LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 84, 12 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i A vessel bound for Loith ran aground ! a short time ago ; and it became neces- | aary to throw the 3200 live sheep, which ' formed tho cargo, overboard. Of this number, 2500 swam safely ashore, a distance, of three miles. ; The Union Company's new steamer "Taupe, 65, days from Greenock, arrived at Pore Chalmers on Tuesday. ' i ... Wobdyear's circus is announced to appear m Woodville on Monday, March ■23. >.■: '■■ - . ./ . '„■.,', " The Woodville paper never loses a ohanee of having an ill-natured thrust, at Palmerston. Speaking of the: Dairy Factory, it says :—" Like other' industr ries established m Pahherston it " went Tip like a rocket and came down like a stick." Let us hope that Woodville is not at the present time going through the first part of the same process, with the. latter part to follow before long. At her official speed tests, the ShawSavill, and Albion Company's new steajner Trtinui, a sister ship of the Arawa, obtained a mean speed of 15£ lenots. : i While the shooting season is now open iin Manawatu, it is not to be opened m [ JEEawke's Bay till May- • • ' Th<jre have been earthquakes shocks at GiWinfouth.ehristchuroh, ahd Blenheim,

An extraordinary case of strangulation occurred, at Manchester recently. A woman, 34 years of age, going home late one night, and having lost the key, tried to roach the latch through a small opening above the door. She stood on a ' stup ladder, and got lier head and one ; arm through the hole, and the ladder must have slipped away. £>ue way found hanging there next' morning, qu.ite dead.. ... .. . ... : , It is vory.^ratifying, writes the Cafterton Observer, to notice that the cheese , turned out of our local factory this season is giving very general satisfaction to purchasers. Quite a number of commendatory letters have lately been received by the Secretary. We quote from one penned by an old established Wellington grocer, who purchased a ton. He writes : — " lam very well satisfied with the cheese made at your factory, and would like to arrange for a sufficient supply to go through tho year.,] I can do with one ton during tliis month, and three other single tons later on." A contemporary says :— Married wo- { men must be careful m future how tjiey contract debts on their own account, as they will be liable to arrest if they do not pay up at the appointed time. They have, m fact, a legal status which was 1 formerly denied them by common law. Hence the court holds that as the i!ea- ! sons on which their exemption from ar- ! rest was formerly based no longer exist, the exemption itself cannot be successfully claimed on their behalf. So completely is the independence of married women secured by legislation m Great Britain that a learned judge recently stated that a woman could put her husband m prison if he made off with an umbrella which she could prove was bought with her separate money. Women certainly appear to have got their " rights" at last. . ■ -. ' The Hawke's Bay Herald says the sawmillers of that district have not been asked to tender for railway sleepers, or a sufficient supply of a qualityaiid at a price to compete with any imported sleepers would have been offered. It adds that totara or matai sleepers, can be, obtained m any quantity m the Seventy Mile Bush. , The Emperor of Germany, says the Home News of the 30th Jan., has signed the warrant for the execution of the men sentenced to death for participating m. the plot to blow up the Emperor on the occasion oi the unveiling of the Niederwald monument. The Titnaru Herald refers to the " schoolboy antics recently indulged m by the Mayor, and Corporation of the capital city of New Zealand" m the mock meeting held as a practical joke on Councillor Petherick. From a Marlborough paper we learn that Mr Thomas Redwood, of Marlborough, js giving the district & booh by cutting up his estate into small farms. . Would that our Hawkes Bay landed monopolists would go and do likewise, adds the Woodville paper. Constable Cole, who picked up the 1 burning parcel of dynamite m West--minster Hall, and attempted to carry it out, has received the Albert medal for.j his bravery, which nearly cost him his life. During the past three months over,, seven tons of fruit have been exported from the Blenheim district, through Messrs Earp and Young, to Mr Kirkpatrick's jam factory at Nelson. " Young Corey, who accompanied the Australian Blondin, died lately at the Hokitika Hospital, from the' effects of a bad cold. Rather than break faith with the public, he appeared at. Kumara after being ordered to bed by the doctor, The deceased was a very promising gymnast. ' A Brisbane telegram states that' & J man at Townsville has reported to the police that he shot two 1 blacks m selfdefence because they had insulted his wife. < i A Wellington paper has the following: —The impetus given to the preserved meat trade through the Soudan War, jis, keeping the Gear Meat Preserving Company busily employed. Orders received from the Imperial Government during the past week