LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 190, 9 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

Mr Fraser will address tho electors of Haftcoinbe this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr Stevens' dates? and places of meeting during next week are elsewhere announced. He commences his campaign on Monday. The Poverty Bay Herald understands that -Mr Roes has definitely made up his mind to take action m the Supreme Court against Mr Locke under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act. The charges under the Marriage Act against Alica Lynch and Charles H. : Monkton have been sot down for hearing at fo-inorrow's sitting of the Supreme Court.. A mountain two thousand six nun dred feet high, near Boua, m Algeria, is gradually sinking into tho earth. The region about it has been subject to terrestrial disturbances, as a lake m the neighborhood is known to cover the remains of an old Roman town. The man who hesitates is lost, according to, a trite and very exceedingly true adage; which should be present just now to the mind of every elector. The New Zealand Herald points out very forcibly that " the contest is now between Atkinson and Yogel. Let every elector re-, member that, unless a man is for Atkinson, he will infallibly be dragged at the chariot wheels of SirJJnlius Yogel. There, is no bther course. All the other leaders are nowhere, or else they 'are creeping under the huge legs' of Sir Julius." To-day's cable news from "France is disquieting. According to medical test!-, itionyt the cholera which broke out some weeks ago m the south of France, and which has since beeen spreading, is ef the most vilruont Asiatic type. It has already reachod as far as Paris, and it is anticipated by medical experts that it will extend its ravages over the whole of Europe. There is an ancient fossil adage to the effect that the rolling stone gathers no moss. A rolling politician, however, appears, according to tlie following extract, to be capable of gathering prestige from personal contact with men of fame. The Press, m reporting Mr Lance at ( Amberley, states that "Mr Lance said he "was prepared to support Sir Julius Yogel, not the Yogel of yesterday, but he of to-day, who had rubbed shoulders with the principal men of England, and had • lived out mauy of his former ideas. 11 This is exceedingly encouragiug. Perhaps,if he lives long enough, the " Yogel of to-day" may lire out some more of . his ideas. Let us hope he will. ■ Daring an address by a candidate at South Oamaru the other day (according to the North Otago Times), an elector desired to know the candidate's " tip" as as to the leader of the nest Parliament ; but the candidate assured the questioner that he had no party feeling; when someone added that, perhaps, lie would like to bo that leader himself. The.meeting at this juncture became rather obstreperous, someone lewdly remarking that it close with prayer. The chairman rose to quell the uprising, when there were cries of, " Keep your seat, George ; we have'nthnd enough out of him yet." " Wheo ! mon, the nicht's young yet." "Aye, I would like to ax," says one, ■•• i!f the candidate is m favor of ins deceased wife's sister's Bill ?" The Dunedin Herald contains a eotne- • what amusing skit m the shape of a supposed interview between its reporter and the Premier, fn it Major Atkinson is reported : When Vog6l and I are m the House to-gether there are two Richmonds m the field. Vogel 's strong point . is finance, and it ie also my strong point: Yogel cannot brook a rival,aud the same < remark applies to me. Grey is up m the clouds while Yogel is down with me, paddling m the financial puddle. I can see through Vofel, and Yogel can see through me." Mr T. Dwan, m his published election addresß,thuß expresses his sentiments : — " I deem it more honorable to represent a. settled constituency like tho Hutt, who are tho bone, and sinew of the land.than Qnk so innocent of the first principles of truth and honor .as Thornton — au electorate so vile m itsolf that its seat is not virorth contesting. I mean what I say, 7 WI am No Amateur Lumpbb, like the City Candidates, yet favorable to their i. cause." . . . -