LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 180, 27 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It was pointed out at the ..Ashurst . meeting how the last Minister for Public Works, and Representative of the Manawatu District, had,* ye^rs "ago, promised Messrs Macarthur and .., Lfnton ; to see that the Manawatu Bridge: was at once erected. These years have slipped away and still no bridge, arid rib sign of one, so far as the Public Works Department is concerned.,; It is surely time that Manawatu sfiould be represented by a man who. resides m the locality and who? will tliiis- have its; interests more jat; heart, i- t ...:'■■■•'.■ * • . .-• ■'■■■.;'• At this -Revision Court, for the revise .ing' of|Be W<3 llingtbn city electoi'ai rolls,_ no 'few^r^than 361, names were at^ the" instance of the registration officer struck off the rolls. . - . ; The followingsingular marriage notice appeared. in , the- Wellington "papers :-r| ; " Stri&e-^JDixon-r^Aboat t\vo_weeks ago,: Gred. A. Strike to Miss A. Dixon, both of Wellington." The exact date \s evidently a matter \qf slight ihipsrtance. But then the honeymoon is not over ;yet. .;-.;-■■;.;;; ) ... ; I".; • : ;. About three years ago an; announcement appeared m The Times to the effect that Lady Kennedy, the wife, of the. Governor of Queensland, had given birth to twiiis,' the eldest of whom was a son. As the Governor • was known tpbe a bachelor, it? was intimated ; at Printing' "House Square that there must be some mistake ; aad further inquiry elicited the; fact; that Reuter'B agent had meant to 8aj r that a new 5 railway w&3 to be opened, and, that Sir Arthur Keun.edy, "turns first sod ;" which last three words were ingeniously misprinted " twins first son!""

An association has been formed m Wanganui to be called the Wanganui Progress and Industrial Association,liav-ing-for its object the promotion and encouragement of. Jqc,al industries- ;apd r the discussion of all questions calculated sto advance the- material interests of the ? . : '/' '' '[ •".. •" '.....,•"' v Aishorttime ago spmo^skeletons w.ere, foun^'iii excavating at Jesus Mafia," m Calaveras' county 1 / California. Rirsßdyd, of Stockton j a pioneer^ says' that oh the spot^vvhere > the skeletons' were found, Joaquin Murieta, the famous bandit .kept a dance house from 1851 to 1853, At the S^atne time, residents of, the place susf -pected that thefe v was foulplay ~a's many Arsons had inyeteriously disappeared after drinking at Murieta's place. Fron later intelligence "we see that; Dovrnes, jjh-feidepuiy^re&riiing Officer Jt[ Gisb'ofner was drowned while crossing a river on his way. to the Mohia .polling place. At the inquesi^ verdict was returnbd of .death by drowning. .Hejeayes, a wijfe andinreechiWren.' His life was' insured $for j£2op- m.- the. ; Australian Mutual Provident'Society. 'A siibscrrp"tionjhas been started and £20 collected. , At a meeting of the,. Wellington Fre,ethbught Association sev.ei f al letters w^ere 'received from kindred societies with re- J ference'tb' the •cii-curifstances' -surirduud- | ing the death of Madame; Lottie' Wilniott. It was pointed out that several statements had appeared m the press of the pol&b'y,' whichV it was deemed/were ' damaging broadly tc the. whole freethought movement ; and ! requests were made ,f hat; a full idnquiry; shouldi ib©; rinv.rstitutedi ij.The.^feeljngcOni.the.ipar^- o£ spcietl^sjp^diife^ent; paints .of , the cplon.y. . apDears to indicate ihat very great interr eß't'ik evinced m the whole affair. The interelsfc appears to be felt' after the ptiqv wodau's death. ■ ri : ; i! ' : '- :