The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JANUARY, 24, 1885 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 44, 24 January 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JANUARY, 24, 1885 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One hundred and three individuals or firms m Christchurch have guaranteed .£25 each towards the expanses of placing the East and West Coast Railway project on the London market. The late Mr Wagg, of Mastarton, is said to have died worth about £10,000. TheWairarapa Star of the 21st gives a highly favourably description of the prospects of the crops round Masterton, and says that next week the harvest is likely to be everywhere m full swing. Inspector Irvine, of the Liverpool, ©e-' te2tive Policej left for England by the Toiigariro on Saturday, taking back with' him Alexander Forsythe Anderson, who is charged with the ernb'ezzlement of .; .4240 belonging to the Board of Guar- 1 dians of the Brownlow Hill Workhouse, \ Liverpool. . | MrW. W. M 1 Cardie, says a Wairarapa paper of a late date, is promoting another Land Association, to be composed jointly of Masterton and busk settlers, for the purpose of taking up a, block m the Puketoi, at the end of the Tiraumea-road. Says the Marton paper, the Campbelltown crops are second to none m thedistrict. Mr Costall and other settlershave magnificent fields of wheat and i oats. The ss, Tui, which arrived m the- j Rangitikei river on Friday, left for Wellington on Saturday with a cargo of over i 100 balen oi" wool and about one hundred | and fifty sheep. Charity Sunday at Christchurch.realised £BGO. Mr Jellicoe(says the Post) has 'com. j municatcd by wire with the Honourable | the Attorney General, who has approved of the course recommended by him to be followed m regard to the other indictments against Waring Taylor. Mr Jellicoo has therefore given notice to i>risoner'u counsel that he will on Friday, proceed with the indictment charging Taylor with the misappropriation of v sum of £500 entrusted to him for investment. Mr Jellicoe will also on Friday morning announce what course he intends to adopt m reference to the two other indictments, alleging the misappropriation of £10,000.

Messrs o! evens and Gorton's next stock Siilo ut Kt'ilding will-bo held on tho 27th inst. Tho entries at present received arc published m onr advertising columns. They include prime fat co\v.4, two-yoav-old stoors, yearlings, cows and calves, mixed cattle, prime tat sheep, and wether hoggets. The South Australian Jockey Club (Adelaide) now m course of liquidation, owing to the repeal of tho Totalisator Act m South Australia, are now advertising for sale their splendid new j and improved totalisator, which will be j sold cheap under the circumstances. Several gentlemen here (says tho WanJ ganui Herald) have strongly urged the ' local Jockey Club to make an otfer for it, i as they think the public would bo much better served by the Club owning and i running the machines itself. A Dunedin bicyclist has done a mile m m 2min. 57sec. This is travelling, as many racehorses would take nearly as long to cover a mile and a half !. When it is realised that the wheelman went only one-third slower than a good horse at full gallop, the real bearings of the feat can be readily understood. Tho bicycle as now built, is one of the! greatest triumphs of the time, and would astonish the old patrons of the primitive " hobby horses," who, with both toes • spurring the ground, thought they were doing ■wonders when they compassed eight miles aivhour ! Last month Napier had the highest death rate among the boroughs of the colony, and as usual, the birth rate occupied the same place, by way of compensation. Hokitikei and Caversham were at the bottom of the mortality list, no death occurring m either borough, Wanganui was the next lowest. Some facts which transpired during the hearing of a case heard m the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, (sayß the Post) induced his Worship to tender the police a little advice respecting thenduties as regards public houses. Mr Wardell said it appeared to him that members of the force were almost driven to the necossity of adopting a course which was by no means a pleas&nt one, m order to obtain information m reference to the internal working of hotels m. tho city. In order to get a glimpse of what was going on inside during prohibited hours the police were obliged to slip m and do other things which were not altogether pleasant. His opinion was that if they, would confine themselves to the iuahitenan.ee of good order outside the hotels, and not show an anxiety to go inside, the whole policy of the Act would be given effect to. ;' Miss Annie Teesdale, a lieutenant m the Salvation Army, who was charged with obstruction m Blenheim m evidence stated:— "We all stood still and the policemen, too — bless them ; all I hope is they are all saved. Our obiect is to get people to hear salvation; we like- to keep peace with everyone, but best of all we like to please God. If Mr Fildes is annoyed with the noise here, I do not know what ho will do m Heaven, as they make a tremondous noise there." A grand ball was given m a town not a hundred miles from Napier the other night (says the Telegraph) when an old dodge was repeated. Between the issuing of the invitations and the , ball taking place, certain gentlemen known as bailiffs had accidentally taken posr session, so there was trouble. The difficulty was got over by the bailiffs hang dressed up as waiters, and aU went merry as » marriage bell. An accident happened to a brake on the Paikakariki Bill on Monday.. A carrier named John Walker, had just driven past tho summit when one of the rein* broke, and the horses becoming unmanageable, the vehicle, with all its contents,* was precipitated down the side of the hill. The driver and a little girl who was m the conveyance fortunately escaped unhurt, and the horses were not much injured, but the furniture which the brake contained was smashed to pieces. Shaw-Sf.ville and Albion Company's steamer Arawa sailed for London shortly after 7 o'clock on Thursday evening. She takes about 40 passengers, also a full cargo, moulding 14,000 carcases of frozen mutton. A quantity of Scotch burn brownheaded trout for Otago arrived by the lonic. This is the first shipment of this species ever shipped to the colony .% It is said that the Hawkes Bay district is becoming quite denuded of sheep owing to the large supplies sent to Auck-. land for freezing purposes. The Otago Caledonian Society have forwarded a letter to Hon W. E. Gladstone with regard to the immigration of Syke Crofters. They point out that a large population that seems at present m a very wretched and miserable condition, might be transferred to a part of the Empiro where they will have ample meauH of subsistance, and possess comforts to which they have hitherto been strangers. The letter further adds that the sum which might be advanced to the Crotters. would be repaid by them, as was the ease with the assisted' imnri--grants to Otago m its early days. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes as follows regarding the Colonial Exhibition : — There can be"no doubt the Prince of Wales^ntends the " Colonies " (as it has already been dubbed) shall altogether outshine 1 either the "Healtheries "or the "Inventories," ' and H.E.H. seldom takes up a job (as he has this) without carrying it through l triumphantly. The summer of 1886 consequently promises to attract a rare gathering of colonists from all quarters of the Empire to London; indeed, I should advise New Zealanders who contemplate" a visit to the Old Country to time their arrival about the date of the opening of the Exhibition — viz., May | the 14th, 1886.