Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 243, 10 September 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1884. LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

Under the heading of " Drunk and Disorderly " wo find from the statistics that there were 7,494 persons brought up before Magistrates m the year 1883 for this offcuco, out of this number 954 were females. This is exclusive of IG7 Maoris, fifteou of the latter number being Wahincs. Messrs Lovin and Co., have boon informed that the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's chartered Htoanier Coptic left [ Rio do Janeiro, ou her way to London, .on tho "4th instant, her meat being m good condition. They are also advised that the frozen meat on board the s.s. Pombay, which was already published, : orrived.at London on the 3rd instant, is . m. good condition. The oldest apothecary shop m Berlin will celebrate m 1888 its four hundredth anniversary. The sliop was receutly sold for £60,000. / ;M. Pasteut's discovery of inoculation as a preventure of hydrophobia seems likely to prove ono of the most brilliant and remarkable triumphs of modern science: The result of his latest experiment appearp to bo conclusive. He has irtocnlated nineteen dogs with the attenuated hydrophobic virus, with eutirely successful results. With reference to Tawhiao m London a correspondent of a contemporary writes :— " He is standing right loyal to > the Blue Ribbon, and is really conducting himself m a manner that is all that ' hi| Best friends could desire. It tickles the fancy sometimes to notice the gush over him as a model of all th« temperance virtues. At all ' teetotal fetes he is trotted out ; and at one of them he ' edified the thousands who were assembled by telling ibem | low f or y earß ue had been struggling to spread the cause of temperance and commend the cause of total abstinence to his benighted fellow countrymen." The.Ruamahunga River which drains the Wairarapa Valley, and occasions, when m flood, much inconvenience and loss to the several townships, last week rose to a height much above its usual level, and caused much loss to European and native residents. The rise of water was one foot lower than high-water mark of last inundation m that district. The Maori residents of pahs along the bank a of the Raumahunga state the recent flood to be the heaviest they have witnessed over 30 years. Captain Bendall (Underwriters' Surveyor), having visited the wreck of the Lastingham, reports that the position is rery favorable for salving operations. Seven steamers arrived at Liverpool during the first week m August with live Btoick and fresh meat on board from American and Canadian ports, bringing a collective supply of 1262 cattle, 6200 quarters of beef, and 791 carcases of mutton, showing * decrease m cattle and an increase m the arrivals of fresh meat. According to a telegram from Odessa an extraordinary hailstorm has occurred . at Aschulfy, m the district of Erivan. Tito hailstones are said to have averaged a pound m weight, "and to have been as large as the eggs of geese. Seventy houses were destroyed and forty lives lost. Hero is i a chance for backward or timid swains :— A young lady, 20, with] a small income, wishes to correspond with, a view to matrimony ; strictest confidence will be observed ; correspondents must enclose photo. Address, " Nellie," Post Office, Wellington. The Journalof Commerce, a Liverpool paper, of 14th July, contains an excellent and statistical account of this colony. It says :— '• A young colony like New 'Zealand has to improve her harbours and roads, and this cannot be effected without resorting to borrowing. New Zealand is certain to be as densely populated as 1 England, and the expenditure ib like seed sown for a summer harvest. The British " X'onng England" is making great progress, and with gold, coal, and wool, and a rich soil, she is bound to become a maritime power.' There was a narrow escape from a terrible casualty through an alarm of fire at the Wellington Theatre Royal on Monday 1 night. The audience numbered over 2000;^ The wreck of the Lastingham was to b« sold to-day by Messrs J. H. Wallace and Co., at their rooms, on account of whom it may concern. A.Napier paper says that the expeditureof the Boatd of Health since Andrew Monat was landed from the steamer Waihora to the time when the quarantine station was admitted to pratique amounted to £460. . A Masterton paper hears that a poor woman lies dangerously ill m the Eketahuna district, m a neighborhood which is altogether inaccessible for medical visits during Ihe present state of the roads. • *«••■' Monday's gale was felt with terrific force on the Rimutaka, and the authorities determined to leave all the goods and the timber trucks of tho down train : at Cross', Creekt • The passenger carriages and the , sheep trucks were taken ' safely over tneV hill, but not without! considerable trouble. We won't flay whether the following incident took place m Manawatu or not. A collector of dog tax called at a certain house and asked the good lady if she was the owner of any dogs. The reply - was, " The divil a dog have I got, barrin' a cat, and that belongs to my neighbor." The tax collector is thinking over the matter. Humours are m circulation (says the Waipawa.ifm7) that Sir Julius Yogel purposes resignig his seat m the Cabinet, and returning to England shortly m connection with the inscribed stock business. The result is that the Canterbury members are seceding from him. . An exchange learns that Mr Thompson, formerly a private tutor at Kaikoura, Marlborough, and more recently at Kaikora, m this province, has been appointed tutor to the King of Siain, at a salaray of £1 ,000 a year. Tlje Borough elections take place tomorrow. , T^ie various pollingplaces are as follows : — No. i Ward — Borough Gp.unci'l Office. No. £ Ward— Mr Abraham's Old Store, Maln r st):eet, F. Hfl. 3 Ward— Mr J Linton's Oflice,tne Square. No. 4 Ward — Building m < Colemari's place, lately occupied by R..Nash, hairdresser. The Poll will commence at 9, a.m., and close at 6 p.m. •The Wairarapa Daily mentions that some of the prospectors round Mastertop are gaining a reputation as "frauds. 1 ' They delude the unwary into assisting thorn, and m return gfve them unreliable statements of localities m which gold is t# be found It \ 8 even said that Reeftot) specimens are imposed to bait their i traps,

" Old Gold-digger" writes to the Post stating that William Fox, the wollknown prospector and discoverer of a number of goldfields m Otago and on the West Coast, is now living iv Wellington m not very good circumstauces. The services he has rendered to the colony have not, our correspondent says, over met with proper recognition, and if a Minister of Mines is appointed •' Old Gold-digger" thinks one of bis first duties should be to do something for William Fox. Mr 11. M. Stanley, tho woll-known explorer, nrrived at Plymouth after .two years' absence m the heart of Africa where he has been establishing stations iv connection with his mission from the King of the Belgians. Stanley declares that General Gordon is perfectly well able to escape either by tho Congo, across the desert to Zanzibar, or up the White Nile, where he might join Luptori Bey. He believes that an autumn campaign to relieve Gordon would be an utterly quixotic infatuation, and that the men would die like flies as summer waned. A correspondent furnishes the Napier Telegraph with the following accoiintoE ; a terrific gale at Koreru :— At about 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday a tremendous gale blew fom S.S.W. tearing off about half the roof of Mr Anderson's now woolshed, and smashing m the end of the building. Tho men about the station were soon m action, and by means of .ropes prevented ' any further damage. About a quarter of a mile from the homestead, at a place where Mr Anderson keops some of his. stud flock, although well sheltered by a. lofty thorn fence, fruit and ornamental trees were torn out of the ground, one of them smashing m the end of the sheophouse just as Mr McLeod, who is m charge of the stdd flock, had let the sheep out for safety. Scores of wild turkeys were dashed to pieces against the rocks on the run. In the evening a shower of rain calmed the wind down. Castlemaine, one of the old gold-fields ; of Victoria, has for years been considered ; as played out. A week or two ago, however, a farmer m grubbing up a stump, lighted upon golden atone. Five tons were crushed, and yielded 68uz. The owner of the paddock, coutainiug 90 acres, purchased it a short time ago for £180. The land all arround has been taken up by miners and speculators.