The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 214, 5 August 1884, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr James Laird, of Wanganui, is advertising some early seed potatoea,which Are Raid to be of exceptionally good quality.. Mr Person notifies his resumption of chimney-sweeping business, wkich he undertakes to carry out on very reasonable terms. -■ Attention is directed to Mr Venn's advertisement appearing elsewhere m which he offers timber at exceedingly cheap prices. He also supplies turnery mouldings, glass, furniture, &c, &c. He offers liberal allowance to retail shops and the trade. Mr Thomas Gilbert, of the Woodville Temperance Hotel, has an announcement elsewhere to which the attention of the travelling public is directed. Mr Greenwood's next professional visit to Palmerston will be on Friday 22nd inst., and his consulting rooms wiil be at the Commercial Hotel. Mr Ward, the defeated candidate at Blenheim, referring to one of the local papers and its editor , said : The Express had not been what an Express on.«rht to have hecn. He did not believe m Winter, he would prefer spring. (Cheers and laughter. The Man, a curious New York publication, demands that all women, on arriving at the age of 21, be permitted to use the prefix " Mrs" to their names, whether married or not. A preacher, whose congregation had | begun to fall off somewhat, -had it intimated that he would discuss a family scandal the following Sunday. As a consequence the church was crowded. The minister's subject wajj tl Adam «. Eve." A coloured child had a fall from a Becond storey window the other day, and his mother, m relating the incident at the grocery store, said : " Dero dat child was a coming down feet fust, wid every chance of being killed, when de Lawd He turned him over, de child struck on his head, and dere wasn't so inucb as ft bu,t»;on off/ 1 ' '"

Lord Sliaftesbury says that much of the improved demeanor of London is due tothelargeremploymontof women m worka of charity and public service. A rpan is always a fool. If he be young, the world says, " When be is older he will know more." If he be older, it says, " Lie is old enough to know better." And when he is old, it says, " There is no kind of fool equal to an old fool." Persons accustomed to pastoral pursuits know how difficult it is to count sheep when passing through a " crush " or gateway. An aborigiual m the Warrnabool (N.S.W.) district was recently set to work to count sheep. " One, two, three, four ;" so far he was correct, theu ho continued, " forty, sixty, seventy, a thousand, a million, berry uear a hundred." The Melbourne Central Board of Health have received a letter, asking for the Bupression of bell-ringing on Sunday. The writer says— "The ringing of church bells on Sunday is a horrible nuisance, and a fellow can't sleep or have any rest on the Sabbath while that dreadful dis cordant noise is going on. Please attend to this. My nerves are unstrung with what are comically called ' those Sabbath bells.'" Baker Pasha has sufficiently recovered from his recent operatipn to be able to go. into the country. During his stay m London there had been a disposition m high quarters, Ministerial as well as fashionable, to take up the ex-colonel of British cavalry, and on his return to ] town he will be entertained at a dinner \ to be given to him by the members of the Salisbury Club. This is the club to which ladies are admitted. The heart m its mormal condition beats seventy -five times a minute, but when a young man meets a pretty girl at a party, and steps tremblingly up to proffer an escort home, the number of beats — heart beats — instantly mounts up to 162 m the shade. '• Define the difference between experimental and natural philosophy," said a school-master to one of his pupils. " Experimental philosophy," replied the boy, " is asking you to give us a half holiday; and natural philosophy is your saying ' Don't you wish you may get it ?' " A Woodville farmer has alone lost some 200 sheeps by dogs within the past mouth or two, although various precautions are taken to abate this scourge. The dogs live m the bush, and are wonderfully cute m watching their opportunities for a raid upon flocks. By latest cable commercial intelligence, Australian leather, best sides, has advanced to Is. New Zealand mutton, prime quality, 5d per lb. Messrs Stevens & Gorton's next sale at Palmerston will be held on the 12th in.st. The entries at present received are published m our advertising columns. They include forward bullooks, good steers, bran, pollard, horses, &c. We regret to learn that Mr Ward, H.M., is coufiued to his room by illness. The auction sale of Mr C. L. Maclean's f arniture at Bulls by Messrs Stevens and Gorton has been postponed from Thursday* to the following day (Friday.) The Marton paper has the following — " In adjusting the accounts between the Oroua County Council and the Manchester Road Board on Saturday, some vouchers, put m by members of the Ashurst Licensing Committee, v of 10s 6d each, for 'attending the quarterly meeting, caused some rather strong comments to be made by some of the wardens. It appears that members of Licensing Committees are empowered by the Act to charge travelling expenses, but some committees, besides that at Ashurst, are m the habit of charging 10s 6d for each meeting, although they may only have to travel half-a-mile. It seems hard that the ratepayers' money should thus be spent, and we think it is quite time it was put a stop to." Signor)Hugg,Jthe medical clairvoyant, has returned to Wellington, where he purposes making a short stay of one week. Patients may consult him at his old rooms, over Mr James' furniture warehouse, Lambton Cuay. The Foxton election, it would appear, haß not yet been decided, despite Mr Wilson's majority of two ; for it is stated that Mr Izard intends to, petition against the return of the sittinj member, on the ground that votes were improperly allowed by the Returning Officer. Mr Izard's contention is that two votes were given by persons who acted as DeputyReturning Officers, and were consequently not entitled to vote. The petition will have to be heard before two Judges of the Supreme Court. From a Wellington paper we learn that a company has been formed m i Wellington by the amalgamation of three mercantile firms — Messrs Smith j'imd Wilsoti, Messrs Zohrab and Co., and Messrs Dransfield and Co. The company thus formed is to be called the United Importers' Company of Wellington, and its oapital is £50,000, The chartered steamer Coptic left Napier for Lyttelton on Saturday, and is to sail from that port for London on Thursday next. The chartered steamer lonic called at Uobart on the 29th nit., forty days out from Plymouth. She is expected to arrive at Auckland to-day. A telegram from London, dated the 2nd instant, states that the Aorangi has left Plymouth for Wellington.