LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 191, 10 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wellington Bench have intimated that m future, where assaults were proved against persons who interrupted the Salvation Army services, sbould inflict a heavy fine.;

Notice is given of the intention of the Manawatu Road Board to strike ft general rate of thee farthings m the &. The 8.8. Hauroto, brought over two ostriches m cages on deck from Sydney. They are consigned to Lytteltou. It has been found that the previously announced Awahuri polling place is out Bide the limits of the Manawatu Electoral District, bo that m consequence a poll cannot be taUen there, and electors resident m that locality will have to record their votes either at Feilding or Pahnerston as most convenient to themselves. Our Feilding conte.tnporar" has made a careful analysis of the Rangitikei electoral roll and has arrived at the conclu- \ sion that if all three candidates go to the poll the result will be nearly as follows :— Stevens, 425 ; Arfcwright, 400 ; Bruce, 285. Signer Hug was to learo Napier for Hastings by the first train this morning, after which he visits Waipawa, Waipukurau, Woodvilie, and Palmerston. j We uuderatand that Signor Hug will revisit Napier m the course of six mouths, and he has expressed his thorough satis- i faction with his first visit to that district. Writing about our debt and depression the Nelson Colonist says this :~" The true means, by which a country m such circumstances can be saved are-— firstly, the extension of home manufactures so as to reduce the amount sent a\va> to purchase goods ; and secondly, the development of exports sufficiently to leave a cash surplus m England equal to the amount there payable. By these two processes the United States have risen from dire poverty to overflowing wealth." A few days' ago when about to break up for the holiday s,Mr Spurgeon dismissed his young men with a caution. " Now you will have a briet holiday," said he smiling. "If you talk at meetings talk sense. If you preach, preach as well as i you can. Your chief business, however, will be to take things remarkably easy. And don't get courting. That is not good for studeuts. Keep yourselves to yourselves. Come back as someone put it, with your hearts and manners uucracked. Walk m tho fields like Isaac, by all means, and meditate ; but don't lift up your eyes for Rebecca. She will come soon enough." It was twenty years since Major Atkinson first became amember of the New Zealand Government. Mr Stevens announces that he will address the electors at Marton on Monday, 14th July ; Bulls, 15th ; Turakina, 16th; Makino, 17th; Beaconafield, 18th; Kiwitea, 19th ; aud Upper Tutaenui, 21st. A Taranaki exchange says:— Of course the following anecdote has not the slightest reference to the judiciary of our landjbut to the intitutions of justice m Ceutral Africa. A lawyer met the Judge on the street aud failed to pay him that defence to which he thought himself entitled. " Young man, I fine you sdols for contempt of Court," said the irate Judp-e. " Why, Judge," was the quick response, " you are not m sessiou." The Judge promptly drew himself to his full height aud replied, "Young man, this Court is always m session, aud consequently always an object of contempt." In London you can get a saddle of mutton cut from an Australian merino, you can purchase a bottle of Australian wine, you can look on at the game of Australian cricket, aud you can spend tho evoning at Sangers National Amphitheatre and witness a kangaroo hunt. — A real pack of hounds, and real kangaroos. The survivors of the dreadful butchery at Maamstrasma m August,lßß2, Patrick Joyce and Martin Joyce, have applied to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for compensation' under the Crimes Act for the murder oj their father, stepmother, grandmother, sister, and brother. His Excellency has directed the usual inquiry. A writer m Temple Bar relates the following:— l read m an American paper :. an amusing account of a convert, who addressed a total abstinence meeting as follows :— •" The first week I took the pledge I saved enough money to buy a waistcoat ; the next week I bought a pair of breeches (great cheearing, especially from the ladies) ; then, ladies and gentlemen I bought a coffin — (here took place, what the French call movements divers) — because I was- certain if I kept tho pledge another week I should ] want it." ' ' In the Whole of the speeches made during his candidature by Mr Macarthur, it is a fact, which speaks volumes m favor of the inau, that he has never . hinted at the many and valuable services he has rendered the district during his residence on this coast, as a. reason why he should iJe' supported durjng^the present contest. Although he has apparently forgotten them (says the Star) they are remembered to his honor by a large majority of the electors.