Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 185, 3 July 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY. ) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A new advertisement from the Bon Marche will appear to-morrow. The Adainastor Consultation is elsewhere announced. Mr E. Waters notifies having taken over the chimney-sweeping business lately carried on by Mr E. Lyon. In the opinion of Mr Linton, Adelaide is far an away the handsomest city m Anstralia. He says it is certainly a beautiful town, though depressed just at preseut as all other cities are. Lord Reidhaven is being requisitioned to stand for Oainaru. The Lord .Reidhaven referred to m the above is the heir to the Earldom of Seafield, and was recently bailiff m the B.M. Court there. Mr Linton says that m his Australian travels he saw some frozen New Zealand sheep. The comparison between them and the Australian bred mutton was altogether m favor of this colony. The question of religious instruction m the State schools is now seriously occupying the attention of the New South Wales Government. The sum of £2500 was paid into the Wellington corporation account on Monday, as the yearly revenue derivable irom hotel licenses within the city. The customs returns for the colony for the month are now complete. Last month the total amount collected was £102,996, m against £105,824 for the corresponding month of last year. This shows a fulling off. Mr Linton informs us that shops for the disposal of New Zealand beef, taken across on deck m carcase, are likely to prove highly successful. The butchers and graziers did their utmost to spoil the speculation by bidding at auction 2d and 2£d a pound, when beef wholesale was worth 5d and 6d. It can be carried across m deck eight month out of the year. A respectably connected man, named Henry Spencer Pratt, was sent to gaol m Wellington for ten days on a charge of drunken ess, the offence being the third within a short period. While an Indiana editor was home sick witli typhoid fever,nnd his wife and little daughter were suffering at the same time with diphtheria and scarlatina, the office boy clipped and published as a leader the following medical note : — j " Typhoid fever, diphtheria, and scarl Intina are the results of human ignorance, stupidity, laziness, and filth rather i "than the visitation of God." A squall struck a sailing boat m Auckland harbor, on Sunday last, and the only occupant, Richard George, aged 19, was drowned. A two-storied house m process of erection atFreemason's Bay was blown down at the Banie time. The damage is estimated at £200. lii the fall it damaged the shop and stock of Richard McCabe, ironmonger, to the extent of £100. Some years ago, there were two wandering cricket Elevens consisting of onearmed and one-legged men. The first match between cricketers of this kind took place m 1811. It was for one thousand guineas, and all the men were peusioners of Greenwhich Hospital. The one-armed side won. Their opponents were continually breaking their wpoden supports.