The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily N ewspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

;• ■■' -" ♦ , ' The Wairarapa Star says :—TheMastcrton gold-mining prospectors at the Mikimiki have struck the reef at a depth of 27 feet. The whole quartz has 'disappeared,, and ,a , clear green vitrified lode lias taken i{i place, resembling . a conglomeration 'of publican's refuse and : broken beer bottles. No gold is apparent, hut the gold seekers are undismayed. ■ : . From the Examiner we learn that a prospecting party is at work m the vicinity of Woodville, for the purpose of obtaining traces of alluvial or quartz gold. Gold quarte has been found m several places m the district and has evidently been carried down from, tho . range." * " A Gerniftb newspaper lately printed the following advertisement : — " Wanted, by a lady of duality, for adequate remuneration, a few well-behaved and respectably dressed .children 'to amuse a cat m delicate health two or three hours a day." Mr J. McLaren has been fined £10 and costs at Masterton for driving sheep from Napier into thte Wairarapa, an infected district. It is understood that Sir Julius Yogel has only partially benefitted by his sojourn at Waiwera. _.-< *> •- •* v Messrs Miller, Sedcole and Whitcombe have inspected the Pnketoi Block beyond the Tiraumea* River on behalf of; the Special Settlement Association. The Association consists of fifty members, to which the number is limited, and the visitors were well pleased with the land, which will be opened up by the Englefield road extension. The t>xprorors are of opinion (snys the Examiner) and there is sufficient room for a second special settlement on the north side of the block selected. The Oamara Mail has a strong article on the high freights which are charged by the shipping companies, and says that a combination exists between them to keep up these freights. Frozen meut is sold m JJQndon at 4J-d to 5d per lb, but B,\d to 3-f d ppr lb goes m freight and ehavges, leaving only Xd to l£d to the producer. High freights, no doubt, are doing harm, but what oan be done? The Mail fails to suggest a remedy. It says that Messrs Murray, Boberts and Co. are sending their wool and grain via Sydney and find it cheaper than by sending them direct. A suggestion some time ago went the rounds as -to boring holes with saltpetre and burning the stumps twelve months afterwards. A great success was predicted from the. experiment, and several tried but without success. Amongst others a Woodville settler acted on the suggestion two years ago on stumps the timber of which' had been felled the year before. He tried to fire the stumps last season but without success. By this season, however, the saltpetre seems to have thoroughly saturated the wood, and when the stunjpg were fired the result has been all that could be desired.

A young woman m California recently sued the young man she had been engaged to for breach of promise. Evorything went on well. Her attorney showed the usual letters ; read the gush for the amusement of. the audience m the court-room ) gave'the amatory statistics — the nnmbor of times ho used "darling ;" the number of times ho " wanted lo kiss her," " look m her dear eyes " and " hold her m his arias m a fond, em-, brace." The lawyer was sure 'that he had " caught on " to every man on the jury. The defendant was an amateur photographer. His sole response was a photograph of the young woman sitting on a sofa «ith another fellow's arm' about her waist. This was unexpected. The amateur photographer, suspecting all was.not right, pretended to go out of town one evening, leaving his instrument properly arranged, with clock work for taking a picture m the girl's house. Verdict for the defendant. At the commencent of his recent speech to his Auckland constituents, Sir Julius Yogel paid a graceful tribute to Sir George Grey. He said, that whilst Sir George had attacked him frequently during the session, he had not felt any inclination to retaliate. Sir George Grey had not been on friendly terms with him before he left New Zealand to. go Home as Agent- General, nevertheless when Sir George Grey became Premier, he showedvsignai consideration to him (Sir Julius) as Agentr General — more consideration, indeed, then ihe -had received for some on whom he had better claims. Though he did not agree with many opinions expressed- by Sir George Grey, it was idle to deny that Sir George Grey had more individual influence m the House than any other member present, j An ingenious method has been hit upon by a physician at Brighton, England, to make himself popular. He madethe announcement that he . had profoundly studied the effects of tight lacings and had arrived at the conclusion that for middleaged ladies, especially under his treatment, tight lacing is positively beneficial both to the health and complexion. Prior to this discovery the physician trudged on foot