Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 209, 31 July 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JU LY 31, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Post contends that Major Atkinson would he consulting the interests of himself (and colleagnes), of his part}', and of the country, by resigning without, any further delay. At. the declaration of the poll for Fox ton the following official numbers were declared :— Wilson, 612 ; Izard, 610 ; Brown, 237. It is not probable there will be any further protest, ' The Napier Telegraph thinks that a strong Ministry can only be formed by the Atkinsoniaus and Vogelites joining forces. Counsel. — " Then yon think he struck you with malice a forethought ?" Witness, indignantly. — " You can't mix me up like that. I've told you twice he hit me with a brick. There wasn't no malJets nor nothin' of the kind about. 1 ' 1 ! r j?he steamer Florida, which left London for PoFt Chalmers on the 30th June, brings forty-six single women, two single men and two families. . -*t A gentleman m Marton has received a letter from Mr Rochefort. He is m Nelson writing his report on the central route for the North Island trunk railway. Five surveyors are engaged preparing the plans, and Mr Roohefort expects to have his report ready for presentation to Parliament within a week or a fortnight from the opening of the session. The Wainui water was turned on yesterday, but, owing to the bursting of a pipe at Ngahanranga shortly afterwards, had to be turned off again. The damage has since been repaired, and another experiment with a view of bringing the water into town was to be made to-day,

Hor Majesty's war ships on the Australian station are now supplied with ' tinned beef from Wellington. Mr William Adams, of Langley Hall, Marlborough, died last week at tlio ag« of 8-i. He was one of the oldest settlers m Marlborough, having arrived there m 1854, and on the passing of the Provincial Act he was elected first Superintendent of the Province. He also represented the Wairau m Parliament for some time. For many years past, says a Wellington paper, loud and ho doubt just complaints have been made by the citizens or/tho expense and the inconvenience attending visitors reaching the Hutt. racecourse. It is satisfactory, therefore to be able to state that the stewards of the Wellington Racing Club are perfecting arrangements to construct a siding which will take the people right to the course. The cost of the proposed Hue will be about £2000, and it is satisfactory to learn that the money for the project is forthcoming. The girl, Annie Anderson, whoso infant child formed the subject of an m quest at the Taueru a few weeks ago, was arrested on Saturday (says the Wairarapa Star) on a charge of infanticide, and conveyed to Masterton. She was brought before the Resident Magistrate on Monday morning, and on the application of Mr Bunny remanded till a later period of the day, when a further remand for a week was granted. She is a fair complexioned simple-looking girl of 18 or 19, aiid has hitherto borne an irreproachable character as a domestic servant m Masterton and at the laiieru. The alleged father of the child which has brought her into bad notoriety is said to be an inmate of the Mastertou Hospital. The (principal prizes m Robin Hood's programme m the Waterloo were distributed as follows : — Owing to the two dogs dividing the stake, first and second moneys m the sweep were added together, one half falling to the lot of a poor women m Rangiora, the other to a lady investor at Raugitata. The Waterloo purse winner went to a butcher m Christchurch, the other prizes going all over New Zealand. This is the season vrhen the dairyman dumps a load of onions into the cistern, so as to give the milk a fresh, spvinklikc garlicky flavor. A camel will work for seven or eight days without drinking. In this he differs from some men, who will drink seven or eight days without working. The arrivals m the fcolony of New Wales during the mouth of May numbered 6232, and the departures were 3521. ;. -...:. ' Queensland now owes a debt of about ! i£,ll),000,000, or at the rate of £70 per 'head of population, yet she got close on ' par for her last loan. The plague of mice is not confined to Victoria ; across the border they appear to be equally numerous, and are rapidly destroying the wheat stacks. Is is stated that farmers who were holding m the hope of realising a better price for their wheat are now hurrying their produce into market m order to save it from further depredations. A wealthy London merchant is reptirted as having said — "I always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that, waking or sleeping, I have a strong thongb silent orator working for me ; one who never tiras, never sleeps, never makes mistakes, and who is certain to enter the households, from which, if at all, tny trade must come." Just before the match Australians