The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 20, 22 December 1884, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

V ♦ ; The,. Borough. Council of New Plyr imou^i n&stpe ißjgooi^ case. ..The "pther "jj Jeyeniiig »bey tp gilrchase a" ipiece of plate for ('the -as an acjkriowledgement df his services I- ■'■- ■ It is refreshing m these days of imipecuniosity among our public bodies to jhear of^^dadvßbard^in v the WSikatb | having a Wedit 'balance at the hank' of , £638 and iBSOO of rates due. This is-the - financial condition of the Kirikiriroa,. Boad Board. J'"~. ''' " \ ' " I ■ ■ '■ "■..'■■■ ! The most remarkable feature at the ! Blue Ribbon meeting Iheld at Waipawa | recently was the fact that the major part • of the audience were Maoris who, seemed i to take great interest m the proceedings, i some 14 donning the blue at the close of the meeting. "V-V ! The Government (says the Otago r ! correspondent) .tvili'not'now'kppoiht r a Boyal Commist • I sion to inquire into the subject of local {government, as promised 1 , diiring > tHe i session, but have taken upon themselves 1 tOjgreDa^e andfsubmji^ a^acheme. of their ( ■ own 'manufacture "to i Parhament. , T i A correspondent of the Port Chalmers i Independent thinks that , universal satisi fiMoti" wili^not^'b'e' A oDttiined ( unial ; churches of all denominations are siipi-' \ ported out of the consolidated rovenue-of- : the Colony. Sensible peopleo&ink that ' universal satisfaction will not be ob-. tained-until churches- are - compelfed 'ttfrely solely, upon the liberality, of their, own supporters, 'and- are deprived- 6f the-' last shred of State support, whether given dSectty m cash, or indirec l J.y{ m theCßape of endowments of land^ j apparently^some prospect of the hospitals and other charitable in-' stitutions m the Colony being placed m a more satisfactory financial position than at,.present. The Hqn, the Colonial ' Secretßfiy«and the Urider-SecretiEiry .' are: abouj; to malce a personal inspection of ■ "t^ie- yarftds th^oughbvit' the : Cfblony with'fr view bf obtaining'^uch in lformation as may guide the Govern, mentin devising a scheme for their supportupon t ai-üßybr!n>;Scheme. ; ; ,writ^ that: hesides ;;the £1000 already sent for the Baptist Tabernacle, he' expects 'to bring £1500 c«W the result of his lecturing .tour m.;, England and^t^cptonies, ..... ..JThe. ship Wazkato hjw cleared, at Auckland for London; cargo, 3549,691,. includes silver valued at shipped; by the Bank pf l^Tew Zealand. One of thefiforiguiai' discoverers" of gold m CahforniavJained Wilson Marshall is living m thajj State m poverty at -the, age 1 of sfeventy-two. it* '. •> • ■ \ The following appears hi the Wan-; ganui Herald :— Wanted known, twd young ladies*, of gentle* and affectionate dispositions, are open to receive com-''' raUnicaiions from gentlemen whose intentions are strictly matrimonial. Address, X.Y.Z., HerM office. . ; The cbjjgf injpending marijage m Paris } ■is : that . of . the daughter .qf with ,the son of tlae tailor, JDelbal&e,, .an arch* , raillipnarie, who has a pajaae m ih,e Aveiiuo .du'Bbis f de Boulpghe, _ and a -famous art collection." The newspapers),giving a long catalogue of wealthyfi : Parisian tradesmen, declare that the sebptre of ; th,e, day is a nepdle, and that ; themillionaries arq tailors, dressmakers, . . .' , , : A humqurpus ! ,fellpw hayi^.'baen subpeenjed as a witnoes on'triai for tin" as--

