LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 149, 22 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We -have to acknowledge receipt from Mr T. B. Walton, secretary of the Racing Club,- of press ticket for next meeting. It is stated that along the whole line of the Central route of the North Island trunk railway only, one tunnel will be required, its length being about threequarters of a mile. The Post understands that the vestry of St. Peter's Church, Wellington, are about to purchase a large organ, of superior quality, for use m the church, m place of the present small instrument. If the best instrument is ultimately selected, it will probably cost about £1000. It is understood that the directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company have made the usual call of Is per share, because only two-thirds of the shareholders would agree to increasing the amount of call on condition of the time of payment being postponed. Captain Jackson Barry is at present lecturing m New South Wales upon his "Tour Round the World," aud was last, heard of performing at Durham, m New South Wales, where his efforts to amuse and instruct were much appreciated. Only six matches will be played m New South Wales by the New Zealand Football Team. Should the latter reach Sydney m good form on Tuesday next a match will take place between them and a fifteen from Parramatta on the following day, but m the event of indisposition on account of the voyage, the New Zealanders will not play until the Saturday, when they will meet .1 team representing the suburbs or the whole colony. Messrs E. MeDattos and Co., of London, have, it is said, purchased the great Eastern steamer, with the intention of converting her into a coal-hulk to lie at Gibraltar. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs lias granted permission to secure her near tho Rock. . ; In America there are ovnr seven millions of children attending Sunday schools, and altogether between twelve and thirteen million children, Englishspeaking children, participating m the ! blessings of religious educating m Sunday schools. The following is said to be a means of detectiug the glanders I—A1 — A bucket half full of water should be held under the animal's nostrils aud the mucus allowed to drop into the water. If the substance remains on the top or dissol- ' veß m tno water the disease is not glanders, but if the chops remain undissolved and sink to the bottom the horse should be killed.