LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 174, 20 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We takethe following f roiri th« Wai-, rirapa Daily : — ( Ai gentleman resirling m Masterton, a leading public man, waited on Signer Hug j'eaterday nnd expresses himself delighted. nnd astonished by the wonderful accuracy of the jdiag" nosis wliich he received. No one \yho visits th'e : Signor has doubts afterwards as to his clairvoyant- powers!" ■ A new' West Codst rush is reported" at Tucker Plat, near KanioH, and consequently not far from the woll-known \yoodstock£eld. The West Coast .Times states that already more than 100 menu ai-e Q'njtJiA'gi'o.und; s Tl ie^ 1 »l £ iPg.i s pU^.low, but there :is a difficulty about get-; ' ting water on to tne fields .',".» '* • ' , The Wellington Meat Preserving arid ' Refrigerating Company are the success- ; fnl tenderers' for the supply of meat to any British war-ship visiting the port of j Wellington; i.\! v ■:..'. •.; i '•' '• The rateiJayers of Nb.'S Ward,Mrinoheß--ter Road Board District, are requested to meat; at: the: Bunny ttiorpe schoolroom, tit 7 p.m.-, ,0n June 2|tl.« j iorthe , purpose of- Jliscu^siug ,<ihe".b^st means o| ,;get.t|ng > tlie bncVge over the'Oi^ua dyer, near| >Fcilditig. As the inattor'is'onoiot gfrbai nnportance to the sottlbrs m. the district, 4e hope (o v see vi i ull^ttendanee.. , |

According to the Marlon paper :— Mr Amos Burr's second meeting on Monday night was a vt-ry rowdy affair. The I irrikin element was m strong force,and, from the commencement it was apparent that the speaker would have a lively time o£ it. He spoke for about an hour upon the land question mainly, but very Ijttle could be heard owing to the noise. "Bags of flour were hurled at his head aW intcivals, nnd ultimately the meeting broke up m confusion. Mr Burr, m leaving the hall, was literally covered with flour, and was followed all the way to the hotel, by a lot of., larrikins, ..who. hustled him into the Khnbolton drain, and smothered him with mud and flour. - Tbe;trajclling..p.ubJic:^3JL.r.c«tßt-.toi learn (says the Woodville paper) that "Old Ike" the. popular driver of Mr Macara «n the-Maaterton lin.e^ has left the road, and: Mr Macara; himself has taken the reins. during 'the last .two trips. A moreco,ripteouß and obliging irt«u never ; drew rein,, aud Ike was always to be depended on, while he was a credit to- the service iv which , was eogagedi--" : J We have received the" June number of i the Illustrate^ ; W;Zealaii6VNows. As !■ usual it contains rt number of interesting illusiratipng.^To the people of and s^rroriuifiog.dißtrictVthi» issuers of more flian ordinary .interest, depicting ■as it dois two view's f ri£ thcSeventj-'inile :Biißh road. ; 'At Mjainis&urg r , Ohio, thofasan'dsi ''o*f^ ipqipple.piurrounded'.the>grayeyard ievery nig%Jp wjtn,GßS,the. antics qf,ati!aV^g.ed ghost, j The mayor, '/in nrslial, , r^yenue; coijlecWr and , hnn'dijecls '."of, ( pQople.'tesitify'to halve soen'' ( il f lftindrod peoplo ifrtricd" \Vitl) 'cTuds a^d^ ■guns,' ■' assaulted • the spectre which : 'ap- ' pearedto boa woman m white. fOlub's; gullets, and shots tore the ,air inj-whichi the tpiptjy; figure (floated without disconberting it iv the least. The people j)f thpito^n turned, out, and; began eiliiun? ing. all the bodies iv the cemetery togj/t at; it.. Three have already been, ; ex-) fSH*'"' ■ •.'.: ;■: ■-..'.' ir'j-'-i.i:'--.//-I -The Fiitiemasons pf.Feilding wSlLcele- ' brajte. the installation ; of : ipfficer^ , ;by - -a » b^ijl .joiij „ . s the L 1,0 th ,, ,-of [ .July- , i»ext.' "' '"" ' " " *" Hv/fii;! | Sir, Jobw^all,. will, leave; ?lnglaiid>7/to make 'a flying .yisit to^New Zealand, ou the .l s t of 'Aiigus.fc.' . [*, \ { „ . ; , ', '^ ,,;.,;-/ ' j The outw,ar : d ,'JFrlscp mail for , ; Eurqpe 1; closes atthe Paimerst.on Post^ffipe this ■ fevening'at'7.4s o'clock. 1 ' „ „j iv .!' I From the Feilding_stor we learn that Messrs Halcotne 4 and ! : SherwiU's. stock , sale, 1 which was to have' been held ' at' Ashurat on Wodtiesday; was > postponed owing to floods m the creeks preventing cattle ibeing mustered and driven to thei yard. .vih.-; -;il • -;^i iywrU---j

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