The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 81, 9 March 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Napier Evening News makes the following announcement with capital head lines : — Great libel action m Napier. —We have received t'roiii a solicitor (Mr I Lascelles) a notice that Robert Price, of of tlie, Telegraph, thinks we have libelled , , hfiu. Full particulars of this exciting incident m to-morrow's .Evening News. Boaz's seventh Grand Hamburg Drawing for £4000 (filled before the end of. February) took place m, the presence' of a committee of subscribers and other gentlemen. The. fitst, sriae £300 went to a well-known person who resid'ea m Castle-atroet, Dunedin, second, £200 to ' Napier, third, £100 to New; Plymouth^, fourth, £50-tO'6isborfie-,- •fi^thv£sP.to . Reef toil. ! ' „: It is said that the Rev. Mr AHsworth, at present m charge of the Wavterley Presbytery, is shortly to 1 - be movjed to New Plymouth, but that New- Plymouth would prefer to have a young, single man for their pastor. How fsays tho Patea Mail) can a NeW'Plymouthicon*gregatioti expect a young, single man to keen his heart m the gospel witla such an ocean. of pretty faces always m front of him? Why, the gospel would! have • to take a bach seat m lens than a week. i ' 'We read- m the British Mail, that the annual hiring* was held at Durham on vi the4§th Ndvensb.er last, Svhen there was a good attendance of servants. \ Men were hjred .at if r pin: L 9 to LI 2, a reduction of LI for tlae half-year' consequent on the agricultural depression ; ami women were hired . at the same price as heretofore, namely, L 9 10s to LI 1 tor best 1 , and L 6 10b- to L 8 for second. Second men and boys were engaged at from L 4 to LB, IOB. ',rheae: prices' for labor m England are antonjshing to colonials, accustomed to the liberal Wages given iv New Zealand!. !■ Messrs Ifeid and Gray; 'of Duhedin, ' announce another victory tor local industry, m the jshape of colonial made twine-binders. , On the 10th February a contest was. held at .Oamaru, m which Reid and Gray came oitt victorious, beating the machines known' as McCormick's Wood's Sanxuelson's, Deering, Osborne's, Howard's, johnstone's, and Champion. Four acres of heavy laid crops were finished £a two hours and eleven minutes. Of eleven machines i which entered, oniy six completed their work. This tribute is all the more to the credit of colonial m anufacture, when •it is berne m rnincl thi it the niachines beaten are supplied by the leading makers m the world. The impecunious m. our midst who contemplate filing their" " shovels " wiH read the following -ivith interest: — " Under the new scald of fees for proceedings m bankruptcy^ which comes into force on the 10th instant, the fee for a petition m bankruptcy will be 5s instead of £3 as' a,tpreaent." Some people don't believe m advertis'eing, because : they say " nbbb'djNreads the papers." But, let, them, get int6. r ajsprape,: ; nnd you will see them, flying roimd the newspaper offices writh the request, " Please don't mention that little affair, it's a mistake ; I don'<; want my name published all ovec the Qovtotry."

