LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 77, 4 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ ■■♦ r Signor Hug, medical clairvoyant, will visit Palmerston on the 7th April remaining several days. < f - Considerable comment has been called forth m Melbourne by a book entitled 1 "Religion without Superstition," by Mr Justice Williams, author of "Disbelievers m the Doctrine of the Trinity and Immaculate Conception." He simply regards Christ as a " noble, heroic, unsel fish, solf-denying, pure, good-loving human man.". The Dunedin Evening Herald states that from November, 1884, to tku end of January, 1885, tenders were accepted by the Government for public works m Otago, involving an expenditure of £87,281. Yet the ?tago people are crying out because the Government propose to build a new printing office m Wellington. Jsd ward King tells an anecdote of Carlyle. .Mullock called on the Scotchman and let himself loose, talking Carlyle almost to death. Carlyle listened imperturbably, invited him to tea, and had him to smoke m the library afterwards. When at last the youthful sage thought proper to take bis final leave, Carlyle accompanied him to the door and said: Well, good-bye, l've received ye kindly because I knew your mother, but I never want to set my eyes on ye j again !' - Napier will send timber, hops, flax 1 rope, pottery, piano m totara case, buggy j harness, artificial dentistry, thread from | native, fibre, compressed vegetables, unfermentcd wine, honey, confectionery, biscuits, ale and porter m bulk and bottle, school appliances, photographs, mantel-pifcces, architectural drawings, paintings, and wool to the Wellington Industrial Exhibition. The total space applied for is floor space 336 square feet, and wall space 568 square feet; They have a Derby over m Persia (says an exchange). A lot of men enter their horses and deposit their entrance fees with the Shah. The race is then run, after which the Shah takes possession of the winner, and sticks to all the entrance money. There is a businesslike simplicity about sport m Persia which speaks for itself. The Hauroto, which sailed from "Wellington for Sydney on Monday had 60 I horses on hoard for that port. The am'- | mals were shipped down South. I A Wellington paper, states that settlers have this year laid down their lands \ m tobacco crops' which are reported to be looking extremely well. It is stated that oue settler has sold his crop at Is 4d i P er 1°The smelting plant for the Champion Copper Mining Company, Nelson, arrived at Wellington by the Doric on Saturday. It was ordered from. America a few months back, and' is of the latest description. Mr E. Shaw tyffc Wellington for Masterton on Saturday for the purpose of defending fourteen .persons who are charged with sly-grog selling at accom*modation houses some distance from Masterton. ... According to the Foxton paper, spprting men complain that the shooting season has been opened .at least a month too soon. From all sides we hear'of unfledged birds being seen. Why the season was opened a month earlier than usual is very hard to understand. Among other cures performed by Dr Wilkins, the celebrated oculist, the Chronicle, mentions the following : — Mrs Coleman, of PalinerstoiuNprfcht has returned home again .after having undergone a very successful operation by Dr Wilkins, m Auckland, where she went to be treated. Mrs Coleman "had ' suffered for a great- many years from a very painful disease of one of her eyes, which rendered it necessary that it should be removed. Dr Wilkins has performed the operation so dexterously that upon an artificial eye being inserted where the diseased one was removed, no person can tell one from the other, the artifical looking and possessing every natural movement of the sound eye. Mr Habens, the inspector general of schools, is confined to his house by a severe attack of illness, that renders him quite incapable of attending to the duties of his department. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that about ±37,000 was put through the totalisator at the three days' races. The Marton paper draws attention to the fact that by a Government proclamation, the shooting m Manawatu for .hares and Native game was declared to be open on the first of March, whilst the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society have fixed the opening day m their district, which includes Rangitikei, for the fifteenth ot Aprit — that is, more than seven later. It asks why should this extraordinary anomaly obtain ? Why should people south of the Bangitikei j river have the run of their guns fortysix days sooner than those north of that river. One instance may be given, showing a very prominent characteristic of the lute General Gordon. His salary as Governor of the Soudan was fixed at .£IO,OOO per annum. He thought it too much, and would only take £2,000