LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 206, 28 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENRAL.

A show is announced m the Welling* ton papers to take place under the auspices or the Wellington Poultry, Pigeon, Cage Bird, Babbit, and Oat Association. , Itisrumouied thatMrJ. Bransfield wil be a candidate for the Wellington Mayorality at the next election. It is sotno years since Mr Dransfield filled that position. It is estimated that 15,000,000 acres still remain m the hands of the Maoris. Over 3,000 girls are taught needlework, m the public schools of New Zealand. '••■••• This is the sort of character an Ausstralian newspaper gives us : — When a New Zealand census-taker wants to count the inhabitants of the town, he doesn't go chasing around after folk : he just starts a dog fight m the square, and tljen climbs a telegraph pole and .counts fhe Jieadfjf. The Woodyille Examiner, has the. following :— " $or Maoawatu we are right glad Jo see Mr Macarthur m." J&6QB carcases, of mutton arrived at London on July 8 f fCjVf\ New Zealand m two shipments. ; " Judges Johnston and Williams have decided that the appearance on the eleotoral roll of au alien's name entitles him to vote. Tl>e Salvation Army, represented by Gaptain Wilkinson, pDflned^ fire at the church it) Wood vine Jas£ week. Tjjere was a japge audience, and the ' Bey tyr Wprbpys and Messrs Moore and ifaiyken gave their experiences, pf the blessings of conversion. Mr J. C. Thompson's old store m Man-chester-street has been engaged as the barracks of the Feilding contingent of the Salvation Army. An Ontario Tillage i» lighted with gas from sawdust, said to be equal to coal gas arjd free from sulphur. Mr T. Flowera of $ulj9, is gradually getting weaker, ana the (Jaotn Afllftl 0l)t put faint bopwj tf bil rmwft

The Marton papor understands that the licensee of the Junction Hotel, Sandon, haa succeeded m disposing' of tho hotel to Mr Arthur Falloon, late of Gorge Ferry. The new proprietor takes possession on the first of next month. Tlio Hawkes' Bay Herald says : — ln the return of Mr Ballance instead of Mr Watt for Wanganui ; of Sir Julius Vogol m place of Mr Thompson for Chriatchurch North ; of Mr Stout m place of " Conscience" Green for D:medin Enst ; of Mr Ormond m place of Mr Buchanan for Napier ; and of Captain Russell m place of MiSuttou for Hawkea' Bay, the House of Representatives gains largely. In consequence of tho Paikaknriki roturns being lost, the declaration of the poll for Foxton is postponed till Wednesday. At present Mr Wilson has a majority of one. It appears that Mr Swanson was defeated m Auckland on the education question — he advocated that the present system should be retained, and Mr Dargaville favouring the adoption of a modified form of instruction for children. From the Star we learn that the Feilding Brass Band went to Palmerston on Saturday afternoon to escort Mr Macarthur, the member for the district, back to Feilding after the official declaration of the poll. There seems to have been an error (says tho Post) m the telegraphed report of the numbers polled m the Manawatu election . The local papers state the totals to have been —Mr Macarthur, 653 ; Mr Fraser, 321 ; Mr Burr, 6. This of course Joes not affect the result, but it deprives Mr Macarthur of the position of having polled, more votes than any other candidate m the colony. That honour now belongs to Sir Julius Yogel. " Good times come again once more." The Bank of New Zealand has reduced the interest on fixed deposits by one per cent. By far the fastest passage across the Atlantic has just been made by the new Guion steamer Oregon, which made the voyage from Queenstown m six days nine hours and twenty -two minutes. From the Post we learn that an addition to the ranks of the legal profession m Palmerston North is about to be made m the person of Mr Fletcher Johuston, who is about to leave Wellington and commence practice here. The train which came to Napier from 'the Bush districts on Tuesday morning was covered with inches of snow. The value of exports from Wellington during the second quarter of this year exceeded that of the same period last year by £54,581, the increase being solely due to the items of frozen meat and wool . According to latest London market intelligence, pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. m Clyde, remains at 45s per ton ; galvanised iron has further fallen £1 per ton ; gospel oak, corrugated, packed m cases, f.o.b. m London, is now quoted at £17. A lad named Charles Haynes, 14 years old, has been committed for trial at Christchurch on a charge of breaking into four shops and stealing various' small articles therefrom. He is also accused of breaking into the Wesleyan school and stealing L 6 from the missionery boxes. Mr G. H, Sinclaire, manager of the Woodville Bank informs the Examiner that he has received the London returns of wool which left here m February last. This is an instance of exceedingly prompt despatch. This wool was forwarded by. Mr Sinclaire on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and left Woodville on February 22nd, being taken from Wellington to London by the British j Queen. The time occupied m the pas- ' sage, storage, sales and forwarding of returns has thus been about five months. According to the Southland Times the Edendale dairy [factory made fifty tons of cheese last season, all of which was sold at s£d per, lb. The factory could have taken more than the surrounding farmers were able to supply. The largest supplier wag Mr James Milne, who kept from eighty to ninety cows going, aud sent all their milk to the factory. From October 16, 1883, when the Company began making cheese for the season, up to 31st May last, Mr Milne bad drawn m caah from the factory the sum of L 630, or an average of nearly hi 10s per cow, besides keeping the family supplied with milk. In Christchurch it is openly stated, that the reason the Government refused to run any special traius on the election day was tha£ they were afraid Mr Rolleston would be defeated at Geraldine if facilities were provided for electors resident m Chrißtchurch to reach that district, so as to record their votes. , " The Greytown correspondent of a Wellington paper recalls the following incident j— On a Sunday morning m July, 1856, the day opened with no sun, heavy clouds and continuous showers of rain and sleet from the south-east not a person was visible at 10.30 a.m. along the Beach from Clay Point to Pipitea, but, for all that, Mr Jonas Woodward walked from his residence at Te Aro to conduct the usual service at the Congregational Chapel, Woodward-street. His audience consisted of himself, the singing leader, and two others, Yet, notwithstanding cold and wet, there, was pinging, spripture-re.adin(jr, pwyep aqd, a sermon. Th,ere wa.s no, cQUectjon m those days. The new House of Representatives still contains a White and a Whyte, but the two Greens have hoik disappeared from the roll, There are still two M'Keqzies, but one is not the M'Kenzie who sat m the late Parliament. There are two Bichardsons and two Buoklande, the latter being brothers and sons of a former member ; one represents an Auckland the other an Otago constituency. There is but one Johnston, one Brown, and one Buchanan, instead of two, but there are still two Thompsons, although one is not the same who sat m the last House. There is also a Hirst and a Hirst — a difference between 0 and I.