LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 137, 20 November 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Munro, of Palmerston (Otago) has been appointed piper to his Excellency ! the Governor. This is the piper who : played so effectively at the recent mcmi bers' ball m Wellington. 1 Writes the Bruce Herald :— The Scots' ; Church, Melbourne, has started a movement to improve the newsboys. What ■ particular form the movement will as- ' sume is not as yet revealed, verily our Christian brethren m Melbourne have undertaken a herculean task. If after trying their best with the newsboys for a century or so, they are at all successful, they may be encouraged to try their hands upon a reporter or two", and it : may be that m the long run they might find themselves able .to improve an : editor, although we are rather doubtful of ; the latter* . ■ According to the local Mail;. — Wai- : pawa people. have been victimised dur- ! ing the last few dayß by a young fellow : who appears to have belonged to a great variety of professions and societies. He succeeded m fleecing the charitably disposed m sums from a few shillings to £1 each, upon '''Various pretences. As :he is now m Napier he will possibly meet with a check. When a son of Charles Dickens was about to go to Australia his father sent him a letter, and among other' good things it contained wore these words : " Never take' a mean advantage of any. one m any transaction, and never be 'hard upon people who are in' your power." Dickens used to be hard-up , himself once, and, no doubt, wrote feel- ; ingly when he penned the above sentence. ;, . ; Trout have been successfully aclimali tj^ed m various streams on the Waimate Plains. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Bnapehu was to leave Lyttelton for Wellington. After taking m some 3000 carcases of frozen mutton ! she returns to Lytttelton, to. saji tb^enpe . \ for London early next week.

It is generally rumoured (says tho Poverty Bay Herald) that Air liallaiice, Native Minister, will arrive here at tho gikl of the weo., but so far uo official intimation of the fact has been received. He will be the first Native Minister, since Sir Donald McLean's time, to visit this part of the North Island. The Registrar-General, Mr W. R. E. Brown, who is at present m England on sick leave, is^jxpected to return to the Colony m January, and it is said that his health is quite restored. Some time ago it was mentioned that an aged clergyman m Victoria was about to be married to a youthful lady, but was dissuaded from doing so by the remonstrances of his congregation. It appears, however, that the temptation was too strong, and it is now stated that the Rev. Dr Brdornby, aged 75, has been united to Miss Banks, aged 16. The Government are determined (says a Wellington paper) to lose no time m pushing ahead the construction of the Nort Island Trunk Railway. The permanent survey is already commenced, and it is anticipated that the first sod of this national undertaking will be turned some time m February next. A large meeting at Tenui has endorsed Mr R. S.Hawkins' scheme of roads m preference to a railway for opening up the Forty-mile Bush. A rival to the Anglo-New Zealandtr has just appeared m London under the title of the British Australasian. As aneasy; agreeable, and efficient treatment for diarrhoea, . Dr Vigouroux recommends a glass of hot lemonade ' every hour or half-hour. Miss Louise Crawford's Dramatic Company are playing London by Night " to good houses m Auckland. The Canterbury Times says: — We want new markets for frozen meat. One of the people on board a direct steamer not long ago took 50 sheep to Rio, on the homeward trip, and the Brazillians, wearied with the scrubby rubbish from the Plate (their main supply), thought so much of his little consignment, that they cleared him out m a jiffy at a shilling a pound. The fortunate man probably netted £2 10s. per carcase clear. Why not open up a trade with Rio ? An extraordinary discovery was made m Edinbuigh recuutly. Two medical men were called m to see a patient, when they found the man had been living for seven years m a bed closet, holding communication with no one, not even his sister who lived m the same house the whole of the time. His hair was about two feet long, and he had armed himself with an axe, with which he attacked the doctors when they approached, him. The unfortunate man was convey-: ed to an^asylum. ' ! A new departure m Anglican Church! matters m this colony is about to be initiated. Two well-known English clergymen, the Rev. Canon Mason and the Rev Mr Boddington, are about to pay a missionary visit to New Zealand. They "intend to remain eight months m the col-, ony, four of which is to be devoted to! c the diocese of Auckland, which has guaranteed £250 towards the expenses. The diocese of Dunedin has, through its Synod, expressed a desire to share m their labours, but does hot see its way to give a guarantee towards the expenses of the missionaries. The necessity for an efficient ranger is thus indicated by tho Feilding Star ': — ; The capacity of the Square for grazing purposes was well exemplified yesterday when our roporter counted on one quarter of it 26 milch cows m full enjoyment of an uninterrupted feed. A few yards from the Square, a bullock with a dray attached to him was wandering about on ' Eimbolton road unattended, and perfectly happy. