Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 14 August 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chinese eteaniev Chang Q\)qv? }\as sailed for New Zealand. Dunedin will be first port of call. Captain Bendall denies that the young girl w)io has eloped with the Salvation Army Captain is any relative of his. The passengers and crew of the Waihora are m good health. The vessel wjJJ probably pdt'be detained m quarantift^a'^ter tQ-inqrrow. Tenders are invited for tfye e^eptipn pf shearing and wool-sheds 'on G^tptairj Hewett's property. Tenders close on the jlßth. instant at noon. Plans and specifications can be seen _at Mr F. jjlowlem's office. ; ; "Tiife official notification ofthe appointment pf Mr Ffa'ncif Loudori as trustee' m Hie estate of .Gljarles pahl, of Campbelltown ; and the removal iheref ron^. of J. J.. Crawford appear elsewhere.' ' ' With tliis issue we publish an eight column supplemeat, consistjng chiefly .of adyeftisenjieatßifpr which there is not r'ooaji }p ouf jprdibary daily assize. , A geperal meeting pf iihe njembers of •the Manawatu Racing .Club. yfj\\ be held at the .Gonnaercial Hotel on Thursday the 21&t ihgjt, at 7.30 p-m. The business will corapHse the election of 'stewards and office beafejr^ and general. A business annoopcetp^ni; by the prpr prietor pf the 4-bßrcorn 4ro?s'sote^ *p-' pears sliewhere. Mr Bickerton is rapidly extending the business of the Hotel by his attention to his gue.efs and Yfte e?-r ! cellent i?™**^ 11 *- Q^ &* The Wellington £*M™ Af g plied the man, King, with v bOttff rum on the night before his death was' #ned £1. On the application of Mr Shaw tl>e fip« yas increased to £5 Is, m order that an apptal might be made.

By this morning's early train, Mr D, L. Smith, manager for Mr Manson, forwarded some good stock to the West JOpa'st, (South Island). There yjere 11 trucks m all containing 40 head of cattle ■and 200 sheep. The cattle (short horn i bullocks) are os fine a specimen of stock bred m this district o« we have "seen fnls season. They have, we understand, been on Mr Manson'3 station for the past ] two years. The price paid for them is £8 10s per head delivered m Wanganui and the purchaser, Mr Skeno, of Hokitika. ' An inspection m dock of the steamer Triumph shows that the only injury she has sustained, m addition to a hole m the bow and a hole under the engineroom is a dented plate on the port side. ..Mrs Neville Thornton, wife of the well-known scenic artist, has been required to find securities, or m default imprisonmeut, for good behaviour towards her husband and children A correspondent informs the Wairoa Guardian that there is living m. a kainya ' on, the Waiau River rin that county, a family consisting of five generations. Waata Taiaroa has his father and grandfather living m his owu whin?, and he has himself been a grandfather these ten or twelve yoars. The German '. barque JPhonix, which eft Wellington on the 29th June for the Bluff,.arrived at her destination on Tuesday, 43 day& out. This is not the fastest passage ohViecord, otat would be a longpassage from New Zealand to London by direct steamers. Among the Duke of Manchester's investments m N.S.W. is a gold mine at Hill End. London now receives flowers from Italy asfreßh as if they had been plucked but an hour. We; sometimes have to go from home to learn news (writes the Parliamentary Correspondent of the Napier Telegraph.) To get a wonderful forecast one would scarcely go far from the spot, and yet months ago the' Melbourne Argus said the outcome of New Zealand's troubles would be that Mr Stout would be the next Premier, : A Justice of the Peace is much required at Danevirke, (says the Ezaminer) as the constable stationed there has to bring his " drunks " to Woodville for punishment. There is a great nuisance and expense, and some. one should be appointed to the office at Danevirke where there is now a thriving population deserving of some of the benefits of local magistracy. . - At a parish church m the East End on Sunday (a London correspondent says),. a child was christened, at the request of its parents, Ostnan Digna Smith. An old Mormon threatens that if the newspapers do not withdraw their troublesome female correspondents from Salt Lake City he will marry the whole lot. A little girl at Adelong wandered among some burning logs and fell down. She was burnt to death. Her father who was half-imbecile; stood by laugh ing. We regret to learn from the Post that Mr Holclswortb was, on Saturday last,, struck; down by paralysis. Mr Holdsworthj who for many years filled the office 6f Commissioner of Crown Lands, retired from the service some months ago on pension, his health haying been a good deal shaken by a long and serious illness through which he recently passed. He is completely paralysed on the right side/ and, although apparently sensible, he is quite speechless.. Dr Grace does not regard Mr Holdsworth's symptoms . as likely to prove immediately dangerous to life; !'. . In an up-country town recently: George Mclviile was playiug Sruokey m " Under the Gaslight." When it came to the Pier scene, where Byke knocks him over like a thdusand of bricks, George came a cropper, knocking over the " set " waters ami exposing to view Laura Courtland and Ray Trafford floundering on the bare boards. Now George, only having one;arm,,cpuld not extricate himself, although he tried his best amid the roars of the audience. Ted Russell came on afterwards, and explained that George had got such a soaking that there was no water left. A Palmerston correspondent to the Woodville Examiner writes : — " The Palmerston Psychological Association had a grand meeting on Sunday night. The room was packed. The meeting , was opened by singing and music, then there was an invocation, followed by an address from Mrs Moore, and a trance' address on spirit life. .At their meeting on Sunday evening | the Woodville Freethought Association resolved on meeting once a month, instead of weekly, while the spring lasted! We suppose the next change will be once a quarter. -' . Two Feilding residents, (says the Star) who happened to be m Pahherstou' on Sunday, thought they would go and tfaye a look at the Salvation Army m the Foresters' Isal).' : $uri"ng 'tb> TtesjP fying " tftey gpt up tq leave, but were peremptprily told by the officer haying charge of the door that the rule of tm Army wag that no one pc allowed to quit except during singing. '• In vain did they make all sorts of pleas, among which was that they had just heard their horse and buggy run aWay from outside the door. The officer insisted on their remaining till the singing com- • niencod, and it was not until fye was threatened with an information for i illegal detention. that the prisoners were ajiq wed to escape.