The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 27 January 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Two tons of cheese left the Greytown Factory for Wellington ou Friday. Says an exchange : — Dead men aro n power sometimes. In the Hawkc,H Bay district they arc to a man opposed to tho harbor works, aud to the imposition <>f any rate to enable such wroks to ho proceeded with. At least, they arc not m a position to say anything to the contrary, aud so nro ranked with the opponents of the work 8. The latter are said not to have a ghost of a chance of succeeding m their opposition, but they are nevertheless determined to make every ghost count. In Auckland this year, all the licensed dog collars are to be made of brown.' ■ leather, with brass mounts, to distinguish them from those of last year,- which were •hlack.; . The idea is a good one. In this district, it is no easy matter to tell whether a dog's license has been renewed this year, or whether the collar it wears is only a reminiscence of the previous year's privileges, . ' A wee Scottish laddie interrogated his mother as follows: — "Mither, will we ha'e tea tae oor breakfast the morn?" '•Ay, laddie, if we be spared," said she. "An' if we're no spared, mither, will we only ha'e parritch ?" was the next query. Says the. Marton paper ;— Considerable dissatisfaction appears to have beeu manifested by visitors to the Foxton races at ; the -manner m which things were conducted. Some two hours, or more were wasted m getting the scales for; weighing to work. Many persons who had travelled considerable distances 'had; to leave before the races were finished, m order*to catch the train, and this too, though the train timetable had been speciallyrarranged to siutthe races * The Pall Mall Budget on November 7jh, adopted a novel niode of showing by maps the comparison between the iiumbor of meetings held against the -House of Lords and m favor of the Lords, The plan adopted wap to place dots m the various counties at which meetings had been held the size of tho dot indicating the attendance. While ' there were eight counties m which no£ even one meeting had been held m favor of the Lords, there was only one — Radnor, Hi Wales — that could not boast of a meeting against the Peers. In England, 200 conservative meetings wcrs held, against 1335 liberal gatherings, and m Scotland 14 Conversative meetings against 248 Libeial. The attendances taking the Budget's figures were 1,087,---500, against &,f>Oo,OOO. A terrible sto^y pomps from M^rmaros Sziget, llie most uorth-onßtei'ly county of Hungry. Tho prinsf, of Krnsnisora wont with his svifo and child m a sludge to Lonka, On the way thoy wore at(.ackcfl by a troop of wolves, about twenty j i) number. Tha horses renred and tiii;n linjujf) j}| terror, Tll fi wife of the priest was sft terri^pd f.|jaj; sl)o |pt Jjpr child foil from tljo sledge. Th« fat\m iium'ediatcly jumped out fro save it. and tho horses carried on the sledge with the .woman lying iipi»n it swooning. The husband engaged iv a desperate struggle jyilji t.he jwjpjves, and killed two of them. ; lifft itfat 'tho chjjd and tljen he hi||>ec|f were tnvp to pjecejß. p))Q BJedge arrived m Lonka; t{ie ■ wife was dead, together with a child to which she had premntiirely given birth. The \v)ui\o fnniily thus perinhed inliorably m about an hptir.

Applications for subsidies for Public Libraries must be made by the 31st instant. For the last six months the Saturday's issue of the Sydney Mommy lie-raid lias consisted of twenty-lbnr largo -page:*, it the largest daily paper m the world. : <. tf A Noumea correspondent says : — "The drought is very bad*- Cattle are dying everywhere, and squatters are being ruined. The drought and heat have brought the ' dengue ' fever along with them. It is a sort of low fever, painful and annoying but not daligerous, not lasting throe or four days. The doctors have their hands full." ; Owing to the drought prevalent m New South Wales, the export of butter from New Zealand to the .former_jplace is likely to be considerable thisi season. Taranaki butter exporteji to Sydney last year stood a S very 'favorable tost — m - fact, . was spoken highly of— and it is only reasonable to suppose that tho coming season • will tellas good, if not a better tald. The steauior Austral at . Sydney was visited by, twenty thousand people on Sunday the 11th msfc,"tosee her refitted -and again safe and sound. ''• No, shy said Dr Jalap, " I wouldn't have the apple-tree cut down for money." ■'But you never got any fruit from it," argued Mr Brown; "the boys steal all the apples before they are half ripe! 11 ' •{.That's just it," replied the doctor, with a quiet smile ; '• that tree stands me m, a good thousand every season." The relations between the two Ross < Journals, if not allugcther exceptional, arc at any rate spicy. Thursday 'h iMerckry -dishes up a mild joke for its render's amusement at the • expense of his 'contemporary. "Mr J. T. Petrie has been ' advertising m his paper (?) for some time past. for a ' lost stolen or strayed black ■ and white donkey.' We have not heard of the recovery of the uniin il referred to, but we hear that a -rcilheaded ass is to be seen daily at the office of the Aduocafc.