LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 8 November 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Daring the trial at the Foxiipn: R.M. Court, of a man charged with horsestealing, Constable Carr, who prosecuted, explained that a Court could not bo got at, Otaki, as the Justices were and the case had therefore to be] brought to Eoxton. This was done at g^eat \n-> convenience, and a brake had to; be hired Von the previous day to bring the five or six witnesses to Foxton. i The appropriations under the New Zealand Loan Act, introduced by Sir Julius Yogel are as follows :—lmmigration, £30,000 ;" railways, £700,000 ; roads, bridges, and public buildings, £620,000 ; telegraph extension, £30,000; goldfields, roads, and water-races, £40, 000; lighthouses, and harbour works, £40,000 ; charges and expenses ; of raisin* loan, £40,000. Total; £1,500,000. This loan has not. of course, anything to do with the million loan for the Central railway' ' ''j • The following important telegram was published m the Auckland "Weekly News of November Ist from its Parliamentary correspondent :— lt is understood that the Minister for Public Works thinks that thq North Island Railway, pay be pushed on from To, Awamutu and from Marton. '''""' '" ■•' "' : . • 'Thursday was the day fixed for 'the, .usual monthly meeting of the Manawatu County Council, but at the hour'appointed, oniy Crs Thyune, Gibson, and M'fiehzip, were m attendance. After wait4he necessary half 'hour, the meeting lapsed for want of quorum, and now stands adjourned ; until Thursday next, at the usual 'hour. Crs M'Lennan ; and Sanson arrived by the 2 p.m. train, but of course the business could not be taken. , The following is the clause of the Police Offences Bill :— "Any person who on Sunday, m view of any public place, trades, deals, transacts business,' or exposes any goods for sale, or keeps open to public view any house, store, shop, liar, or other place for the purpose of trading, transacting business, or exposing goods for sale therm, or plays at any game or pastime m any public place or discharges, any firearms, shall for every' such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the sale of medicines or the keeping open of the sh'bps of druggists or apothecaries nor to bakers or pastrycooks until nine m the forenoon or between one and six m the afternoon, nor to hairdressers or barbers until half -past nine m the forenoon." ■ Says the Napier Herald. :— As a party were mustering sheep on Mr Douglas's run last week they observed, three hawks * artae u\ .- . ■ > t^ a Xt i... — fcomji j)iece oicover. One»of the party impem«»~u»r_ curiosity, went to see what the . hawks* had been doing, and he found that each had killed h hen pheasant. One was partially eaten, but the other two had just beep killed, and they, were taken ,to the station and cooked. ; It is not surprising that pheasants are getting scarce at this rate. If other country resident^ will keep a watch and send us the result of their experience we shall "be happy to" make it known, so that as far as possible the admitted scarcity of< pheasants may be traced to the' true cause. / '•-..■' . ■ - ■.■.;;■ .. ;; ■'-• It is very -singular (says the Feildfng paper) that a package containing a bottle of whiskey," which was lost on Saturday, laßt, should be found and returned to the owner m a few hours after the loss was discovered. Yet a purse belonging to a poor servant girl lost about the same time has not yet been handed m. ! , Persons who have seen the ex-Em-press Eugenic quite recently say that she is rapidly breaking down, and predict that she will not much longer survive her husband and son, whose,, memory she mourns constantly. She ."was persuaded a few weeks ago to leave her home at Farnboroagh, England, and try the effect of a secluded summer residence m Switzerland. The change, however, has not resulted m any benefit to her health. Some traces of her famous beauty still remain, but there is no vestige of her former vigor arid spirit. She is bent, withered, and querulous, and when she undertakes to walk she totters along painfully with the help, ofastick. A .disgraceful scene was witnessed at Halcombe on Wednesday evening last at a Salvation Army .meeting held m the Primitive Methodist Church. The notorious Wi Pata, of Kakariki fame,? along with another Maori, got ! tipsy, and, taking advantage of the absence of a constable, went to the meeting and made use of some most foul language, besides creating a disturbance. : ' ; At the Otaki Police Court, before Messrs Simcox and Hadfield Esqs., J.P's - Alexander McCleland, a boy aged 12 years, appeared to answer an . information charging him with having stolen a purse and £3 Is 3d the property of Grace Clark, at Otaki, on or about the sth of October 1884. Grace Clark, an old woman of nearly 80 years, deposed! she was m the habit jit employing, the, accused to cut firewood for her, and on the 6th October, he bad been about her place and she missed her purse and £3 Is 3d. She identified the purse produced as her purse. The. Bench con sidered the case clearly proved, and inflicted a fine of £4 and 18s costs of Court, also the £3 to be refunded to Mrs Claik, total— £7 18s. The £4 to be paid at once, and the remainder m one month, or m default on o month's imprisonment m .Wanganui gad), with hard labor. , . ! Ex-Empress Eugenic ia far from poor. Besideß inheriting the Prince Imperials's fortune and possessing large sums, well invested, she owns great traots of pine forests m the Landes which yield excellent revenue. She is writing her memoirs. / ;>. r ' In the House on Wednesday/Mr Beethain asked the Minister for Lands if the Government will,during the present session, take any action to carry out the recommendation of the Waste Lands •Board of the Wellington district relating to the advisability of felling timber on road lines previously to the blocks of land being thrown open for sale ? He explained that public bodies found considerable difficulty m opening up roads m country districts m consequence of timber pyerstanding -the Jines. The Minister was understood to reply to the question ia the affirmative.

