Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 144, 28 November 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Says Tuesday's W airarapa [Daily:* The Salvation Arniy : parftded the Maini titre'e't; Qreytowii, ik oil last, amongst them being a number of Hrreyr town' converts, who sang like (< nightia^ gales" and kept step like the " Hungry. Army." ■>. - . ! '["'' Bishop Crowther, England's; black \ bishop of Africa, « Was uiadea l slave m a battle between African chiefs fi£i£y years a?o. Be was sold for rum to a , slavpr, . ,;aud then, captured, by Van English crnieer. . - j .:■■.: 3 :f'.r Atj a meeting of manufacturers |atWel- ; lihgton it waa decided to form a • €ham- ' berof Manufacturers,^ . { vi-. •- 1 1n Nelsbn'the plague of rats is beidgi turned to good account— the' pigs are l)eibg'fed on the savory rode'hta.! ''The Otago. Daily' Times aays:^-. " Majdr Atkinson's defect lies m narrowness of view, and a tendency to fossilise. He has been shut up m New Zealaud too long. It ,\vould,pay the colony over and over again to send him Home for a trip during the recess, and giye him the opportunity q£ mixing with 'abler inuu ' than himself, and seeiug ..from 'Other points of view. 1 ? ' ; -•: ■••;■•; ';«i!-i ",\,. t ' The cbdlin -moth -thrives" well inTas:iiiania!lhough fruit from there is under no embargo m New Zealand. , ; |Cba,rleß Matners was arrested m Cork, whito taking pasaage to America, on a charge of embezzlement,and wa^ lodged iti the local Bridewell. His gaoler, haV-' ing business ih the cell, went into the apartment, and Mathers walked out and turned the key. He proceeded to Bride well-keeper's wife^ and, t'ellitig her that her husband had a fit, he managed to get her into the cell also, and then,, decamped. :., , :...,. •• : The London ' correspondent of the Lytteltou Times writes :—?■" I haver to add, what will be learned ' with regret, by many m New Zealand, that jtHe'rek' presentative OF New Zealand inete'rests 1 m Sau Francisco, Mr, R. J. Creiglitoti, has severed his connection with the Evening Posl, and is about leaving San Jhrancißcd. Tlie services* which .^hats gentleman has rendered New Zealand, and his indefatigable zeal for everything that promised to benefit the colony have never been adequately recognised.',!' '"," - Bicyclists and' trieyclists are becoming a power -in the Old Country. 'An exchange says .:— Wheelmen in'Kngland number hundreds of thousands, Bustain dozens of newßpaper»," arid 500 1 inanufacturiug firms, and have a. road from Brightou to London all io themselves. Chiarini's Circus is said to have taken £5,000 m Napier m five days,- and yet. the Colony its said to be suffering from M a wave of depression;" ; x „■. " Says the London correspdndent of the Dunedin Sta* <-J\ ;The ' Ageiit|Greneral ; has-received instructions to : at once forward all nominated uumigrantß who tfad b^en waiting. ; consequently , about 800 adults will be sent to New Zealand,, dvi- . ing the next t'liree months." v v M'r v Targus sol«i liw' story, "Called Back," outright to its publisher for £80. Afterwards the publisher agreed to pay the author £B for, every. 10.00 -copies he feold, and sint'e .then Fargus' income has been about £50 a week. ; < Mr George Allen just- saved the penalty m connection witli his nomination forihe position of Mayor of Wellington. 1 The Act provides that ady unsuccessful candidate must poll an » eighth of the total votes of the lowest number polled. Mr Petherick, the second candidate,, „no^ied' 4os. yotes, and as M^ AUe^n polled 7£ votes, he just managed to save, hia : ilepo^t'mouey : (^ii6^ <y: '; ; ' ' l - " ' Ur% (J. Co!x| ! if6rme ; rljjr; !< 6f .the Bank b£ J Au'siraljiif^ m :F6xfoti; ; liaS 'been appointed to th& agency at Patea. ItMa expected ; that tlie WdodviUe 1 cheese and bacon fac'tory<will'commeuce operations about the middle of Decetn • ■£gr. v -T-be .roauager^is now m charge, and the 'engine and boiler have just been put on the ground, so that everything will soontoe m readiness. The farmers ( have repently taken aonftiderable interest iti 'the' concern. They' have increasedtheir nmnber of cows to Biich, an extent ' that an ample supply of milk is guaranteed to ensure success; ; > The price to be paio\ for milk is 4d the gallon. : In Qlaßgow thereis.yne public hfiuso license to 69 families ; one school to 707 ; one baker to 279 ; one butcher to 448 ; and one dairyman to 413. , 'Tlie llibn (N;Y>.) Citizdn contains the ; following statement y th«- huad of i'l& columns -.^ The entire body-matter of this paper, was composed by a type-set-, ting machine, and the, paper was priijted by electricity. It is the first' newspaper on earth* to establish this ' preced en t." It is stated that the first' contracts of the North Island trunk railway will be let m February next. It has, been sug- . gested that Tawhiao should be asked to turn the first sod. ' - The. Auckland Star says that; the 1 labor market is glutted iv that city. • ■ , Tlie electric lighting of Lyttelton harb'bur oft 'tlie '(^ulblier system is declared to be entirely successful;'' ' ' : ' .Mi M. •Caselberg^ of Masterton, has hit tipon a novelty m school prizes. He has offered the Masterton school committee a, sewing machine^ valued at £4 4s for the jgirl best qualified for becoin-* ; iag 'a $99^1 useful settler's wife. We wonder wlio are to be the judges. The London : Times began a six cotjinane aod a halt review of the life and , writings of BoHugbloke with the B^ate« metit that* i( Heutfy fi(fc, .'John, vow better krwwn as Viscount BbJiftJjbrdke, wusthe - greatest orator, tibo beat waiter, the least scrupulous Btatearaah., most iibcomplisUed profligate and ithe #w»t patriot of hiatime." v , : A physician .of Naples deqla^e^ aea-water^adxniniaterediby subcutapex3Wjß injectiens wiJl cure cholera.. :i * i The Government have jiwt itppqrted fnooi the English Mint a Quantity of new silver threepenny jiiecea and. ibron?e penny and halfpenny [pieee^. ti . , ; .

