LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 36, 13 January 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ ; '"* We understand that a number !o the members of the Mt-sprSc body in _?almerston, will ,yisit - Malrfcbn on Thursday next to assist in the opening of a Masonic. Lodge in that township. 7 ; ' We understand that the member for Manawatu'; D. H. Macarthur, Esq;.,'will address the electors in the various .eh- • tresduring the current month. TiMes-i and places will be duly notified by iadver-, tisement. !-.;., The committee of the Feilding Publico Library, recommend that the Lancet," Saturday Review, Land and Water, and Blackwood's ' Magazine be discontinued,. it-id the .Amexioß^' and. English Mechanic be' procured. •-'•'By virture of power given by the' Electric Lines Ac, 1884, an order. in Council. has been issued directing -.Mt '• all original telegrams be'desfrbyed "after' having been kept six months by'Tthe Superintendent of Electric Lines! .--The Order takes' effect: from January Ist last. ' The Wanganui Herald says:—School-. masters,' as a rule; know little or liothing, of commercial requirements, and their, pupils less. It is time an improvement took place, and that more attention' .ahould.be,, devoted to fitting boys for everyday pursuits.. . j , During the month' of Decembef the estates of twenty deceased persons were placed under charge of thVtPubUb Trustee, the values-ranging from Jl up to #9500- 7 . ; . „ .' i * A large Indian mound near the town of Gasterville (U.S.), has recently been opened, ••'. At some depth from thejsurface a vault ...was found, in which \jas discovered the skeleton, df a giant measuring 7ft 2in. _Cis hair was coarse and iet black, and -hung-to 1 -the waist, the brow being ornamented with.a copper crown. , I One of the effects of the new Police Offences Act will be to deprive local bodies of the benefits, derived,-,from the penalties recovered ff'om breaches-of the pye-iaws framed by them. The same provisions are ia our Boroiigh .Coipic ; il's bye-laws, are. embodied in the Police Offences Act, and any fines recovered will now go into the coffers of the general Goveriment, instead of: to the local body as was the case before the new act came,into fo*fce. i : The Opunake people (says a correspondent of the Wanganui Herald) evidently do not intend* to be. behind the times. We undew"tan4 th-tf it fa their iflteptioi} to start a flheese and' Butter Fajotofy at once. Already good support has been; guaranteed, and there is is everyjlikelihood of the venture being a most succpssful one. ~,.,. We have been requested to direct attention to Messrs Walker and iHatrick's advertisement) in another ..column, by lyfotek it-Wtti ha seen have, extended their, business, and .are,. prepared to sup- ! ply their friends and customers with 'air articles Of. general of.wbjeli i they hays a large s.tq<3k lon hand h* thair new- stores, on Taupo Quay, • ~. , :j ,• 7 , We learn Johnston, accompanied by Mrs and family, will leave,) in the s,s, Tbngariro ;on a vißit to Kuvope.

AndreW O'Brien was charged at Wellington on Friday£last with intending to desert his wife at Palmerston North. Accused said he only left oh Tuesday with a view of getting work in Wellington out of the reach of his wife's tongue.. A remand was granted. *' A young hopefal rushed into the room where his mother was entertaining a few lady and gentlemen friends,-with his * face all aglow with delight. 'Ma/ ■ shouted 'he, * the South Melbourne have got seven behinds, and. the other fellows have only got iour.' The ladies blushed, and the gentlemen gazed Up at the ceiling. Five minutes afterwards sounds of woe proceeded from young Victoria. Something was going on ' behind' him. , 7 ••,'■.; : The Auckland correspondent of the Post says the owners vl of the steamer Triumph are intending "to lay her on. with, excursionists for Samoa. There : is &'* great rush for berths. The names of the jurors required to ,- serve at. the next sittings- of the. District-; Court, to be held at Palniefstoh on the28th instant, were to be drawn by the sheriff (Mr Woon), at the, courthouse* ~ Wanganui, yesterday, at 12o'clook noon. _ > : It is claimed' that there- has been n0 : ) great'loss of life in•;Arctic, exploration. .The records show that the; deaths from all causes have been less . than 2 petcent., which is smaller than the ratio of mortality from accident or disease ih the i-ordihary traffic upon the- seasi - Illness' among Arctic explorers is exceedingly rare. The Bedouins, accustomed from in-,-foi-eyi.;■ to regard-water, as mo?t- ; precious and fare, use it with wonderiul "economy. Neither men nor animals drink more, than once in forty-eight hours. As to washing, they never . indulge in 'such' 'wasteful nonsense.', • ' When came to General R. E. Colston's camp,' water was always offered them. Their answer was frequently, " No, thanks ; I . drank;yesterday." - Ll Theyknp^*'too.well the importance .of jkeeping up the habit of abstemiousness. 7" i rA The late Mr Justice Wills, in reply toY the inquiry, " What ought I to cl 6 if ■£'■ saw, a burglar in my'drawmgroomiii the Act 'of packing iip the clock ? rt replied Ss follows :—" Speaking as a man of wide experience ahdjaUEnglish judge, Ijgive you this aB my .deliberate.opinion df~ whatit is not only your right, but I am to think also your duty, tq do. a double-barrelled gunV load ;bbth barrels to the muzzle, aim carefully' at some vital organ, and shoot;him dead." ;■_'/.'