LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 15 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We learn that Mr F. Loudon iatends clearing out of Foxton. The contractor for the TaurangaBotorua railway will arrive by the next Frisco mail steamer. We are sorry to learn that the Palmerston Brewery Company has suspended operations for the time being. Mr Goodison lost a fine hprse a few days ago through inflammation. The measurements of the various blocks of the buildings m the Square were being taken yesterday on behalf of the Insurance Companies m Wellington. According to a Wellington paper, pigeon shooting, notwithstanding the close season has set m, is still being carried on. The Protection of Animals Act. provides that a reward of £20 shall be paid to informants who shall expose persons shooting out of season. The copper mines m the Nelson district appear to be making steady progress. According to the Nelson Mail of the 7th<-instant, there are at present 42 men at work on the various claims. The share list of the projected Wellington opera house has nearly closed, and the scheme may now be regarded as altno6t an accomplished fact. We learn that the Salvation Army have taken Mr Thompson's old store m Manchester-street, Feilding, for a term cf twelve months, where they intend holding services regularly. The Bluff Harbour Board is going to try and get a further land endowment, so as to enable it to borrow another £10,000 for harbour works. Another little game of " bluff." We are glad to see, sa}'s the Bay of Plenty Times, that the directors of the Tauranga Cheese Factory have completed their arrangements, and ordered the necessary plant for their works. They have purchased a complete plant of the most improved type, with a 1200-gallon vat and a Tangye vertical engine and boiler, with plenty of power for all their purposes. The plaut will be m readiness to commence work on the Ist September next. A number of persons have been somewhat puzzled as to the meaning of the phrase published about the constitution of the new Ministry — " Sir Julius Yogel Treasurer (with prectdence)." We may explain that the meaning of this is that Sir J. Yogel, though occupying m the Government a position inferior to that of the Premier, Mr Stout, takes precedence of him at Government House. The same thing occurred when Whitaker joined Atkinson as Attorney-General, the former having been granted precedence over the latter, who was then. Premier. The Feilding Star correspondent asserts that the new Government will be attacked next week, and probably defeated, with the assistance of Sir George Grey. Grey will then be sent for, but it is unlikely he will be successful m forming a Ministry. The result will be a re-construction of the Atkinson Ministry. Mr Keen desires the Feilding Star to contradict our statement that an order of discharge was granted him on the 11th instant by the Wellington Supreme Court on the application of Mr Brandon. He asserts further that his discharge was granted on February 7th m response to an, application made on January 28th m the Supreme Court, Wellington, by Mr Brandon. In such case there must be another Mr Michael Keen. On the 30th ult. we published an advertisement from Messrsßrandon &Son,that'the adjourned application of Michael Keen for his discharge would be heard at the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Monday, August 11.' By the Wellington papers we saw that the application had been heard and granted. That is all we know about the matter. The notice stated that it was Michael Keen, of Feilding. I The social gathering at the Wesleyan school-house passed off most successfully last evening. There were about 100 persons present, all seeming to enjoy themselves heartily. After tea various games were indulged iiijinterspersed with music and recitation. At about 10 o'clock the national anthem was sung bringing another of those pleasant evenings to a close. Messrs Walker and Hatrick, produce merchants, Wanganui, offer for sale seed oats, and table and seed "potatoes, of superior quality, and at very cheap rates. A gentleman of Brightwood, Ind., sat with a child upon each knee during the recent cyclone. The house was demolished and the man killed, but neither of the children were injured. The scheme for converting the steamship Great Eastern into a collier lias fallen through, and it appears that Scott Russell's huge ship is. likely to end its days as a marine hospital on the Thames. Says an exchange : — From a return laid on the table of the House it appears that the total amount of applications made to the Minister for Public Works, under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, during the year ending 31st March, 1884, Reached £275,009, which were granted to the extent of £103,904 10s. The Otamakapua Block, containing 104,222 acres, and the Retaruke Block (Tuhua), containing 20,585 acres have been gazetted waste lands of the Crown, The children attending the Sacred Heart Convent, Wanganui, lately prepared an entertainment to be given before Bishop Redwood, who was expected here a short time back. As the Bjshop will not now be here before midsummer, it is oontemplated (says the Herald) giving the performance at an early date m the schoolroom' before the parents and friends of the scholars'. ' The system of " collect " telegraphic messages has now been practically abolished m Victoria. This has become necessary m order to reduce the clerical work. "

A very painful accident occurred at Mr J. R. Hurrey's sawmill at Te Arai this morning (says the Gisborne Herald of the 7th iiist.). to a young man named Denis Feilding. It appears that ha was working at the bcucli, and by some mean3 — it is not known how — his right hand came m contact with the circular saw, the resnlt being that the hand was nearly severed just above the wrist. It was found nee asmy that the hand should be taken off a"t the' wrist, and the operations waß successfully performed by both doctors. The settlers of Taradale, Meance, and ' other country districts round Napier, mean to have a dairy factory. Mr Bowron, the Government lecturer on cheese factories, is to be invited to visit the district and give lectures on the sub- ' ject, and when a reply has been received from him definite stops will be taken.