LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 5 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The preliminary uotice m connection withrMessrs Stevens and Gorton's m augural sale at Woodvi lie appears! elsewhere. 7-- ' 1 / W« remind our readers "pit .Mr ,Snelsba's^tojck sale at the Fitzheibbrt Yardß^ iio-take-jpl'ace 1 tb-m'ofrow at/noon^ . The catsilpjpfu©.; ajjpdarp m Qifii' advertising cojuinn^, _ / ', ..'' ' . ■ ; ;Tl»« English mailj via Ban yj-ar|c|poo, will-'Cioao thisevenitig, at 7.45 pm. 1■• v*. "Messrs' Thynne Lintou aitd Go.'a sale 1 of landed estate takes place at their niirtat Foxton tio-mbrrow, at 3 p.m.' The properties to. be sold are situated m the Campbelltown district. ; . c . We remind contractors that tenders' \wili be. r,eceiye.d,byjth6 Manchester jßoard . up to noon to-tnorro w for the uiaintenanoe o£ the Palmerston-Gorge road, auji the-Feildihg-Ashurst road. Specifications dud general conditions may be seen at the Board's office, Feildiiig^ and at T. ; Nelson's store, Ashurst. ■ There are 4,020 daily newspapers m the world, with an aggregate circula-. tion of twenty-two millions per diem. The ship Pleiono will take as balljißt3oQ toiis of antimony ore from Endeavour, Inlet.. About thirty men are employed at Eudteavourlijlet'in getting!;!?)^ ore, which is obtained" by blasting m drives' cut into the face of the hill. j Frank Turner, aged twenty-one; while incarcerated, m -Melbourne. Gaqlj pending trial at the criminal sitting for larceny, jumped from one of the corridors on the stone floor, twenty feet ! below him and was> killed. ' , , ..-. A parcels post is about to be ; estab,lished.. between yictoria and India,; and; Viii'bdi'^e'-'ihto operation with the -, new, ( y ea .v- . I The Melbourne City Council halve re-. that iil^OOO be appropriaied towards the cost of an organ for thp new grand hall m the Towa Hall, cburseof erection..- - ; v . ; j ■^ At Ghaileßton, a digging township,' on "" the West Coast of £he Middle Islimd,'{he' best Wanganui beef is advertised at 4d : aud^^d pur Ibj, and the best bread at 6d per 41b loaf. | 1 •'-■■-A Sdtitlvl-'iMelbdurne' medical 'practitioner.,, of uniujpeachable characl;cV and large pva'ctifcefhas openly 'stated tjiat out- ' Tages upon girls m AlbeitParbare by no means uncommon. ! The New Zealand Sugar Company rq-' f ceiitly shipped by the s.B. Wairarapa from ! Auckland for Lytteltpn 600 bags Auckland refined sugar, and for l)unedin"Co bags. 6y the saihe steamer there were blbo shipped 260 sacks, oysters for- Wellington, and/,200 mats of rice "for ; Lyttelton. , , 1 On several ocoasions during the hot weather children have faintejd from the oppressive closeness of the; Woodvillc school building, and; the j present state..of.tl»ingß must be, seriously • detrf- ! inciitai to the health of the children -attending seh'ool. ; It is to be 'hoped, (says the Examiner) .souietluug will, bo done ; at .a,u. early date; tp in.Qrcaso the jaccoiuo^ dution. On our fourth page will be found 1 a very important -advertisement regarding the dale of rural land hi the :|*orty-inil6 Busli, Wairarapa.. . . , ( , It is stated that the Government haire recently issued fresh instructions to, the various immigration agents as to the 1 terms upon which nominations; for imj migration will be received. The GovernniGtit will fulfil all existing ol)!ijja|ipnß, bi]t no further nomn)ft|.ionß of ""single wbinen will be entertained for the pfe-' sent. In cases where a husband is m the colony, whose wife and family are at Home, the latter may be qptn jijatpfjou pay .nieniof thP "n.dei ! n:ien.tiqn.ed§uinß :— For wife's passage, £7 ; outfit. JBi- For the passage pf each, child £4 lOs, and out|jt of each, 10s.