and . M.C.G. and Ground, Bonnor was suffering from an abscess m one ear. Cooper from a~. broken finger, while Midwinter had a smashed thumb and a game leg. In reply to a correspondent we may say that the Parliament of New Zealand consists of fifty Legislative Councillors and' niuety-fivo members of the House of Representatives, four of whom are of the aboriginal race for Maori districts. In the division on the question of the honorarium (says the correspondent of a Southern journal), a certain member | I who thought that " Nelson " expected every man to do his duty, deliberately sa«riliced the interests of his wife and family, to which he had made apathetic allusion m his speech, and voted with the minority. Not, however, without soniio misgivings. Forcing his way up to the teller, he eagerly asked, " How is it .going, Sedcion ?" The,momber for Kumara rose to the occasion, and m a stage whisper, answered, " A tie, a tic." .The rejoinder, which probably expressed 'the feelings- of many other honourable •members, is worthy of record — " The devil, man, you don't say so ; if Fd pipught that I'd have voted the vtJier tyay" ;.',.' Dawson, Liberal member of ParJiament, speaking at a meeting at Giasi gow, said the agitation conducted by Parnell m Parliament, and Davitt, out- I sid", had resulted m the gift of £45,000,000 to Ireland. The Irish population of the earth is m round numbers as follows: — Irish at home, 5,500,000 ; Irish m England, 2.500,000 ; Irish m Scotland, 2,000,000 ; Irish m Canada, 2,000,000 ;. Irish m Australia, 1,000,000 j . Irish m America, 12,500,000 ; Irish elsewhere, 5,000,000. . London shoeblack to Scotch drover (issuing from Euston station) — ." Here you are, Scotty ; brush yir boots for twopence, and make you look like a gentleman 1" Drover — "Tippence! Sac muckle as that ! Man, leddie. if ye'H just len' me your brushes for a meenute I'll polish them myself for naething." It is very rarely (says * Oencer ' m the Sj'dney Mail) that a colonial batsman makes an aggregate of 1,000 runs during a season. A. Moses, however, has compiled over 1,100 runs during the past campaign, and has played with such consistency and m such excellent style that he is fairly entitled to the premier position among the batsmen of New So'Hh Wales during the past season. For the Albert Club he has the enormotiß average of 88 per innings, and lias well nigh swept the board of all the trophies that have been offered for last season's play m his club. In Burtnah, when a young women is ill, her parents agree with a physician that, if he cures the patient, he may have her for his trouble ; but If she dlea under his medicine, he is to pay them her full value. 'Tis said that some snecessfnl physicians have large families who thus become their property. Eggs are evidently very plentiful just now m Masterton says the Daily. Cnptnin Bowerman of the Salvation Army was the' happy recipient last evening of one (which was unfortunately rather "stale") m close proximity-: to hisinasal : organ. The late election has decidedly raised' the rowdy nature of the larrikin v ;,elnraenM Q th' 8 town to a very high pitch. Ainonar the passengnre for Sydney by the mail steamer Zealandia is Mr Gerald Massey, the well-known poet and freethoiight lecturer. Mr Massey is abouf to cpmmence a lecturing tour through out the Australian colonies. He is a)m'oajt a self-educated man, and began earning his bread as a sjtraw.plaiter nt Tring. He became an errand-boy m London at the age of 15, and soon afterwards published his first literary work . In 1873 he made a lecturing tour m the United States, and acquired considerable notoriety for a blasphemouß lectnre entitled »'Why does rot God kill the Devil ?" He is now 58 years of age.

Had the Victorian rule of requiring all candidates to deposit £50 to be forfeited if not polling more than one-fifth tlic number of votes recorded for the successful candidate l>een m force here during the late election, some 25 forfeits would have accrued to the State. In tlire« electorates two candidates would have forfeited, and m one district threo candidates would have done so. This excellent rule should be established with benefit to the public. A gentleman of Chicago, a Mr M'Farland, borrowed a ladder from a friend who lived m his neighbourhood m order to fasten jjp a creeper. But unfortunately the ladder broKC, and Mr M'ltyrland found himself on the gjound with a broken leg. He is now engaged m suing his neighbour for lending him "an unreliable article." Some eight or nine years ago "Spelling bees" were introduced among vs — only, however, happily, to die out at once. We are now threatened with a new infliction, m the shape of "Pronunciation Mutches." At each of these, wo are told , n concatenation of jaw-breaking words is given out for competition by the umpire, and the prize rests with the gifted individual who manages to get through the rigmarole and survives it.