The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 28 January 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The finest college for .'orphans-iri the ! world was erected and is supported by the funds of the founder— Girard's Col- ! lege, m Philadelphia. >A 'priest, rabbi, or clergyman is not allowed within its walls, even as a visitor 1 The first meeting of the Horowhenu | County Council, was held at Otaki on Saturday last. „ i ' Messrs Thynne, Bookstrow, Maclean, Purcell, Baker, Williams; and Robinson, were elected members of the Foxton School Committee. Mr Thynne was elected chairman. '' .. . ! , . , Mrs Hammerick, wife of the proprietor of the Greytown Hotel, was, iound i dead m her bed on Suriday morning. While excavating at Emily Place (says the Auckland Herald) the •came upon a portion of a kauri, m a fair state oi preservation, fully 40 feet tromthb surfabe. "•■'•• A Tauranga one day last week a Mr jOverington, a blacksmith, went to his dinner at 1 o'clock^ arid his wife not'having it ready, they had some angry words. Mrs Ooverington thereupon left her home and purchased some strychnine, which she; took' upon her return. She,! ; died before medical aid* could be obtain- 1 Ud. ■ • The other day (says the Wanganui Chronicle) twe aspiring youthe, who had - ! weared of their monotonous existence m ' a local ironmongery store, decided to set out upon a search for riches. In other . words, they took a sudden departure for [ . Waipu, where they started- gutiiidiggirig, 1 The first '■ two or three mails brought 1 news that they were blearing i>so a weok, but it now transpires that their ■ experience is but a repititiori' of tho ; Scripture story 6i the prodigal son. They , have been eating' the husks, and finding '• thi*mless palatable than home fare, have . m effect, wired down to the old folks, •Fatted calf for two!" • .* ■ i '. ' . . . > . , ■ . .• ■■■■ ■ Favorable accounts have been received from Hearn,' arid good judges are" of opinion that he and his crew (McGrath, Smith, and. Patten) ; will win the prize at Auckland without much trouble. .The Supreme Court long vacation commenced on the 25ih inst., and will, extend over the ensuing 'six weeks. It is reported that the owneV of Malua has won over 50,000 m stakes anil bots since he purchased him. . : From the Post we learn that the Johnsonyille section of the Wellington and Mariawatu Railway is now ready for trafiic, the final work m connection with this part of the line having been performed last week. On Saturday Mr J John Blackett, Engineer-in-phieffor the colony, went over the section m a car' riage drawn by a looomotive, for the purpose of enabling him to submit a report to Government as to the condition of the line between the city and {Tohnsonville. An Irish newspaper bearing the address Mr T. J. Franks, Post Office, North Island, New Zealand, is now making the roiind of ajl'-.thft- post' of-i ficas, At latest accounts it has reached Marton without the addresses being identified,

I A rush took place on tho Back -and - Pillar Range , Ota^o, last week. The report if; that, two innn obtained 20oz of "old m tbiHiO days. A nninl>or of miners arc away to the scone. I hoar (says a correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) that the depth of sinking is from lft to 3ft. I cannok vouch as to tho correctness of the report about tho quantity of gold ; but it is a fact that there is a rush about five miles from Hyde. It would not advise anyone to go till further con- • nrmation comes to hand. The irrigation of the Canterbury j Plains will soon bean accomplished fact. I (remarks the Lyttelton Times). Ih ; the, Engineer's report there is an estimate of cost of lifting water out of the Rakaia river. For tlie modest sum of i>3300 a flow of 7000 gallons por minute, ; equal to a supply of ten million gallons m the twenty-four hours, can be obtained, - This is the: estimate of engineer "whose estimates during the construction pi many hundred miles of • water-races have never been falsified. , . If all the iudges take up the same line as Mr Justice Williams, small, bankruptcies will become less frequent./ He refused to grant a discharge at Duriedin, to. a man who had" incurred a number of small debts, the debtor not having been a trader prior to his bankruptcy. Many "deserving men are compelled to seek protection of the Court, but, there caifbe" no : doubt that m many instances ' 'thej filing of -oi scllgdule is thought' as lightly' as 'the smoking of a cigarette- or any other little pastime." It is time to make ai ; stand ftgfcin'sif .sucli an evil ipjswjtice. Those deservinglof consideration willgen''eeally find their creditors sympathetic enough. , . . . , ',;;' „Ji •■' ' If a woman's hair is free .'from" oils \ -or pomades, and she combs it pn' a winter night with a rubber comb, eletrib' sparks wUI fly out', and a cracklihg sound be : remitted. If, with the hair hanging m this condition, she stands on a chair, the four legs of .which, are. placed m. ordinary, glass tumblers, and points her finger^ at; & gas-burner, she can light the gas with *hef touc'hu" There will be a slight report and a sharp tingling sensation : in the; end ,of the • fingeiv from* which the . electric i spark passes., , - : : r , „; , ■, J-( ; ;. ■ , IntheiSydneyrPolice Court recently a fine ; of 20s, and 5s costs, w^a ;• enforced; for a breach of a municipal by-law. The detendant . produced a , J>so , -bank note. f " We don't keep change for fifties m ; K a Police' Court," said*. the astounded official, and the presiding magistrate remarked, sotto voice, " If I had thought he had go much money I Would have made the fine a little heavier !" .<