The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, FEBBUABY 4, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 February 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, FEBBUABY 4, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Macarthnr, M.H.R., notifies that he will address bis constituents m Palmerston, on Monday ; Fejlding, on Tuesday ; Halcombo, on Thursday; and Ashurst, on Friday ; on each occasion at 8 o'clock. Mr T. B. Chamberlain, son of the late Mr W. E. Chamberlain, of Feilding, has been appointed manager of the flonr milling business so successfully carried on by his father. At a popular restaurant a clumsy waiter spills a plate of soup over the overcoat of a guest. Fury and desolation of the guest. The waiter oahny glancing at the clook : " It's all right sir ! Don't worry I It's 7.25, and our soup doesn't grease anything after seven 1" The other day the thermometer registered 98 degrees m the shade m Melbourne, and the next d&j the meter showed the consumption of Yon. Yean to have been twenty- three million gallons, This was the largest demand ever registered on the water supply of the city, which now with its suburbs, all of which are connected with the Van Yean supply, numbers between three and four hundred thousand of a population ; this would give a consumption of over sixty gallons per head. A schoolmaster m lowa called his prettiest pupil to his desk and asked her if she would marry him. She replied promptly that she would not. "If you were the last man on earth, and I was

forty, instead of sixtean," she added " I wouldn't take yon." Ro mining liis character of pedagogue, he decided tha ( that her language was disrespectful, an I i'orruled the hand which he could nob got matrimonially. The girl now sues him for damages. Nettie Horan, a school teacher, committed suicido by poison at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, recently. Before dying she confessed that she had poisoned her father, mother, and two sisters, who had all died suddenly at intervals within the past three years. A Wairarapa paper urges that a meeting of directors of all the cheese factories m Wairarapa should be held, for the purpose of making arrangements fpr the deyelopment and protection of that important industry. Members of both House of Lords and House of Commons sit with their hats on, removing them only when they rise to speak or to go out of tho chambor. " A.K.," Whaugarei, who has been m i town for holidays, writes to the Auckland Star :— " Up north I heard a great deal about the dearth of employment m Auckland, and coming on to the city I set myself to see what truth there was m tho statements, as I wished to secure some labourers for the bush. It was with great difficulty that I was able to secure three men out of work, and neither of these would accept a situation at Whangarei, because it waa too far out of town. All I can say is, if men prefor semi-starva-tion m town to comfort and independence m the country, they are welcome to their choice, but m the name of all that ia outrageous, don't let them make a howl about it!" The Hawera Star is responsible for tho statement that fourteon persons, more or less under the influence of drink were counted m the streets of Peilding on a recent Sunday. There is. evidently need for a little reform m the administration of the law there. A mysterious fever which attacks women at child-birth is causing great concern to the doctors at present. In Wanganui recently several fatal cases occurred, and at a meeting of medical men, it was decided that one doctor m lirge practice should cease to attend accouchements for several months. In Auckland the matter is assuming grave proportions; and one popular practi? tioner m New Plymouth has resolved to abstain from midwifery for three months It is believed that the contagion can be transmitted after the lapse of several weeks I,'1 ,' but if all goes well during the first few days after birth there is no further risk. Rumors are current (says the Herald) that' Mr W. Hutchison, late Mayor of Wellington, is trying to get tho Wellington Evening Press ; and another story is that Mr G. Fisher is angling for it. A change m the proprietary is said to be imminent. Only two gentlemen put m a appearance