An Auckland Press Association telo-cra-n stales that Mrs llampson leftAuck:ind by tins last mail steamer. It is reporter! that nho will be marrieil m America to Mr Gv.a. Heinita, lato oi: Auckland who has obtained a divorce from his wife. At the Wnngamu District Court yesterday on tho application of Mr Scott, Deputy Official Assignee for Rangitikei, the following persons were adjudicated bankrupts :—J. Taylor, 0. Sjegel, P. S^endaOfG; .fe.-Sk«lly; and Fl'Beaven. At*. a temperance meetfrig' 'lately a weak-eyed, unhappy-looking old gentle- . man rose to give his experience on behalf I of good cause : — "Ladies and gentlemen, for thirty years not a drop of strong drink has passed my lips— yes, indeed," he continued, as if rousing aloud, "for thirty long weary years." At the last meeting of the Wellington Education Board, it was agreed, on the suggestion of l>r Newman, that the secretary should communicate with 4he secretaries --ot ■ the various Education Boards, m the colony, asking if they would^ consent to send to theforth- , coming Industrial Exhibition any samples of colonial made school apparatus and furniture, intimating at/tih'e same 'time thfit'th^ Government would undertake to grant free freight, ' i- \,. At the Wanganui District Court, m re E. Berkfield Mr H&nken applied for leave to allow E., H. Haughton, who had not -claimed on tb^ estate within -the three months, to participate m the.dividends. Sir Scott, Deputy Official Assignee, objected to the claim' being allowed. His Honor granted the order, subject to the Jcjjym; being^erjiijied to by th,e debtor. " The Feilding Storsays that Richard ClarfidgW, 1 w'lirise ontftnely death was reported from Napier a few days ago, was weil-known m tho Manawatu. He was o.ue of the first settlers m Pahrierston. He atone tilhe was owner of the land On which the Princess Hotel now stands at Terrace End. It is about ten years ago since he went to Napier. ; \ , ( " ■ ; At the^Wanganui District Qpurt veß:---tefday Mir Chubb endeavoured Ito get the discharge of a debtor who was! .not pro-, aent. 1 " His Honor refused to allow it, 'although there was no creolitors>present.' Hid said that it did not' do to matte these bankruptcies too easy ; they were easy enough as it, was. Although.there were no creditors present, it might be that they, seeing the debtor had not come to town to attend the Court, thought the matter could not go on without him,and so remained behind. • < " The Canterbury Press says i — The collector of Customs, ChiristcHurch, has been directed to dispose of Qn Government account, £200 worth of Inew silver threepenny pieces m ..reasonaUle. quantities and even pounds.' ' Als© & ;2So,worthi pf. new bronze coin pennies and half* pennies, m boxes, which will tie disposed, pf m unbroken packages,, each, box contairiirig^Q. ] . It appears there are other pjaces nearly as bad as Palm&rston was once, said •to be. "A correspondent' writes" to the JSawera Star from Manaia, :. : as follows : —Our local policeman wants touching up a biti Last Sunday morning theplace was a regular disgrace, from the number of drunken people about. , . „ It appears that the contest of the Marton Stay oral ity resulted m a,' 4 dead heat " the polling being — Joues, 51 ; Skerman, 51.' The returning officer gaVp his casting vote, iv favour of Mr Jones. The Martoa ! paper devoted a leading article ■ previously to the support fif Mr Jones. hWbata glorious victory !". ;;..!- -I'■ The Martoh paper recordfl] the death of ?Mf Alfred Galpin, of Upper Tutaenui. Mr Galpin, who was an old and much ; respected settler, leaves, a widow and six! children, the eldest of whom is only thirteen years of age. His death was caused by blood-poisoning resuliing from, his 'thumb being slightly pterce4 by a thorn. "Verily go from home tij.he.ar news. . The Foxton paper has the following :— George Boyd, well-known m this district as ferryraau at the Gorge, died yesterday morning m Wanganui., Hospital. The deceased was a man who, through an unfortunate love of drink, had sunk below his proper . station of life. He regularly received remittances from Home, m addition to which had rjs- , ceived a good bit of money." .Roor Boyd r wdald have enjoyed a heorty laugh at the above had it been published m his" life-time.