The Wellington Acclimatisation Society is a liberal botly. The Post says: — The mounted constable who recently secured the conviction of a youth for shopting when out of season -thereby owned a rovvafd of £5 from- the Acclimatisation Society. The youth was let off with a fine of .±'l, so that the society was .i'4'- out; of pocket by the transaction. In future we believe, however, that heavier penalties will be inflicted m .cases of the kind. Even the matter-of-fact insurance nien\ m Australia are affected by the Soju^an, fever, for wo read m a Sydney, ptfjpef^that the secretary of the Australian Widows Fund has notified that the fapt of volunteering to the Soudan will, not m any way operate to the prejudice of policy-holders'. The Mutual Life Association of Australasia and the Qity Life Assurance. Society have decided! to adopt : a similar course. Dr Newman, m "Notes on a trip to. Wairarapa," m a Wellington paper, expresses his belief that the Wairarapa has entered upon a period of seven fat years, its seven lean years having ended. The future looks rosy, nor is there any-thing-to mar.tho fair horizon. Rabbits, scrub, bush, and fern are vanishing. T, he country yields abundance of grt^ss, i" and the freezing of meat helps the producer. ' ... : • .< . . The continued- rain is beginning to! do serious v mischief r in the to Mecrops, wiiich are 'cut, but not stacked, jjjixty acres ..of wheat at Te Whiti, and forty acres at Te Ore Ore are reported to have commenced sprouting, besides _ several crops on the Upper Plain m a ' similar condition. S>ome of the heavier crops of uncut wheat and oats are bejuig levelled by the wet weather. "".;'. Surely (writes a Southern exchange) ' the Colonies must have Soudan on their brain. , This rifle corpse and the volunteer battery are anxious ' to be off, since New South Wales' offer of men has been accepted by the Imperial Authorities, and even the rifle clubs have got a touch of the mania, as numbers of members of these organisations have been seized \trith spirit and, ■ Their peaceful homes have no charms for them j ; Soudan's battle field no pain. | This new found Coloniaiwarh'ke spirit of the Colonies, like the Salvation Army, will probably have its day, and thenidie for want of breath. . '. ;< A'li !' said old Mrs Dqosenbury, 'laming is ft-great thing. .I've often felt.the 1 need bf it. Why, would you believe! H,_ .I'm now sixty year old, and only : know 'the names of three months m the year; and them's apring, autumn, and Christ-' mas. I iarut tho names of them when I w»8 a little bit of a girl.' | ; '•■ ll Canyon tell me how tho.word 'saloon 1 ,ia spolt." was asked of a cockney. "Certaiily," «:iid tho Londoner, with a look of, triumph. ?' There's a hess, and a , lia», and a hell, and two hoes, and a ' hei." . : I >.U the last Borough Counil meeting J (aiys the Raugiora Standard) one of; the members of that body said, that a fellow Councillor remarked to him that he could tell where the pan closet system should be. enforced when passing up or down the street. We venture to think that; this Councillor's nasal powers are not so good as an Inspector of Nuisances m a township up ir. the North Island. This Inspector's power of smell was said was not equal to a Wellington one, when lie 1 forthwith put m an advertisement io the papers, chaileuging the Wellington man to smell him any distance from two to, ten miles. . , , Alluding, to the hostility of the Wei-, /liogfcori Land Baard to the new regulatyms'the Wairarapa Star says-I-'*Direct-ly the movement was started, ahnost pimutaneously m Masterton, and AVood\.viltethe' oldiu identities of the Laud Board got up their backs like a : trio' of,j angry cats, and commenced m a figurative sense tearing their hair and wringing;. Jt'hejr .hands over the. impending sacrifice of 'the public estate. T Since then, we are ashamed to say, they have -been making their baneful influence jfelt by impending the path of settlement. They have not the courage to openly face the settlers and declare war against these special settlements, but there are plenty of symptoms to sliowthat through the Land Board of which they form the executive machinery they are working Surveyor-General's Department m : such a way as to place very serious obstructions m . the way, of the intending settlers."" j The Wanganui Small Farm Association he'd a successful meeting on Thursday evening, when' tho list was finally closed for 50 names. Messrs Knox and Pembertou made their report about the Otamakapua J3lock, expressing the greatest satisfaction with it. Nine hew idemb«i's gave m their names, and the names of all those who- had • not paid the first call for preliminary expenses were struck off the 1011. A further call of 2e 6d a member was made. ; At the Foxton B. M. Court, John Murford on a charge, of ill-treating a horse by striking it with a stockwhip whilo tied to a fence, was fined Ls,or m default 14 days' m Wangawui Gaol, with hard labor. Time for payment was icfiißed. and ; the defendant, waa removed m custody. '..-.. . _. ■■