LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 50, 31 January 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Stout — the nominal Premier — is painfully sensitive ot newspaper criticism. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of stock at AwaUuri on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd. Several valuable lots have already been entered. A double furrow plough will also be offered, Wo have to acknowledge receipt of the New; Zealand Industrial Gazelle for Jan. It contains the usual amount of interesting matter.. The royal mail 'steamship Kaikoura with the New Zealand mails dated Wellington,Dec.2l, left Madeira for Plymouth on the 26 th ins t. Sergeant-Major Henry has receiyed a challenge from the Ofcaki Rifle Club to fire a match against five men picked from one company of Volunteers ln Wanganui; the match to take place m two or three weeks from now. There were m Wanganui yesterday a number ot visitors from the* Empire City, ainong3t whom were Mr Gear, of the Gear Meat Company, Dr Buller, Mi* Didsbury, Government printer, and Mr Blair, chairman of the Wellington Education Board. When lecturing m Auckland lately, Mr Booth, the temperance lecturer, said that to his knowledge there was not a barmaid m the United States", and there would not be one m New Zealand before long. A southe.rri contemporary says : — We are permitted to make the following extract from a private letter just received by a gentleman from a correspondent who visited New Zealand lately, m course of a tour round the world, who was cordially received m Invercargill :— lf it wav slid to me — * Now you must leave those Br yisli Islands nl neyer return to them, buo'youinay choose wherever you please to reside,' I would, without hesitation, name New Zealand as my future home. It has not come to h .t, however, and I am still free to live m this ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,' and so, with all its drawbacks, I prefer it to any other." A singular application is likely to be made m the Melbourne law courts shortly. The litigant* are two well-known residents m West Melbourne, one of whom has become annoyed hv the continuous .-barking of his 1 neighbour's dog, whichbreak* m upon his resjfc at mostunsear' sonable hours, He endeavoured without, effect, to obtain an abatement pf the ' nuisance, and intends, as a last resource, to apply for a» injunction to the Supreme vCourt.' . There has. b,een pome talk lately of trying 1 to start ti dairy factory here, (writes the .Manaia correspondent of the Wan? ganuJ. Herald) and if properly taken up the effort should prove successful. There is , nothing like local industries for pushing a place ahead, aai I hope to see the settlers b «ck up the prompted of the factory. . ; It would have been of considerable use to some of Mie buah settlers (says th,e Feilding Starf if they had accepted the warning of Mi' Ecljvin who has for the past day or tw o issued notices to the effect that heavy rains were certain to fall within a limited period. Instead of doing so, they fire their fallen bush on Tuesday morning with the result that the heavy showers which came down yesterday, comptertely .extinguished the fires and, thus "spoiled the burn.". - The settlement of the Patere Block <.says a correspondent of the ' lndustrial Gazette will be actively proceeded with, and should the schon.".e of gonoral settlement throughout the liistrict be properly followed up, there can \he no doubt that an end will soon be put to the sorry stories occasionally heard regarding commercial depression existing about there. It is to be hoped (says the Napier Telegraph) that the labours of the Salvation Army are effecting 1 some good, but the more outward and visible sign of ministrations is 1 the blasphemy uttered by children m our streets m mimicry of the Salvation services and hymns. . The annual meeting of the M:uaawatu Shipping Company takes place on Monday next. According to the London Truth, Dr Schweninger, of Munich, has discovered a .new mode of reducing the bulk of the h uman frame. It is never to eat and di ink at the same time, but to let two hoi Irs intervone. He has, it is said, exuod Pjrince'Bismaek of a tericleiicy to e &ityin this way. Fat people have now their choice between four systems ; 1. 1 Tie original Banting* which, consists of eai iog nothing containing starch, sugar, . •>!• iat. 2. The German Banting which t vllows fat, but forbids sugar or starch. #• A Munich system which consists ,of "being clothed hi wool, aiid sleeping h^ flannel blankets instead of sheets. 4. Mot ending and drinking "flfc the same ti. me. ' "' •; I

At the inquest on tlio vicliia.s ot' tlie tunnel accident at Pukem'a, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental 3)o.ith," and tiddod the following rider : — " Tlint the jury rpcouiuientl to the Government that a special inspector for the Paikakariki section of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway be appointed to see that the safety of the men employed m the tunnels is properly secured, and that a copy of this rider be sent to the Minister of Mines." The Nelson Mail understands that the defalcations of the late Mr Bisley, of Motueka, so far as the Friendly Societies, for which he was acting as secretary and treasurer, are concerned, amount to about ;£BOO, the Oddfellows being effected to the extent ot about ±'390, and the Foresters to something over £400. His other liabilities, so far as are yet known, do not exceed i."200, while his assets are valued at ,£IOOO, so that really he cannot be said to have been insolvent. The unhappy man has left a widow and eight children, the youngest only six weeks old, totally unprovided for. According, to a , Napier „ paper the building trade seems rather active at present judging from the large number of buildings m course of erection m the various parts of the town. Some of the buildings m course of erection will add considerably to the general appearance and neatness of the town. The Foxtonpaper as informed that the Tui is likely to be placed m the Wanganui trade after this month, and that the Huia will take up her place m the Foxton. trade. The last shipment of gold from Hokitaka by the bank of New Zealand amounted to 5744 ounces, ; valued at £22,080.< • .. .- It is proposed to start a dairy factory m Masterton. The idea is to form a company strong enough to establish a factory at Masterton, and branch factories at Mauriceville, the Camp and Eketahuna. , ! The following appears m the Industrial Gazette: — "A postcard from the Deputy Official Assignee at Bull's notifiies the meeting at the Courthouse, Palmerston, on the 29th instant of no less than thirteen bankrupts. The new Act seems to be. very little feared m that district." Deprecating the winding up of the Paluaerdton Soap and Candle Manufactory Company, the lnduxtrial Gazette observes : — " Such an industry properly managed, ought to have succeeded. The writer of " Farming Notes " m the Egmont Star says : — " A triend of mine, who is interested m stock, tells me he hears of a cure for lungworm, or horse, which has been found to be very effectual. It is roughly described as a method by which a barn filled with steam from a boiler, containing a mixture of lib Calvert's (No. 4) carbolic acid to each gallon of water m the boiler which generates the steam. The cure is said to be so effective that lambs which had to be carried to the shed, recovered After a good steaming. Mr M'Beth, Chief Postmaster here, insorms the Wanganui Herald that the letter-boxes m the guard's van will be. available to the public from yesterday. (Friday). By this system, letters may be posted 'up till the hour the train loaves, bui it will be necessary tljat each letter , should bear a " late fee " m the shape of a penny stamp. ' : What is known m the wholesale trade as a very "slow season" having just f.ennii)ated,we have been able to buy up, (prior.to Stocktaking) some Remarkably Cheap lines/ which together with our own Surplus Summer Stock we are now offering at prices which cannot fail to to command the attention of purchasers. We quote the following us samples of what are now obtainable at TflE Bon Marche. New patterns, Cambrics, 3£d; new patterns, Pompadour, 4£d .; Zephyr Checks,, 7£d 5 Dress Stuiffis, 3£d, 4£d, 6£d, 7h\, these ar« worth from~6u to Is 3d. Over* Nuns' Cloth's 'all thfe new shades, Dress length of 12 yards for 10s Oil. Heavy Long Lace Curtains, 4s 6d, 6s, 7s qd, 9s Qd, lgs 6d. 570 dozen Linen 'Buttons, all makes and sijses,, and first class quality to be cleared at ono penny per dozen. The Bon Marche, The People's Cash Drapery and Clothing Warehouse. C. M. ttoss and Co.[a.dvt.J