The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 89, 18 March 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Writes the Danevirko correspondent of the Napier Telegraph: — By the way, It has not occurred to the manager to start ah excursion train from this end, j for there is no doubt, that many m the ! country would be glad of a eliniice to ' see you on similar terms as those offered to induce you to visit us, nhd I am inclined to think far more fares would be secured from this end. Any way the experiment would be would be worth trying. .■'■',-, Rather a amart tiling was done re- j cently m the Wellington Magistrate's j Court (says the Post). MrCutten applied : for counsel's fee m an undefended civil jcase m which the firm of Moorhouse, Edwards and Gotten were the plaintiffs, and m which he appeared as their solicitor. His Worship remarked that the application was an unusual one. Mr Cuttcn said that it had been ruled, that a solicitoj was entitled to a fee m case of his own. His worship was not inclined to grant the application,, and Mr Cuttc'ri promised to produce a legal authority on the subject. Immediately .after this a similar case wan called on. Mr Cutten hurriedly whispered something into Mr Shaw's car, and the latter gentleman rose and said that he appeared for Moorhousv, Edwards & Cutten. ■ The claim was un.lefended and judgement was entered up for the plaintiffs. Amidst some laughter, m which his Worship himself joined, Mr Shaw applied for a professional fee. The application was granted, the Court having no power to refuse. At the Wanganui R.M. Court on Friday the Court was convulsed with laughter on several occasions during the hearing of the case against the Salvationist) for refusing to support his wife. , The man, who seemed an ignorant sort of "individual, claimed not to be so strong a,s most men, and as able to work. When asked whether the plaintiff was his wife he replied, "She used to be my wife, but is not now, your Worship." He pretended, when first brought m contact with her, that he had never ! seen her before, but when the marriage " lines" wero produced that failed, and he had to fall back on the ♦• divoreation" idea. ,He said that fourteen years of '"married life was like V fourteen years penal servitude" — at least living : with plaintiff, who got drunk and abused him, and had wounded him twice. He seems to be a" philosopher," nsthe magistrate said, arid sees no use m doing more work than will find turn " clothes and vittles," the Army providing him with lodgings iv the Barracks. He will, however, have to earn 10s a week, at least, m future, or the law will give him some work to do for Her Majesty. : Messrs Mitchell and Richards, of Wanganui, has accepted an order from Sydney for 100,0001bs of preserved meat m tins. This lot is going to the Soudan for the Sydney contingent, and it speaks volumes for the quality •of the Wanganui meat, that such au extensive order should bo obtained. The Wairarapa Daily has the following :-i_v A somewhat startling illustration of clairvoyant power was manifested incidentally yesterday. Mr Ellis was, talking m Mr T. E. Price's shop with a well-kndwn Masterton resident, when the latter handed to him a photograph of a group of children recently taken by our local photographer, saying, " this is my family." Mr Ellis looked at it closely and then said " I see looking over the eldest girl's, shoulder the face of a boy about three years of age. I He then described the child m question minutely, and the Masterton resident easily identified the potrait of the, to him invisible, form, as a correct image of a little one he lost some years ago. Apparently when the living group were photographed, the spirit child had rejoined the family circle. There are evidently, as Shakespeare suggests, ; more things m Heaven and earth than are yet dreamt of m our philosphy. „.,;-,•! : - ; A woman for keeping, a .house 'of illfame m Napier was fined £5 aud ; costs, or one months' hard labour. i

Says the Wanganui Herald, all the country journals are objecting to Mi' Bunny as valuer of the special settlement blocks. He is the valuator tip-. . pointed by the Land Board, and is altogether antagonistic to the scheme. The Woodville Factory, cheese is to he put oh the market at the end of the month. Prices, 5 cwt., 6d ; from 5 cwt. , to one ton, ssd ; over that, s£d at the .'_ factory. The Foxton paper .reports the following scandalous outrage : — During Mr Palmer's absence the other day, some miscreant entered his office and com-, mitted an act of vandalism 'which for pure destructiVeness and profitless mischief would be hard to beat. The backs of several glass photographs were found to have been tampered with, and the- . | film or surface destroyed with some sharp instrument so: a^ to render the picture unrecognisable. The act is to be the more regretted as the ■ likenesses were those of well kupwp people who have left our midst, and because the •photographs were glass positives which cannot be replaced. Lord Charles Beresford read the burial service over Mr Cameron, the Standard correspondent, who was shot m the back while, lying behind a camel. The following advertisement appears m a Wanganui paper : — Wanted* the public to know that Robert Aiken did not abscond, as reported, with the funds of the Salvation Army. W. Wright, Captain. During his remarks on railway reforms at the Qhamber of Commerce, Napier, Mr'Vaile, of Auckland referred to the difference m the railway rates m New South Wales and New Zealand. As instances of the differences we m;iy ; 'give the following fares, which are for! firstclass passengers :— New South "V^ales, 8, miles, 8d; New Zealand, Is Bet Fifteen miles, New South Wales, Issd; New Zealand, 8s 2d. Thirty miliasL, New South Wales, 3s lOd ; New Zealand, 6b 3d. Fifty miles, New South Wales, 7s 9d;New Zealand, 10s sd. One hun r dred miles, New South Wales, ITsy'New Zealand, 20s lOd. The second, class fares m New South Wales are slightly lower m proportion, and are for .short distances of under fifteen miles less than half those of New Zealand. Mr F. E. Liardet, of Wellington, has had 100 cases of assorted fish prese rved at the Gear Meat Preserving Coinpn nys works, and is thoroughly satisfied ' with the way m which the fish have "been cured. The assortment consist* '. •of schnapper, kawhia, moki, rock cod, ; and collared eel. The latter will be mi ie le a specialty, and there is a very large local demand for it. Mr Lairdet intent Is to preserve large quantities of the wai *eh ou, one of the very finest fish m these j waters. . He expects a large demand 1 for both the warehou and collared eel m "the Australian colonies and m England- Mr Lairdet intends to get pukako ( or the wnrehou) and black swans jugged by the Gear Company, as they are said >o bo fully equal to the very best.; jugge* l ; hare. Mr Liardet willl probabh ; send a. ( shipment of about a ton of froze n Hfith. by the Dorio or the 'steamer whiclc follows. |