LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 170, 16 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According tv th« \Vuuiivillc paper the , railway line was to be opened to Matam,iu to-day. In Charleston where much of the tnont is imported from this Island. A local butcher advertises na follows :— " The following will be our prices for meat, namely : — Beef, from 2d to 4d per lb ; mutton, from 3d to 4d per lb ; pork, 4d per lb : voal, 3d per lb ; corned beef, 20s per 1001 ba, or 501bs for 10s. 11 Sir Sarauol Baker says that Soudan is the granary of the world. Ho has riddon through districts where the corn grows high enough to cover an elephant. "When this region," he says, "passes into civilised hands it will be the richest on the whole continent." Messrs Halcome & Sherwill will hold their regular stock sale at Ash n ret ou Wednesday noxt, for which entries are invited from Wbodville. The latest novelty m domestic circles at Home is the issuing of the announcement of a birth m the form of a carto-do-visite, at the head of which is a vig-. nette of the mother, the pho toed copy of the notice m the first column of the Times being immediately below. i Cheese fr«m Messrs Stafford and Whitaker's dairy, m Wailtato, has been sold at the Thames, at7d per lb. TheWaikato cheese factory has yet 17 tons of cheese m stock, the greater part of which, however, will be disposed of beI fore the end of the mouth. Mr Frank Power, the special correspondent whose telegrams from Khartoum have brought credit to the Londou Times, lives m a vast palace m the capital of the Soudan. Ho is miserably ill, aud sighs for English cookery., " I have lost three stone m weight," he writes, "and look more like an Arab than au Irishman." At a Land sale m Chicago, the auctioneer, to give an idea of the healthinoss of the locality, announced that "the cemetery here stood for years without a gravestone, untii the residents had to go and shoot a man to give it a start."The town of Wanvich, m England, has a newspaper 170 years old — the Mercury which was started or is supposed to have been started, iv 1714. From the year 1727 the file m the business office of the proprietor is complete. Reprints of the issues iv 1727 are, beiug mane.