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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 78, 5 March 1885, Page 3

On Tuesday night a cottage m Marton was nearly destroyed by fire, caused by a caudle carried by a child accidentally igniting some curtains. As it was, clothing &c, and also the building was greatly damaged. A seaman on the schooner Awaroa " ran & mucker" at Foxtpn a few days ago. After using horrible language to the captain, he rushed aft with a piece of wood, and smashed the binnacle, breaking tho plate glass front into smithereens, the compass card, and dented the brasswork m a most diabolical manner. ' He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment m Wanganui gaol. Persons charged with cruelty to horses m Wellington are now being sharply . looked after by tho police and heavily fined if convicted. We (Woodville Examiner) learn that Sir John Hall, who has been travelling a good deal lately, has expressed himself inclined to leave New Zealand and . settle down m Brazil. His reasons are that land is to be obtained there at a cheap rate and that grazing pays much better than m New Zealand. He thinks that the country affords a grand opening for enterprising young men. A Mr Jones, of Napier, has invented a totalisator which is worked on an entirely new principle, and which stamps the ticket automatically with the same motion which rings the bell and advances the numbers. As showing the economy of private enterprise compared with the waste of public money, ah exchange states that the Manawatu Railway Company will erect thoir station buildings and put their Hidings all along the line for a less cost than that of the Tahoraite station buildings alone.

lii a cal)lo message from the Premeri of New Zealand to the Premier of Victoria, the former thinks the Federation Bill should Oh postponed until the Colonies are better agreed on the subject. Mr M. Prendergast is inviting tenders for about three uril.-s of wire fencing. Saj's to days Chronicle:—" Mr Denby's ..•ontract at the Waiiganui Heads may now be said to be completed. The lnst load o£ stone has been taken down the river and deposited m its place m the seawall, and the uncompleted breakwater will now have to stand, for a time at least, as a monument to the memory of the members of the Harbour Board, who began to build and wore not able to finish." Mr Snelson announces a special sale at his Mart on Saturday next. Two notices from the Dairy Factory appear elsewhere. Woodville is goin^ ahead I writes the Waipawa Mail. A gentleman was riding along the " one mile bush " just at the Woodville side of Tahoraite, one day last week, when he came up to the proprietor of a coach busily engaged m mending his wheel. It appeared from a closer investigation that this singular jehu was wedging on the tyres with, half crowns. On being asked why he used such expensive material he replied that it was '• nothing for Woodville," m a tone of voice that seemed to imply that "m that second Croesus it was done every j day." Hungary is suffering from an epidemic .ofj.embezzlemeht, the victims being m •most cases 'orphan asylums supported wholly or m part by the State. Several officials who were implicated were arrested and released on bail. One has smco committed suicide, three others have died suddenly and mysteriously, ;apd the rest are bankrupt. •The following advertisement appears j m the Auckland Star : — Personal.— To ; all whom it may concern, Hotelkeepers, ] &c.j &c. — Beware of a certain Theatrical the Champion Fraud, just now m Auck- j land, who visited the North recently and ; paid all accounts with the foretopsail, viz. : Valuless Cheques and Impudence • Extraordinary — Bay of Islands. : Wo (exchange) have heard of a settlor who purchased land lately m the fay famed Manchester Block, which is now being offered for sale by the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation, Feilding at £3 per acre, and a short time after i the purchase was completed he got : thirty shillings per acre for the timber on it. We have heard of another purchaser getting twenty shillings per acre for the totara on the land which he had bought m the same block. This land is considered by persons competent^ to judge .to be far superior to the Waimate Phihs, ior which as much as JJIS per acre was paid. |