LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 166, 11 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The description of a black gelding impounded at A\valiuri is elsewhere given. Mr Charles Hulk is to lecture at the Lower Mutt on Friday evening. An interesting and instructive lecture may be expected, as almost m any subject Mr Ilulke is well versed. The doath is announced of Mr James Bruce of Glcncairn, near Turakina,father of Mr Or. Bruce, formerly of Palmerstpn North. Attention is directed to the announcement of Mr Hanneke's nursery near Marton, which is famous for its trees and shrubs. A notice will be found m our advertising columns setting forth the special advantages of the Tontine Investment Policies, to which attention is specially directed. All information can be obtained on application to Mr Dudley Eyre, who id resident agent for Wanganui district. A man was recently charged by the Thames Bench to six week's imprisonment for a breach of the Licensing Act, for procuring liquor for a man against whom a prohibitory order was m exist nee. The correspondents for once are nearly unanimous. They all assert that it is as near a certainty as it can be that the Government will decide on the central route for the main trunk line of railway. In fact it is absolutely positive that it will not be the Mokau route. A movement m England has for its object the abolition of the actions for breach of promise. Such suits are alleged to have become so numerous that tlieiv influence is demoralizing, and the justice obtained by the action has become insignificant m comparison with the demoralising results. Store sheep must bo getting very scarce now, or else this is a wonderful winter for grass m the Wairarapa ; for wherever on goes, (says a Wellington papei) the cry is, •' Have you any stores for sale." At the Foxton Court yesterday, a man named Samuel Rowley was fined 5s and " 2s cartage,"jfor drunkenness at Foxton on the previous day. When token to the lock-up, the accused had the sum of £81 18s upon him. To expel rats from barns, pigsties, honcoteß, pantries, and all buildings, slake some lime, as for whitewash, and dissolve ji quantity of copperas enough to give it a buff or yellow tint. Colour the walls, floor and all places with the mixture, and the rats will go. Rumour has it that Mr W. T. L. Travors, the well-known Wellington lawyer, is going to have a " shy-in" for the Foxton seat. This makes the fourth candidate likely to stand, On the authority of Mr Henry George " the experiment of: popular govnrnlninit m the United States is elcaWy a failure."

The British training-ship, Warspite, has ivscued s<>,J-G0 children from poverty and degradation ami trained them for the i sea. Two grandchildren of the celebrated London cucua maker, Epps, were recently sent to Hie industrial schools at the Napier K.M. Court. Says the Foxtou paper : — " Our paragraph m last issue stating that the Jane Douglas beat the Tui on their race down last Wednesday night was m error. The information we published was obtained from the notice posted at the Telegraph Office, and it was not until we had gone to press that we learned the reverse was the case — the Tui having beaten her rival by 15 or 20 minutes. There was some money staked on the race. Messrs Steven & Gorton's next sale at Bulls will be held on the 17th June. The entries at present received are published m our advertising columns. They include two-and-a-half and two-year old steers, forward steers, weaners, milch cows, prime fat wethtrs and ewes, fat sheep (mixed), good lambs (mixed), ewes m lamb, horses, etc. Wahanui arrived m Wellington on Monday, and called at the Native Office. He is (says the Post) accompanied by eight or nine Maoris, three of whom are women. He is a fine looking old man apparently about G5 years of age, with nearly white hair, about the middle height, stout and very robustly formed. He is also an intelligent and benevolentlooking person. A young girl named Christina Leith created some commotion m Wellington mi Saturday afternoon by appearing on horseback m an intoxicated condition. Her movements attracted a good deal of attention, and it was with a fooling of relief (says the Post) that the passersby observed her arrested by the police. She was brought before the Magistrate's Court next morning, and charged with the offence. A pleu of Guilty was recorded, and tho Bench marked their sense of her conduct by imposing a penalty of 20s.