LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 244, 11 September 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The wool market continues firm, and the sales aro very extensive. Joseph Jay, contractor, has filed a declaration of insulveucy. A meeting of the Manawatu County Council was to be held at noon to-day. Steps are buiug taken for the erection of a magnificent theatre m Napier. The rainfall at the Gorge during the flood of last week was 2£ inches m 24 hours. The amount of damage done to county roads and bridges m Wairarapa North by the late floods is estimated at £2000 The Hoods m the Awahuri district have considerably abated, and although the damage done is pretty great, still it is not nearly so extensive as was anticipated. One of tho crow of the Lastingham has contradicted the statement that Capf. Morrison was addicted to drink. He says that during the whole voyage he never once saw the captain the worse for liquor, but that he was always very attentive to his duties. The Post remarks : — ln course of tho debate on the Alining Act last night, Mr Seddon stated that the whole of the West Goast of the South Island was purchased from £he Maoris for 300. Now, he claimed, it was worth 300 millions of pounds ! Tho Inspector of Nuisances m MastorI ton is a bol«'. man ! He has reported his superior oificer, the Medical Inspector of the Borough for an alleged nuisance m a stable yard. Mrs MeKenaie, who was drowued m the Manawatu oii Tuesday last (says n Wairarapa exchange), would have been safe had she remained m her whare. Though the floods surtoundud it, the building itself was on high ground, and was never touched by the water. The Parliamentary correspondent of Napier Telegraph understands one of the proposals of the Government will be the floating of a four milliou loan at the earliest . moment compatible with the last borrowing agreement. It is, we (Post) believe, almost cer tain that the Financial Statement will be delivered by Sir Julius Vogol on Tuesday evening, and that the Public Works Statement will be delivered by Mr Bichardsou some day next week. Tho Wairarapa Daily writes : — " We are among the small sniferers by thelo s pf ' The 1 Laftingham' as a stock of- pr'hliug paper consigne-1 to us was on board of this vessel. Just atthu present time our stock of paper m the office* is exceptionally low and we anticipate some incon veuienco as well as loss through the unfortunate wreck," "V Messrs Mills and Cable, of the Lion Pouudry, Wellington, have just successfully completed the casting of a bell for the Masterton Fire Bri&ade,W6ighiug 3£c\vt. " Mrs Sage, I should like to know whose ferry boits those fire tuat 1 stumbled over m the hall?" " Ferry b >ats, indeed, sir ! Those are. my shoes. Very polite of you to call thorn ferry boats." " I didn't say ferry boats, "Mrs i Sage ; you misunderstood me — fairy boots I said, my dear.' 1 Mr Wakefield was to ask the Government yesterday, Whether they intend this suasion to deal m a systematic manner with the important question of the I maintenance of hospitals wjd charitable I institutions; and if so, when, they intend to bring their proposals iv that respect before Parliament ? After the Ist proximo newspapers are to be received into the postal boxes m the suburbs of the principal cities of the colony. The Salvation Army r m Masterton is prosecuting those causing the interruption .of its services. The Masterton Borough Council is grappling wkh the very necessary work of sanitary reform. - The question of placing upon the Estimates a sum for the alteration and re- | pair of hospitals is to receive the early attention of the Legislature. The Awahuri ploughing match yesterday passed off mostjsuccessfully. In the evening there was a dinner at the Endymiou Hotel, and a display of fire works, the proceedings boing enlivened by the inspiriting strains of tho Fuilding Brass Band. Some fuller particulars will appear m our next issue. \ - The tinning works at Paten are a pro- ' nounced success, about 100 sheep being killed per week. The telegraph line is to be extended from Miikotoku to Danevirk, on the Napier- Wood villo railway line. Among the new measures introduced into Parliament is The Gaming and Lotteries Act, 188 1, Amendment Bill, Mr Fitzhcrbert. The Sandon Ploughing Match was a complete succcs. In the evening an excellent supper took place at the Junction Hotel, Sanson, at which there must have been nearly lOOpeseons present. The. circulation of Hansard throughout the colony has been greatly increased since tho altvinpt recently made to popularise the publication by a reduction m price and by receiving orders for it at all telegraph and post offices. Day by day (writes the special correspondent of the Napier Telegraph) the calm is giving way to the scethiug murmur which usually precedes a storm, and it is quite evident, if present intentions are carried out, that the Ministry are to be attacked on their Fiuancial Statement. Sir George Grey was to move to-day, That the House will, on Wednesday, 17th September, resolve itself into & Committee of the Whole to consider an address to the Governor requesting him to place a sum on the Estimates to supply through the Press, to the people of New .Zealand a telegraphic sutnmiusr of the principal events occurringthrbughout the world ? What next? ' It is said that among the wives of Utah, there may be found women from nearly every nation except France. " . English steamers, about a score, are returning from ■ Montreal to Great Britain iv ballast for want of cargoes. In Ireland, several of whose counties possess superior coal and iron, there js some talk of a revival of the iron trade. Some/fashionable churches m New York and Boston are considering the' question of charging, admission to .their services. j The English railway companies owing to depression m trade, have discharged 2506 employees, and reduced tlie salaries of clerks 10 per cent. Detective Benjamin on Tuesday arrested a man, William Smith, better known as "Whisky Smith,." on a charge of stealing 16£ cwt of old iron from the railway bridge, the property of the Wauganui Harbpur Bpajd, •' It was reported m Wanganui on Tuesday that Mr Daniel Stj'acjiap, who had not been hoard of for some time during his visit to the Hot Springs, was seen at one of the springs m the vicinity of Taupo about a weed ago. The Wanganni Resident Magistrate, Mr Ward, gave judgment on Tuesday m the case Nicholson Bros. v. Holcroft. He found that the plaintiffs had sustained n loss of £80 m consequence of the failure of the crop, aud gave judgment for that amount, with costs of court, £2 12s .'solicitor's fee, £3 3b \ and witnesses? excuses £5 \o§.

There are 64,000 hank depositors m tlio Australasian colonies, wjth over £22,000,000 of deposits, equal to £20 per head of the population. A recent traveller along tlio Panama Canal predicts that of the 15.000 workmen fully two-thirds will We dead before the comoletion of the canal. Nellie White, the third wifo of Bishop Roundy, of Utah, has informed a Salt Lake grand jury that she will go to tlio penitentiary rather than tell the secrets of the Mormon Church. A Glasgow guntlemau has, it is said, offered £10,000 towards the making of a railway on an African river, to avoid the Murchisou Uapids, which interferes with the traffic of Laso Nyassa. Messrs Greenwood and Son, Dentist, Wang.uiui, Registered under the Imperial Colonial Acts. Dentistry m all its branches. Mr Greenwood brings with him all the requisite apparatus for adininistring Nitrous Oxide Gas for the painless extraction of toeth.-r-[Ai)yT.] Agonizing Neuralgic Pains. — Baxters' Anti-Neuralgic Pills have boon named by the public " Magic Pills " on account of their marvellous action m curing Neuralgic, Toothache, .Sciatica, Lumbago, and other Neuralgic pains. — To he lnd of air chemists Tand storekeepers, or post free on receipt of 19 or 44 postage stamps. — J. Baxter, Chemist, Victoriastreet, Christchurch. I