LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 7, 6 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fourteen column suppleineut is issued with to-day*a Standard, containing some very interesting reading matter for all classes of readers. A meeting of teachers nf the Wanganui district was hold m Wangapui- last week to form an Educational Association which wilt comprise all persons interested m education whether teachers or not. Branch Associations are. to hold 1 their meetings m various plages within their prescribed boundaries. The first for the counties of Rangitikei and Manawatu is lobe held at Marton next Saturday, December JQth. VAll persons interested m tne Association should try to. attend,. The annual subsoriptlqn has been flxed at ss. ; At the Napier Supreme Conrt His j Honor asked that a man named John Finn might be biought forward to be discharged, as the Grand Jury had brought \t\ go hill {{gainst him, It ' was explained that he had been sent to his quarters for the night, but the Judge explained that would not do, as the man would be illegally imprisoned if he was kept there is durance vile that night. In hot haste he was sen| for, I brought up, and discharged; • ; ; ■

Ail exchange hears, on excellent authority, that it is the intention of the Govornmont to give, at the earliest possible moment, earnest consideration to the claims known as " the old soldiers' claims." Wanted, a friend. One who will recognise me when I am compelled to wear patched breeches ; who will take me by the hand when I am sliding down hill, instead of giving me. a stick to hasten my descent ; who will lend me a shilling without requiring twenty shillings worth of security ; who will come to see Tde when I'm sick ; who will pull off his coat and fight for mo when the odds are" two to one ; who will talk of me behind my back as he talks to my face. Such a friend is wanted by ten thousandhuman beings throughout this broad earth. It will be remembered that some two years" ago three residents m the Porirua district (near Wellington) were arrested on a charge of illicit distillation, of whis^ key, for which they were convicted and mulcted m penalties of £200 and £100. The parties were liberated on ■ bail on two sureties m each case becoming guaranteed for the amount of the fine. >ince the case was brought before the Appeal Court with a view of having the conviction quashed. The court, however, upheld the decision of the lower court, but the amounts: have never been paid, and to-day the sheriff of the Sup^ reme Court visited the district and ar? rested alt the pnncipals;along with their sureties and lodged them' in gaol, where they will remain untill the fine is paid. The date of Mr Greeuwood's next visit to Palmerston is published m our advertising columns. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star is responsible for the following : — " Here is a good story fresh from New. Zealand, which nevertheless may not have got into your newspapers before. A Waikato farmer asked one of his fiieods to suggest a name for a fine young collie dog, just imported. ' Call it - Grey , after your idolised Sir George,' said the friend. 'No,' tho owner replied, ' I won't insult the name of a great man.' 'Oh ! all right,' quoth • ■the friend, ' call it Voajel.' ' No, hang it ! no/ angrily retorted the farmer, ' I don't want to insult the poor doggie either.' " We regret to hear that Mr W. Fergusson, of Mingaroa, who has been ill for some time past, is now lying seriously ill at Mr J. G. Hogg's, Bulls. . We desiroto call attention to the advertisements m our fourth page, of Crown lands m the Seventy-mile Bush to be offered for sale at Masterton on ■the. 16th instant. These lands are divided into deferred-payment sections, and are of such areas as appear most suitable for bush holdings. In addition . to tho above tho Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington district invites tenders for the leasing ;<>f certain sections on the line of the railway route between Wopdville to Masterton. The tenders for these lands will be opened on the 11th ihst. : / Mr Matthew Mac Fie, later editor of the London Standard, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Lusitania, and is visiting the colonies for the sake of his health. An Auckland Christmas annual is to .be published, Mr T. Bracken being the editor." Mr Vincent Pyke will be among the contributors. Said Mr Boucicault m his lecture on acting :—" The letter R, has been nearly swept from the language, simply because the Prince of Wales arid the Duke of Edinburgh pronounce it like W., and their friends have followed their example." ■■■'■. ; Fifty years ago there was a boy m Africa who was taken prisoner m one of the fierce wars between the tribes, and was caaried away from his home and sold as a slave. After being sold and re-sold, now for sugar and again for rum, ho was finally carried away m a slave ship. A British cruiser the slaver. The boy is now: Bishop Crowther, England's black Bishop of Africa. The Auckland Evening Star, referring to the Waring Taylor, prosecution, says, " Mr Samuel, membeufor IJew Plymouth carried a resolution m the House of R«4presen.tatives declaring that the Government ought to prosecute m such' cases, and hence probably the actions that have at length been instituted: • ' ; A hill is now before the ' Brazilian. 