to his patients residing m the back streets of the hilly part of Brighton, but now he drives one of the finest broughams, and is the fashionable physician m the South End. . i Never m its history have the signs of progress been so great m Woodville 1 as now, writes the Examiner. New settlers are coming m numbers to the place, and the town is growing rapidly. . There is a lawyer m Dundin whose name is- well, say Brownsmith. His friends call him " Necessity" Brown- ] smith, because necessity knows no lav? ; neither does Brownsmith. ; A miser died m Paris m 1880, leaving property supposed to bo worth £60. Some time elapsed before the heir presented himself, but on his doing so a • search was made of the miser's apartment', and no less a sum than £38,000 was discovered m a cupboard. . The Wellington Post m referring to • : the fact that the Government of New Zealand has not made any offer to the British government of troops for service m Soudan, says that the " Now Zealand force are not armed with or trained to the use of rifles such as alone would be (Suitable for service m actual warfare." If such is really the case, it is apparent, that our whole volunteer system is ; a I useless institution, and the large sum annually expended upon it absolutely thrown away. Napier folks (saysran exchange,) must be J dreatlf ully hard up. Out of some 700 ratepayers there are. 300 who have this year forfeited their right to votoy owing to not having paid their rates m time. ~When a man can't pay bis rates he is generally m the last stage of hopeless impecuniosity. Yet, Napier possesses three daily papers. ; We wonder if the „ subscribers cash up. In an article on poverty m Great Britain, the Melbourne A rgus says : A nation which spent £98,700,000 upon fermented liquors m the year 1881, and consumed 15,000 gallons of wine, 1.007,000,000 gallons of beer, and 37,000,000 gallons of spirits between the Ist of January and the 31st of December of that year, need not go beating about the bush to ascertain the origin of the poverty which forms a painful counterpart to and contrast with its wealth. For, unhappily, the bulk of this expenditure comes out of the pockets of the wage-earning classes, and the outlay on beer and. spirits covers £90,000,000 of the enormous total, quoted above. ; The Shaw, Savill and Albion . Company's steamship Tainui left Capetown on the 22nd Feb., bound for New Zealand. • : Katikati cheese factory sends 5 tons of cheese, and Taurangafactoay 3£ tons for the London market. ■' The alleged discovery of gold m Hawkes Bay is to be thoroughly tested. 20 gentlemen give £100, for the purpose .of testing ' 2 tons of stone. : ; According to a statement made by Sir Julius Yogel arrangements have been made by "which the exhibits at Wellington will be sent ; to England' for the Great Colonial Exhibition of 1886. The Manaia Dairy Factory Company haye.decided to order plaatjfor the_.nroposed worksWanganui will send to the Industrial Exhibition preserved meats and soups, and bread and cakes ; and Feilding will send lavender for distillation,; tobacco f or mhnuf acturc,sauce for meats, gravies etc., hops (pressed). Two meri were charged before the Wellington R. M. Court, with defrauding the Union Steamship Company, by travelling- from Lytteltou m tho T c Anau without paying their passage. They pleaded guilty, one of them alleging' tliat being hard up, a new arrival, and: being unable to obtain work down South he had decided to go North by some ' means. The stoaways were ordered to pay ft 6 no of 40s or 7 days' imprisonment m default. : i There seems to be somo probability of a dairy factory being started; shortly m the Patea district. Several hundred summonses from the Proporty Tax Department were to be issued m Wellington to-day. We commend the following from the Post to the attention of contributors to | the open columns of newspapers: — "Correspondents frequently send us almost unintelligible : scrawls m the : shax>e of letters, with a request that we will correct the errors, and put the communications m shape for publication. We really cannot undertake to do any- | thing of tho kind, and correspondents who wish .their- letters to appear m print nrnst write them hi a clear and propermanner. Unless so written their destin- : ation will most probably be the waste paper basket, Messrs Khon and Co., manufacturing jeweller of Wellington, have offered to their workmen the free use of their workshops, machinery, lighting, and all appliances during the evenings by those who are desirous of preparing any articles on their own account for exhibition m the Home Industrial branch. The patients at" the Wellington hospital who are suffering from bloodpoisoning are progressing very satisfactorily, and strong hopes are entertained of their recovery. " Boafc's " eighth drawing for 320 cash prizes, amounting to £4000,' is now open to investors. Particulars are given m our advertising columns.

