Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 278, 21 October 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. : Visitors to Palmerston who havie an objection to stayiug at hotels and wishing 'for comfortable and first class accouioelation, 'should patronize Mr J. T. Davis' private hotel, ('next Praser's bakery), where they will fiiid a well-kept hpuse, good attendance, aud cxtreuiely mjiderato charges. i! We believe the attack made on, Mrs Shailer by. a uavvie last Friday, and for winch ha- w,au' heavily lined, was :oue of the most barefaced and outrageous j that has ever tnken place here. The assault was committed at. about 9 o'clock m the .evening,' when Mr and Mrs Shailer were returning home from the' Square, j On Mr >huiler interfering, he. received a tirade of indecent aud abusive 'lau^aage. The man, whose name is Keating, icoti- ' tinued his annoyance when 'Mr Shailer went to the police stcition,bycou»ingback ° and catching hold of Mrs Shailer's ; arm > and further insulting her.. The B'enoh very properly stated itsiritentibn to, put & stop to outrages of this kiud, byj inh" ictiDg a heavy penalty. ( Mr Walkley's "Old Billiard Room"; has", been made into a spacious couuner-cial-sitting room with every cpnven|eiice aud f uniitilied with elegance' and: poiivfort. The room has an additional; <jiitrauce Joor front ihe private Bide, of the li6use. The floor is covered with i new linoleum And carpet, 'uud theotherf urn-! isliiiigß tastefully arraujed, .consisting of spring Jouuge, arm chairs, handsomely turned, Tj>lack and white wickar rockiugrchairs, and ordinary sitting room appointments, and at one end of the room stands a' ioiig table' covered . with thedailj, colonial and foreign newspapers, aud m the centre 3 round tables all with handsome covers on. There iß{ also a book-case standing upon a cupboard together with an escotoire table furnished with uecessarry writing materials, Host Walk-ley's. attention to the public should receive, as' it. deserves, ! liberal patronage at their hands,.sis every month sees sonic new improvement effecte«i at nhe ' Ccorimercial increasing its comfortable accommodation and euljanciug its popularity.- • ••- Miluer Stephen, the magnetic healer, announced a public gratis healing for the poor last Saturduy m VVellingtou. But there were cither no poor ox iio sick, and so the affair did not come off. Mr Davis' new fruit store is the picture of neatness and , cleanliness, and •.those descriptions of fruit which are to Ibe pbtaiued at this time of the year are •displayed to advantage m his new preimises into which he has just removed. Mr Patten did not read his paper on "Sound last evening at the louug Men's .Mutual Improvement Class various read:ingß and reqitutions being taken instead. .Mr Patten will give his paper next Mo»Klay.. It is expected that Mr K. Leaiy will bring a Larynxscope for showing the action of tho vocal cords. The attandance at this meeting' should be large' a« xhe subject and general features of tlw entertainment will bo exceptionally interesting. : At 3rfashionable,Napier church, new version V "Lord hare mercy on 'us,'miserable singers!" Many a boy has lost his grip on his father* affection by being able to lick: the old gentleman at a friendly game of euchrfi. TSbe ship Crusader left Auckland for London on Sunday, with a cargo valued at £4&.©QQ, comprising kauri .gum, £24,0©0 ; wool, £8000. . The Waßfiika lletf t Ouehunga for Soutii with file Southern San Francisco mails at 10 o'clock, on Sunday forenoon and crossed' the Manukau%ar at noon. The ship Orari from London arrived m Wellington from London, after a passage of 99 days.. She spoke the Pareora, London to Otago ; and Pleione, London to Wellington. The Doric's last run was the fastest on record^ occupying only 37 days 10 hours 56 minutes actual steaming time, or 9 hours 44 minutes shorter than the Ruapehu's celebrated passage. < The Masterton gold prospectors are again iv trouble. Edward Perry was supposed to.be sick, but it seems (says a VVairarapa paper) he has vanishetl like a dream, and the bondsmen, becoming , .iaiarined, h,ave withdrawn their bail, au .uufortuhate thing for M'Keuna, who has | irtiieod his ground like a man. ['■'■' A. ninety-two-year-olfl lady' in -.New' York is just learning to play the piano. Sliesfcys that a woman who can't play someawrt of an instrument now-a-days stands but a poor show of getting mariried. .'' . ' .■•'•'"' A ifciiad-eaman m the north of France, on (Oipeniug a money drawer, found scraps which, upon examination, turned out to be the paper of the Bank of France. Five votes of a thousand, francs each lind been apparently destroyed, and it was ascertained that the. culprit could only be a mouse. A trap was set to catch tho thief, the remnants m the drawer was carefully collected, and an hour later the nibbler was taken. Immediately the mouse was taken to a veterinary surgeon, put to death, and dissected. It's stomach contained the undigested meal of paper. The pieces were matched and gummed together.

A tricycle trip from Italy tlnuiigli France lias bcon m.'ido by two Kngli^li ladies from Port M.-iurizio, on the Gulf of Genoa, to Boulogne. Th«y rode a sociable, and spent 46 days on the neyAt a school m the country, the sentence " Mary niilks tho cow," was givun out to be pursed. The last word was disposed of as follows : — '* Cow is a noun, feminine gender, and stands for Mtuy." " Stands for Mary !" said the excited pedagogue ; "how do yoa make that out ?" "Because," answered the intelligent pupil, "if the cow didn't stand for Mary, how could Mary milk her ?"