LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 26, 31 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow being New Tear's day $he , Standard will not be published. We have pleasure- in to-day- presenting our subscribers with a sheet almanac for 1885, which will be found very handy as a calendar and for (general reference, t . The Standard will commence the New Year with a very largi»nuniber of new subscribers, all being plntirely unsolicited on "our part, and without any systematic canvassing whatever. For tiiis lurther proof oi' public appreciation and patronage we tender our grateful acknowledgment. We are also pleased to say that advertising support, is'? being liberally bestowed, and this, too, though business generally is depressed almost to stagnation. (i v Among the lorigrsenteneed prisoners sent down from Napier to Wellington appears the nanio of Walter Tricker, formerly of Bulls, who is now doing a three years' sentence for bigamy. Jacob FaithfulTs consultation on the Hawko's Bay autumn races appears elsewhere. It can be recommended as thoroughly honafide. The following is from, the Waimate Times: — I am sorry to see that the talented contributor of the Otago Witness who writos under the norn de plume of Civis .lias been made the, victim of a cruel sell. He has been had by a poetaster by means of what he mistakenly characterises as " a flaming tribute of affection." In last week's Witness appears an " Ode to ■ Civis "= m acrostic form, letters of the first nine lines, read downwards, spoil the words " Civis is an," and the last letters of the ninth, , tenth, and eleventh lines are unfortunately " A.S.S." A loan of two and a-half millions for New Zealand "will probably be placed on the London market on January 11. This will include the million "and" "a-half authorised last session to be borrowed, the remaining million being the money authorised for the Main Trunk Bailway. People frequently lose their heads during fires. At Napier last week a man chopped down fruit trees to save them being burnt. This is equal to throwing jnirrors out of the windows and carrying feather beds downstairs. An exchange has the following : — We won't vouch for the truth of the following'anecdote, although we heard it from •first-class authority. But such as it is, this is it : — One of the present members of the Lower House is a broad gentleman with a thick beard and a peculiar mark over one eye. If we mistake not, he was a Minister of the Crown at one time, and came very prominently before the public m connection with ruining leases. He had been paying attention to a young lady for a long time, and had taken her to attend the House until she was well posted m the rules. On the last day of the session, as they came out he bought her a boquet of flowers, and ' said to her, " May I offer you my handful of flowers ?" She replied promptly, " I move to amend by omitting all after the word hand." He blusbingly accepted tho amendment, and they adopted it unanimously and formed a committee of two with power to increase the number. ■ . It has been tound expedient to send an ■ additional constable to assist the one already stationed at Waitara, since the advent of the Salvation Army to that place. ■ • • ■ It is said that Miss Fortescue will now bestow her hand and fortune upon her early admirer, Mr Harry Quilter, a wellknown art .critic. who had remained constant to "her tm*o#g>hoiufc, j Mr Hannaford, an Auckland rap-t*f' j monial agent,, recently advertised for a i pakcha' bride for a Maori client, and got • him brie,' and" has tiow'ftte refipec'table, i coiijiely <j#rasels open to similar engagements wit^'eUgi.bfc naj^ye rangatiras. The members ol the late Ministry wiJJ bo allowed to retain the title of Honourable within the Colony of New Zealand. ,

Heads of families and nurse girls particnlavly would ilo well to boar m mind that they render themselves liable after the Ist of January next to the pains and penalties of the Police Offences Amendment Act attaching to wheeling perambulators on all sidewalks of cities, towns, and boroughs. The police m the larger towns have received instructions to rigidly enforce the Act which comes m force on New Year's Day. Mr A. A. Browne, secretary to the Board of Education, and Mr Vereker- j Bindon, inspector of schools, left by j train on Monday afternoon en route for Auckland.whero they intend to spend the holidays'. The following persons have been gazetted '' Justices of tho Peace : — Messrs David Buick, Petone ; Thomas Cotter, Upper Hutt ; Joseph Saumlers, Wellington ; and Richard Middleton Shnpaon, Wellington, MrW.A. Fitzhorbert has been ap- j pointed a member of tho Land Board lor the Land District of Wellington. The promotion of the previously re-, dnced sergeant-majors to the rate of third-class inspectors date from the 12th in'st : — They are Sergeants- Major Moore, Thompson, Kieley, Bullen, Goodall, and Pardy. The ss, Haxiroto, which arrivod m Wellington' on Monday last, brought ' a shipment of four rams, ninety-four ewes, and forty lambs en route for the Bangitikoi district. , . The! following mayors have been gazetted as Justices of the Peace under the Municipal Corporations Act : — Mr F. M. Spurdle, Wanganui ; Mr J. Linton, Pal- ' merston North ; Mr L. Jones, Marton ; ( and Mr W. J. Furlong, iEawera. * At the break-up of the Invercargill High School the Bey. Mr Ferguson remarked that " he had noticed some pale faces among those who had come up for prizes. He did not like to see that, and considered over-study for the sake of gaining a prize as much to "be deprecated ! as cramming. He would advise them to study moderately, to take their porridge j every morning, and plenty of open air ' exercise. We have received from the Government Printer a copy of the address recently delivered by His Excellency the Governor on the defence of the colony. This address, which was delivered at Wellington to the members of the New Zealand Institute on the 4th October, is ! m book form, arid contains lithographed charts and plates of the plans which his Excellency suggests should be adopted for the defence of the principal harbours on the Now Zealand coast. ]