LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 184, 2 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. Barber ot Wellington advertises his ability to renovate and beautify the cosiumesand wenring apparel of those favouring him with orders. Mr E. Young, storekeeper, Feildiug, has been appointed agent for the Wellington Dye Works on the West Coast, The great Mormon Temple at Salt Lake, which has been twenty-eight years m hand, is now approaching completion. The walls are Bfc thick aud 85ft high. It has already cost nearly a million sterling. Writes the Post :— " If were not for the money now being disbursed iv the neighbourhood of the city by the \Vellin»lon-Manawatu Railway Company, things would certainly be much duller than they are, and considerable want of omployment would be experi- ! enccd by the labouring classes. The Manawatu Railway works are, however, being rapidly pushed further and further away from town, aud the effect of this will soon be felt by landlords of cottages and small traders especially." Hi 3 Excellency the Governor will leave Wellington on Thursday by the Wakatipu m order to pay a visit to Melbourne en business connected with the defence of Victoria. He will be absent about three weeks. In a letter to Nature, Professor Eliery now admits that the sunset glows, which attracted so much attention, were ono of the indirect results of the volcanic eruptions that took place at Krakatoa m August, 1883. It now appears that he accepts the explanation that they were one of the efEects of this great eruption, by which immense volumes of dust m impalpable form must have been driven to a great altitude m the earth's atmosphere . In another column will be found the " Phoeuix Novelty Company's" programme on " the Great Metropolitan," which will take place on Ilomhvick Course, Sydney, about the Ist of next September. The subscribed capital is £2,000, m 4,000 shares of ton shillings each, aud the company have earned a well-deser-ved name of always meeting their engagements.

llawera to-morrow evening. Spiritualism is making vapid strides m tliu Wavorley district to tlio north of WrttiLjanui. Mr J. W. Baker, oC Fordell, lias been rctnnivd Jo the vacant .-«< nt m the Ktlucatiun IJ.ianl. 110 had 24 votes, Mr Fry 22, and Mr Awdry 10. Tin- Tasiiianian revenue for the year en di (l .June i>o aiuoiii'tcd tit &;)O'o,Ooo, the largest ever received. The Woodville Examiner referring to the meeting held at Ashurst anent the erection of a bridge at the Lower Ferry, remarks : — To Mr Macarthnr is due the credit of having called the meeting and arranged the steps to be taken. There are three candidates now m the field for Rangitikei, (.says the Wangatnii Herald) and it is wonderful to see the determination of the |Foxitos to keep Mr Stevens out of the House. MiStevens' friends will have to rally round and fight determinedly m order to carry him m. The triangular dual appears to be m his favor. The local newspaper is very hostile and very unscrupulous. Mr Linton saw some medium beef sold at auction during his recent visit to Australia at £24 and £25 yer head. A special notice from Messrs Stevens and Gorton will be found elsewhere, which we commend to the attention of /the general public. Mr Snelson holds bis next, sale of fruit and forest trees from Mr Laird's nursery on Saturday next at 2 o'clock. There should be a large attendauce of buyers. Mr E. Lyon left for Wellington to-day via Foxton, en route for London, to which port he will be a passenger by the direct steamer Bombay. Mr Lyon does not intend to be very long absent from the Colony. We wish him a pleasant trip. A schooner was observed off Akaroa , yesterday m a foundering condition. It appears that she was pronounced unseaworthy by the Wellington Marine Boayd, but had cleared at the Customs, ostensibly for D'Urvilles Island, but her real destination was Timaru where she was to be sold to a fifhiug company. Her timbers were completely rotten. The new coach service between Woodville and Palmerston was inaugurted to-day, the first coach coming m with a fair load of passengers. The near line should be liberally patronized by the Woodville public, to whom it will he a great convenience, as they can leave there at 8 o'clock and be back by 5.30 on three days a week, and have three or four hours m town. The farep are only 6s single, and 10s return, and it is probable that next summer they will be further reduced. Mr Peters drives at the Woodville end, and Mr T. Nelson at the end. The Feilding Star sajs it is rumoured that Dr Bulier and Gr. W. Russell may try and slip m between Messrs Macarthur and Frascr. We don't think Dr Bulier would risk certain defeat, and as for the other the idea is too ridiculous and absurd to entertain for a moment. His reception would probably be ten times hotter than accorded to Amos Burr. In fact he would wish he had never been bom.