A i;tir respondent informs the Postthat vvhe v thu Foxton roach was approaching P.irramattabn Monday morning siuo'ko was seen to he. issuing from tho heap of mail bags> The conch was pulhsd lip, and on an investigation beingmailo pno of tin; bags. was found to be on fire, A pair of lady's books lying near tf were so much damaged as'fcfbe utterly useless:. Up to the time of- going to press J.he Post Office authorities had received uo report from Foxton of any of the bags haying been received m adayiaged condition. ._.-.... Four bodies from th« wreck of the Clyde were recently seen floating about at AUaroa, but could not be rescued for burial, as there was no boat available. ' * ) If is not generally known -thafrGolonel Stewart, the tid'ngs of whose sad :fate in'the Soudari reached us ai few days ago, was a cousin of Mr George "Vesy Stewart, the .originator of the Katikati special settlement at Tauranga. In a letter to the Auckland Herald on the Subject of; the tragic occurrence, Mr j *G". V. Stewart says :— '• The sad intelligence of my cousin's tragic death has just reached us. His. death will'no doubt, be avenged, one hundred fold, but it is indeed sad to contemplate that this gallant officer should fall a prey to treachery just at the time when the reward 'of his pluck and gallantry, was almost within grasp. It is only about a fortnight since his widowed mother received a letter from him, stating that he expected very soon to be ' ba'clc to his family." Under the heading " An interesting item, 1 ' the Ash burton. Mail has cho following hit at the Wauganui Press agent. The telegram relating to the burning of Mr Brooking's shed is followed by these remarks: — We are greatly indebted ,to the Press.,, agent at Wanganui for this important item. ! The'< people of Wanganui and the Colony generally, no doubt, take great interest m Mrßrooking's washhouse, and .will "be intensely relieved' to learn that' it is only slightly damaged. Send us along; full particulars about the insurances,, and whether it wants repairing,! &c. We like to pay for news of this s^rt-r---eo much. . ■ . > - A telegram from New Plymouth informs iis r that the Hon. the Native' Minister, will reach Wanganui on Saturday. | , A correspondent, of the London: Times says that-; beet sugar will not 1 do for fruit, preserving purposes., jJara | made with it ipvanably turnsmpjildy. The Star regrets to learn that a number of eggs exhibited at the-Hort^cultur ral Show were stolen. Mr Wijson, whose property they were, recommends the thief to eat the eggs, for if they are ■used for breeding purposes be 'v^ilf cer-. tainly identify the produce and take im-i mediate proceedings; ■,\ i ; Dr Howe, of the United States, m his report on.- idiocy, says that the habits of the parents of 300 of the idiots tieing' ascertained, 145 proved to be habitual drunkards.' • "What building \s that?" asked a stranger of a boy-, pointing to the Public School! " That," said the boy, •' why that's a tannery," aud he feelingly rubbed the seat of his pants as he passed on.-- •■■•■•'■■ • ■■• •■ . " , Speaking of Mr Harding the Temper"arice J Lecturer,' the Woodville paper inquires "Is this the large land-owner who sought to turn a few natives off their soil. and. who received' such a richly' deserved rebuke from • !pre- , raier ? If such had their'way the population would bs drifted off the. land, as wris recently done by the High-, larid landlords, and : noble humanity would have to give way to the sheep and the wool king." :; . h There are fourteen markets of various kinds m London. The ' most important of these, are. : TTarringdon dead meat and poultry market ; _and Dep'ford Foreign Cattle Market, Islington Cattle Markets, fifteen acres m extent ; Billingsgate Fish Market, and Govent Garden Vegetable Market ; and into these markets are Imported •annually 1 for, consumption ih.;Loudpn about 80,000 cattle, 4,0^0,000 sljeepj cftjyeg and. pigs j also 9,000,000 of - fowl*,: i gamei' ; a.fid rabbits {■ over ' 100^000,000 eggs, and a like number of Qraiiges an.d lemons. About 320,000,000 i of quartern loaves are ; consumed m | London annually. ; ' | A new industry commencing ia Wanganui is 1 that of- k.il^ing sheep, having them, frozen^ m WpUingtou, and sent i ; Home. ,. .Messrs' Mitchell dud Bibhards are going to expfcriment with lOO car- • case's. The tHal- shipment goes Hume by the" Coptic." : " : ■"'■ ' Tli,eJS^r isglad, to learn thht Mr _J ames iSteyens tlj'e local postmaster, is. Stpadijy jfrb'^Ved^fog',' towards : complete recovery;.' .!■" ' \ ! ■'•■'■'■•'• ; - r '' : T,ho ifpliowing advortisement tjppears m tlie Wangaijui, JTerald :~CUs^hnga. — TliroHgh some ill-feeling against mo ,at the, Oroua Downsj I am willing to "shear Mr Jenkins, m long-wool sheep for ariy'sum iTOtn £5 to ia2o ; but I do not call, it fair shearing for another man' to shear <ali .the rough phe^p out efhis , pen.trJpseph f Morrison. . „,,■. j