The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY, 12, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 35, 12 January 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY, 12, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The. next meeting of the Manawatu Rpad K B<jfard^will be called for }0 o'clpcfciandsJtjis probable the alteration will become* the regular famtf for meeting %i iutiire. - .>• *• »!- The orchard robbers having humbly apologised for, their intrusion m Mr v Camps' garden,,: and promised neyjer i& : ofiend again, no proceedings will be> ' taken. The narrow escape from disgrace and punishment should jirove a salutary lesson to them m future. ' Dr Diyor, of Wellington, is m. a cri fcical condition, thete being no improvement m his health^ Coaches qaii noj? run from Napier to^ inland Fatea, m the Murimotu couriiiry, and passengers can travel right thro ugh-; to the Erewhon sheep station. A reply has been received by the j Wopflyfllo J3popiaT Settlement; Apsocia,-. tion to their application for' a selection m the Maharahara block., The Minister states that as it has been opened by roads surveyed for settlement under other conditions,' he^annotgrant the request. On receipt of the reply 10,000 acres m the Mangahao were applied for. It is said ;thgt>anqther association is being formed to take up an area "m the Arjintoroa block. " : - : . ' The Posiis informed, that B. S. Waterhouse, the' defaulting merchant, "for jyhose apprehension a warrant has been out some time, has made Bis way to New South Wales, having been recently seen m Syaney." The police there have,-vife belive, been communicated 'with on the subject. "flaneur" m. the W&ngaxmi herald things tjfcfat if there is anything wrong- m 'uiejvray^that the present Marton-Ifeingi-' 'pkefEdcing Club is being worked, there is a remedy and it would be better to-usa it than to multiply the already 1 ' too numerous racing 'clubs on the' cfoastt ! ■ .^K&JisTstieiiWO orphans m ,artemj>orary asylum m Naples, Italy. 'They lost' all theiif relatives by the, cholera;;, ; ■<■■ :'■.,■ !<i 'The newPdlice Act meets : with the hearty approval of inebriates and others, as they all now start with a clean sheet, previou§ ; conyictionß against them vm4er •.the|old Act not being resognised. English army, contractors appear to be of the same stamp as' their American brethren whio flourished there twenty years ago. General \^plseley is complaining of the "rotten" supplies that threaten the failure of his expedition. It is reported tfiaFKe has sent to the British War Office .dispatches, htvyhich he. bit* terly corfiplains that his advance hap been paralysod by the failure' of ffie'lcomniis- ' sariat and transport service. We direct thd atteritibrrof diir readers" to the advertisement published m another column ;b'y; Messrs Griesselich and Co., shipping and commission merchants, London. ... The advertisers . are $ proprietors of the Meccantih Shipping ' Register. ■'•) The average fares of the' Russian railways are: 1 1st class, not quite l^d per , English mile ; ' 2nd class, a little over a penny ; Srd ' class, a little over' a halfpenny. The Russian carriages : ' are among the,, best jdi the world, the 2nd and 3rd are but slightly inferior to those of jGrermany and superior to those of other countries. ' , t , i: So great is the traffic on the Napier railway that a goods-train 'now runs daily to and fro between Tahoraite and : Te Aute.

Doctor — You see, wifey, dear, I hav< pulled my patient through, after all ; i very critical case, I can tell you ! His wife — Yes, dear hubby, but then you art so clever m your profession. / Ah ! if. 1 had only known you five years earlier '-I feel certain.jaiy first husband— '•my poor Thomas — Would have been saved' ! \ Instead of giving his annual banquet, the Mayor of Sunderland, England, subscribes ±'100 for the reliei of the city's poor. -,1 .1 ; : . . ; ■■. :'.? :', . ' General Stonewall Ja'cksbti's war horse, Old Sorrel, is to be exhibited at the Maryland State Fair. The horse is ; thirty-four years old, and has been Jcept at the Virginia Military Institute. Writes " Flaneur "m the Wanganui Herald : — There is a very strong feeling against the Bulls meeting being again extended over- two days, as jte: is a case of v sweetness long drawn out," and gets., tiresome.-; ;If the C|ujH^ad a single" day* programme on New Year's Day, and . a .Hurdle and Steeplechase meeting m the winter, ; loMnk they would be doing the .district' more justice. Bangitikei has long been notjed for its cross country nags,' and the Club should encourage their breeding by giving big stakes for jumping races. ' > . . . Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold their next stock sale at Woodville on Thursday next. I ■Writes the Woodville i- ? Examiner :-4v " The'Oelomal Secretary miifet nave some i of t^emost ignorant and iisele^s of.Civd Service officers- in his department. -Their latest freak is to decide that Woodville is m Manawatu and they have Consequently advertised, the Woodville Town Board Proclamation 'in- the Manawatu papers, j "Wiidh hardly anyone m Woodville sees, j Theie ofi^eers should be sent to school again- to learn their geography. Why should the Wp'odville people pay for the mistakes of a few useless appendages to the Colonial Secretary's office." We really think our contemporary is m error. The proclamation has not , appeared m any Manawatu paper trhafc we have seen. , ' Mr Coleman Phillips, of Wair'arapa^ "writes, to the llawke's Bay Herald, pointing but that the Hawke's Bay members make a- mistake m- advocating the Gorge Line. In their own interests • ho contends it would be much better for rhem to support the Wairarapa line, as that district wo.ufyl .drain Hawke's Bay of its surplus stock. . But as {he! Woodxm&' Examiner aptly remarks : — " Mr Coleman Phillips does not believe m railways. He-has evidently been born a few hundred years tdosopnv' The lonic is bringing .piii' about' 150 Stoats and weasels, consigned '-to 'the Government. Half of them , are to. be offered for sale on arrival, and, the other !half. , w;ill .he . turned out. where . most re-.-quiied.'.,- : '../... '.'." '"".' Haymaking is now general , throughout the Wairarapa, and if the present.fine* weather lasts a . few days longer the ! crop,' which is said to be a good average! one,, will be stacked m; excellent condition. ; .' W>e l do .not, know whether it is a very: umcqmmon circumstance (says a Marl- 1 ikorpugh paper) bjut the appearance of dihe' wool off a merino ewe's back at IDiEUngree is a. singular case of variation m. .animal hfe. Last year the l ew 6 '"'was a iLiiiil brown color ; during the whiter it Miami into a yellowish tint, and then into an ordinary white'; and lasc soearing the <w 00l kia turned j>erfectly black. What will be > the /next variation cannot be foreseen. . „.,:.,. \ f „-, ' ■ ' " They Bay that fish makes brains," remarked Mrs Yeast to her friend Mrs ■ CrimsonbeitJv wjth whom she ,was dinink* tlie other day. fi I'don't believe it," replied the smart host, who liked td' have her ofcn way, " W.&, I do," said tlie viaitol, rather erapllirticaHyv .«♦ Well, ]I guess I ought ;to know," , ,'e^tclain^ed Mrs Crinsonbeal?, Jp^ing her., tetnper ; " I have been eating it for the last forty-six years !" - . . A wise Government has decided that all letter carriers m the service of the iKew 1 Zealaud Post Office must m future, ■wear a deatinctive uniform. The ui*if orrn adopted (says tho Napier Telegraph) makes it difficult to tell the obli^i^g postman from the peripatetic Salvation Army luau. ;