LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 15 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

| ♦ . j We remind -out readers of Messrs • Stevens and Gorton's stock sale to take place at tlie Bidls Sale Yards ,tp-mprrpy, commencing at 1 p.m. Further additions have been made to the catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's mauguraL stock' sale to : take place: at the Wpodyille sale yards pn Fri- , •••---•••' .-■■'■■ ■ ■ — y; 1 Tfflidejrs , for ' painting the , Feilding . Cativolic Church close at '4 p,m. , next Ttiursday. : ' ; '"7. 7., '■'.'' "' ; .. i Mr Snelson will hbid several important sales this'week. . .. . . . . ; ; ; Messrs Wdoicock and Hoaking have just completed the jnanufacture of a high : pressure wrought iron boiler, size about 20 gallons. % The .workmanship is as good and 'substantial as might be wished, and shows what our local tradesmen are capable of 'turning out of their workshops. The;boiler is to be used m connection with the hot water apparatus to be erected m Mr Park's new building. The same firm have now all the necessary requirements m stock' for • 'screwing iron pipes any size up to two inches. ? The firm of Bell and Dean has been dissolved. They were formerly trading as fellmongers and doing .business at, Wanganui and Foxton. '.'■•, W- :J.' IJarker, twho lately . .filed m iNapier, took m the printers and news;papers pretty well. Among his liabilities are .Harding (printer), Napier, £1 14s 6d ; New' 'Zealand Times, M 14s 6d ; ■\Yaipawa Mail,' £6 ;Woodville Examiner '£& 15s ; Wairoa Guardian, Haiwke's :j3a,y Herald, Otago Daily Times, :j6'4; New Zealand Herald, £2 10s; W.'anganui CJvronicle, £12 10s. His total liabilities were nearly iJ3OOO, assets estinaated at about half that amount. Dr Harvey is at present m Sydney tod is expected to arrive m Palmerston by Christmas. The vestry of All Saints' Church/ is now a very comfortable and spacious ; compartment. The contractors, Messrs Perrini aaid Qakley, having made the aliterationsirequired m a very short time, would'nq doiibt like to receive payment for their sendees and the ministry ' (the Rev. H. E. Copinger) at last evenings, services notified the fact of a considerable amount to be received yet to. pay off this debt; lie also referred to the very small offertories being received. . Some very extraordinary revelations iare to be made shortly m conhGctipn ' with a notorious London criminal who occupies a position ;of .trust m Mel:bourne. . : A respectably dressed man who was arrested m Wellington last week on a charge of being drank was discovered to be m possession of no less a sum than £211. Every pocket was full iof bank notes... The man recently arrived from Australia.;. ; ... .■ ": A /i. ,C .'■ ■ ■*-. ■ It is very evident from what we (Star) have seen that by far the best horticul- 1 tural productions of this town and neighborhood were those which were not exhibited at the late' flower show held ' under the auspices of the Manchester Horticultural Spciety. .. . r The Rukuhia Chebse and Bacon Factory reduced its overdraft last year from ,6721 to .£260. At the meetiug held subsequently to the- Manchester Horticultural Society s Show, the Secretary, Mr E, Groodoe. here, said b.e!had'not been able; to pra«r pare a balance sheet, as some of the items of income wer.&not yet m, but, the receipts and expenditure so far showed.* deficit of from £6to £J. This is unfortunate result. ' In Norwich, Conn., the current yeiar has.resembled the./famous' .;••' year without a summer" (1866), m that there, has bee£ : JE&Bt m.lhe piftcle^very mpntji this year. . ". .• i A hamed" Synher has absconded |by 'the l 'TriscP Sfail steamer frbro Aijck- ', iand, having cashed several othis landlord's cheques and stolen his watch and chain.- What:aiwickod sinner 1 > .' • ■■ Letters : of naturalisation have' been issued to Andreas Christian , Clausen, farmer, of !Foxton line, . 'Pauneraton Nortli. "-'• ■■••'•■• : ■•■ •■■ ■'■■ Writes the Danevirke correspondent; of the -Woodvule paper : — .•■'•At present we are over-run with peripatetic parsons The tiling is getting monotonous. Can't Mr Dinsdale tie induced to pay us a visit m order that we may enioy the change ? Send him along if yon can, I promise him a large audience and a hearty welcome." ; " The following application for patent is announced : — Harding and Stoven's fire locator, by Alpha Harding, of Waikato, draughtsman, and James Hgpkins Stev.etis, ofsFettdfog, postnjaater.; ' . An immense haul of sahnon was made on Lake 'Macquarrie lately. A great shoal appeared* and about a ton of fish were captured. Thousands were left dead on the beach.' Messrs Barns & Higgie will hpld tfyeir tißugl fortnightly stbek sale at Campbell.town oij Wednesday next. The entries now published [include fat bullocks, fat cows, njikiag cows, prime fat wethers, fat ewes, crpssbrpd s&?r© ewes, pigs, and hprses, ■\

