Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 232, 28 August 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The prospfictus has been issued «f the.. Wellington Te Aro Theatre Opera House Company (Limited). ,The, proposed,* capital is £12,000, m 2400 shares of £5 each, and it is stated that already 1920' shares hare been taken up. ; A reigning sensation m New YorV at present is an electric female, named Lnla Hurst, a stout country girl from Georgia, who excercises a physical force by the operation of will it ie impossible to resist. Scientific men and others have attended her exhibitions at WiDaok's Theatre, and all confess themselves unable to account for the phenomenon. A Goldfield's contemporary has the' following : — At a recent election meeting the candidate was advocating secular education, when a <sfcill small voice fFom the rear of the hall exclaimed. n Yer right, boss I If the upper suckles want halgebta, let *om pay for it."

One of flip events at the Gymkhana meeting, at Malta, on the 24th of May, was a'• saddle and snioko race." The regulations to be fulfilled by the corapeditora were : — To Stand by their ponies heads with saddled over their arras. At the word " go," to saddle and ride off, lighting a cigar before bo doing. At the first bridge, to dismount oh the usual side, and remount on the off side. The same to be done at the second bridge. Winner to come m with cigar alight and ghth secure. Confirmatory re»orts (the Pall Mall Gaxette says) continue to be received of the fabulous, richness of the gold deposits on Moodie's firm, on the Swazi border of the Transvial. The yield is said to be simply wonlerful, assays of the quartz showing 2)oz to 85oz of gold to the ton. Mr Mo»die is on his way to England presumably to sell his rich possessions to a Cotipany of English capitalists, of course Meanwhile it may be noted that the Government of the Transvadl,probably trembling for the consequence which must ensue with the rush of civiisntion, now, deny that Moody has anjeoncession. Lambing h« commenced m the Wood - villo and districts, m tho latter place, hiwevor, the severe weather has caused a/onsiderable loss. Wild dogj have been very troublesome on the. TalSraite and: Kaitoke runs this season. v .j *' '^ ..'■ , ',"''. i The wffllher experienced m Woodville on Fridy afternoon last, says the Examiner, was of the most extraordinary charactr. Heavy showers of hail fell and m sme placesthe ground was thickly cbveredwith hailstones. This was followed V a prolonged fall of snow which ; was sun a novelty to the young folks that BBfwball|ng was indulged m ere the groundhad become whitened, the show being pllected from window ledges and sides.^the buildings. Snow has not been bre for seven years before. A mrriage ceremony of a most inter- , eßtingpature was celebrated at the private rsidence of one of the Warrnambool cergymen last week (says^the lidti*-* pendtit). The bride bridegroom ■ were both tboriginals, and the bridesmaids, best nen, and spectators : were: also of the sane race. But not the least intereßtirigfeature of the affair. was that the prinqpals and witnesses all signed their name/ with 'good specimens of caligraply. . ' Af a meeting of the Wellington Meat Expirt Company held on Tuesday, Mr Bucianan, the chairman of directors, stafcd that the company had during the twdve months exported 45,000 carcases of mutton, ' and pointed out the large amount of benefit that had. accrued to tte Wellington Provincial District thereb/", as the value of land and everything onhected with stock had been very greatly enhanced. i Wo notice by our Wellington files' that on Monday next a lecture on 'Animal Magnetism and Spirit Mediums" will be delivered by the Rev Theophilus le Mcnant des Chesnais. An Oamaru volunteer, a few days ago, when shooting m a match at Makenb, made " the possible " m seven shots at 400 yards. ■': ..,.'• i Gardening is practically taught m more than 20,000 , primary schools m America. ' Home colebrated the 263 th anniversary of its foundation by Romulus on the 27th April. In Sweden, it is said, there is a law taking away the right of suffrage frbin every man who has' been drunk three times. An American editor says that the only reason why his dwelling was not blown away m a late storm was that there was a heavy mortgage on it. The natives of thei&land of Chileo use the shell of a crab as a barometer.. • In dry weather it is nearly white, but on the approach of rainy or stormy weather it is flecked with red spots. In a wet season it is red. An undertaker m Newcaatle-on-Tyne, , i n the North of Engl and , i nserted recently m a local newspaper the follow- . ing advertisement : " Why live and be miserable when you can be buried m comfort for three pounds ten." . An old Swiss Christian, named Pointer, has for many years gone through France selling and giving away Bibles and Testaments. !.