LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 198, 18 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington to-morrow at 4 p.m. Mr John Stevens will address the electors at Makiuo this evouing at 7.30 p.m. Mr Macarthur will meet the electors at Knrore hchool-house this eveuiug at 7.30 o'clock. The next outward English and American Mail via 'Frisco will close at the Pahnerston Post office this evening at : 7.45 p.m. ; A railway announcement will be found {■elsewhere of interest to the general I public. Four workmen have been killed and several injured by the falling iv of the cupdla of the hospital church at liisbou, j which is at present being repaired. • By our telegram it will be seen that sthe ship Lady Jocelyn, m which Miss ' Keeling was a passenger, safely arrived at London on Wednesday. 1 Capt. Russell stated the other day that a pair of moleskin trousers paid 2b Customs duty,' whereupon the Napier evening paper called him to ncouut aud asserted that they were free. This has brought forth a rejoinder from the morning paper which proved they paid. 15 per cent., or 3s m the £, but the real fact is that they pay 16$- per cent. Customs and property-tax as well on the total. There is ono fact wo have to consider (says Labour) : The three million loan that was to last for three years has been spent m eighteen inonthß. Every shilling we henceforth spent on Immigration and Public Works }s a shilling spent out of the loan we may raise m 1386. Now, ajjinan who spends three millions where he should only spend half the amount Jb the man we are asked to trust. "(The London correspondent of the Irish "Times reports the death of a pedlar who scjld -nick-nacks on a tray on London Bridge, and pretended to be deaf and dumb. Though clothed m rags, he was a Swiss gentleman of fortune, who, stung by remorse, had taken a vow that he would not open his lips for ten years, and that he would go bareheaded and barefooted, and forego for twenty years all the advantages which fortune had bestowed upon him. He stuck to his vow, and was m his fourteenth year of | voluntary servitude when he died m South waxk Workhouse quite recently. The following is fjje translation of a letter left by the uqfortunate' wqjjjan, Plumbridge, who lately couumittod tmi- I cide after destroying her children : — " To Hawke ! — to the husband that has caused . pain to my -heart, — I salute you and your anger, towards me. You atop with your wo'inen. Your evil wife will die from . your conduct. I give hair from my head enclosed m this letter, to you. 0, Hawke I you are the cause of my death, .and that of my children, and your child - m ipiy womb VI kiss you m my thoughts. From your wife who is evil m your thoughts.— -Hinemoa Hawke."