LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 168, 13 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It appearsfrom the Melbourne Age that the information communicated to the Government of New South Wales as to possible attempts being made by the dynamite party to make demonstrations m the colonies was received some time ago, and is m no way connecto 1 with tho recent outrages m London. While the steamer Qucenscliffe was making fast to the wharf at Foot-<cray,a rope got round tho leg of a man vrhowas standing alongside, and it was cut clean off below the knee. Tho piece cut off fell into tho water. Tho man was taken to the hospital. ■■■■•>' » ,:•••• When the drought broke up m New .South Wales the rainfall was very heavy. A travelling comedy company and a circus bound for Hay got stuck, m ;thei mud for two days, and for thirty-six hours the members of the former had -nothing to eat. A joint-stock company, .owning the largest iron foundry m Hungary, has decided to admit their workmen to a participation m the profits. The Detroit Free Press says that a twice convicted felon has been chosen speaker of the Queensland Parliament. We believe that the statements literally true. The Prince of Wales (says the Yorkshire Post) traveled from Liverpool to London on Friday night m thr.ee hours and fifty minutes, or at the rate of. nearly seventy miles an hour all the way. It was, however, not an ordinary express, but a special train. A colossal kite has boen built m New; Haven, Conn. It is 12 feet across and 15 foet high, covered with red cambric ; and the 1,200 feet of Manilla cord used m " raising" it are run from a great reel, j about the size of a steering wheel of a steamer. It requires two men to turn tho cranks of this reel, which, it is stated, will bear two tons pressure. Jos Pickersgilland Dinnie have quarrelled. Jos is now lecturing m Victoria on " athletics I have known, especially Dinnie." The lntter part is so spic}* that the presH cannot ropoii the lecture, b$ caußo of the law of libel. A charwoman has juat died m an hospital. On opening a leather case found undor her pillow, she was recognised as a lady m possession of 250,000 francs a year who had her carriages, but was ruined by lu<r husband's — and who committed suicide — gambling. We have to acknowledge receipt of " Notes on the Biillor Harbor and Cool field" by Eugene O'Connor. The pamphlet was mislaid before we perused, it j but that we do not doplore. Tho Woodville Exauilnor writes that the progress being made by the contractor for the Upper Manawatu ; bridge is far from satisf actory,and rails for the attention of the Government. The work ehould have been completed by now, whereas it is not much more than commenced. There are few hands employed and tho contractor is m Dunedin or Melbourne on other businesp, instead of being on the ground here pushing tUo work ahead.