LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 251, 19 September 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ . • _ ■'■'-» ' <>*■* Mr D. Clifford advertises for a team of working bullocks. • . . '. "Serjeant-Major Goodallishow iaWel■lingtoh: on duty there. We trust to hear 'of hi* promotion m proportion' to Ins merits, as he is "a most efficient officer. A carious telegraphic blunder m a Press message was made a few days ago, which was' discovered, fortunately, and corrected before it got into the papers. It occurred m the report of the debate m tlie Legislative Council on barmaids, m which the expression was used " barmaids lured young men to destruction." These words, at the hands of a young and impressionable operator, became transformed into ''Barmaids loved young men to distraction." The lost purse advertised yesterday was claimed and restored to its owner within; ten minutes of the issue of the first copy of the paper. At the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, Walter Trick er pleaded guilty to the charge of having deserted 4 his wife at Auckland on ctfabout the Ist June lust. Chief Dst(ictiTJ3 -Browne oppeared for the prosecution and applied for a remand until next day. .'Bail'' 'was granted fn^the amou-it of £50, with two sureties of £25 each. "■-•' - ' • ■: . „,. ( jThe death of Lord Petre is Recorded ''ip! recent news from England as having occurred on July 4th.. He .was the rcsp'ectfcd head of one of the oldest Roman Gtftholic - families m England. His brother the Hon. Mr Pdtre, will be remembered as one of the early sutlers of Wellington, and long a resident of the Hnttj where his son, Mr W. F. Pelre, an aichitect, now m practice m Dunedin, was born. Lord Petre is succeeded m his title by the Hon. and Right Rev. Mgr. Petre, hie eldest son, who is the first Roman Catholic Priest who has sat m tlie House of Lords since £he Reformation. ' l tv ' Speaking of the memorial tq H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, requesting him to permit his name, being enrolled as an honorary member of the United Manawatu Lodge, No. 1721, of Palmerston, the Post observes that as H.R.H. is already, ex officio, a member . of every lodge under "his jurisdiction as Grand Master, the request, m this case, appears ratlier a superfluous one. „ An" innocent abroad" made his appearance m the Chjistchurgh Jt.M, Court on Wednesday last. The case was Wilson V. Fox, a claim of £6 10s. for breach of Warranty of a horse. Tlie evidence for the plaintiff was that he informed defendant he Wanted a horse to run about, town and .do a moderately long journey once a week. The defendant sold him an'nnimal for £$, telling him it was sound, free from blemisheß, nipe years old, and a '.'roarer. 1 ' He understood defendant to say .that " roarers" were a particular breed. (Loud laughter.) A veterinary surgeon called f.s a witness said the animal was quite screwed up, a regular bag of bpnos, and 20 years old if a. day. The defendant said he told plaintiff the horse wo'ujd do for what was wanted, and also jlpld hjm that roaring was produced by nprses growing top fast rjot jiecauge they were broken-winded. He did not toll him the animal's age. The Bench held that the plaintiff had been taken m with his eyes open, and gave judgment for defendant without costs. . ' By latter accounts from Kutnaia we 'learn that the entombed miner, Dwan, ! was released yesterday morning, and walfe'ed out not -much hurt: Although QatrghHn the debris, he managed to; crawl into an open place where he could, staiyfuprlght. It was thought that Me'Namara would be reached at about 3 p.m., but there is no expectation of his .being found alive. - . One of the questions asked a ragged Hitlo gjrl of eight, at a recent school examination, was "Why were Adam and Eve turned out of Paradise ?" " Because they (fidn't pay the rent," was the prompt reply. On ip.quiry it appeared that the poor child's parents had been evicted several times for the same reason.

The Auckland Evening Star advocates the destruction of infants, and of idiots and monstrosities us a probable cure for poverty and overcrowding. Fancy these principles (says tho Watchman) being discussed m a colony ao young aa ours where everybody has, or ought to have enough and to spare. England bought a few years ago 176.602 shares, m the Suex Canal Com pany, for which lho price was £4,000,000. At tho present market price they art* worth £10,000,000. Some years hence they will be worth half as much again. The statistics for 1883 show that during that year there was a very large increase m the export of hops from New Zealand as compared with 1882, when (he. value of the shipments was only £9632, while m 1883 it reached as high as £62,423. Of course (says the Nelson Mail) this large difference is not entirely due to the increase m quantity, as ■1883 was tho hop-growers' fortune-mak-ing year when the price reached an amount of which even m their most sanguine moments they had never dreamed.