The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 27, 2 January 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We remind our leaders of Mr Snelson's stock sale at Fitzherbert-street yards to take place to-morrow at noon. It is notified elsewhere that on Monday ouv collector will call on all town subscribers for payment of subscriptions due and arrears of some. Prompt settlements m all cases are requested. We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's almanack, which gives the respective dates of their sales for 1885. A Wellington paper reports that several slips have taken place on JPaikakariki, while m other places, especially at Horokiwi, the road has been washed away by the torrents of water. The coach had on several occasions to be dragged over the broken places on planks, the horses being taken out, while the passengers had to walk. The repairing and clearing of the road will take considerable time, and will result m heavy expense to the ratepayers. The Post attributes the appointment of so many new Justices of the Peace as due to the fact that the Police Offences Act comes into force on the Ist of Jan., and it so bristles with newly created offences, rendering pffendgrs liable to all sorts of penalties, that the ordinary strength ot the Magisterial Bench wpukl be quite insufficient to deal with the offenders. Prom the Star we learn that Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Feilding yesterday was fairly attended, and most of the lots passed off under the hammer at rather upward rates. J?fl?m the Marton paper we learn jthafc Mj> % W- Mo.rphy, of 'Feilding, met with a nasty acpjdVnt while returning trom the Paknerston rac/ss, He was riding one horse and leading another, and when crossing one of the numerous fridges, his horse slipped, and fell Ijgayjly, jVfr Mprphy was. stunned by the fall, and lay fpjr a considerable time before he came to hijnsejf, when he found one of the hprs.es grazjng b/ssjdp him, the other one having made his espapp, Though severely shaken and bruised, ha WMftged to mpuntbip h.orse, and reaphed home gafcjy, Tho Wellington correspondent pf the Napier Telegraph vouches #>r the fact that a good gold bearing reef has been discovered m north Taranaki, From the same source we learn that the Native Minister is becoming the natural enemy of the would-be European landghftrkj by the restrictions he has placed pn the afienajii^on pf native lands. We acknowledge receipt fpqm tfre publisher of a copy of jiarfling'i3 "Ahnanac for 1885. Tho publication is got up with the usual care, the tvppgraplry being especially creditable. Tho inf&r* mation is carefully and accurately compiltidj and tho work is a handy book of reference fay thp household. On Wednesday 2,200 Ft]jgpp. from Mr M. B. Miller's station passed through Woodville on their way to the Oroua Downs estate. The first section of the Wellington- | Manawatu railway lino an fax 1 as J<?lmsonville will be opened m March next. The Woodville paper hears that there is a prospect of a large general store be.ing erected at Pahiatua by a gentleman on a visit to the Woodville district; ■'• '* ■'"■' •■•■• -■■-•■ ■

The following is an extract from the Auckland Weakly News, regarding the working of the Waikato Cheese Factory. " The delivery of milk at the Waikato Cheese Factory has risen till Monday it has reached 770 gallons, or fifty gallons more than was received on any day last season. This industry which at first was looked on somewhat doubtfully by the farmers, is making great headway, and two or three new cheese factories are spoken of as likely to be started in the district in readiness for next year's operations. The profit por head per cow is large, and the return obtained with the lowest amount of labour, while the price obtained for the millc is cash, and certain. Perhaps none benefit more than the wives and families of the farmers, the drudgery of the dairy becoming a thing of the past." Many of the settlers around Ashurst are almost in despair on account of the protracted wet weather. Some of them have had their bush down two' years, and have never had a chance to burn. They want to get cattle on their land, so -as to get a return for their outlay, but owing to the unprecedented prevalence of rain, they have been unable to bum. Several of them are getting very disheartened with the adverse seasons that have so retarded their operations, and interfered with their progress. We learn that it is probable an action will be brought asrainst one of our local banks under somewhat peculiar circumstances. It appears that a settler had deposited the deeds of his property with the bank in question as collateral security for overdraft if such was required. In course of time he received a note from the bank that his deeds had been accidentally burnt, it was supposed. The settler to secure himself had to employ legal' aid to get the deeds reinstated, and now he wishes the bank to recoup him the expenses so incurred. It will be rather an interesting law-suit. Biding down the Foxton Line yesterday, we noticed near Jackeytown station about 20 head of cows with one bull. The animals held full possession of the railway line. What does " The Police Offences Act 1884" say about this? Sub-section 9 of Section 4 entails a penalty not exceeding ten pounds sterling for permitting any cattle to be at large, or without proper guidance, or to wander, or to be herded or grazed ill or upon any public place. Section 18 of " The Impunding Act, 1884 " also imposes a penalty of not exceeding ;£2O for any bull found wandering at large, and may be impounded by any person. Mr Geo., Richardson, of Foxton Line, is now using for table well grown new potatoes, which have just been seven weeks in the ground. They are a new variety, and are