Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 245, 12 September 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An accident has befallen a young gentleman well-known m Wellington football circles. We refer to Mr Guy Cooper, son of Mr G. S. Cooper, and brother of tho Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, whose collarbone was broken whilst playing fooiball m Auckland on Saturday last. Ms Cooper is Judge Gillies' associate, and has been a resident of Auckland for about a year. Ho has much improved m his play since ho left Wellington, and is now regarded as one of the best backs m the Pousonby Club. The desire of Sir George Grey's heart 'for a doomsday book is about to be gratified. Tho work is now, we (Post) .believe, practically complete, and the two ponderous volumes will almost certainly be placed on the table of the House before the present session ends. .What their use will be, we confess we do not quite see. Perhaps some member will ascertain the cost of compilation and printing. Dr. Sinclair, the peripatetic dentist, sued a resident of Rangiora, Canterbury, named 11. Boyd, last week for £14 14s for dental suigery and a set of teeth made for defendant's wife. H. Boyd brought a cross action for £22 for damages for the removal of three teeth without authority. Mrs Boyd went to Dr Sinolair to get an aching tooth and some stumps removed, but the energetic deutiofc removed some sound teeth as well and rendered the supply*of an artificial set necessary. The husband offered ten guineas for the set on conditions which the dentist would not accept, and he then oftmed payment for the extraction of stumps, but this was declined. The Bench held that Sinclair had exceeded his instructions m removing the sound teeth, and had refused a reasonable compromise. The verdict would therefore be for the defendant, Boyd, with costs. At the last meeting of tho Wellington Benevolent Society the case was mentioned of a young married woman with four little children, whose ages range from two years, who had b«en deserted by her husband at Christchurch. Mr A. G. John* son, the secretary and relieving officer, reported that the poor creature came up to Wellington m search of her husband, whom she heard was m this city, but was again disappointed by learning that the unnatural truant had left the city, and had gone on one of the railway contracts. The helpless and encumbered mother had landed without an article of clothing eitner for hers jif or children besides what they were wearing. The police had been on the heartless scoundrel's track, but had failed to apprehend him up to the present time. Mrs S. Boxall, a lady who devotes much of her time to distressing cases, wrote to the committee on behalf of tho deserted ones The matter was very wisely left m the bauds of Mr Johnson to deal with as best he thought. On Monday afternoon a woman walked into a jeweller's shop m Bridge-street , Nelson, and asked to be shown some rings. Shu put one on aud cooly walked ouft without paying for it, regardless of the exclamations of tho jeweller. A policeman was called and she was given into custody, on which she resisted violently, and it was with some difficulty that she was got into a cab to be conveyed to tho station. Her behaviour has provoked doubts as to her sanity. The following is the criminal list of the cases set down for hearing at tho . Supremo Court on the 16tli inst :— HacKett, horse stealing ; Ihaia Tahana, breaking an entering; Percy King, forging and uttering ; Jas. Richards, sheep stealing ; Frank Carr, embezzlement ; A. Campbell, larceny from a dwelling ; T. Montague, larceny from the person ; J. Bradshaw, larceny as a bailee ; Wircrim Hori and Hopa Heremaraoas, cattle stealing. Iv addition to these there are the charges against William Rees and Thomas Johnson for forging telegrams. ; The wreck of the Lastingham was sold by ,pnblic auction m Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. The wreck was put up m two lots, the first one being the hull, masts, yards and all appurtenances of the vessel itself. The bidding on this started at £10, and rose m separate bids of £5 to £55, for which sum it was bought by Messrs Hassell and Co., fruit and produce merchants. The cargo was sold separately, and fetched £320. The first offer was £50 which was increased by £10 bids up to the price mentioned, Messrs Hassell and Co., being again the successful bidders. The opinion prevailed that the speculation was an exceedingly risky one, as the wreck is exposed to heavy nor'-wes-jters, apd may break up completely before any attempt can be made to obtain portion of her cargo. Texas 40 years ago was practically a deser£, and the handful of settlers lived entirely ,qn ganje. Tp r day there are Ipore than fen millions of cattle, sheep, horses, and swjjje m. \\\e State, nnd cotton cpop last year, was worlh njope than the cotton crop of the entire United Spates m 1843. We have received the first number p,£ " The Watchman which takes the place of the well-known Auckland journal " Lobouv. 11 Jt is well got up and vigorously written. The proprietor jn anrnouncing the change of name and pro? prietary says :— " No effort will be spared to make Tho Watchman a true index of the opinion of the Working Classes, and it shall not belie its name by neglecting to watch over the interests of the people. It will be written fearlessly, it will advocate Liberal Measures , and their carriage by constitutional means. Tho excess of English women is still so great that I^ord Shaftesbury has just declared that the greatest benefit^ tljaj; could be conferred on England would be the emigration of from two to three thousand womon.

Tho first trail) from Foxton this morning reached the station at due time. "The following part : culars of the row between Msijor Atkhnon, and the Hon. Mr Waterhouse are gi* en by the Woodville Examiner's " spe< ial " .-—Yesterday a great row took place between Major Atkinson and the Hon. Mr Waterhouse. The Major accused the latter of spreading damaging n-ports about him, and Mr Waterhonso retorted by charging the Major with treason to his party. He said that after forming a Ministry, the Major was prepared Jo throw new col- | leagues overboard and save himself by a coalition with the Stout- Vogel party. Major Atkinson then threatened to bring Mr Waterhouse before the House, when the latter offered to meet him there, The Titnaru correspondent of the Lyttelton Times tells the following amusing anecdote ; — A member of a public body the other evening, being m lightsome mood, opened his heart, and gave the meeting an unexpected insight into Fire Brigade morality m the olden time. He said that years ago, just before the local Brigade was started one of the promoters urged him to join, and added that it was a " good line." " Why," he continued, " when I belonged to the Brigade m 1 was never short of a bit of jewellery. I never had to buy any till I left ; and pipes and boots galore." This was m the good old dayß when everj Brigade man was a salvagecorps unto himself, I suppose. In these degenerated days, such brilliant opportunities never occur. A venerable lady, who was well known m Wellington — Mrs Buddie, the widow of the late Rev. Thomas Buddie — died m Auckland on the Ist instant. The deceasod who was 71 years of age, has not long survived her husband to whom she had befn married 43 years. The Auckland Herald informs us that Mrs Buddie landed m Hokianga m May, 1840 with her husband, and m that district, and subsequently at Wangaroa, Kawhia, and Waikato, endured all the perils and discomforts incident to missionary life. Mrs Buddie had of late enjoyed indifferent health. She leaves five sons and five daughters to mourn her loss. Mrs Buddlejwas a resident m Nelson for some time, and the Colonist says that the sick and the distressed m that city had no warmer friend and comforter than that lady.