necessitated extra vigilance and exertion on the part of the company's buyers. On -Tuesday a mob of 143 prime fat beasts, purchased on the West Coast,' arrived at Petone, and; were to be slaughtered for the export traide. A portion of the carcases will be frozen j and sent Hpnie to London per the next.; direct*' steainer, ' whilst the remainder,., and. by far the greater portion of the, beefi will he preserved; for the troops m the Soudan. The tins will be put m cases suitable for packing by camels, and will be despatched by steamer for Syd■ney and: Melbourne,. The last order is •the largest, yet received from the Imperial Government. ' '■;,-.' " Vulcan" informs us that the princi- : pal prizes m his consultation on the Wanganui Cup weie drawn as follows : — The first by a yoiung lad m the ma-chine-room of the Evening Post, the second by a well-known local publican m conjunction with three . others ; and the third by a well-known, publican m Masterton and a friend, who were fornate enough to secure third prize m the last drawing. As usual, we have received a full list of the names of the names and addresses of the prize winners. "■ ■"•■' • •■ ' ' The Napier News objects to Sir John Hall's proposal to settle in 1 Brazil. Sir John Hall is not a young man, however, enterprising, so ho /-.does dot want, a, grand opening ; and besides, he has no' right toniake a pile and get a handle to his name iv New Zealand, and then take pile and handle somewhere else. ; Mr Murray, the Taranaki Inspector of Schools, has received an offer of £430 a year and a house from the Timaruißoard, and it is said that ' he intends to ! accept it. .' ' ' "' ' ; Some Taranaki cheese has 'been sold m an Auckland auction room at 3sd 'per pound. The low price is said to be due , to the cheese not being packed, and consequently getting broken. The Wanganui Supreme Court will open on the 17th instant. ! A writer m the Bendigo Independent says :— This desire of Australians to go to Khartoum to revenge Gordon reminds me that about 10 years ago the American General Cnster was killed m a skirmish with the Indians. Throughout the States a cry went up of avengingOuster, and volunteers (they knew they wouldn't be wanted) were offering by thousands, " There are 1 m our village," wrote : the editor of one of their papers, " sixty young men ready to go; to the west to aveiijre Ouster, bnt'their mothers find itap hard as ever to get- a bit of wood chopped;!" ....... ; . From the Napier Telegraph : we . learq that a soiious loss ot sheep.hns, been sustained at Captain Hill's station, Heretaunga. A mob of sheep hind been tiirhbd into a paddock of wheat j 'stubble m which a good deal of uu reaped wtlteats was lying that the.iuochine had left uncnt. The sheep fed upon this wheat with ihf lamentable result flint 20Q were found dead nt-xt morning arid maiiymor3 nro not expte h ed to niftover. Plaintiffs should bta'r in'miti'd that to compelthtt nttundiv.ico of a debtor m a judgni"tit siimtiiotis case it is necessary to tiii id r him his '•xpenHCS. ■ , 'Tln'-W*iHa rim'ioDV that soihp gentlemen iiiuiind Ongt fihga'are hUen*Bt.ing themselves m starting a cheese andbaWn factory therq.t fl'lii^ would be a great boon to the Vriafl settlors'* m the ■■ bush? who -ihouhl know a good deal about this industry,

A special notice from the Registrar of Dogs appears elsewhere. The death of General Gordon has afforded some people a splendid opportunity of displaying their political likes and dislikes. For example the Mayor of. Inglewood (Victoria) has-been requested to call a public meeting for the purpose of taking steps to change the name of the county from Gladstone to Gordon, m honor of the brave but ill-fated General. Will Gladstone survive this ? When we let out a small fib m our youthful days, says the Dunedin Herald we were sternly asked, 'Do you-know where liars go to ?' But m the colony it is a more important question, ' "Where , do they all come from ?' . ' We (.Marton paper) believe it is the intention of the Bulls Town Board to make arrangements m a few days • for the opening of the board's office every evening as a public reading-room, at any~ rate during the winter months." Should this idea be carried out, it would pi|ove a great boon to many of the townspeople. -I"'-- v " • Schoolmistress (correcting exercises) ; ' This is wrong. Y6u should always use a capital E for England.' Small boy : 1 No miss, beg pardon, miss, please, miss father says while the Liberals are m power will have to be spent with a very small c." [Sentence : A half holiday, and sixpence to spend.] Mr Pringle, late of Greymouth, has succeeded Mr J. G. Hogg, as manager of the Bank of New South Wales at .Bulls. ■• We (Wanganui Herald) have seen a copy of the new time-table, winch is to come m force on the opening of the through line to the north. The traina from here south- are not to be altered. From New Plymouth a train' will leave at 7.25 reaching Wanganui at 3.15 enabling passengers to go. through ,to Foxton m a day. A train will leave New Plymouth at 4 and reach Hawera at 7.35, where travellers must stay for the night. From Hawera the train leaves m the morning at 6.50, reaching here at 11. , The hour for leaving Wanganui for the north has been altered to 9.20, and ' the train reaches New Plymouth at 5.20. The forenoon train leaves as before at 4.ls,reaching Hawera at 8;25- On Saturdays/ the train ' will ; leave at 11.50, reaching New, Plymouth at 7.50, and a special, train will leave Hawera at 4.30 arriving at Wanganui at 8.35 p.m. /.V-. •Mr G; A. Sala expects to make as much : frbfn his colonial tour as he doep m- 10 years at Home. Sir William Fox is still perambulating England on the teetotal ticket. . Mr Montgomery M.H.R. has taken his son to the Cambrige University; , The Government declined to accept the services of the New Plymouth Naval Ar'tillefy..' ■:■■..