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next sale be held on November 25th. Ihe an trieg_ ji±«.km > <»o««»«>~~- — =—— •* - are published m our advertising columns. They include beef , yearling steers, two-and-a-half-year-old steers, and mixed cattle. A Wellington paper severely attacks Parliament for the drunkenness of some of its members. It boldly says : — " Who shall deny that during the recent session there was drunkenness within the walls of the Parliamentary buildings ; not merely too much to drink, but open scandalous drunkenness, paraded sometimes m sight of the public ; not the drunkenness of clerks, policemen,; and messengers (that would have been altogether too awful from a' Parliamentary point of view and would soon have been remedied), but the drunkenness of a few of those whose business it was to make laws for the country ." Stephen, Grover Cleveland President of the United States, was born m 1838. j At an early age he entered a store, . and at sixteen was a teacher m the ; asylum for the .blind m New York. He i subsequently became office boy m a lawr . yer's office m Cleveland, and rose to the position of head clerk. Having qualified for the bar, he commenced practice as; an attorney, and m 1863 became Assis- : tant District Attorney, for County, Erie. In 1869 he was appointed sheriff, and : m 1880 Mayor of Cleveland. He was subsequently nominated as a candidate j for thb Governorship of New York, and was elected. Ho is a batchelor. A large band of depraved boys, many . under 12 years of age, was recently unearthed at Stamford Conn., U.S. by the police. The troop was under the leadership of one aged ,20. They had been guilty of the most revolting crimes, aud were known as " The Sheuandoah Gang. 1 ' Piles of vile literature were found at their rendezvous. > \ ; From Messrs Walker and Hatrick we I (ilerald) learn that the produce, etc., per Louie, to Rockhampton, realised satisfactory prices, with the exception of the half-ton of Okoia cheese. The Louie arrived at its destination : some eight days before the Waireka, which left here at the same time. The unfortunate Bannockburn was here loading about the same time as the other two mentioned. . A Dunedin telegram states that the schooner Wanganui repoj&ji speaking the brig Star of the Mersejroh the 13th, the latter having been on her beam ends off: Timaru, the ballast having shifted. The Zealandia, on her last trip to 'Frisco, took a parcel of Greymouth coal for the purpose of testing its steaming qualities, Reichck, Austrian naturalist, has returned to Auckland after six months' residence m the West Coast Sounds. He intends publishing a tourist's hand-book for the Sounds atid alpine regions. The production of "Israel m Egypt'" by the Auckland Choral Society is said to bo the' greatest musical success achieved m Auckland, There were 50 soprano, 28 con ti alto, 39 tenor, 43 basso, ahd4s orchestra. | William Barton, Wai kato Maori Missionary, is dead. In the time of the war m 1863 he rendered service to the colony by information he furnished to tho Government, and steadily refusing to join the rebels and inducing the tribe and a large number of other natives to remain loyal. ■ The Paternngi (Waikato) Cheese factory has erected a butter plant, and butter making will be a feature m the operations m the coming season: The company has been, offered 9d per Ib. for the entire, buttor produce of the season. '. . • Home newspapers are now received m New Zealand within a little over five weeks' from -date 1 of publication. '

The Leeds Mercury, a paper of enormous circulation m the North of England, m a recent issue thus answers a correspondent, J. 13 .: " Yes, by all means we advise New Zealand, It is much the best-governed, richest, most fertile, and most desirable colony for emigration. With a capital of £3000 and two grownuy sons you should do well." It is, we {Post) believe, the intention of the Government to push on the construction of the Manawatu Gorge railway from Palmerston North to Woodville, so as to have it ready for opening simultaneously with the completion of the line from Wellington to Palmerston North. As the line is also being rapidly extended from Napier towards Wood ville the probability is that only a very small break will by that tipio interfere with through railway communication from Wellington to Napier. The Poverty Bjay Heral4 has the following., paragraph :— The - 'remains of John Healey, who died at the Hospital on Wednesday last, were interred yesterday. No burial service was read at the grave, as Father Riordan refused to perform the ceremony, on the ground that the deceased, when alive, had not complied with the rules of his Church, thereby depriving him of. the rights of Christian burial. The wife- and relatives of the deceased were very much grieved because a clergyman' was not present. Father Riordan, however, states that ho cannot perform the burial service, unless members of his 'denomination comply with the rules of their Church.