Hawea recently had. At the Auckland Apple Company's farm— the hirgest enterprise of the kind m these Colouies — the visitor can walk through 90 acres- of apple trees, which next year will be increased to 140 acres coutaiuing some 60,000 trees. In Christchurch a labor agent is advertising for bricklayers for the North | Island at 13s a day. Tricotrin, a Wanganui bred racer, was 1 recently sold at Bucklaud's, m Auckland, for £7 10s. I An insurance agent, urging a friend to get his life insured, said, " Get your life insured for ten thousand dollars, and then, if you die next week, the widdei's heart will sing with joy." A telegram was received on Monday by Messrs Levin and Co. to the effect that a steamer, supposed to be the s.s. Victory, which left London on the 29th March, had been seen off Cape Saunders near Port Chalmers, on Saturday afternoon. So far, however, there is no sign of the Victory. It is said that Dr Kemp, of Wellington, who had been very unwell for some time past, will sail for Eugland m the Aorangi on a brief tnp. The ss To Anau, with an English mail, arrived at the Bluff on Monday evening. An advertiser m Wellington requiring a sharp lad and the essential and suggestive, " no larrikin need apply." There was nothing definite decided upon at Garnman's meeting of creditors on Monday. It was resolved to give Mr Holland until the 22ud to make an offer for the estate. We believe Mr Walton has been requested to repeat his lecture on Spiritualism and has consented to do so. The Taranaki news says : — Mr Fred Ward (son of the Rev. Robert Ward, for many years Primitive Methodist missi«nary here) who made the success of the Sydney Echo as its editor, has become editor of the Sydney Daily Teleerraph, at a salrry of 1000 a year. Mr Perrier, another Now Zealandar, is subeditor. The friends of Mr James Brnce, of GMencairn, will regret to learn (says the Marton paper) that he is rather seriously ill. By the Feilding Star we observe that informations have been laid by Conr stable Gillespie against several grown up larrikins who were quarrelling and fighting m Manchester Street on Saturday night last.