prolific and of excellent quality. " Seventy-five shins of beef you and your mate had from my shop, when I was in business, besides other goods," remarked an ex-knight of the cleaver to a Salvation Army apostle the other day, " and while you are exclaiming so loudly you are saved, those seventy-five shins of beef remain unpaid for. When you go to heaven and apply at the gate for your ticket, I will be there to rake up those seventy-five shins against you, and I'll let the folks inside know all about it, so you had better settle it in this lite. I don't see how a man can be saved'while his debts are unpaid." The by-standers heartily applauded the last sentiment. A Manchesther firm having introduced a type writer into their correspondence department, received a letter from an indignant customer, saying, " I want you to understand that you needn't print letters sent to me. I can read writing — even yours — and I don't want to be insulted by reflections on my education. "He's not what you call strictly handsome," said the Major, beaming through his glasses on an utterly hideous baby,; as it lay peacefully howling in its mother's arms ; but its the kind of face that grows on you." " It's not the kind of face that grew on you," was the indignant and unexpected reply of the maternal being, "you'd be better-look-ing if it had." A friend once met Sydney Smith at Brighton, where he had gone to reduce himself, by the use of certain baths in vogue in those days. He was struck by Sydney's size, and said, " You are certainly thinner than when I saw you last." " Yes," said he, " I have only been ten days here, but they have scraped enough off me already to make a curate." The death of Verdi and other members of the Emily Melville Opera Company, reported some time ago, is believed in Melbourne to be without foundation. Twenty medical practioners have died in Naples out of 139 engaged in attending cholera patients, under the White Cross Society, during the recent epidemic. In Dunedin a syndicate purpose purchasing the business of one of the leading sweep promoters, A Puketoi settler has won a cash prige. of £100 in " Jacob Faithful's " sweep. A Dunedin correspondent says that not a single fine day had been experienced in that city up to the 19th. Wicked people blame Captain Edwin and say the weather was alright till he began to tamper with it. Owing to the unseasonable weather the fruit crops in the Woodville district are for the most part a failure, and by a disease not yet understood the peachtrees have pretty well died out. From the Examiner we learn that engineering parties. at work in the Gorge are makuig very good progress, considering the state of the weather. The party under My Marchbanks at the Woodville end have now cut the line at a considerable distance along the right bank, while the party at the lower end are also making then* way along the cliff. A supplement to the gazette of Decgmber 24th, contains the proclamation Oii Woodyipe as a town district. A man named August Wehr for stabbig another man in a fray in Adelaide received a sentence o.f ten years, penal servitude.. T;he number of the Illustrated New Jfieqland lsey)S. just to hand is a very good one, and thp artjstic works includes on the Queensland Cqast, VfaSk ato rivpr, Western Australia, Atick; land, Tasmania, and "Victoria. A nian named John Anderson called at Mr Crqwe's hqtel, Pahiatua on Simday 'afternoon last, who appeared tP be suffering from some religious mania, and his conduct was such that Mr Crews deemed it advisable that the unfortunate man should be taken care of, and accordinglyjdrove him to Woodville where he was handed over to Constable Motley, pn Mpnday morning, Anderson stated that'ftj ,had bpen drinking for the past fortnight in WeUmgtpn, and had been travelling ffi* ■'&? 'last two or frhi-ee days with saai'ceiy anything t.Q e.ak There is not, I should think (says Truth), a more business-uko BotQfnien in the country than Wesleyans. Their prevailing characteristic has just been exhibited at Brighton in a somewhat amusing mwbw, BaVH!? acquired a now site for certain buildinga, fchp Jopa} Wesleyans not only induced Alderman Sir W. McArthur to lay the foundation stone and to rnake a handsome contribution, but they managed to get more than one hundred different people to give •'memorial bricks," for which curious privilege they were charged a guinea a head.

The Wooilvillo Dairy Factory "^^H work on Wednesday morning last, *^M is now receiving between 400 and 501?^ gallons of milk daily. The Foxton paper records the death of the wife of the Rev. J. Duncan, which occurred on Tuesday. The deceased lady had attained the great age of 81 years. The annual report of the Wesleyan Foreign Mission just issued shows that for the first time m the 70 years of its existence the expenditure of the society is practically within its income. The | gross total income of the society for the i past year is .£150,100, of which amount i>loß,Boß is contributed by the home districts. The Loyal Halcombe Court, No, 6947, is registered as a branch of the Wellington district, Ancient Order of Foresters' Society. It is stated that, at an inquest held on the body of Eliza Smart, 35 years of age, a widow, who resided at 10. Lyrnegrove, Hackney, that the deceased starved herself to feed and keep her child, a boy ten years of age, respectable, and at school. The deceased was an upholstress, and only earned 4s per week 2s of which she paid for rent. Eliza Richard, of Gisborne, a widow, aged 45, was found dead on the open land on Wednesday morning. She had two carbolic acid bottles with her, one of which was empty. She was missed last night, and search parties were out. She had been living with her brother, Josiah Tutchen, and was observed to be strange m manner lately.