at the annual meeting of the Parewanui householders to elect a school committee •-—viz., Mr Dalrymple, the chairman, and Mr McDonell. The meeting therefore lapsed. Mr Dalrymple has written to the Education Board, asking for instructions. Four boys have been convicted at Auckland of robbing an orchard at Parnell. Similar robberies have been very frequent of late, and the boys not only make off with fruit, but " hft " anything they can lay hold of, including chickens and fowls. The accused were each fined 5s and costs, and cautioned. The Hawera Star states that Mr Samuels, M.H.R., has ioined the Oddfellows, with a view of learning about the working of friendly societies. He is reported as being highly pleased with what he has seen of the management. Robert Belfitt, a pedestrian, was arrested m Wellington on Saturday, on a warrant, issued at Feilding, charging him wiih wife desertion. It is rumored that the Union Bank of Australia has purchased the corner block m Queen-street, Masterton, occupied by Messrs Sellar And Mansell, for £UQQ. We (Woodville Examiner) hear that Mr Ormond has abandoned his hopgrowing experiment, as ho is not satisfied with its prospects. Peter Finn, a drunken old reprobate, walked into the front bar of the Groyhound Hotel, Auckland, tho other day and deliberately threw a stone at a large mirror, valued at £15. The mirror was completely destroyed, and Finn was taken into custody by tho police. His excuse for the wanton act wa3 that he "wished to keep his reflection from grinning at him." Peter was "sent up" for nine months some years ago for smashing a mirror m the same hotel. " Humanity,, writes m a Wellington paper, and says : — If parents will only ask themselves the cause of the bandyleggedness m ohildron, they will find the answer m the word f( Perambulator." The child is compelled to sit m a cramped attitude hour after hour, till its poor little legs become quite deformed, If parents take any interest m their chil - dren'a appearance at all, they will thank our legislators instead of railing at them as hitherto, for all will admit there is no additional grace m bandy legs. The Dunedin Evening Star says :— "A fact which speaks for itself is that there are at the present moment between 300 and 400 vacant dwelling-houses m Dunedin and suburbs, Such a large number of " vacancies" have not. been known for a good many years. A gentleman and his sister have been discovered by the police at, their house at Treherbert m the last stage of starvation, through sheer lack, apparently, of sufficient business capacity to get some crossed cheques for £102 cashed. These were discovered m the liouho, together with securities for over £500 ; and yet the old couple believed themselves penniless. A. Presbyterian doctor of divinity once naid to a repot ter at a General Assemb. ly;"You newspaper men must have queer views of things, You are always looking on and never taking part, Your knowledge and habits of thought must be very circumscribed and superficial. I suppose, now, your idea of the Dny of Judgment is, that you will have a table off at one side and report the proceedings for the morning paper. The Napier Telegraph has the following ; — ln Wellington there is a newspaper proprietor named Harris who when summoned as a juror m the Waring Taylor case asked the Judge to excuse him as be had bean communing with the spirits and had learnt where all the money had gone. The Judge said ho could not excuse him on those .grounds. Mr Ballance received a most cordial welcome from Wahanui. The settlers of Fandon hare held a meeting to discuss the provisions of the new Impounding Act. The meeting passed a resolution recommending to the Road Board that each resident m the township of Sanson be granted a right of running not more than five head of large cattle upon 'payment of the annual cum of 30s. per head for horses, and 20s. per head for cows ; that all township roads at present fenced and occupied be charged at the rate of 10s per acre per annum, for the purposes of grazing ; that all sums accruing from both the sources, less 5p *r cent., paid , o tho clerk of the boara foi*Jerical work m connection with the above, be paid iuto the Bank af New Zealand to the credit of the Sanson Public Town-hall Fund!