lault, one of the counsel, who was no-,ol-ious tor ln-ow-beating witnesses, asked lim what disLance he was from the paries when the assault happened. He uiswevcil, "Just thirteen feet eleven inches and a half." " How came you to oe so oxact ?" said the counsel. " Bejause I expected some fool or other would ask me the question," said he, " So I just measured it." The Athenaeum states that a_ new weekly, devoted to the; propagation" bT Socidism, is' about' to -appear, edited ana managed by Mr Michael Davitt, Mr Henry Georgej and Miss Helen-Taylor* The price wUI be one halfpenny. , An opponent to Mr Oscar Wilde and all-he says about woman's dress- has^ap- 1 peared m the person of a young lady graduate. She has the host of .the m- ; tellectual dispute at present.' Oscar | wants women to dress "like Grecian . statues. Siirely nqtr-not, like-HjTram ifoweir'fl Greek slari9i.> - A Beuter'B London 'cable m the Melbourne papers reads' sis tollbws :— -*'_ It is artnotuaced that the Most' 'Bey, Biehard Chevenix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dubtm, has resigned Ms seeVowirjg to ill health." The following is the. form m which, the aanie mesisaga' reached" and w&fr published here 1- " James French, orie of the accused in', the'' Dublin scandald'who was acquitted, has resigned the country inspectorrship. owing tp „ill health." .; '■[ "y- \•, :: ' fe- ;; - •Out ,of fbrty Justices, summoned "to attend a meeting at Napier only two ptt m an appearance." • While- cleanings out the <jage; jecgitaing the leopatds ahd' panthers of Chiarini's ; show m Blenheim the .othe* day* one of tho latter antmais got out ,of , the cage, but it wa^YoiftunatelV secure* "before it 'got out of <ihe tent. .h:w>^/\ ''■>-'-' uy-- •..." Ax:exchahge :ass6r,tai tlmt 'B^ 1 F.C BeU^in ajfett^to: a friiebd" nieafcionpithit Jt.is his present purpose to resign his appointment as Agent-General, and he will ask to'ba relieved by March next. rr .^ ', Th&'AUc¥land lE&wafc&says Mat on a j recent Sunday owing to the heat of the lay ; and ikhe indifferent' ventilation, 'it took: the; the 'parsons' all their 1 time to keep their h6aTers.rioddjn^-d. too' emphsK ,tic' assent tp their exhortations, •."; ;. : ; . ; . ; The- :Bev. Br. 'Boherts, of Brooklyn,; once, preached .;fco .certain JuliaJ^ids./jijndi introduced the story of the Hindu mother who - thifew Jxe^ .child ir4o ; the ..Ganges. Ashe'left one of tHepi .shouted Met him, «« RobertsV T s^ay'whiat a pity your mo•ther: did : ndt throw you into the --Oanges.'' '.-] [ThJßl'Bankof [New' ■ feianfl has' purchased the goodwill and premises pf.the - olcl OrriWntar Bank' in ; the metropolitan cities of Melbourne, and 'Sydney. The price arranged ; is % cpnsiderably .above the ' amount at which the premises stand m the books pf ftie pld cprppra'tion, sB that the the sale cannot be 'considered^ 1 bad. ■ ondeiihef foir the cireditors or shareholders of the bygone corporation. ANew'York property-owner 'declares that the pity must be .torn down and. rebuilt ten stories highj in ' order to meet fufure demands. . , J Teh and^ fifteen-year-oid girls, who are great .singers at their work, can earn 12 cents^foi ft day's wdrk-of seventeen hours m ]fche silk factories Italy.. 2 „ , •-, „.: . tradesman" who (says the Marl'bprdugh Express) was unfortunate "enough to. .be a, plaintiff m the Besident '•Magistrate's' (Court,' Bleiiheim, 1 a few days'ago; remarked of 'his debtor that he was " too inflated with the; Salvation Army; to wprk for his living," though work m the country. had been offered him several times. We know of several m the district of whom the same nqght truthntlly be said: The Army seiettls to have a sadly demoralizing tendency m all who come within its influence. A woman named Prosser has been-ar-rested m Melbourne ;on the evidence of her daughter to the effect that *he had poisoned her chid with rum, and after keeping her body m "her 'home for a month buried it m the back yard, where _the remains were found. . _ . 'WheproJthe^Maori chief remained be■SuidN^fter Tawhiaß had returned to New Zealand, is_ seriously -ill with acute bron- ' chits. "* He "is "staying at Brighton as the guest of Mr Ashbury, late M.P. for the borough." It is hoped that under careful nursing; he will leave his bed m a^out liiree weeks, and he will sail director .Newr'Zealand'^s sopn a^ he is cojiva\e&cent. • A pearler, while prospecting recently, ). taund, at Cape.Bouganmlle.' .