LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 11, 11 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Edward Lyndon's great land will take place to-morrow at his auction rooms .m Napier, couunenciug at 2 o'clock. ' , ' ; The public are reminded of the Catholic Coucert to'take place this evening. It is to He hoped a fine evening' will favour the occasion. We remind our readers of Mr Srielson'a important auction sale which commences at 2 p.m. to-morrow, at the People's Mart, nnd will be continued the following day at the satiie hour.. . Says the Post a fresh-instance of the growing value of freehold property m business parts of the city was offered last week, when the Colonial Mutual Insurance Association, which recently purchased Messrs. Kroll & Co. b old premises at the junction of Willis and Har-bour-streets with Lambton and Custom-house-quays, completed the purchase of the adjoining allotment frontiug Cus-tomhouse-quay, and now used as a stone-cutter's yard. The frontage is ouly 30 feet, and the price paid is £6000 or £200 per foot. Several persons entered the Paris office of Messrs Cook and Son, the tourist agents, one day m October, and asked. foV change for a five hundred franc note. Whilo the clerk took the note into; the bank office to fetch the change, the men seised atid carried oft' a case containing j bank notes to the value of 30,000. AH the culprits made their escape. A deputation from the Patea Harbour Board were thus advised by Mr Ballance: You must first pay the interest, and their make the application for concession. I can give no excuse for uon-payment of interest. The advance was made from | the trust funds of the colony, and the j colony looks upon these funds as most sacred, and requires prompt payment of the interest. Interest on these Bums should be &first change on the funds of the Board, coming even before raauagoment or any other expenditure. The land about to be offered for sale m the forty-Mile Bubli jb Baid to be attracting a good deal of attention, and a local paper states that there will befonr or five competitors for each section, while there are 17 would- be purchasers of 'one especially valuable section. The Taranaki Herald of the 4th instant says:— "Te Whiti has so completely collapsed as a leader and power that his opinion on Tawhiao's visit to Eaglaud is not of much moment, but it may be interesting to know that the erstwhile prophet expresses the keenest contempt both of the purposes and persons of the late Maori embassy." A Masterton paper urpes the formation of a Masterton Special Settlement Association to take up v block of laud in -the Forty-mile Bush under Mr. Parlance's new regulations. /?; | , According to Truth, one of the conditions upon which recruits jSiu the' standard of General Booth is that they sWll m future refrain from beating their' helpmates. The Agent of "the Manawatu Steam Navigation Company notifies that on and after the Iscti inst, return tickets by the Company's steamer will be issued up till the 28th February, available to . the end of March, at the price of £1 55. ! '■■ ' ; ; It is understood that a well-known book-binding and printiug establishment m Wellington is about to be formed into a liability cotupauy. Friday next is the 242 nd anniversary of the discovery of New Zealand by Tasinan. . Accordiug to the Waimate 1 imes whose editorial columns are controlled ;t will bo remembered, by one of the njinistrial supporters, it is exceedingly prubable that the present Parliament will have a very short life ; indeed the oddß .are, it thinks, largely m favor of a dissolution, m or about, July next. Mr Wakefield M.H.B. for Selwyn; says that JSir Julius Yogel, before he had done, will add, to the public debt £7,000,000. > Henry Laboucbere is iot.only pne of the brightest men m all London, with an income of £10,0000 a-year from 'Truth, but has a big share m the ' Daily News 1 winch also makes a very good income. They have some funny public njeet-. ings away up at Foxloh sometimes.; At, one held recently to consider the loan proposals :— Mr Spring asked questions of the Chairman relative to the drainage of Spring-street, after which heexplained to the audience that the ' Chairman had said "take a little off here," and " put a little there," " and that wastheway the -work of the Board was done," remarked the speaker, amidst roars of laughter. He then asked the Chairman—' JVere you one of the Board who sanctioned letting the clearing of the drains by contract, to which the Chairman replied he believed be was. Mr Spring (with withering irony)— " You ought to have had a medal " (Great laughter.) ; Mr Hall has his grocery establishment stoeksul .with fresh consignments for the Christmas season, the display is well worthy inspection. [ Tlae following appears m the Wangat) vi Herald : — "Wanted known— A young gentleman wishes to correspond . with a lady, with a view to matrimony. Apply by letter or photo to P&., Herald office, Wawgnnm. N. IS. —lnviolable secrecy assured." Wo wonder what young lady would be foolish enough to correspond with a gentleman who chose as his initials the typical letters P.B. He might as well haveßi'gned himself Old Tom, Chandy Gaff, Blood's Stout, or Schiedam Schnapps. To do away with the absurdity of continuing to insert m the electoral rolls : the names of persons who have been dead perhaps a dozen years, the Government have instructed all registrars of deaths to allow registrars of electors to take a list every quarter of all per&ons who have died during that period. This will have the effect of purging the rolls of many names that have stuck on them for ! years past.