LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 230, 26 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A notice from tho Public Tiustee Of- ' fice Will be found m our advertising columns, to which tbe attention of our ! readers is directed. Arouud Napier the weather on Friday last was very severe the snow lying lower on the hills than has been known for the last twenty years. A party of American capitalists are negotiating for the purchase- of a large tract of land m Utah, comprising between 100,000 and 200,000 acres, to be applied to the purpose of founding a self-aupportiug Irish Catholic colony. By this means it is thought Mormanism will be gradually demoralised. Armadale informs us that his second drawing closed full, the first prize going to a gentleman m Auckland, the second to a workman on the railway, the third to a lady m Napier, and the fourth to a gentleniau m Wellington. The third drawing is now open, and subscribers who were late for the second one will be allotted shares m the third. It is advertised m our fonrth page. The Napier Telegraph hears from the secretary of the Poultry Association that he has already received 280 entries for the forthcoming show, and that exhibits will be sentfrom Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch. This should be encouraging intelligence to the promoters of our local show. Wanpanui railway returns for the four weeks, ending 19th July, show a total of 10,919 passengers as against 9569 during the same period last year ; parcels 1811 against. 1463; stock 881 against 196; goods 3919 tons against 3066 ; revenue £3669 17s lOd against £2729 14s 7d last year. The Dunedin Star, speaking of the Governor's speech and the late Ministry, remarks :— lt did not require last night's division to assure the fall of the StoutYogel Ministry. The speech was their death warrant, so evidently did it demonstrate serious deflection from principle on the part of individual members of the Cabinet, and contempt for the intelligence of tho public. Tho other Dunedin evening paper says: — "The speech betokens infatuation rather than ability, and the House deserves credit for immediately disposing of the Yogel administration.'' It implies that the formation of the Stout- Vogel Ministry < can only be accounted for aberration of intellect on the part of Sir Julius. This is from the Southern press, too ! I hear (says the Woodville correspondent of the Napier Telegraph) that the comer section opposite the Bank of New Zealand has been sold at the price of £750. The site is a good one for business, and is the only corner that is not built upon. While lam pleased to see such faith shown m the future of the place, I would repeat every word of caution to outsiders — do not rush to the place. Woodville will be prosperous enough if you give her time. If on the contrary, everybody swarms into the place at the same time, ths effect will be local depression, people will be living on each other like spiders m a bottle, land will fall m value because people will sell at a loss rather than remain m the place where every thing is over-done, and will decamp en masse to search for f resh^fields and pastures new. Several cases of malignant diphtheria have appeared lately at Masterton. One of the sufferers, a child, succumbed to the disease on Wednesday. Eleven English sea captains played a cricket match at 'Frisco against a local club. The local men only scored 24, but tho tars were all put out for two extras. Lady : " I should like to choose some of those lovely collars. I suppose they are the newest style out ?'' Counter-man: " Excuse me madam; they are not collars exactly, bnt lamp-shades 1" Twelve tons of the cheese made at the Ashburton factory, and sent to England, realised the satisfactory price of 6,7s per cwt. or nearly 8d per lb. A joker suggests that it would be appropriate to include "1 case small-pox' 1 m tho list of cargo by the Bteamer Wajr hora.

The expenditure on tho Canterbury College last year was £30,703. A young lady who was fond of singing thu song begginning, " I am saddest when I sing," was disgusted wheu tho neighbors, who had got tired of the ' doleful, ditty, struck m, " So are we, so are we !" The many friends of Mrs Worboys, of Woodville,|will be glad to l«arn that she has now gained sufficient strength to move about, though still confined to her house. Mrs Sowry is also able to be out again. The case of the first named lady was considered hopeless by the first doctor who attended her. Mr Arthur Beachamp, formely wellknown m Wanganui as an auctioneer, has, we notice by our Christchurch files, petitioned to be adjudicated a bankrupt. A Dunedin paper wants to know why New Zealand cannot send home a team of cricketers, and gain a high place m the annals of the game. Mr C. S. Cross has already taken the initiative m that direction we hear, and is communicating with several of the leading cricketers of the colony with a view to the formation of a New Zealand eleven to visit England next season. Says the Napier Telegraph :— " Sawn totara is likely to be as cheap as any other description of timber. Immense quantities are now stacked at Danevirke waiting for the completion of the railway to be forwarded to town, and at Makatoku, on the land recently sold by the Government, two new sawmills are being erected m the centre of a grand forest of totara. Totara is now being offered at the mills for 11s." What would our contemporary say to 4s lOd, the price at which totara is now advertised m Palmerston. Town and Country narrates the following : — A young man came out from England not long ago, and succeeded m getting employment m a large wellknown watchmaker and jeweller's m George-street Sydney. Hearing a few months ago about the silver mines at Silverton, he went up and speculated £50 m a share m one of the mines, after which he returned to Sydney and resumed his employment. The other day he sold his share for £12,000. He now intends to proceed to England and remain there. An idea of the progress made by the Ancient Order of Foresters throughout the world may be gathered from some statistics quoted by Bro. Philip Fauvel, Chief Ranger of the Wellington district, at the anniversary celebration m the St. George's Hall, on Wednesday evening. The total number of districts is 293, there are 4778 Courts m existence, with a membership of 609,219 ; the number of honorary members is 13,593 ; while the value of the Court funds is £3,022,997, that of the District funds being £360,733. The amount expended m sick relief by the three Wellington Courts during the past five years was £2,433. Tne Lyttelton Times considered the Stout Ministry the strongest New Zealand has seen for ten years. And yet it did not live so many days. The Woodville Examiner records the following extraordinary occurrence : — The other day Mr Groves brought to our office a lizard about 9 inches m length which he had taken from a cow's throat. It appears that nearly three weeks ago, Mr Groves noticed the cow m a peculiar condition, with her head hanging forward and frothing at the mouth. The animal gradually becamo weaker, and several remedies for supposed lung affection, &c, were applied. After existing m this state for some 18 days the cow died, and prompted by curiosity, Mr Groves opened the throat, where he found the enormous lizard. The sow's tongue was swollen and blotched, and the cacase showed strong symptoms of poisoning. The occurrence is a most extraordinary one. I have just heard writes tho Woodville correspondent of the Napier Tele- ! graph, something m connection with the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company which shows the difference between the working of private capital and the "lavish expenditure" of Government money. That company intend to erect stations every four miles, and each building will cost £30. The object is to ascertain where the stations are most required, and this can only be done by trials, and then, when settlements are established, permanent and more extensive buildings will be erected at the most suitable places. Now, this plan seems a more sensible one than that of the Government, who have put up huge buildings at Tahoraite, just too far away from Danevirke to be of any great benefit to that place, and m a situation which may never justify such a heavy outlay. Verily the Manawatu Company sets an example that might be followed with wisdom. The importation of goods into Wellington promises to be very much larger this year than was the case m 1893. The quantity of merchandise brought into the port during the first seven months of the present year exceeded that received during the corresponding period of 1883 by 42,626 tons. Cure for Indigestion. — Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills, used according to the directions, have proved a certain and speedy cure for indigestion, bilious and liver complaints, wind m the stomach and bowels, nervous dobilitv,&c. Their object is the removal of debility and derangement by assisting nature, and imparting tone and power to the system. — To bo had of all chemists and storekeepers m boxes, Is l£d and 2s 9d each, or po3t free on receipt of 19 or 44 stamps. — J. Baxter, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 21, Victoria-street, Christchurch