- The present registered British voters are as follows :— England, 2,618,453; Scotland, 310,441 ; Ireland, 224,018— total, 3,152,912. The present numher of members is : For England, 487 ; Scotland, 60 ; Ireland, 103— total, 652. The death of the Duke of Buccleuch leaves Mr Gladstone the last survivor of the Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel. In spite of their subsequent political entrangement, the Duke and Mr Gladstone always remained on the most friendly terms. When Lord Roseberry was leaving Hanley the other day, a crowd of working men assembled round the door of his compartment, and just before the train moved off, a rough head was, thrust in 'at the window,: and; then : enmeithe unexpected question : " Say, Master Rosebery, can cc, tell us what'U win Derby?" . ; A romantic incident occurred with the convict ship I^ady; Shore, bound to Sydney m 1798 with 60 female convicts on board, and a detachment of military. The' sold iere mutinied, shot the captaib and officers, and then married the female convicts. The ship sailed to Rio Plata, and was delivered to Spaniards, the mutineers setltng m America. A talented lady who advocates " Woman's Rights " was recently speaking upon the subject, and brought down the house with the following, argument : ■■ — " I have no vote but my groom has, whose rent I pay. I have a great respect for that man m the stable, but I am sure if I were to say, 'John, will you exercise the franchise,' h« would reply, ♦ Please, mum, which 'orse be that ?' " Twenty-two thousand tons of sugar have been exported from Queensland m tho past year. An agitation is now j going on m Hobart for manhood r suffrage. Not likely f . to get it just yet. The inflow of passenger traffic to Queensland continues to exceed the out-' flow considerably. When the Jasjj m,ajj left Bannerman headed the batting and Boyle the bowling averages of the Australians. Sir Thomas Elder^as handed £10,000 ip the .Adelaide . Uiiivewity, ' which: heY had promised for educational purposes. ..' On shearing Young Tom, a prime ram which' was bought in* Sydney last week for 350 guineas, I his fleece turned the scale at 19ilb. A'ccirirdihg to an American newspaper, the widow of the late Captain Webb, who lost his life m the Niagara Rapids, is how acting as* cashier c at Whirlpool Rapids Park, close by the scene of her husband's fatal plunge. . : The New York Herald is about to effect a revolution m journalism, When, the new Bennett-Mackay cable is m qperation, the news collected every day by the agents of the Herald all over the world will go first to London, and then bo telegraphed along the new wire to New York. Leading articles will also be written at the offfpe m Fleet Street, London, and sent across the Atlantic every night and with the exception of American and. local matters,- the New York Herald' will practioally be edited m London.

The Sydney Municipal Council is about to" borrow £200,000 for the purpose of paving the streets with wooden blocks. "Kind words can never die.", How bitterly does a man realise that terrible truth when he sees all the kindest words he ever said m his life glaring at him from his published letters m a breach of promise suit. They build their houses pretty high m New York. One ' speculator hts filed plans for the erection of four twelvestorey flat houses, each to accomodate 24 families. Each is to have a frontage of 51 feet and a depth of 100, and the whole are to cost 1,000,000 dols. The height from the kerb to the highest point is to be 150 feet. Madame Tussaud's famous museum on Baker-street, London, is to be removed to a new and gorgeous home on Marylebone road. In Greece there are ninety printing offices, half of them being at Athens. One hundred and thirty-five newspapers are published there. The Duke of Manchester visited the Reform gold mine last week and fired a shot Which brought 'down £500 worth of specimens. "Will the youngest girl m the room please rise ;?" said a school superinten- ' dent uV a rural school. Every female the .teacher./, ; | , ; > . . About as mad a man. as evar came out, <af an opera-house was a youujgTnan who I had just started his first moustache. He got wrath because someone m the audience shouted out " Down m front."