—Fact!" Letters of naturalisation have been issued to Gustaf jKiiidberg, farmer, of Palmerston North. ' Thore are 423. du1y, qualified | practitioners on the N«lvv Zualand register, and 88 dentists oa the register of dentists. The Christchurch Press advocates a periodical Conference of School Inspectors m order to remove the diversity of interpreting the well known standards, and agree on a common procedure. This has been the custom at Home for, some time past and the plan wonts with satisfaction to ail parties. There.is a probability (says the Marton papp'r) of the people of the Wo«t Coast at last getting the much-desired privilege of posting letters m the truiu. .We notice that boxes have been fixed to the guards' vans and the word ' letterbox' written thureon. • It appears that there has been some delay iv getting the affair into working order, the keys of the boxes had been distributed and got mixed so that all of them had to be gathered again. We trust to bo able to record m the course of a day or so, that the hitch has been got over. The Marlon paper understands that' John Hammond, the owner of AroinV, who was second m the Hack liurdles at Foxton, has lodged a protest against Eguiont, on the ground that at the time of the race Egmont was, contrary to the advertised conditions of tho race, nominated for the Wellington Handicap Hurdles. A number of English clergymen are agitating the question of revising the marriage service m the English Prayer Book. They consider it coarse and indelicate. ■ The West Coast Goldfields, according to general report has been completely done up years ago, but m tho course of some remarks made by a prominent business man there (Mr McWirther) the other eveniug, no less than £30,000 worth of gold has been sold m Kuiuani (hiring the last month. Mr Dignan, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, slated his belief that the next shipment of gold would be the largest that has b»en made from this port for many years. He also testified to the sound commercial standing of the place at the present time. This the opinion of the Rot. H. J. Lewis, of Nelson, upou a very desirable commodity : — " True manliness consists of a clear understanding, a pure heart, a strong will, a healthy conscience, and above all a soaring spirit. .^Religion has to deal with the "understanding and intellect, which, could be dimmed or polished ; dimmed by giving way to grovelling habits aud indolence ; polished by reading good books, and by earnest thought. We should preserve a pure heart, guard it from corruption and hardening influences, aud till it with good ones. We should have a strong will, strong enough to resist wroug, but submissive to another's bettor judgment." [A freo pardon will be. granted to any person implicated m setting fire to the New Zealand Timber Company's premises m Auckland,' provided that he gives evidence against the other offenders. v The Halcombe. school-iiouso has been gazetted a vaccination station. The first Saturdays m February, May, August, aud November are the days specified. ' 1..'-..' It is officially notified that common jurors summoned to attend the District Court at Palmerston to have been hoiden to-morrow, need not put m an appearance, Mr John W. Gower, m a letter to the Foxton .papur, states that the codlin moth is flourishing ii} Nelson, and that be noticed^in a \ consignment of fruit from there o,i) sale iv a.Foxton store a few apples which had been pierced by the in--sect. t . , To <3o away with the absurdity of continuing to insert m tho electoral rolls the names of persons who have been dead perhaps a dozen years, tho Govern ment have instructed all registrars of deaths to allow registrars of electors to take a list every quarter of all persons who have died during that period. This will have the effect of purging the rolls of many names that have stuck on them for years past. The Hawera Star states that Mr Thomas McKay is to be appointed WiSt Const Commissioner, which position Sir William Fox held for four or five years. Sir F, Dillon Bell was associated with Sir. William Fox on the Commission up to the time of his appointment as AgentGeneral. ■■.-..!, In Germany a man dare not; cut down tjje frees on* hiH own Jand willjont con-, sent pf the proper authorities, so zealous i 8 the Government m preserving the for :i ests. .. , p „,'. . ■ ; ' '- : '■■;,. The Syortsmqn says, the lucky owner of Maluu is not altogether unmindful of the scriptural onjniurlor td lay up tre.tr SlU'ea for himself |» liere'aftej',' It appear* depends, iHafepally on jljr victory of IVfnjtia, or, as our ponvspq'n'dcni'puts it, 5J \yijoj}cvnr Mr fnglis Ijas a big win. the church goes ahead." They commenced " tuck pqiutiug" the liluoHtonc, after Malua.wou t||e NQtYIHUTkej; i^nndioan, the wn) ! k wai} further pus.lied flt) his Acjelnjtfo Pup win. ami wl|un the wir'o peached \\)u tqwnship, ,' Moluoiiv.ne.Ciip, Malua,.^; gomin'oMpn," 2 \ V\a\\n\h\e x V \ tho joy ii! tl»o camp <if t^o o,rthod.P.* at Balfttti w»8 only aepaud to tU»t of >us ! Impkprs at Bright.