The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 91, 20 March 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sir William Fox has been lecturing at Home with a view to but down barmaids. An English paper, commenting on this, remarks :— " It strikes us very forcibly that the average barmaid m a 'ydtfrig 1 person quite capable) of putting:! dbwo. Sir William: Fox «<frany other i man." „ i A man who signs himself " Fifty Y'-ars of. Sojom-n," in' the Waipawa i Mail says, " why not close the drapers I as well as the pnbs? Frivolous finery iB tho ruin of as many families as beer." ! It is probable that the Hinemoa will be placed at the disposal of Wellington volunteers who are to take part m tire Easter encampment at Nelson. The R.M.S. Kimutaka left Lyttelton at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday for London. She had 176 passengers on ' board and took 14 boxes of gold, shipped by the Baqk of New Zealand. During the heaviest of the squalls at , Wangauui on Saturday, the wind travelled ut the rate of sixty miles an hour, which is rather above the race of a gale, and trenching on the province of a cyclone, or tornado, m which thojgreatest recorded velocity is 100 miles per hour. Says the Post:— Sew South Wales' jealousy of Victoria must have reached a high pitch when the Government of the former colony " saw fit" to refuse to permit a special correspondent from the Melbourne Argus accompanying the troops to the Soudan. Tho Goverment of New South Wales stated m reply to an application from the Argus that it was intended to permit Sydney corrt«dente; only to accompany the contingent. The decision (says the Argus) is to regretted inasmuch as it tends to deprive the expedition of its national significance. Remeuyi on being interviewed by an Auckland Star reporter, said : — " Of course, my impressions are personal, and: 1 can tell you them perfectly if briefly. Anyone* who is and has been received! with exceeding kindness, as I have been,, naturally forms most favorable ideas of tine colonies. Anyone who is not So well received, it is needless to say, will be likely to entertain contrary opinions. I am philosopher enoujrlt,however, even if not well received, to find out that these colonies have a tremendous future, and. as for New Zealand, it is certainly oneof thb most wonderful countries I ever sa w. As to its chjtnate, it a perfect paradise, fit for gods' to live m." Writes an exchange : — The colonies would .therefore do well to twp, to their own dofenceß m the first place — that done th«y will be justified if required m. assisting thu English 'arms at iiouie and abroad. lt '"•■■ Tho Wangnnui Herald is glad, to learn that tlio vxcurdion train northwards on Tuesday proved very Hiicuessfnl. tlicrf! being fully 200 aaasengen 1 . Tli is fact shows that with c ivmp fures, the public will hb induced largely to patronise the railway on holidays. [And auy other day, Ed, M. S.J

A young fellow named Fred Vettet, was brought m to Waiiganui from Taonui on Thursday moruiugto the Hospital. Ho is suffering from a broken log, caused by his horse falling on him. The Palmerston correspondent of the Woodville Examiner hits tins nail on the head when he writes : — " So long as the Directors (of the Pulinorstou Dairy Fac-tory)-.were willing to pay full 'value for • *mi inferior .article, the suppliers were content, but they could not stand an analysis." This is a true bill. At the Magistrate's Court, Greytown, on Wednesday, before Dr Spratt, J.P., John Dooley, stationmaster at the Greytown termiuus, was charged by Mr Ashcroft, general manager of the Wellington Railway Department, with embususling the sum of £34 • Is lid, the property of the Now Zealand Government. Mr Ashcioft, who appeared to prosecute, expressed the sorrow he felt at being m the position of prosecutor m the case, *as the defendant had hitherto been a good and faithful servant to the Government. He also held testimonials of a high character from the authorities un- | dor whom he had served as a constable m the Monuttsd Force. He had solved i the colony with . honour and distinction Ito himself, and he trusted he would be able to clear himself of the present clißrge. The accused was remanded to Wellington. About two tons of quartz from the lately-discovered reef m the Kaimanawhadistrict will shortly arrive m Napier, having (says the Herald) been got out by the prospectors, Messrs Collins and Greenwood. The stone, upon arrival m town, will be handed over to the Bank of New Zealand, to be scrupulously cleaned, sorted, and bagged, and afterwards sent up to the Thames to be crushed under the direct supervision of the bank's agents there. The stone will I>k crushed m parcels m perfectly clean batteries, it being decided by those interested to spare neither trouble or expense to ensure a stringent test crushing. i The introduction of trout into the bush districts around Woodville seems an established fact, several of cousiderable size having lately been seen therj. At a meeting of the Awahuri School Committee on the 14th instant, it was unanimously resolved to vote for Messrs Taplin, Baker, and Stevens at the approaching election of members to replace those whose seats on the Education Board of Wanganui have become vacant. Writing on the order sent Home for £100,000 worth of war material, the Lyfctelton Times says :— " The AgentGoneral should have every latitude given him. He should be able to pur chase the best known and proved weapons of any kind, and not be confined simply to the Government article turned out at Woolwich Arsenal. If we are forced to fight m our own defence, let, \ it be with the best arms that our small .means, can- purchase. Comparison and trial will show which pattern of arm that is." , : - The barque Kenilworth, from New York, has brought a quantity of rolling stock for the Wollin«;ton-Manawatu Railway, including sixteen composite carriages, hydraulic machinery, &c. Each carriage will seat fifty persons. Speaking of the Palmerston Soap Factory the Palmerstou correspondent of the Woodville paper thus discourses : —Tons of it ("the soap) now lie at the factory, but what is going to be done with it is hard to say. I would suggest that it be sent away to a foreign country, get it re-branded and sent back, and ion its return to Palmerston it will be pronounced the best soap ever rnauufactured. It is to be hoped that Palmerston, at any rate, will never again enact a pledge from any candidate for Parliamentary houors to support local industries. The Wanganui 'Herald says that the stoppage of the harbor improvement works at the Heads has already made its effects felt, as Mr Denby has had to discharge a large number of men, who are m many instances leaving for fresh fields of labor. Those who are settled m the place are rather downcast at the prospect of a bad winter, and are looki ing forward anxiously to the starting of work on the central railway. The completion of the Heads railway will | also throw a number of men out of wor'<, and without something is speedily done to provide work m the district for these \ men, ir.any of them will leave for some distant parts of the colony, or for Australia. AMr Louis Chaldicott has had his i buckskin breeches stolen from him m Wanganui, and thus h« makes known the interesting fact m the local papers : — As the Buckskin Breeches -stolen from the Jockey Room ou the Wanganui course are easily recognised vhen seen m public, the present posseßs6r had better return them at once to save himself future trbiible. Loiiis Chaldicott. V.^JJ In Saturday's issue we (i ost) mentioned that an old settler named Brown had died at Day's Bay last week, and that his Maori wife had absolutely refused to allow his body to be interred m a cemetery, preferring that it should be buried on the beach. We how learn that the corpse has been taken 'away from the woman by force and interred m a proper manner. A singular spectacle was presented to the gaze of Constable Mackay when he visited the house on the last occasion, the old aboriginal being found m bed with the body of her dead husband. The deceased was a very old identity. In the early days he kept an accommodation house on the other side of the harbor. Thirty years ago he stood his trial before Judge Wakefield on a charge of having murdered a soldier with whom he had had a dispute. The soldier was found lying on the beach with his skull completely smashed. Brown was acquitted. The Post is informed that exactly a dozen tenders were received for the erection of the Exhibition building. A Perth (Western Australia) telegram dated March 9th, is as follows :— "News from Roeburn states that. Gilroy, who was arrested for the murder of Mr Ankell and Mr Brough, has been discharged, strong evidence having been produced against the other two men, Bevan and Warburton, who are now under arrest. The hat of the latter has been found covered with blood. He cannot account for his whereabouts on the night of the murders." It was not statea at the annual meeting of the Heads Railway Company, but we {Chronicle) have learned it from a private source, that the directors have received an offer to lease the line, which if they were m a position to let it, might be considered very satisfactory, both as regards price and stability of contractors. A war correspondent wired as follows from Korti, on the Nile, on January 7 : — The anomalies of this campaign have culminated. The Household Cavalry have become proficient m infantry drill, and this evening the men of the Royal Navy are having a first lesson m the riding school. I overheard a coxswain \ giving the osder to a sailor on a camel i— " Shift that steeriug gear to starboard." \ Writes the Patea Mail : — " A terrible ' gale passed over the town on Saturday i last, bringing with it most blinding [ clouds of dust, uprooting trees, blowing down chimneys, breaking wwilowk, and partially unroofing a house- Luckily ■ the heaviest tbrce of the gale was soon spent, and towards evening , the wind lulled into a reasonable breeze without any very seripus damage befog done/

: William Sheehan, the accused m the Cttstletownroche murders, was again brought up on remand at Auckland on Saturday. The original warrant and deposition brought out by Sergeant Dunny were produced. Under the Fugitive Of- r fenders Act he is entitled to a remand not exceeding fifteen days, should he ap--1 ply for it, to prepare a defence to refute the evidence of the depositions. The home authorities consider they have a very strong case- against the accused. Sergeant Dunny expects to return to England with the object of his mission by the ss Ruapahu, which leaves Wellington about April 7. Perhaps one of the most sensational advertisements was that of a prominent Glasgow warehouseman. He offered Mrs Langtry if she would become a saleswoman at one of his public counters for a month. The advertisement lay m the fact that the offer was made public, and went the rounds not only of the local newspapers, but the London society papers also commented on it. It would no doubt, have been a greater success if Mrs Langtry had accepted the offer. The drink bill for Great Britain and Ireland is £400,000 daily ; the education bill, including science and art, is '.£13,296 J daily. The Hawera Star says there seem to be serious doubts as to the opening of the Opunake Dairy Factory Company on account of tne directors being disinclined to take any steps until 1000 shares have been applied for. Messrs Gillies and Marchbanks have , now, we (Examiner) understand, completed the field work of the Gorge line, and are engaged m the office work, so that the plans and specifications for tendering may be ready, and the contract let at an early date. ! The Nelson Mail states that news has been received that good copper has been struck m the Doctor's Lode and m the Champion Lode m the Champion Company's mine, at ooints where it has not yet been found before. The Secretary to the Woodville Dairy Factory Company is frequently receiving inquiries for cheese. According to the local paper, the manager is turning out a firsb-class article, which should beat everything else out of the local market.