1 Parliament declaring all slaves t»f sixty >yenrs old free, and providing for the emancipation.: by the State at a tariff fixed according to the. age of those ypunger, A redemption fund is to be provided by very heavy special taxatiop If the bill becomes a law it is estimated that' slavery will be at an end in' Brazil' before' lß9o. Ordered to clear the Court, an Irish crier did so by this announcement, ''Now then, all, ye blackguards that isn't lawyets must leave the Coort !" ! ■ Great indication is expressed by the *public here (says the Sydney Morning 'Herald of 17th November) at th' 6 grasping policy at the Australian Eleven, m refusing to meet Shaw's team m two matches unless they received half the profits. The action of the New South Wales Cricket Association m refusing to countenance the proposal of the Australians to play a match at Sydney just' before the English match this Week is •highly commended. The South -Australian Cricket Association has arranged for, a meeting of the Australian and English teams at Adelaide on the 13th December and following days. j The Pos£ is informed that the principal prizes m Vulcan 'B Discussion on the .Wellington Spring Meetings were allotted as follows :— W. J,C', Handicap—First, to two Wellington gentlemen/ second to the proprietor of a paper m Masterton, third to a boy at Cross Creek. Featherston (the third m ttie St r Andrew's Handicap also foil to the same boy, together with two other ■horsesj. Hutt Park Spring .Hand ioap —First and third to a tailor m. Willisstreet, second to another Wellington resident. St, Andrew's Handicap-— First and second, to Wellington, five horses to Nelson, five to Foxton, two to Wanganui, two to Blenheim, and one to j Dunedin. The other prizes are pretty well distributed over the district. A determind and apparently premeditated suicide was committed at Hamilton, Victoria, recently, by a Mrs Cameron. It appears that, accompanied by a little girl named Johnson, the woman walked from the house to the railway line, where she sat down till the approoch of the train from Portland, §h,e then deliberately crawled forward and ..placed her head upon the rail. The driver of tho engine whistled, and tried to pull up the train, but could not do so m time to save the nnfortunate woman's life. The train passed over her, and. the body was f rightly mutilated/ : ' The Wanfjariui |ftipy# has the follrtwjn,£; (— |JtfQour*jere ; lopal industry fis tiioyf. a general cry, and we have pleasure m drawing attention to an artice of consumption, which for some time past has been advertised m pur. colujnns.. We refer to Whitlock's Worcestershire Relish, which is reafly"' deserving of mention, The sauce is one suited to all ..tastes., not b,eing so piquant as Lea anJ Perriii's, but having a similarity: to Mellor T s, or even more to Yorkshire Relish. The price at which it isoffered is very low, and as the quality is very excellent, we expect' to hear ;of j\ yjevy large local "arid, eye.n, cpJqnfaVaeiiwadjfo.r thfc' aftiolei :

Ovor 21,000,000 widows m India, and all forbidden to remarry. Think o that ? Tenders for locomotives for the New Zealand railways will be called for m about a month. i The following notice appears m the Gazette : — Now, therefore, m pursuance of the powers and authorities vested m him by " The Deceased Cattle Act, 1881," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said celony doth hereby absolutely prohibit the introduction of all dogs into the Colony of New Zealand from the countries following, that is to say, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the islands m the Atlantic Pacific, and Indian Ocean, save aud except the Australasian Colonies. The Auckland Evening Star, m alluding to the Tichborne mystery, mentions that a gentleman m Auckland has m his possession an interesting souvenir of the missing baronet's family m the form of Sir Henry Tichborne's (Sir Eoger's father) ring. She gentleman referred to is Mr Thomas W". Gudgeon, who,, during an election riot, won Sir Henry's gratitude by sheltering him from a mob, and was for that opportune service, presented with a ring. ;