Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 1 August 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Peter Bell, of the well-known Victoria House, Wanganui, notifies that he is holding a fortnight's clearing sale. The bargains obtainable at these times are numerous, and it may be taken for granted that Mr Bell will receivo many visits from his customers during the eale. We hear that a mandamus has been granted in connection with the refusal, by the Foxton Licensing Committee, to grant a renewal of the license of the Manawatu Hotel, Foxton. Says the Wellington Post:— The assemblage of so many Natives at Parihaka is, we have reason for saying, viewed with alarm by a good many, ac it is feared that some of the most turbulent spirits will cause disturbances by interfering with settlers', land aud property in the neighbourhood. We remind sportsmen that yesterday was the lasfrday of the shooting season. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., will leave for Wellington on Tuesday evening next. " Are you the judge of reprobates ?J' said Mrs Partington, as she walked into an office of a judge of probate. "1 am a judge of probate," was the reply. " Well, that's it, I expect," quoth the old lady. " You see, my father died detested, and he left several little infidels, and I want to bo their executioner." The following official telegram has been sent to the members of the • .eneral Assembly :—" I beg to remind you that Parliament has been summoned to meet for despatch of business on Thursday, the 7th August next. H. A. Atkinson." Writing of Chinese Gordon, Truth Bnys : _on his way to the Cape he landed at the Seychelles Islands. There is a curious grovo of palms there, winch grow in pairs, side by side. If one is cut down, the other dies. Gordon at once indicted an official despatch to say that he had discovered the original Garden of Eden, and that trees of good and evil were still flourishing m it. Ihe same paper says that Gordon entirely threw over the Cape Government when in its employ, and sent to inform the chiefs whom ho was ordered to attack, that they were entirely in the right. The secretary for the Heads Itailway Company (Mr C. S. Cross), informs the Herald that eight tenders were received for the Heads Railway contract. The tenders have benn handed over to the company's engineer (Mr Atkins"), and it is probable that the name of the successful tenderer will be made kqown on Monday, Passengers leaving Now Plymouth by the morning train are put to hard stress for food unless they carry it with them, There is rib' place for refreshments on the whole line until Halcombo is reached. That is to say, twelvo hours absolutely without a chanoe of purchasing food of any kind. We regret to learn that Sir Julius Vogol has completely lost the use of his legs, and has to be carried from room to room. Although partially paralysed in his lower extremities, yet his intellect is as bright and as active as ever. Whore the solemnity really comes in—A thoughtful old Scotchman exhorted his daughter in this fashion :—" Jeanie, ray lass, it's a vera solemn thing to be married."—" I keen thnt weel, father," jreplied Jeanie promptly ; " but it's a great deal solemner not to be." Two English mails arrived at Wellington on San Francisco mail by the Wanaka, and a Brindisi majj by the Koranui,

The pressure of Water in Wellington is now bursting the mains faster than thov can be repaired. The Wellington Education Board has been compelled to refuse sovcral applications f<»r money, repairs, &c, to the T.u'iii, Wainuiomata, Muuguroa, and Jinli'i'ord schools, in consequence of shortness of funds. The Taranaki Herald understands that the reason the Hon. Mr Waterltouse was appointed Acting Governor by Sir W. Jervois during his visit to Australia, was that that gentleman undertook the duties, without nny emolument; whereas had Judge Johnston been appointed he would have drawn the pay of the Governor during hia absence. The Post learns with pleasure that Sir Julius VogePs health is rapidly improving, and that there is every probability that he will be able to take his seat on Parliament assembling. Among other papers received by the Government by the San Francisco mail are a large number of extracts from English papers containing full accouuts of King Tawhiao's movements in England. It appears from these that Tawhiao shortly after arriving in London was takou ill. Dr Bangey, who acted as his medical adviser, declared to be conjunctivitis, and advised his majesty to seek quietude for some days. The Government have received replies from Australia to their enquiries as to their extent of the outbroak of smallpox, and are now consulting with Dr Hector as to the best means of preventing the introduction of the disease into the colony. On the 20th instant, according to the local papers, there was a very heavy sea at Gisborne, and one of the highest tides ever known. The beach was strewed with wreckage from the brig Rio Grande, which was stranded there a few weeks ago* The Manapori, which arrived from the South that day, had to pass on North without landing her cargo. The Caswell Bound Marhle works in Wellington were to beformally inaugurated on Wednesday. The Australian cricketers commenced a match yesterday at the Oval against Eleven players of England. The following are the names of the latter :—Bates, Briggs, Emmett, Hall, G. G. Hearne, Jesse, Hyde, Hmphrey, Hunter, Peate, Head, and Ulyett. An organ recital at St. Paul's terminated in a manner totally unexpected by the audience. Mr Robt. Parker, the conductor, was suddenly taken ill while playing un drgan solo, and was obliged to! retiro into the vestry, on the floor r of which ho was subsequently found in an insensible condition. Restoration having been applied, Mr Parker was conveyed to his home in a cab. On the night before the election, some of Mr Locke's supporters in Gisborne made an effigy of Mr W. L. Rees and eluug it up to the clapper of the firebel!. The swaying of the figure through the action of the wind caused the bell to toll forth most dismal sounds. Those who arrived an the spot to see what was the matter thought at first that someone had hung himself, but they were soon undeceived and a good laugh was indulged in. According to a Press telegram, Mr XieeH has stated that communications have p&esed between Sir Grey, Sir Juilus Vogel, and Messrs