Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 195, 16 July 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr John Stevens will address the electors at Turakina this evening at 7.30 p.m. Mr Macarthur will meet the electors at the Stoney Creek school-house this evening at 7 p.m., aud at Karere school - house on Friday, at the same hour. Mr Stevens will meet the electors at Stanway school-house to-morrow at 2 p.m. The Borough Council meets this evening, at the usual time aud place. The next outward English and American Mail via 'Frisco will close at the Palmerston Post office on Friday, 18th inst., at 7.45 p.m. The usual sittitig of the R.M. Court will be held to-morrow. The lamp post near the Foresters' Hall, destroyed by a bolt recently, has beeu replaced. ' A new railway time-table will come into operation on Monday next, July 21. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next sale at Awahuri will take place ou Thursday next, 24th inst., having been postponed from the nsnal date, Tuesday, owing to that being election day. An advertiser, residing at Tronheim, near Bunnythorpe, is desirous of disposing of two houses situated m Thorudon - Flat, Wellington. Mr John Stevens had an enthusiastic meeting at Marton, and was accorded a vote of confidence. The prospects of his candidature are now very eucouragThe Ruapehu sails from Wellington for Lyttelton after discharging her inward cargo, and taking m 5400 carcases of frozen mutton, shipped by the Wellington Meat Export Company. To get rid of the smell of paint m a room, plunge a handful of hay m a pailful of water, and let it stand m the room over night. The Wanganui people aro pushing local industries. Not only have they started a Society for promoting them, but m- one page of tho Yeoman we find starch-making, bone-crushing, and flour grinding and dressing have been commenced already. A white eqnaH caught a party of tourists moving across a lake m Scotlandd, and threatened to capsize tho boat. When it seemed that the crises had come, fhe largest and physically strongest of the party, m a state of intense fear, said : 'Let us pray.' 'No, no, my man,' shouted the bluff old boatman, ' let that little man pray : you take an oar. 1 The Chief of Police m Berlin ha? issued a proclamation m which he strongly warns people against eating any sort of raw pigmoat, Tfre proclamation further points out that only by perfectly cooking joints of porW and all. articles. n}ade yitfi pork can the destruction of trichina be insured. Labour says '-—The other evening a friend was wnitinpf m one of the city hotels, for business ; and the enforced times of detention was spent m the bil-liard-room. Therein entered a youth of seventeen summerp,an incipient 'masher, ' if costume were safely indicative. He challanged a seasoned habitue to a game of " pyramids," half a crown a point or balls. In ten minutes he had lost 17s ; 6d— the full measure of value of his week's wages, probably ; within the balance of the hour his losses must have reached, by computation, £3. What is now wanted, as information is— whence came the money with which he gambled and lost. Was it his employer's,' his washerwoman's, or his tailor's ?