Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY JULY 21, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 200, 21 July 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY JULY 21, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It has been estimated by competent ! statists that 69 millions i-.'-ig the amount whjeK the working classes, of the United Kingdom, apart from their 'employers, \ lose every year 'through drunkenness. ! The relief of pauperism costs 10 millions, and of that sum nine-tenths, if not more,; -I goes do\tfn to the Jjaino account.* 1 ] The 8.8. Coptic is to leave Port Chalmers on Tuesday night next, and will accordingly airivo tit Wellington on Wednesday night or Thursday morning^ 1 \ The export of live stock from New Zealand to Sydney appears to so "we presume it is found to pay. The >.s.s'. Hajiroto, jwhich left Wellington .on tier way to Sydney," had 140 horses and 35, head of cattle on, board.. . . „.■ ■ A Mr Morris, who is a candid ate. -for Gladstoue, has hit on a new idea m connection with election meetings. He announced that electors. of the. district would-be i admitted by.'tickets^but an admission fee would-be charged to nonelectors who wished to attend. This is one way of raising the wiud. .^ Inspectors of "Sclioplß. m Hatykes' ijljpr recently informed the Educatiou s; Board thero that m one district the teachers could obtain nosuitablo lodgings and had to reside m a small 'part of \ the school partitioned off. Tho late teacher (a lady) had to make her bed m the schoolroom, orn forms. The Shfvw, §avilr and' Albion Cpniß paiiy's chartered steamer Coptic,, whjeh':> loaves Lytteltbn for London the first; weak m August, takes the largest cargo? of frozen mutton yet sent Home. It will consist of 24,000 carcases of mutton ±-6000 . fi-cjm - Wellington, '-8000 from Napier, 6000 from Lyttelton, and 400,0 irorti' Por'ii Chalmers.' '■'■■'■"■','■'■" Pilgriios who, have a'friVe'd at &makim state' that when they 'left. Kliattoum General Gordon and his garrison were safe. They expected tliat Gordon would niakfc.a sortie on the. 20th June. Thomas Elsmore, a blind organ-grinder "has been arrested at Blenheim, under warrant- from* Nelson, for, haying had carnal knowledge of his daughter, aged 10 years and 2 months, on 24th March last, at the Provincial Hotel. He was remanded to Nelson ;: :! ' ■ o\ ■•■. \ ■■■'■' The petitiott to' be presented; to the .Queen praying her Majesty itd restore Baker, Pasha.fColohel Valentine Baker) to his former rank m the English army •had been signed, according to last advices, by 12,000 people including several peerß'and 'members of the Honse of (D6ra- i mbns: Colonel Bakeris'rtow inLondoin, f where'he has lately undergone a painful i operation on one of his eyes. ! The' bb&fc remedy, for bleeding at the i nose,' as given by Dr Gleeson m one of : his lectures, is a vigorous motion of the ,jaws, as if m tho act of mastication. In the case of, a child a wad of paper should be placed, m. its mou^h, and the chi}d instructed to Chew it ! hattir His the motion of the jaw that stops the flow of blood . This- remedy ii sb : vet-y einiple -that- many will feel inclined to laugh at fit ; but'islb'as.'nerer beea knpwn -to f aU , „—npt,eyen m ssveve cases. ; .; : , Mr Patten informs us that his ham* is ! onjthe Supplementary Roll whicit h^had omitted inspecting, when he told, us; his name had not been placed on the roll, , Tha y;n\9.n ; B»nt o^Australiti deplare4 a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 16 per cent, per annum, and carried forward and .places to jhcreserve '^9,000: \ ; ';■■_.;:■•'; ;'..'" -;. 1 .' 0 , 1 Scotcli Pig iron No. l,f.b.b. in.d^de, is quoted m the London markets' report .-•at 45s per ton. Galvanised iron, gospel oak corrugated, packed m cases,f.o.b. m London, has fallen. to £18 per ton, The other day,. an orator was expatiati\\ir iri f.lia _N*»% T Wjilea Parl'<lm««^ upon the lianoT'iJill. lie veas:yery:inticn interrupted by, the- niember,fotf Ne^torf — a retired Ujhder.takerJ. At last ;.he turned 'apon"ljiß\ s l3epulcliral tormentor thusly : — "'Yes, tl^e hon, roember for" Haslam's Ci'eek (the .old Sydney beinetry) should icnow a greatdeal about the . land question. He -has settled more poopljb iip'ou £t\e lands of the colony than^; perhaps M iijy other man— (great laugh^ ter)-~ar^d he is the only person I know^ of who has succeeded ill giving fixity of tenure." Whereupon th.c bouse fairly >yelleja. %;.\\ \- , f !,"; ':. ■■■ ', ;l The advent of the Maori King (writes ~ihe~L&ndon correspondent of the Argus) excites little interest, though he and his : tatooed chiefs, -will probably be objects of public oariosi.ty'ffQr some time after their arrival. It is said that the house in'Melburyl.Rbad, which was occupied by Cetewayo during his visit to London, has been secupacka* for Tawhiao. The news of the vagaries of the Mqori, King during his recent visit to Auckland has preceded him. When any person of distinction visits I^vorary Castle, the Duke of Argy.lLgets s him to plant a tree m rnemory'bf ' t'tie' ; • visit. ThuS' there is to be seen m the tlucal grounds, tin the banks of Lochfyne, a stately avenue ppses^cd of quite an exceptional interest. Bvery- tree has been planted .by . a celebrity !( such ; as Humboldt, Tennyson, fearohess Bard^it 1 Cou'tlisjand J bthers.

The stntionmaster who was committed ffif. trial on a charge of manslaughter in ' (jannecfcion jyith the Little River railway disaster, has been acquitted. The Duke of Manchester is m Sydney, negotiating on behalf'ofa Byndioate for the purchase of the lease of the Lucknow gold mine. UjTotice of motion has been given at the Dunedju Education Board that m future the punishment rpcently inflicted at the Dunbaok. school 1 , known asjf rfdlilg the donkey," shall be followed by summary dismissal. 4 of yarning about making bet 8 on t}je e)ecj;io«7 }^ necesijary . It is better to avoid beting, though' Jaw ;s not; very clear on the point, Bays the Oamaru paper j-^-Oha of the moat amuuing features m Mr Sutherland's address at Pukueri was the manlier' m which, while m one connection he inrited a man to stop forward for a drubbing, and tho very next he told his hearers he would risk hi? election upon his vjows respecting tho Bible m schools.