LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 86, 14 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Bishop of Nelson- has instituted the new time reckoning system m connection with his services, and|announces a certain service will be held at 19.30 o'clock. According to the Egyptian correspondent of the Temps, the scheme adopted hy the Suez "Canal Commission for the widening of the canal is shortly as follows : — Between Port Said and Isinailia it will be made broad enough to allow of two ships passing each other without stopping. From Ismailia to Suez a canal parallel to the present one will be constructed. The question of the Woodville railway site has been a vexed one. A letter has been received from the Public Works Department, relative to the eifect that the matter has occupied the attention of the officers of the department for some considerable time past, and that m view of the various interests involved, and m order to ensure the selection of the site best suited to protect those interests, as well as the interests of the colony: at large, a personal inspection of the locality was recently made by the Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, who reported m tavor of the site which has now been adoptod. The reply is not considered very satisfactory by the greater portion of the "Woodville residents, and the matter '. is likely to come before the House next session. The Primitive Methodists have suftered severely through the success of the Salvation Army m Timaru (remarks the Lyttelton Times correspondent), but, determined not to be outdone, they have resorted to open-air revival meetings. The first was held on Sunday morning, on a vacant lot at the upper end of the town. A baml of six, including the minister, sang and prayed, and spoke, and invited the passers-by to attend service at their church. The sweet melodies of the revivalists fall very pleasantly on the ear m the open air, if the spouting and prayer sounded a little grotesque. When one sees these pious peripatetics so earnest and hard working and selfrdenying, one almost envies them their enthusiasm. The loss of the enthusiasm is a real loss, The Martou Horticultural Show held on Thursday last was an unprecedented success, ' Further additions are made to the catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next atook sale at Bulls to take place on the 19th instant. At the banquet to Sir Julius Vog«l at Christchurch on Thursday the Mayor presented him with a framed set of views m Christc))urch, arranged round a photograph of a bond eufered into by those citizens who paid his election expenses when contesting Christohuroh North. ■ ' Mr W. C. Sinythe, torpedo and submarine instructor, receives a salary of £350 per annum, £100 of which ia paid by the Defence Department, and £250 by the Po*t and Telegraph Department. A largo party of settlers frotn Rangi' tikei and their friends were talon from FoxtOH on Wednesday by the J»ue Douglas, bound for the island of Kapiti on a fortnight's outing. A large convenient boat was taken for the purpose of enabling the excursionists to enjoy themselves m fishing, &c. It seems strange that stock do not seems lo advance ia price m Fox ton district, as m other portions of the West Coast. At a recent stock sale l>ejd there, 3-year-old store bullocks only realised £3 19, the same class of stock, fetching £4 He at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's last Borough Sale. Mixed yearlings brought &l 7s 6d ? as, against £1 15s m Palmerston. Cows 45s to f)os as against from £3 to £5 19s m Palmerstpn. Lambs m wool m Foxton 2s 6d to 5s Id, at Palmerston 4s Id to 5s 6d. The auctioneers say " settlers were satisfied, but prices were m "favour of the buyers." When the Wellington and Manawatu railway is open, the Foxton graziers should be able to do much better with their stock than to sell them at . their local auction sales. Mr N. Marchant, C. E., arrived m Marton, to supervise the waterworks contract, He will remain there for about five mouths; Operations are now m full swing. » North, of sweep hotorioty, is reported to be m Auckland. ; The Manchester and Kiwitea Accli- ■ matisation Society has been registered. The householders who failed to elect committees m several of the school districts will have another chance of doing their duty this evening at 8 o'clock. Mails for the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe, via Kio Janeiro, per liitnutaka, close at Lyttelton at 8 p.m. on Saturday, the 14th instant. This mail is due m London about the 23rd April. ThePosisayson St. Patrick's Day (Tuesday next) the railway authorities will run a cheap excursion to the Wairarapa and back. Just so. Anothor favour to the city, while the couutry has to pay full faro. Messrs Smith and Marsh's tender (£.344) for ajterafion and additions to the Ciub Hotel, Woodville, Ijaa. boon aocep* ted. The contractors proceeded to. their job this morning, We direct special attention to a notice inserted by Mr M. Lyons to the effect that he has opened a hairdressing and shaving club m connection with his large and increasinglbusiness The shop isjfitted up very confortably indend, and a good deal of taste desplayed m the arrangements, Mr Lyons also notfies the fact that the saloon formei'ly pecupied next the RoyaJ Hotel }> closed, An extraordinary general meeting of shavehold«i'« m the Butter and Cheese Factory Company is uouvum'il for Monday the 23rd instant, at Mr Limon's auction rooms to finally adopt the resolution m winding up and liquidation. The Diincdin Salvationists havo raised a KiiDi sufficient to send Mrs lk'tldiugiiuld to join her hiisluml m America. Tho Ilawcrn Star thinks Mr O. Samuel M.U.R., should demand an explanation fioin Government for its curt refusal of tho service of the New Plymouth Natal Brigade,