In another column is published a notice from the late collector of the Manchester Road Board, which particularly concerns our Ashurt readers. Messrs Stevens and Gorton announce their next stock sale at the Awahuri Yards to take place on Friday next at 1 p.m. The catalogue will be found advertised m another column. Attention is directed to an alteration m the official assignee's advertisement re the estate of J. R. Harper. Stock-taking having been completed tenders are now' invited for the purchase of the goods, wholly or m part, together with the working plant. The CainpbelltowQ business which is still being carried on as a going concent, is also offered. Anyone requiring a really sound and profitable opening could not do better than take over this branch. The Woodville Examiner \ says the railway station site is noW practically, settled, and we understand is fixed m Bowen-street, extending from near M'Lean-streat to Burgoyne-street. It will have the^ effect of closing Ormond and Ross-streets and perhaps Burgoyhe- , street, but as the settlers y ant 'the station m the centre of the town they must be . prepared to submit "to this. The main street to the station will probably be Ross-street and ; already high prices are offering for land m ihe vicinity.. ..-. ,-^ .■;■.;-:■■• ; / t 1 Legislators are pretty -ihuchf the same the world over. During the recent ses-j sion of the French Assembly the members drank " 2000 quarts of besr, ' 500 quarts of brandy, and 3000 quarts of '•lniscellanaous" drinks. It is a suggestive fact that the debates of the Assembly have recently been especially violent and acrimonious. \ The early dissipations of the Prince, of Wales have made him at the age of forty-three, delicate, sour, -and dyspeptic.' Realising the need of regular hours and a quiet life, he is forced to shun the society of the fast companions of his former years. ; , , Lady Campbell has been granted a divorce from her husband, Sir Colon, Campbell. The judge characterised, his conduct as simply inf amous\ She received her divorde on the third ahnniversary of her wedding day. i The tppsaij schoouer Martnipn arrived, m Wellington otf Thursday night, with 65,000 feet df timber from Kaipara. ;, The steaiaer YiotoryVarrivipg'at ■WelJington to-day 1 via Port Chalmers and Lytteltoß, will remain until the 15th' vrhen she proceeds' to Port Chalmers (b take a quantity of frozen meat, and Bails from there for London.! > An eastern man received a telegram from the west announcing the ; sudden demise of a relative, and he replied— ' Send on the remains at once.' No telegram was received m answer, but m a few days a letter came, raying simply— 1 There ant no remains. He War kick , by,a-mul:' ' .-:■.- ■■ . '.■ J y ■>''':■' Another illusion gone. ' The Duke of Manchester considers the northern territory of Australia the best watered' part of the continent. Vegetation rioher and grass thicker, than that of Queensland. The up-country districts of Otago are by no means free from rather stiff breezes. Of a gale that blew at Clyde on Sunday week, the local Times says :— Few of the small detached buildings that met its fury are left standing, and many of the larger and more substantial structures received a considerable shaking. The Courthouse, which may be looked upon as good a building as could be constructed, had its roof bodily lifted and shifted out of place, and but for its weight and firmness must have been completely wrecked. The county buildings. Which stand adjoining the court? house, had some of the windowframes forced bodily iv. •.■■'■>■