Referring to an article from the Woodville Examiner on speculation m Woodville lands, a Wellington paper .says : — " We admire the Examiner, for speaking out thus boldly. Woodville cannot but be a prosperous centre at some fixture time, but a land mania with its ruinous prices and after depression would be a great drawback to it." The Wairarapa Daily says : — "We understand that the Public Works Department are now engaged m laying off a station site at Eketahuna. This looks as if the Government were m earnest m their avowed intentions of proceeding i sooner or later with the construction of the Eketahuna section. The sale of pure-bred cattle at Bulls to-morrow by Messrs Stevens and' Gorton, on account of Mr W. B. Betemeyer, ought to attract more than usual attention. It is well-known that Ayrshire cows are pre-eminently good milkers, and hence persons desirous, of' securing high-class dairy stock should not miss this opportunity, : . . . : ' ""' ''*' Building goes; on apace m Woodville. From the Examiner we see that tenders close on Monday next for the erection of two shops m Vogel-street for Mr Sowry. Another two shops will be shortly erected by Mr Sowry, who is also building a shop adjoining the Temperance. Hotel. This will make a splendid row of five shops extending along Mr Sowry's section from the Temperance Hotel. ; Probably (writes the Woodville paper) ! owing to the damp changeable; weather, there is a good deal of sickness m the Bush districts at the present time; A large number of Maoris at Tahoraite ate - laid aside from low fever, and Mr Hogg i has been attending a good- r n)any pa- \ tients. : At the Woodville R.M. Court, the case was heard of G. Eldershaw , v. . W. ! Isles, claim £8 Is 6d, wages due and for wrongful dismissal.—M r Johnston for, plaintiff and Mr Morrison for defendant; ' — Plaintiff stated' that he wak^'have had 30s a week, but defendant dismissed him without the usual week's notice for making sour bread. Plaintiff gave his evidence' m such a mitfed manner v that his Worship said he was not m a fit state, to give evidence, and he a good mind to commit him for contempt 'of Court. He would therefore adjourn r .the farther hearing of the plaintiff's evidence —After hearing the evidence,, of Mr. Whitehead for the defence, as well 'as. that of the defendant; his Worship gave judgment for plaintiff, for 10§ without costs. '■"■'- ' '■■■■'■■' '■ '■' ■■■- > ■ A fisherman last weWveryHiarly got himself into trouble through persisting m hawking fish on the Napier railway platform Jaffcer being warned off. Bylaw No. 24 of the New Zealand railways, that I" 'no person shall sellj or attempt^ to sell, any, article, ;qn ; aiiy of ( the, 'premises 'of a railway pr train without the consent of the General Manager," , The Danevirke correspondent of the. Wpodyille paper furnishes the following items :— I notice a large yatd beihg erected on Mr Martin's ground, said to be '•■ for the. purposes of a pound. Aa such a thing is against. the wishes and interests of a large majority 'of the settlers; I' hope it may. serve Mr Martin for aojne. other purpose, say a sale yard, .Anbi&hfer line for Mr Hall. Buildings are going np everywhere; and after the* next;land sale I expect Messrs Henderson Bros., and Wratt will raise the. price of timber, r .w. great will be the demand. On Sunday week MrDinsdale delivered a very interesting; address on SpiritUr alism at Bevan's rooms, Woodville; under the auspices of the Blreethought Association. The weather was most unfavorable, but there was -a" good atten- ' dance, and at the close of the meeting a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to -MrDinsdale.. ■■ ■_ . . ■• ■. The liabilities of M. L. Marksp I amounts to and the assets to £70. \ On dit that a gentleman well known r m Hawke's Bay,' and who considers himself a prominent leader of the total abstinence party m New Zealander, who was lately in' Halcombe lecturing on j Temperance, volunteered to a young I lady the information that his house had I only 90 doors m it, and that he had only • 75,000 acres, one of his sons had only .56,000, and the other 40,000. However, he would not give a young man Lanything on behalf of the church he had been lecturing m, but he offered to send ! the young lady some of his photos for a ! bazaar, on condition .that -she did- not sell them below ' their value. What that was he did not say. v Here (says the Feildjng* paper) , it would' be exceedingly/ low. ■" " ' '