Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 146, 1 December 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr M. Lyons notifies "the arrival of a fresh consignment of Auckland tobacco and cigarettes.. The, local product we understand is a choice leaf possessing well flavored aromatic properties and has been m great demand since its introduction.) Mr Lyons has a well assorted stock, and is disposing of the fragrant weed to his numerous customers rapidly. • jMi- A. Bryce was the successful ten^-" direr for the cutting of 100 cord£ of firewood for the Palmersfcbn tannery and fellmongerp * v I The catalogue for Mr Snelson's next stock sale at the Fiteherbflrtrstreet sale yards o*ii 'Saturday Bext isi ©tae*liere advertised. ; •- . ■ .• .-'/ I In Berne it costs £8, or three day?' imprisonment' to hold a salvdtibni^t meeting m that canton. It is cheapen m Palmerston, we are sorry to toy. The two islands, Steers and Calmeyer, which spraug up last year at the time pf the firakatoa eruption, have again .been swallowed up by the sea. •Art office for "universal information" has been opened near the British Museum. You, pay your shilling ask your question and get your answer, ' . . . .

It is said that Major Kemp refused to be re-iustuted iv his assessorship at the hands of Mr Bryce, but that immediately Mr Ballance assumed office he came down to Wellington, profered; his best boat services to the Government, and m ; ti mated, his willingness to accept the assessorship from Mr Ballance. . As accounting for the scarcity of pheasants* Mr W. Robinson, of Te Aute has called upon the Napier Telegraph to say ithat he" cattio across a -'Couple of : pheasants' nests the other day, 000 coat^u^ng sixteen eggs, and the other thirteen,. the whole of which.. had heen 1 sucked. Mr Robinson says that it is quite a common thing. to drop. across the.' nests of quails m which every egg has been sucked. Shepherds and working' ' men m the bush have the greatest difficulty m protecting their fowls' neats from the depredations of . #ekas, and hen's eggs are quite scarce iv couser-, quence. ~ " \ V; The 'barque. Kentish Lass from Whan--garoa to Wellington brought a cargo of 191,000jEeet.of;tiihber. Vj Tlub special of . .the . Ly tteltpn Times writeii to it from Wellington, .saying that— Besides reform m the Native Department, Mr Ballance, who "at present h^olds the portfolio of Minister of Lands, intends making a Tefojm m the system of land tenure, whereby a free selection after survey, at a fixed price, will take the -place of the present system. ] [ Several carpenters have called on the - Weilington Post to contradict a a'tate^meut alleged to have been made by the Engineer tb 1 tb« -' HqrbduyfTßb&td; that ,there was a scarcity of hands m that The informants stated that there are several good tradesmen out of employment arid arixious for a job; # • They a have somer very; •. (peculiar ideas and. people up taranaki way, as a mother (who had invited h^r daughter to > come 7ancT reside under the maternal roof dur- ' in^ the period of the daughter's approaching confinement) sued the -laser's husband for' £ls for tending that p6r- ,. Bpn!8 wife during h^er , cpnfine.niient | ..It . Wa^ the old story: a &mil^ quarrel and & Wia^fiing' of. dirty linen m public, ! ';amT resulted iv a verdict 1 for |£4 less 1 ;defenderit's expenses, Which came to more than the I ' award. ■ h-ur- /,..-. ■■. ■ ■■.••.- A correspotidentof th^iKumara 2Vn*ei writeßin the followingdespondent strain: ■ —I should like to ask yon,/; Mr Editor; i or any of your enlightened readers, if there is any possibility, of a steady, hardworkfng man getting a wife able to cook, keep house, and at the same time be possessed of a- little'cbmmon sense ? As far,; as the West Coast i^ concerned, l am ' Very much afraid it would be almost an impossibility. The < native->bom girls 1 aeein (particularly uu adapted for making go^>d wives or sensible women ; . , some--1 hoy? they seem to be troubled with the same, weakness, i c. } to marry a swell ; thump oh the piaub,' and have better drSsses than their neighbors; at the same tinie not eight out of ten of tthese girls r are able to write correctly. , „ The Poverty Bay Herald writes :— "Rumor has it thft several Qisborne .lawyers contemplate migrating; to seek fresh fields and pastures new,. Such an event would be borne -with fortitude, and eve/yone would, wish them all prosperity—somewhere else." LI ..We Post are exceedingly pleased to jiote that; Mr Bryce attended the Banquet given to his opponent and success- ' sor m ofiicb, Mr Ballance. The chair at the banquet was also, we believe; occupied by Mr Rodert Pharazyn, vho is Well known as a polotical opponent of Mr Ballance. Such evidinces of good perspnalfeeling and ready ; recpgnition of valuable services outside of party matters deserve notice. '