LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 281, 24 October 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Napier people have resolvad toerect a fitting recognition of the go^dj. Aviorks of the Very Rev. Father Forest,, and a comtnittee has been appointed to; carry- out {ho- proposal. The ; proposed memorial is estimated to cost -£200.' ! * ; ' The' barque Helen Denny, Captain James, left London on, September 11, for Wellington , consigned 'to M'essit Levin and Go. ; she was to bo foJJowed by the barque Akaroa, Captain Bowling.. ' The oharte'fed steamer Coptic, now on 1 , her way put to the. colony, calls at the following ports :-r-Part Chalmers, Lyttelton,"Napier, and Wellington, and is ■to Wellington for London direct •on December 17. Ahibfig several persons brought up at ' the Wellington "Police Court for having 1 unregistered dogß/ one defendtmt' alleged that --'the' &o§ which 'formed the subject of the case was sickening'f or the distemper when the e,agle eye of the itir, spectbr lighted pii . him, ■ aud had. since died. Mr jjph.nstqn, replied that whether tho do& WiaS sickening or , riot, he was certainly m a very active state '6f existence at the time, 'hrntingy further, that had the animal not bdeh held back ; , he would have abstracted a portion 1 of the trousers of the corporation 1 otFcer^ The Sydney Evening News states that Tawhiao,the Maori king, was on October 7, mot by his old New Zealand acquaintance, Captain William Jackson Barry, m company withMrJ.»A. Mansell, of bibliographical renown, and Mr' Quong Tart. The king and his chiefs insisted upon; Captain Barry and his friends dining with , them at the Coffee Palace, where a lively conversation ensued between the Captain and Tawhiao m; inference'to his recent trip to, London. Theking laughed heartily at the cap-^ tain's jokes on MaorilancT, where the explorer once stopd ,as,gpdfat,h.er to a sqn , of.theogreat warrior chief- Te Ake, and oliFvstened him William Jackson Te Ake. Tawhiao,| wh'd is to' be photographe6Yt©T gether with Captain Barry, by Mr King, of iGedrge-street, is anxious 1 'that'his old friend should ;; accompany ,. him .ta , his native country, where tfte captain can see hisVodson, and, as the, story-book says, "live happy for'tne remairi'der/'of 1 his days." " ;i •■""■ f:fli ■-"- - '-' '-' - •i - Frdni a Wellington paper we learn that , a distress warrant was issued on' Monday last against the' Commissioner of Telegraphs for £20, for judgment , obtained again'stthei Telegraph. Ddp.art-: ment a few days ago by MrSonnnerville for the Value of a horse ; destroyed by a member of the department. Mr. Macandrew has given notice of his intention to. move m the House, "That a return be laid before this Hpufie 'showing gross and net earnings m each railway district throughout 'the' colony fdr'tKTtwelve months ending the 30th September' last ; return to state the .boundaries of each railway.'^' >'■ ■ \) r Say«f the; Hawera Star : — W& lea'm that Mr George Muir a day or two ago > turned up' the skull of a pakeha near: Von .Tempsky's camp at Te Ngutu-o-tp-;' Manu. The; skull, it seems, singular, from the fact that it is quite perfect,and does riot appear tp have been tomahawked, as was the case generally with' Europeans' taken m warfarejin the olden days. This last remnant of some poor hero-.is worth keepm'gasja reminiscence of stirring days gone, by.. ' The following advertisement appeared m the Post '.-^£3 i Reward. Whereas some vindictive Devil,: (under; the 3m' 8e of a human bejng). did^i on; the might of the 17th, or morning of. the 18th inst., maliciously c«t of the leg of a domesticated cat belonging to rae, this is to certify that ' the ' ' aboVe reward tvUI he paid to any person 1 '"On giving Ruch-in-^ formation as will lead to the conviction of the offender. JatQe* Rowe, Ngahau T ranga." ; fountain Guide : .This, -• gentlemen, is the finest prpspect anywhere for miles around. Standing here you can" see no fewer than tnirty-two-public'houseß." •A! young woman named Margaret Grice McNamara has been arrested at ' Quorn, South Australia, 1 for threatening 1 the life of Police-trooper Power for haying injured her. Disguised as a man with a packhorse, and armed with a loaded revolver, she travelled oil horse;- . batik, m male attire, over 1700. miles •lookingjfur him. "Warrior" m the Otagp Witness selected fifteen; horses for the Qaulh'eld Cup tp produce the winner, the list ap pearing m last Saturday's paper — not one of them got a place. Pulpit notices, as a rulo, are commonplace enough, 'but the following, given out by the Vicar of Osmotherley, before commencing his sermon the other Sunday are something out of .the common : , — '■* I desire to give .notice that I have j received a letter from a lady asking mo to find her two female servants. A friend of mine also wants a hirtd such as I could thoroughly recommend." The ' Frisco mail has been delivered m Napier pn Mpnday night (says the Telegraph.) This is the best on record, and is due to its having been landed at New Plymouth, and from there forwarded overland by train and coach. Now it has been delivered expeditiously by this route the only wonder is that is has npt been bp sent before.

Writes the Mauutahi correspondent ■'oTttie P-itea Mail :— A piece of jobbery has come to/ -\tny notice m connection with the 1 carrying of Her Majesty's mails from Mauutahi railway station to Hawera. Tenders all over New Zealand are beinc; always called for such' work', but m this case I leani, our local men never had a show to do so, as the contract is let privately .to a Mr A. Young, of Wellington, till sueli time as the Hue is completed. : , ; : The largest room m the world, under 'One 1 roof, and unbroken by pillars, is at St. Petersburg. It is 620.' f*»et loflg'hy 150 m breadth. By daylight it is used for military ""displays, and a bataUioa can completely manceuvro m it. Twenty thousand wax tapers are- required to light it. The roof of this structure is a archof irony and it exhibits remarkable engineering sbill m tlje^ architect- : The poet Moore used to hunt for days for a: single word to complete the ihusical cadence of a rhyme. Yet, when he mashed his fingers with a hammer he had. no difficulty -m instantly hitting on just the word he wanted to , express the musical cadence of his eiiio— tioiis. - A man | sentenced to death"" m New York passed the time between his trial and the sentence being carried out m perfecting! a fire-escape of which he was the inventor. The New York ; Times commentiug on this, says :— :"Hq seems mure interested m his fire-escape than thinking. ojf4iis own ifuture." We con* sider a mau-whp: •. \yas. iuventiug a ma- . chine of that sort is deeply interested m looking ajfter his own future. We siibuld like to know more, about this invention. We might take the agency here. When the final infernal cremation takes- place there, "will be a "great demand f<jr fire-escapes. We should require a couple at least for our own staff, and the Feilding Star we know would take at least — but there, the business that 'opens before us almost takes our breath away. : The Hokitika Guardian says that the recent gathering of rats atColUngwood 1 , though rather an unusual phenomeudn, :is not lanprecedehted iv New Zealand. In the- eariy part of the' settlement of the West Coast, a> legion of rodents, es-' 1 iimated tq number about half a million, were seen; at the Waimea. Tho vermin appeared to have been en rou^for-pas-•tiires iie\v, as ' tliey inarched m a body ''close by the ;town.s'hip. ' : ' "