^uth Australia, a brass oannon 6fl»ne bio fashioned style. It was loaded to the bore, but "the inscription was nearly obliterated by i'age. It" is supposed to be a relic of an ;early voyager and discoverer, on part of ! a wreck. It appears to be very old. The finder; foolishly gave it to a guano 1 vessel, and probably, an interesting relic is lost tp Austrafia. TheSltor sa^s that an action for libel, m mis-reporting a case heard at Marton on Monday last, is hanging over the devoted head of a contemporary. •-: : ; Staff Capt* Barretf ofthe;Salva#m Army," who is going to visit Blenheim is rather a remarkable man. The Post says that he is the Salvationist who created' some excitement m England by advertising that he wouldat a! certain time and place preach ten minutes on his head and ten minutes on his feet. TMpolicet. •bffieers,, se:t-, :to.;de.teo^^hci Sunday trading of a Canterbury pubUcan named Oliver, findhig Mother means fail, concealed themselves m the tower of church.' ' From this novel .position they saw nearly 40 persons admitted into the back"" door bf"OHve?*s house. ; Aj penalty >_ pf 27s has been imposed. """" ~" Some sensation is -hkely to be made m the refigfous worid bjv the book shortly; to: b© pubUshed und|r tfche title "Letj ters from Hell" It is 'written Ky a'Danish bishop, and is now being translated into s jEJrigUsh.: ; , ;J < : .Lambs h,ave been selHng m England i this year at 38s^6dv ■ Last year the same , .sized lambs brought 525. . ; jj^pi Oiimaru residenjb is eumg" a pjibli, | can'fpr a gpo'd sunl : if "motley,' this being ; the' tbtalisator dividend on a race at \ Christchurch for which plaintiff handed «. defendant money for irivestjnaent. - ; )■•■ :The ' Ew»ara ; school-j-on '/the ; "V^eßt a ffecant . examination had the i liigh percflntage oti)S'per cant of passes, \ Mr. Skene pi th& Dunedin LabWr.^BjtflehWig^ reports hopefully l ' m the local j papers as to the demand for.-lah.pur like- j ly to arise soon. At present dairy peo-j •pie of all, sorts and sizes, and lemale ser-, Vaaits are mMsk demand,'' : A ~ r f J" -.•.■■• ■ ■■■• •■■ii / ';.> .; ; '■■•,;» | ■'!'•' 'J ! : Duelling is not all over m France yet. The Pall Mall Budget says :~A V duel was fought the other day between. M.Boehe 4 fort 'anE . . ; Fourniqr r . negptiaJ t9r of , the, , Tienstin Treaty, m 'consequence of aUalek's made updri the'tlattfer m the Intransige&'nt, ) when M. Bbohe. fprt vfM cut m the neck , and Captain Fournier stabbed, but not .aangerbusly, m one side.' '" ' ' " " ; 'An English 1 paper by -the last mail has the follPwing :—^^'The oppositibn to the Tacciijatioii Act, , ,at Leicester, it is re- , ported, has become bp §trpng that the 'la^ 'c'anriot be ' carne'd out, and about 8;00Q peopje itre. waiting tp^e/Summftned.^iT^e local .^pyprjunent Bqardhasv been appfiod to for adyjee' un4e?'th!o pirtehmstancea. 'Meantime, small.pdx has ' • been introduced from London, ifvnd, BlngUr laiiy onqugh, all the. " persons suffering have been 'vaccinated. 'The 1 aiithbiiiep hope by isblfrtibn Ho .stftmp outib;e-dißJ-ease." • ~ - -

In New Norfolk Island it has been the custom, when a younx couple born thoro get married, to give them, without conditions, a free grant of 25 acres ; a New Norfolk girl marrying a stranger gottmg 124 acres. It is stated that this: freegrant system is to be stopped. The total area of the. island is 8600 acres; of which 5000 have been alienated, :less than 180 being under cultivation. A. .large.portion of the population prefer boating and" wjaaling to farming. -The total popularVtiOp.pf the island, exclusive oftfxe Melanesian mission is 470 ; and the total stock is 1346 cattle, . 2g9. horses, 2000 "sheep, and 865 pigs. |