To-morrow is the day of .» Messrs Stevens ami Gorton's stock sale at Awahuri, commencing at 1 p.m. "We learn that Messrs Stevens and Gorton have mado arrangements to paddock all stock intended for their' Feilding auction sales,- free of charge or exponsc to vendors. The contractor for the Marton water .. works lias forwarded his deposit ot j>lso • m connection with the contract. Satisfactory arrangements have been made regarding- sureties and he will begin work early next week. We (Marton paper) understand that Messrs W. L. Bailey Bros, intend to" erect a sawmill m the Rangatira. Block. The situation will be an admirable one, as the Central railway will pass through the block and there is abundance of good timber. There will be exhibits of locally manufactured starch, cornflour, and dextrine, ale and stout, pen and ink drawings, designs pi buildings, leather work, surveying instruments sent by Wanganui to the Wellington Industrial Exhibition. At the ipquest on the lad Urwin, drowned m Wellington harbor, it came out that the Messrs Baker were . m a boat that was sailing by, but they did not attempt to rescue Urwin. Witness did not know whether those gentlemen could have rescued the deceased. The rescuing boat was propelled by a single scull. \ , On Wednesday next the Feilding Horticultural Show will take place, and is expected to be a success. . At Tomoana, Hawke's Bay, 22,000 "carcases of mutton have been frozen during the present month, for shipment by the lonic, Lady Jocelyn, and Opawa. A . Wanganui paper is glad to learn that the plan of running excursion trains, so successfully adopted m other parts, is about to be tried on this line. Mr Botheram has resolved to run a, train to Patea and back on St. Patrick's Day. The train will leave Wanganui at 9.30, calling only at Aratnoho and Waverley Racecourse on its way up, and returning at 4.45, calling at all stations. The fares are fixed at 5s return first class, and 3s 6d return second class. From the. Marton paper we see that the first list 1 of 100 names for the SandonCarnarvon Small Farm Association was filled up on Friday. , A second list has been opened up with 20 names already Upon it. The Government have already sent plans, etc., of three or four, blocks, with allthe necessary information, and it is proposed to hold another meeting at which to choose the block they intend to apply for. If the second list of 100 names fills up m sufficient time, the association will be able to choose two blocks of 20,000 acres adjoining,, one another. , i ; . In a charge of " abusive language"' heard at the Wanganui Police Court, the language complained of seemed to consist of nothing more serious than defendant telling that " sho was glad to go into the back door of a house while she (^defendant) could go into the fiout onei" The magistrate failed to see that the language contained anything insulting, add dismissed the charge. .._.... A satisfactory indication of the healthy progress of commerce m Wellington may be found m the fact (says a local paper) that Messrs P. Haymau an Co., merchants, who commenced business twelve months ago, have now been compelled to double the warehouse acooinmodation. The additions are to be of solid brick. The Manaia dairy factory shows every indication of being successfully started ; already some 400 cows are promised, and about 1800 shares applied for. The settlers have taken the venture up m real earnest, and I, local correspondent of Wanganui paper, firmly believe they will never, have reason to regret it. If there is any district m New Zealand that ought to be able to support a. dairy factory it is on the Plains, and I certainly think the Manaia factory will be a great, success. ' i =■■•• •