Montgomery and Ballance, with the result that combined action will be taken soou after the House raeota to oust the Ministry. As far as Mr Ballance is concerned, the Herald is in a position to state that Mr ltees has been misinformed. Mr Bailance has had no such communication. The amended Chinese Restriction Bill passed the United States Senate on July 3 by a vote of 43 to 12. The New York daily papers find there is no profit in a reduction of price, and the proprietors give notice that old rates will be restored after the Presidential elections. Monsignore Capel is making many converts for the Catholic Church among tho leading Americans. Colonel Bliss, of New York, prominent in politics, is the latest one received into the fold. A movement has been set on foot by Republicans in several States to boycot Harpers Illustrated Weekly, because that paper refuses to support Blaino for the Presidency. The spread of cholera in Franco is causing great alarm on the Continent. Princess Louise went to on the 27th for her health.' She is still suffering from the consequence of her fall in Canada. The demand for the Queen's book has almost ceased, librarians offering it for 4s. '.Two hundred: and six miles of the Bennett Mackay cable had been laid from the English shore on July 5, when the Duraday returned to Queensland to coal. At a conference of members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, held in London on July 4, it was unanimously resolved that the introduction of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Bill into the House of Lords should be mado at once. Lord Edward Fitzmaurice announced in the House of Commons on July 4 that tho whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman captured by outlaws in Kansas, and held for ransom, had not been discovered. Tho Philadelphia cricketprs won the game with the Gentlemen from Leicester, in Loudon on June 24th. The score was 152 in two innings by the Loicesters, against 260 by the Philadelphians in one inniugs. A younjr man was arrested at Ems with a dagger and knife in his possession. It is believed that he had designs on the Emporor's life. The British sloop of war Pegasus has been ordered to proceed from Singapore to Achecn with provisions and clothes for the crew of the Dutch steamer Nisero,wrecked in December last off the Achoen coast, and still held in captivity by tho Rajah. Hostile measures will soon be nsed by England and Holland to compel the release of these men. Miss Fortescue thus writes :—" I have been sufficiently compromised already by Jjord Cairn's family to allow them to further embarass m.o by inducing mc to stop tbis action for money. I have brought a suit for £40,QQ0. My reputation requires the vindication winch fl. trial will give mc. I think more of my reputation than pf all the money in the wpVld/ , '.■■,-. The London Standard of July \ says that influential Irish Americans have urged Mr Parnell to issue an address to tlje, Irish voters of America requesting them to support Blame in the President tial contest, in the hope chat his election would result in fomenting difficulties between England and the United States, and that Mr Parnell declines to accede to the request. Mr Wilson, a public official in Victoria, a short time ago received from a family living in the South of France, a letter enquiring as to the whereabouts of a man who came out to the colony over 20 years ago, and who last wrote lo his friends in France in 1864. Mr Wilson, after making necessary enquiries, had the painful duty thrown upon him of informing his correspondents that the man about whom they had written was hanged in 1865 for murder.

It sconis that so many votes wore recorded at Awahtiri on election day over what was anticipated that the voters could not be supplied with tho ordinary ballot papers, makeshift ones, having merely the candidates names written on, being supplied by the deputy returning officer. Should an election petition arise over the election, this will probably form one of tho grounds of objection. The explanation of so many votes being recorded at Awahuri is, says the Foxton paper, that Sandon voters r>u their way to Feilding to "assist" at the Manawatu election recorded their votes at the wayside place. According to tho decision of Mr Jus tice Day, at Liverpool, a Scotchman is a foreigner in the eyes of tinglish law. A man was charged for forgery before Judge Day, and counsel for the prisoner held that if any offence had been committed it had been clone at Ayr, and was consequently outside the jurisdiction of the Court. Mr Justice Day remarked that Scotland and Ireland were in this respect as foreign as Turkey or Russia. For all he knew to the contrary, it might be a lawful practice to sign other people's documents. He knew nothing of Scotch laws or habits ; perhaps it was in the usual course of Scotch business. The prosecution admitted that they could not prove where the document had been signed, and by direction of tho Judge prisoner was acquitted. At the inquest on Mrs Collins the victim of the Featherston casualty the evidence showed that the deceased obtained a bottle of gin from the Royal Hotel by pretending it was for Mr Collins, who waß from home. On the same evening she was soen in flames, and the noighbours with difficulty saved the house. The bed was burned, probably through the curtains igniting, and deceased, who was lying down dressed, was so badly burnt that she died 12 hours after the accident. A verdict was returned of accidental death. From the Wanganui Herald we learn that at the Education Board meeting, a long discussion took place on the subject of paying pupil teachers of both sexes at the same rates. Mr Sanson objected, as he considered that in every other line of life, boys earned more than girls. This might be, he said, an old woman's reason, but it seemed to him that the reason was a good one. Mr Baker opposed this idea, and thought that as ttie girls did the same work as the boys, they should receive the same payment. Mr Bridge supported Mr Sanson's idea, and said that they should give some encouragement to boys to enter the profession, as at present they found that girls greatly predominated. A number of suggestions, were made, and eventually it was agreed a slight alteration in tho way of increasing the female teachers' salaries should be proposed to the board at the next meeting.