LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 78, 5 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. . ♦ Jacob Faithful requests us to announce that tickets m His consultation are being rapidly disposed of, and that it will definitely close on 13 th inst. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary member's ticket for year 1885 from the secretary (Mr A. E. Haggen) of the Woodville Horticultural and Industrial Society. A fine Aldirney bull, bred on Mr Larkworthy's property, Manawatu, arrived at Wellington from Foxton by the Jane Douglas on Sunday, and was shipped to Melbourne by the Wairarapa, to the order of a Victorian farmer. ! At the settling up m connection with the Wairarapa race meeting, .£777 was paid away, of which Mr P. F. Tancred received £330 ; Mr T. H. Hill, £160 ; and Mr J. 0. Vallance, £145. The Dunedin Herald says the embers ol Spiritualism, . which were getting almost sparkless m Dunedin, have been ignited afresh since the advent of Mr Gerald Massey. Seances are held on all sides, and new circles -have been formed m and around the city. Signor Otto Hug, medical clairvoyant, will visit Palmerston on Tuesday 7th April, and may be consulted at the ComI mercial Hotel. The R.M.S. Rimutaka, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday from London '•■ and Plymouth, brought a large mail. It | consisted of 212 bags, containg 20,000 I letters and between 60,000 and 70,000 books and newspapers. An unfortunate young man named John Maskell, had to be brought before the Wellington Besident Magistrate, charged with lunacy. The poor fellow, who only arrived from Great Britain three weeks since, and who labors under the strange delusion that he is the devil, was, on the certificates of Drs Cahill and Gillon, committed to the Mount View Lunatic Asylum. 1 I The single immigrant girls who arI rived m Wellington by the New Zealand i Shipping Company's Royal Mail Stea--1 mer Rimutaka appear to be well adapted for domestic service and farm work. Mr Froude, the historian, has arrived m Auckland. Lord Ephinstone was a fellow-passenger of Mr Froude's to the Northern city. The Wellington meat companies are now busily engaged m preparing shipments of frozen mutton. The R.M.S. Rimutaka, which leaves Wellington for Lyttelton and London on Saturday or Sunday next, will take about 7000 carcases from thiat port. The Doric, which will leave about the 22nd inst. m addition to 8000 carcases shipped at Napier will take, a further shipment of 8000 caroases from Wellington. Ex-judge Hargrave has died at Sydney m his 70th year. , A Wellington paper narrates the following which should be a' warning to travellers by rail : — Owing to the crowded state of the special train which conveyed the excursionists home from the Government printers' picnic at Wallaceville, many people were obliged to occupy the platforms of the carriages. A gentleman and a lady, tired of standing, sat down on the step, with their feet hanging outside the train. Between Petone and Ngahauranga, while the train was going at full speed, their extrerneties suddenly came into contact with a portion of a fence overhanging the line. The young lady was suffering such pain that she had to be carried to her home after the arrival of the train. At awake at Verona, Ohio, several men got drunk and broke down the bed which contained the corpse, and afterwards endeavoured to force liquor down the throat of the dead body. Failing m this they threw whisky over the corpse and then departed. A man was recently found m the street of Clu'istchurch by the police m a helpless state of intoxication. . When searched at tha depot a small leather satchel was foimd on him containing JlOl, of which £75 Wftfi gold. According to the Auckland fforald the apple crop will be unusually hca.yy this year, the reports from all the districts being very favourable. At the Auckland Police Court, recently a man named Daniel Gleeson, for resisting a constable when executing his duty, was fined £20 and costs, or throe months' hard labour. Another man who had endeavored to stop a civilian from assisting the constable, was mulcted m a similar penalty of £20 and costs, or three months' m Mount Eden Gaol. The Bench, m sentencing Lynch, expressed it as their intention to put down, by heavy penalties, any case brought before them of a similar character.

A gentleman from the country went to one o£ our Napier churches a few Sundays ago (writes the Telegraph) and seeing no usher to escort him to a seat choose one for himself m a vacant pew. Very softn after this the Christian seatholder came m, eyed the visitor savagely and probably paralysed by his audacity handed him a prayer book, upon the flyleaf of which he had written m pencil " This is ray pew." The stranger read the message, and smiling a beautiful smile handed the book back with the following remarks inscribed- underneath, " Very nice pew. How much do you pay tor it per annum ?" The Post has the ■ following :— " A married woman who possesses respectable connections m this city, presented herself at the Central Police Station this morning and asked to be taken m charge stating that she was addicted to intemperance, and was desirous of being kept out of the way of tempation for a time. The watch-housekeeper informed her that he had no power to placo her m custody, but he suggested that he should yisit a neighboring chemist's shop and obtain something to relieve the craving for liquor. She then left the station, and m about five minutes afterwards was seen to come out of an hotel and sifc down on the edge of the kerbing, from which position a constable promptly caused her to move. Another example of Auckland enterprise comes to us m the shape of " The New Zealand Farmer, Bee, and Poultry Journal." The paper coutains a beautiful collection of articles, original and selected, highly interesting io fanners and settlers ; and at 10s per anuum the price is the cheapest publication of the kind we have seen. Truth, Mr Labouchere's' society journal, has earned the undying gratitude' of a large section of the EJnropoau public. It recommends, as a preventive of cholera, a couple of teaspoonfuls of salt daily; Many have tried it, and declared, after trying, they '^wouldut "sell their thirst for a fiver." And now every bar is full of men who a,re afraid of the cholera. The New Plymouth conrent schools received a treat on Monday last. The great violinist, Remenyi, dropped m unexpectedly, and played selections on the " king of instruments" for more than nn hour, to the great delight of the scholars. •In Hokitika, where they don't raise grain, the four pouud loaf is selling at fourpeuce. ' The Christchurch tailor who drew Vanguard m Robin Hood's consultation was offered £450 for his chance, but stuck out for £500. This was refused, and now he gets £1068 nett. ' At the Wanganui R.M. Court on Tuesday, when the case Hutchison v. Dickson waß called on, His Worship, before giving judgment, said that defendant had taken upon himself to. write a letter to him (the magistrate) . giving his < version of the affair, lie wished to say | that he regarded such au action; as liable i to lead to a most objectionable 'practice. He wished. all suitors to understand that he must hold himself sacred m all matters coming before the court. As the preseut defendant . had probably erred through ignorance, he would not take any further notice of the matter. He might add that m the case of judgment summonses, he did not object to defendants acquainting him by letter with their reasons for not appearing if they were unable to apoear.