LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 277, 20 October 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A purchaser m . wanted for a good dairy cow. , ' ' A quartz pebblo has been picked up m Waipawu which contains gold visibl6 to tlte uaked eye. • ' Tenders are invited m the Wellington papers for the re-erection of St. John's ' Presbyterian Church. Judge Johnston recently spoke strongly ' against the habit of cashing cheques for strangers as an incentive of forgery. - &.t the Wellington Police 1 Court.Hemy Anderson was sentenced to a week's im- ! ' prisot-unent without hatd labor for haviaK beon found! drunk hi Difcori-street on Thursday nijlit. Mr Wardell, K.M., m inflicting the sentence, remarked that that drmr-keniießsseemedto.be a disease,more tlian anything else m his case. [" Mr Bruce will ask the Postmaster General on Tv eaday : Whether it be true that contracts l'ior conveyance of mails during the ensuing year between Masterton and WoodviJle, have been entered iito without the usual formality, of public tender ; and, if so, the date of con- -. tract, the name of the contractor, and -the reason why the contract was not subknitted to public coojpetition?

Wo acknowledge receipt from the GovcniDKMit. Printe.; 1 of Reports cm Federation nnd Annexation, on Friendly Societies, on the North Island Trunk Railway and other Purltumcntiiry papors. What a number of trades are represented m the colony. W notices that tatters of iiHturalisatioirhavc b^en issued among others to Johan c* Hess, Vl'oliu-string maker, Petoiife. From the Post we loam that the Joint I House Committee lias got into hot watt:r by assuming judicial functions and issuing " prohibition orders" m regard to one or two hdn. members, who are said to bitterly resent the attempted, interfprr eiiee with their full enjoyment of the privi'esjes of Bellamy's. It, is rather a nice point to decidewhere^thpse of Bellamy's end and tlioso or tho House or Council begin. I . • ' If." j Tho Napier Telegraph says :-j-A meeting of the settlers of Papakura, Taradale, and Meanee was held on Saturday for the purpose of taking preliminary stops for the formation of a Buttei\F,ac- . tpry.'Goiiipany. •;" '< } ,; ' The local paper understands tha T t, steps are to bo taken to form a Pschyt chological Society for Woodville for the^ purpose of investigating occult sciences. Mr. Pinsdale is moviug actively m the ! matter, and will be glad to receive, the names of those desirious of joining. Mr A. A. Browne has received three nominations for the Education Board' vacancy, viz., Messrs J. H. Fry, Makinp Road ; E. S.Thynne, FoxWr J and Viggo' Morirad, "l^arerej TliV. election papers have to be m by the 27th of the! month. The sleeping car belonging to Barnum's circus was burned while landing on the aide track at aplace called Jamestown. The ; Ca r. was occupied by Chang the IChinese giant, arrd - his manager. They were asleep m the car, and had a narrow, escape., ■ ; Chang: lost :his onti re ward rob' c, a ■ valuable gold watch, £1,400 m: money, and several diamonds. The lost jewels wore presented to him by the Czar of • Russia, the Emperor of Austria, and the , Emperor of Prussia. Chang also, missed' his gold watch and chain presented by Queen Victoria. Chang had a hearty cry over his misfortune. i His. Honor Mr Justice Richmond is" •evidently one of a large number -of old colonist who deprecate the wholesale, seuspJe^s, andwreckless denudation of tho forest^ lands of the colony! During the examination of a wituess-in.. the Wellington Supreme Court m ja a\xe wherein the plaintiff sued for the ,de-. strHctio.ii of his willow plantation, his Honor express Td his satisfaction,; allud ing to ah avsertiou made by the witness, that a person could be found courageous enough to spuak m favour of our native bush. His Honor remarked thntit .was; pitiful to see tho ruthless destruction of a 1 portion of the bush" by settlers. Mr TraverH fully concurred m the rfemarlU ; of his Honor, and added that in' many instances the Government insisted on settlers clearing a certain portion of their forest land selections. . •- In," Jacob FaitfulV drawing on the HawTce^ Bay Spring meeting the first prize, 'valued at £200, wenftoa wellknown storekeeper at Woodville, j and a Dauevirk© man ' whose name ' implies memories of the Emerald -Isle, wh'on the second prize. We kuow of another>pnze having, gone to Woodville, < and prizes have also gone to Pahnerston North, Tak»pau,Waipukurau,Wanganui, Welliugtoh, Wairoa, Grisborue, Auck land ' Sydney, and Napier. The straightforward manner m which " Jacob .Faithful's" ventures are conducted is making them very popular.. Another consultation is elsewhere announced. ■ < • ; There ; "are 27 'Salvation stations m jifew Zealaud., . Wanganui was the 24th.Modern song of the shirt—" Rip, rip, rip, baud and gusset and seam. Rip, rip, rip, confound the sewing machine." It is stated that no less than sevehty,seven million's of pounds .are "lying dormant m Chancery,"' aud'calmly awaitiug claimants. , ■. , llie scow Una, owned by D. H. : Me-' Kenzie, of Auckland, laden with timber^ strpek on a sunken Jrockoußide the harbor, and is expected ,to become a! itotal. wreck. •'..-■■ . ' . '■■ ! „;,: ... v /.-..! An advertisement m a ' Cbotumundra paper offers a reward of £500 for, any, passage of Scripturo which affirms that man has an immortal soul.' The challenge has been accepted by the Rev. B. Ingflis, M.A., Presbyterian Minister, provided' the Bishop of Sydney will act as ump|re. U_^ , / ;J. \ Saturday's Wanganui Herald i^ns' tlie •following items'! i-^EhenzerDrxon, the uufdrtunate lunatic who ' lias' so j often been forwarded to Wellington i from various parts of the, colony,: wag bright iv by train from Palmers.ton On Friday aud forwarded by the Huia to Welling-' ton. — A. patient- named Mrs^H'. Robinsou from Foxton, died m the Hospital on Friday. Tin: deceased was admitted' oil ' September 17th, 'suftcring frpL v i a cancer of the liver, and it was to this disease she succumbed. The body wasltaken -to Foxton by train. i ! : ' -," -Mr George Sawkins, the.Fr'eethought lecturer, has been trying his fortunes m Blenheim, but he lias not met with a very , reception . there.; His 'Jectui'eß are very plainly^ characterised , by the local Press as coarse and ofEen; Biye. ; . , .;;.... \ • •'■ An affecting incident m connection ' with, the. new engine ; recciyed ;fpr the ' Railway ip that Mr'Brbihley, the' engineer who wept up' to Leeds to inspect it before it! was shipped to New Zealand; was "killed m a railway accident as he was on his way back to London. Mr Carruthers, thje > /consulting engineer for the WellirigtonManawatu Railway Company, and gentleman m this colony,. 'v^as- to; have accompanied Mr Bromley to^Leeds, but. fortunately was unable to ,ieaye,Lohdon when the deceased did, otherwise he very likely would have 'tpec* a similar fate. " ■ .. '•' •■ ■ ~ „ ; . .