( j An Irish lawyer. having jad-restfe a the Court as"gentlemen," iustoad of *'yer honors," after he"had"concluded, a'brb- ' ther of the bar reminded him of .his error. He immediately rose aud apologised " thus : " May it please the Court, in the-; haete .qf debate!, called yer honors gen-* : tleirieh'. I niadd a ihista„e,'yer honor**." i The speaker then sat down. .7 •'] The New Zealand-hipping Company's ' ship Orarl, sailed from Welliugtop fpr London at. dusk ppfSaturday. She took ;i threq passengers and a ; fulP cargo of wool. f ~-'■- I ' A.; Wellington paper is very glad to learn that Dr Diver, who has recently. .beyn in a very precarious state of health';' had a'change for the better on Sunday evening,''and is now said to be rapidly 'recovering. ■"'■■• ■■•■" "-'7 ' M Tbe San Francisco mail was due at Auckland on Saturday last but a| the 1 steamer was several days late in leaving. San Erancisco, she can hardly be expec-'- ---, ted to Teach Auckland at diie date. • ;:; •- The New Zealand Shipping Company V sailed from Woiliug;----lo n: for,Lyttelton and Loudon qn.Suiiday : morning, taking besides a quantity' ofc.wool, &c.,.about 5000 carcases of .frozen i-Utton, "'shipped ■■'by* the Gear Meat Freezing Company. She leaves Lyttel- , Lon'dno with the' mail on Satui.--September 25. this year, thei-e will be a total eclipse ot the sun, the central line of which' passes over New Zealand just above Cook's Straits, and this is the only land on which it will be visible as a total eclipse. The duration of totality will be small—aboiit.tj.vo"niinutes and- a half duly. It is not--unlikely that the Victorian Observatory Will send a small observing party to Wellington, or to tbe lioiglibourhood of Cooli's'Straits, .to yondertake some part of the requisite j physical Observation*; aud prpbably"several -European and American Astronomers will, visit New Zealand on this occasion! One of "the inmates/of the Auckland Old Meu's Refuge, named John Bui*ke/ who had got' rather f ri_ky oh -the liberal \ , New Years-fare provided by the J Hospital Committee, coimhericed, to' kbuse the.'iha_ter,of the .refuge and' use ffpjd. i jlanguage in, the presepce pf ;r tbe in|atroii' ai-d the pt liei* imuatest. He !to.n«je fork at the master, and the ,-weapon,' penetrated' : his tfai&cbat and'shift he' was * eventually : 'seeiired and taken to the lock-up. ■ '■'■ n'r ' .. • Says Saturday's • Chronicle -—-A 1 _6l_gram was received' yesterday by his, . Worship the Mayor from 1 Mr Keeling, the town ct'ert of- Palmerston--North, asking if it- was true that an erysipelas - patient irom. that district could not be admitted to;the hospital, and if-; so for what, reason, .litis.' Worship., repiied-----' "r Hospital full, but doctor advises that cases of o'fysipelas'.; cannot be received becaut-fe of itnriiinehk'dat.ger" to 'other patients." We understand that restric tioti with rdgard-toithis. particular*fb'rm of disease is imperative, -and ', will b_ iiforced iv tho. ( all , whe,ther from Wgnjraniii or ..e^lsewherei ■' the danger'bf infectionbeihgconsiderecl as great as in cases of smallpox.- j This painful and dangerous disease seems to be spreading throughout the entire dis-; ; triet,;- A good many persons ( have beeu laid up in Wanganui, anct now we hear ;of it'in Marton. ~ ■• , . , ; At the last meeting of the Feilding.i -Borough Council Cr Worsfold moved and Cr Nicholas sended, That in future; > notices of all works of value not exceeding £20 be posted on- the outside the Council Chambers, this provision to do away- wjth advertising works in the local paper to that amount. The Mayor strongly deprecated such a proceeding. He thought many persons read the paper who would never, see the notices ou the board, aud suggested that not advertising was going back into the dark ages. The motion. Wira -put and carried by six vpseß : tq four, The Mayorconsidered that ; the Council had taken'a*retrograde step, which he believed they would regret and soon retrace. A.case ot some; importance fop local bodies and property was called recently at the Najpief Court. JA man' kummbned fpr rates, ' said he haifgiven notice to : a member of theMeahee Hoad Board—the plaintiffsMn the street, that he had, assigned the property'sometime in April, but had not appealed against his'name being on the valuation roll for the property; judgment was re r ßbrved. A man named : Harry Webb is'reported is missing from Wanganui, disappeared on New Year's Day, and has* - not been heard of since. : Webb, who Was at one time a soldier; is ahj elderly man, with only one eye, and wears his whiskers long and bushy, Th,e police i attach very little importance to Ms >B ~ .appearance, as he ie a .'Wau given to wapdep-insi *b,omfc: the cp.ufttry- a good deft!-. :..<.._.:;■■ Accp-'diig to the Hawera Stdr, work at the M-n.iwspbu is being pushed on more hriskly aowyiolh&t there i* reason; - for hoping that the railway will he open before the winter sets in, I

We learn from the Cbristcburch Press . that on Wednesday afternoon a few of r the many friends" of the popular and ' 1 much respected agent of the Bank of ] New Zealand. Mr J. Hatina, 'met him at i the Southbridge Hotel to wish 'him good- ~-- bye on his departure to fill a more important post in the Bank's service at J Palmerston North. „r Hanna had just v returned from a trip to the North Island, ' where he had been to recruit his health, and although it was expected his stay in the district would be limited, it was riot anticipated it was to ;be so short, otherwise stops Would have been taken, to have entertained him in a more substantial manner. Besides bavin*? given . his services to further all matters of public interest, the district will mfiss in him a staunch supporter of all sportis,and his absence from the hunting field wilL be regretted by all who rode with him,- ---' indeed he was the mainstSy-and backbone of this grand 61d ? spbrtr j