Tii-i Hon. 1\ B'ioUl«y, Colonial Sucre- . try, was to loave Wellington on Mou\\y ovf-niiii; for Napier, to settle some hospital dispute tliero. He will afterwards trawl overland to Wanganui and New PlyiuotUli districts o;i a visit of inspection of charitable institutions. , Messrs Stevens & Gorton's annual ram aud slieeu fair \ri!l be held at Bulls on the 17tli inst. We understand that the' entries are unusually lartje. Amongst the vendors of pure-bred stock will be Messrs F. U. Larkworthy, J. G. Wilson, E. Read, Peter Stewart, U. P. Flood, L. G. Richards, G. C. Wheeler, W. B Reto meyer, W. Pearson, T. Newman, Sir W. Fox, and Mrs Willis. At the last rneetiag of the Borough Council, Feilding, it was resolved, on tne motion of Carthew, seconded by Cr. Worsfold — That m case of emergency the mayor or chairman of the Public Works Committee be empowered to take j what steps they think fit without consulting the council. It is reported that the well-known | firm .of Gordon and Gotch has boon merged into a joint stock company under the title of Gordon and Gotch, Limited ; the shaves have been taken up privately, present employes of the firm participating. The settlers of Pungarehu (Waimate Plains) having come to the conclusion that there was something m Dairy FacI tories which might provo of use to them, | have sent Mr Ehvin to inspect the Wanganni Factory, and gain all the information he can respecting Dairy Factories m general. Mr Elwin is also to visit the Palmerston and "Woodyille factories. Dr G. Jacobson told the British Medical Association oi a patient of his, 55 years old, who had lived on milk diet for five years. He took a gallon of milk a day, but not a particle of any other food. This treatment cured him of Bright' s dißease. This would be a cheap diet, too, if he used separated milk 4d a day. The cost of the Nile expedition (says an English paper) is po far surpassing Ministerial calculation, that an effort is being made to check tho outlay. The result is that between Geueral Wolsley and tho War Office relations are not satisfactory : General VVolseiey is not obtaining the full support he has demanded, and his discontent is shared by the general officers he has with him. A remark made by General Bntler, that there was "no Nile expedition," is an illustration of this feeling. It is reported from Alexandria that Lord Wolseley has threatened to offer resignation unless he receives tho supplies, of men, money, and material necessary to ensure the success of the|cxpcditioD. The rumor is hardly credible, but it quite indicates .the position between General Wolseley aud the Government. He knows what lie is about,and the Government are only beginning to have a confused conception of it. Mr Booth's Temperaneco Mission meet-, ing m Auckland is proving very successful indeed. Tho Theatre Royal cannot contain the immense audiences which assemble. j Writes the Napier Evening News : — " If the mother of tho child found dead upon the beach recently had been some unfortunate girl m poor, circumstances the truth would have been out by this time, society would have held up its hands m horror." The Wellington correspondent of tho Auckland Star says that Sir George Grey will most likely be resident m Wellington directly, m order to revise his book of Maori legends, which is being published by command of Parliament,and is about to be printed. An addition was made to the list of passeugera on board the To Anau between Auckland and Gisborne, one of the f orecabin passengers giving birth to a littlo girl. In commemoration of the place of birth, it was, we believe, decided to name the infant after the ship and her popular captain, and accordingly the names Te Anau M'Gee have been regularly bestowed upon the little one. Mr A. Crawford, the Te Anau's purser, having had some experience as a medical student, was enabled to render such assistance as was necessary at the nnnexpected but interesting event ou board. Writes a Wellington paper : — There is a very fine block of bush land neiir Palmerston North township. We have beeu shown ah analysis of some of the soil, .vhich contains ail ingredients requisite for tlio production of cereals or root crops, Jn a note attached to the analysis, Mr W. Skey says : — M This is certainly fertile soil, containing as it does every clement m ahuudauce' which is nncessary for the support of cereals nod root crops, and as it has considerable. , depth and drains well, its value can hardly be overrated. Sub-soil— This is a sandy or weak clay containing approximately 24 per cent, of olay 5 the result is principally' a fine sand." . Pnnzndetti, one of the victims of the tunuol accident on the WellingtouManawatu railway works, was an Austrian, aged lj) years, And amongst his effucts was a letter written by him on Sunday night last, addressed to his mother m Austria, and enclosing a bank draft for a sum ot money. His untimely fate has ft deep touch of pathos m it. His last communication to his mother will, of course, be duly, forwarded to its destination. . Of the crops the Christchurch Press reports that m the Northern district they do not appear to have suffered to any 'degree 'from the heavy rain-ator in at the beginning ot the week. Wheat and oats are out m full ear, but owing to the cold nights and want of sufficient sun m the daytime the grain is not ripening so soon as it out to do. The harvest will again be n late one. — The Dnnstan Times says that theprospect of the farmers throughought the length and breadth of the district for many years past has not been so bright as now. The crops of every class look splendid, and with a continuance of fine weather a good harvest may be expected.