LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 60, 12 February 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Early to bed and early to rise, are hahils wo certainly do not despise. Tliev will make a man healthy, wealthy and wiso, provided he's honest, mul doesn't toll lies. But to everyone who would prosper and rise,there is one other course we would strongly advise, and that is — never neglect to advertise. A Scotch physician declares that of all the strange journey ings of needles m the Heah which have come under his observation, the strangest occurred m a lady patient who a few years ago broke a needle m the first joint of her left thumb and a few days ago removed it from her right fore-finger. The Waikato farmers have guaranteed to grow 147 acres of beet, and take '335 £5 shares m tho proposed Beetroot Sn'gar Company. : Wo arc informed that tickets m Vanguard's Wanganni discussion are selling very fast, and early application; is requested for tho reiuaiuing tickets. i A Waikato settler who was troubled with orchard robbers, has got a respite since he deftly attached fish hooks to tho best loaded branches. Verb sap. The death of Martini (not Leonora as istuted) Stiitohb-en will be heard with much regret. It is not loiig ago since wo (exchange) recorded lrar-.-ma.mago. to.-. Bnrou Adler, a wealthy German nobleman, and of her retirement from the stage. She wns probably on her way to Melbourne! to introduce her husband to her mother when death overtook her. Mr Back, tho well-known energetic manager of the Canterbury railways, has recently estahlished a system of weekly excursion trains m various directions, aud at low fares. On Thursday last there was an excursion from Christchurch to Timaru and back. Thure were two trains, one of 29 and one of 30 carcarriages, and thay were all completely packed with upwards of 2000 excursionists, while many hundreds of people wero left on the Ohristchurch platform nnable to find room iir either train. Only two stoppages were made between Christchurch and Timaru. Everything passed off most successfully. We acknowledge receipt of a copy of Pulford's Newspaper Map and Directory. The design of the production is original and the sheet is one that will bo found very userul, especially to business niun. who have to advertise m towns at a distance, as it contains a list of most of the newspapers published iv the colony. The Melbourne sufferers by the railway accident show signs of improvement. Joe Thomson aud Giles shot/ no alteration, S.\qui is rather worse, but Zaker, Snider, and Jacobson are better, the former being almost free from delirium. It appears (says the Examiner) that although the Government are reducing the Public Works Staff of Hawke's Bay, they are about to do a very sensible thing m making Woodville the headquartets of the Public Works Deparment for the East and West Coasts, and Mr J. T. Stewart is about to take charge of the district, having his head office at Woodville. The central position which Woodville commands makes it eminently suitable as the position of the head office, aud the saving of expenditure by the change will be very groat. Amid the complaints of the labouring men m the city (says the Auckland Herald) that they cannot obtain a job, come equally numerous complaints from country settlers that they cannol obtain labour. A country settler gives his experience : — Ho advertised for eight men and he got two. Tho men preferred uncertain and fitful employment aud the amusements of the city life to going out to the country and having regular employment, but without those accessories. The Manapouri, on her last trip from Wellington to Melbourne and the South, took away a very large number of pas sengers, probably about 300. It was a crowd that would have delighted Charh-s Dickens. " All sorts and conditions of men" svere represented m the motley throng. The clippei ship Northumberland, having on board Mr Vcsey Stewart's No. 5 special settlement party, sailed from London for Auckland direct on the 10th December. She'takes out 15 saloon, 30 second cabin, and GO steerage passengers. Mr Stewart's lot wore for some time designated as *'our party" but at the last momeut Shaw,Savill & Co. informed the correspondent of a contemporary it consisted of six steerage passengers. This shows pretty conclusively that poor Mr Stewart's day is past, and the special settlement bubble burst. Those who ought to ktiow say that the beef market is likely to be iv a flourishing state for a time. Should this turn out to be correct, says the Woodvillo Examiner, it will be a grand thing for the bush Bettlers. Saturday next is St. Valentine's Day, when the resources of the post office will doubtless be taxed to their utmost limit. The celobratod Dr Brown courted a lady for many years, though unsuccess- ■ fully, during which time it had been his custom to drink the lady's health before any other. Being observed one evenins; to omit it, a gentleman said, " Co mo doctor let us have the usual toast to tho lady of your love." Tho doctor replied, " I have now been toasting her for many years, aud as I can't make her Brown, I'll toast her no loujrer. " The Hawora Star remarks :— Coach fares differ m different places : ; Woodvillo to Pahnerston, 17 miles, 10s; Panhaka to New Plymouth, 28 miles, ss. Why this thusness ? The former coach has, we believe, a very large subsidy from Government for carrying mails ; and also the traffic is constant and considerable. The correspondent of the Napier News says : — There are large quantities of sheep on the road just now. The Gear Company brought through from Boarhill and Turere yesterday 1000 sheep, and they intend bringing about 22,000 during the next two months from this district. The President of the Nelson Chamber .of Commerce has observed that it is not a fact that the late change of Ministry was followed by a change m the face of nature. He thinks a rise of a penny a pound m the price of frozen meat, twopence m wool, and a shilling a bushel m wheat, would have a greater beneficial effect on tho colony than any change of Ministry. There are some 300 ratepayers m the Napier Borough who are m arrears with their rates, or had not paid them within the time fixed, and consequently are uot entitled to vote m municipal elections. It is rumoured that the Duke of Conuaught is desirous of becoming Governor of New South Wales, m succession to Lord Augustus Loftus. Mr Gladstone m said, howe/er, to be unwilling to give him the appointment. That the boi rower is servant to the lender is illustrated by two advertisemeuts m the Marton paper, which read as follows : — £2oo wanted at twelve and a half per cent. Apply to Alfred Ross, Marton — Money to lend, from 7 per cent. Apply to Alfred Ross, Marton. [The omission of the word " wauted " iv tho above paragraph m yesterday's issue altered the whole significance of the item.] Railway excursion trains are becoming very popular m tho South Island.

The closing of I In: handed warehouse at Fnxtoii is gazetted. Waiiara is treated m the same »vay. An army chest, containing gold totko amount of several hundred thousand doll arti, was unearthed at Braddock, I'a, near tin* sceno of Gun oral Braddi CVs defeat during the first American war o r January 10th. The authorities of lowa confess thai the prohibition laws of the State are :i failure. In the cities the total nuinlw of saloons had increased 39 over the previous six months, and drunkenness wa* more prevalent than ever before. During the two day's racing at the Hutt.the sum of £15,446 was put through the totalisators— £767B was put through ou Friday, and £7768 on Saturday. It is 'estimated that tho Racing Club will clear upwards o? £1000 by the meeting. A exchange says that Miss Eveline Victoria Carmichael, whose almost miraculous escape from the wreck of the Loch Ard on the Victorian coast m June. 1878, is still remembered, was married at Cheltenham, England, on the 30th November last, to Mr Thomas Achilles Townshend. The Archbishop of Canterbury has approved of the proposals to create Fiji into a bishopric.