■■■■■ .'[., ')_■ t The i)unedin Telephone Exchange has 345 subscribers. . ■ ; ;'' : '"' : ..,. : ( . For some tobacco grown m the Waikato Vollbracht promised Is a lbt • ' ' : There has been a decline m the price of N.ew Zealand^ hemp during the i past year of from '£&. to i>4 per ton, very coinmori 'quality totiching as low as 1 ifc'l4 15s per ton. ■ < AH the Union Steamship Company's boats are to discharge m Dunedin instead of m Port Chahners. ■ The Hauroto, one of the largest, has already done so. The Christchurch . Meat Export Company do not intend making a start until the meat trade both m the colony and at Home is on a better footing. ; Mr Michal Dayitt, the Irish Nationa : j list, is apprehensive, that the large .carV goes of New Zealand rnutton 1 now arriving m London will render it'impossible'for the Irish graziers to pay existing rents. 'V ; • ; .; - . Week t after week . and month after mouth (says an exchange), comes news from Gisborne about the far-famed oil wells,. The telegrams or letters of the newspaper specials always give tbe depth ot the bore and the quality of the ..work,,&c. Jarid allude m most .sauguine terras to the possibilities of the future gigantic yield. Now once more does the Auckland Star gives us the did old • news, ending m the same- old- strains " Tim manager is very aauguine of doing something before 10ng.," " Everything is m a most satisfactory state." : Hope ' deferred maketh the heart kick, says the poet, and we wish oar Gisborne friends 1 good luck* May. they soon" strike oil," . andi" .strike it rich" too. > t ! >< v : We (Chronicle) are very: pleased to hear that at last the difficulties which . have hitherto regarded . the completion i of; the Heads .Railway have been finally removed, and, that V° r^ recommenced ( yesterday. We trust' the' contractors will push on and make a good job of their work, and that the directors of the |much;badgered Heads Railway Company may ehtuafiy be rewarded by good dividends tor their enterprise. . / ; The Morton Jockey Club will ran' their : own total isator. We think every Racing Club should do the same. ! Four persons are being hauled up by the Bulls Acclimatisation Society for taking game without licenses, and also f 6t trespass..: The trial was to come off to-day. . . .' ' . '"'■"''" ' A ; recent "unredeemed pledge" m Duuediri was. a ,'• barrister's wig anrl bag." One more briefless, uow*j alas, wigless and bagless one. : An influential committee has been appointed at Hamilton to foster beet root culture. Parihaka settlers are uneasy because *of the breaking up of the constabulary camp m that district, and are com-, municatihg 'their fears to the Native' Minister,; * , »y The Enmeror of Brazil would like to see a direct steamer running between l\ New Zealand and Brazil. An Auckland writer suggests that the "Triumph" would suit. : I Advance New Zealand! Last, year there were 360 applications for patents m this colony, against 294 m Victoria, and 181 m Now South Wales. A northern contemporary wrifes :—- --lC There is a widely extended movement going on amongst the natives, the obiect" of whick is to send another deputation of chiefs to England to endeavour to, obtain redress for certain \onp established fjrievauces. and to show what i they consider the unfair manner m which the Land Courts are conducted." -■■"■•■■■■■ j The following- paragraph is from the ..Napier Telegraph : — " A -Mr Gray, who is m gaolifor pot satisfyjnij a judgment summons, was called again to-day on a similar caser Mr\Cornford said he was one of those facetious gentlemen who preferred to go to gaol, rather than pay a debt of twenty pounds. He regretted that there ww no provision for sending such an individual to gaol till the debt conld be satisfied. His Worship said by r going to gaol he did 'riot satisfy fhe; judgment debt, -and a fresb' summons could issue. Mr Qoi:nfpr]d. replied that . was so, but they could .not compel him; to go to gaol a second tim<>, and he preferred to settle, his debts by going to gaol, nnd when he was brought up-rthe case' wair adjourned for throe wc<-lcs — lie would auk the Court to give him thestiffest. dose • there* wa^ power to inflict. His Worship said defendant perhaps djd., not know that ho could give him three .months." ..-._. . : . ■ Mr T. F. Fountain, of Woodville, leaisv.esfxjr j.Eogjattd «».,»,' 'fewfedayp, i .Mr f6r tbe ' remainder of the year,