Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 34, 10 January 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

„ O. W. Clayton, well known in 1 Weilingtou, has been adjudged a bankrupt. ... ■ : The Wellington hangman, recently acquitted of burglary, (his mate, a Maori, having received a sentence of five years) i has now obtained the rank of lieutenant ■m tho Salvation Army ia Christchurch. : What a commentary on. the Army and ; its officers. . ■ , , ■ Tho Auckland tramways carried 10,000 people on the three days — Wednesday ('including New i'ear's Eve), New Year's Day, and the day following. ; A young woman who recently hanged herself m oue of the hotels m l*arisj had 60,000 f ranks iv bank notes m her pocketbook. . ' A terrible disease (strangles) m a. most malignant form is now raging iv tho Duustan district among, tho horses. The City Council of Thomastown, GGar. r has raised the liquor license to $5,000, aud the license on billiard tables to $500. ;,.. ,;-. ■ , . ... „, ■ , ;,, - ; . .. „ >" My mother says, y.our.- father has ;gone into, bankruptcy,?' said one little" girl to another. " What is bankruptcy, Nellie 4 ?" " I don't know exactly/" replied Nbllioj "but 'sports its something awful vice. Pa used to work awful hard and i|sed to go round m his old clqtheß ; but since he has gono into bankruptcy, he dresses up every day and doesn't do anything but walk ajbout juqt'Hke a perfect gentleman."

A vulcanic true is rupo "tuil tn exist m thu J:i|»;uiuso viilugu or" ')uo. It is sixty feor high with the girth of ton foot, and is said to U<>. centuries old. Kvery day a wlii te ssuoke-likii mist issues from tlm top, I acting from early aflcrnouu till evening. • , According to the Auckland Star the accusud ;n;ui, William Shcehau, maintains Hie utmost composiirii m his cunnueniuiit at Mount Kdau Gaol. Ho expresses confidence that tlie fullest investigation will only result m absolving him from any connection with tho dreadful crime with which he stands charged; i but this reinairiH to be seen. Mr Napier, I his counsel, had a lengthy interview with him on Saturday. • The Feilding Star is sorry- to - learn that owing to the wetness of the season the potatoes aro rotting m tho groiincMd and around lTuilding;. If other piirtu or.' the country h.ivo not beciMiibi'u favored m this respuvt, we .til'o . at rftftT" tfref" 4t Murphy" willbQ .a deaf 'article nuxt winter. • ':"' ~Mr Micniah Read-, ■ -tlio f govef hor of the Terrace' Gaol, Wollingtoii, has utt#rrc*d t|io distinction' of . .having, . official capacity, attended the Wullingtqii ;criminal session one hundred quarterly sqssioiiH. During a period of ihc lust twentylive years Mr litad Imvs 'fttteiuled the Supreme Court, with uiideviating regularity, four times m each twelve months, .and, judging by his appearance jho eqiiai to another quarter' of a centuryV service, . - f , ' t f It is stated that Mrs 'Anderson, vvifo* of Foray th Anderson, who is at present m, custody on thecharge of embezzling the funds of the Browlow Workhouse, near Liverpool,' 'isonv:the: ship Opawa, now m. Wellington. . - - - „r ,

Only one nomination was reoeived .by , Mr Hobiußon, the Returning officer, for the Wirikino Riding, m; the Ijlorowhenua County Couucil.' ' This ' Was that of Mr J. Kebbell. In a letter to the Manawatu County iCounciljin reference 1 , to the storage; ofsome coal, Mr Wylds mentioned that he had closed with, an offer to supply, an .'Oaraaity firm with : aboiit. 275,000 .feet of timber^ -Tins will keep the Clyde goings for a few months. ' / . ' ;' Waring Taylor's trial, will, commence. on Monday. :•. .1. ■•-.■■> ~tj.> >■■-.. .;■ v < .'■>•■'■■ '■■'.' ■'•' The Wanganui pihus insigrius are "being attacked, with, blight, and a total extor-r initiation is apprehended if tlie disease' goes Oii unchecked. ■ ' ' ; '■:■■> ■' ■- Prohibition orders do not seem to prevent the prohibited, ones drink, says an exchange. ' Purely '^tlie police can put a stop to this it they, try., . We publish to-day a fourteen column supplement containing ijoinb very interesting reading ina'tter 1 suitable to- all classes of readers. ' - ;: . ,v •■..-..»■• From th& Herald we : ! learn that an application was made ; to the Chairirian of the Hospital Committee on Thursday f rom Foxton, requesting '". that a patient Buffering from erysipelas m that' township should be admitted to the 1 Wanganui Hospital. As the latter institution is full to overflowjngj the '; application . had to bo declined, which was as well under the circumstances. .' Erysipelas is a dangerous ailment to admit into an hospital ward, as there is no sayftigjvhen it will take its departure, rendering all surgical operations of even the most trivial character highly dangerous,, so long as it is about , the place.' Not long since, it was thought the Melbourne Hospital would have to be pulled down arid the debris burnt, as the on ty means of stamping out the disease, which caused quite a number of unlooked for deaths m the surgical wards. -■ ■■■■'■■■ *'•■■ ■•■■.■••■■- -h; -J A ,