LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 91, 21 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The privileges m con nection with the Feilding Easter"; Monday race meeting realised £74 10a; ' ? riJpneaiand O'Brien, who. were arrested, at Tenui oh a charge of ' a ssaiiltirig; John McCoy, jwbre jdispharged jon .Monday directly after the iriquesti. "The Wairarapa Star says that MoCoy w.aß:wejl relßted m Hawke's Bay. He was a fine' .powerful man j ! standing ' "6ft* 2itf m hi& 'BtOCkilagSi ■';:.. ■]■' .' ■ ■•. ••■!.'•..:;)■•:■/•-. • ; |Sayß a Wellington paper:— -As ata indication of the even ; < manner jjn whicb; , the, pr^es have been r wo.n ?alt\th.e,^ifl,e. Asspciatibjtt's meetiug, wb may mentionthai of 228 persons entering no less than' 'llOQ^e^riz^t^lcersii, '•■'■ |' •;*•:•'•?. •■»' There is m the gaVdeti of Mr Samuel, io^fi&eiEndymion hotel, -a &g trei& from! which he has already had a good crop of ripe fiuit this season, aud which is again laden with half-grown fruit. • -The - Parewanai : School. Committee have decided to support Messrs J. Stevens, J. Baker, and Sanson m the election of members to fill "the three vacjaucies of the Wanganui Education Board. A branch of the Bank .'of t . New South' 1 Wales has' been Opened, m 'Masterton. The .management, will be taken by 3[ G. Hogg, who until recently, 'had charge of the Bulls branch of the same bank. Messrs JE^ilebni^e^nd Sherwill offered for sale severaLiectious m Feilding and Awahuri on Wednesday, but the bidding nw Teachnig'the' 1 Srendbr's'- Reserve they w«re bought m. . . - ■ " two merf'' who : 'are^ - Buffering from blood poisp,niag, m the Wellington hospital, Metfayden,^of Foxton, is out of danger. ; „ V •' ■< "" ' •' The' F^iiairig'^piper Reports that an acoident happened on (IJ Tueßday to a '■'fbtkh 'named Vettfe', who '*>ml working on Fowler and Nathan's contract, Tabnui road. ; While driving aqmei other horses to the paddock, thej,pne he wap riding by Borne means f|ell, and- on.e^ pf the unfortunate' young' man's' thighs was fractured ii\ thr;ee places. It wili r be remem•■berea'thatnis Jathfeir ' wfis '< klllfid a' few years ago by' t\ie, fall of a tree, and the, lad hM since been the principal support of his widowed mother. id. ;i ' An'abtiori fdr damages a'^ainsti the Manchester Ro*d Board, by Mr Adsett, sawmilier, will bo heard m Wanganui, on the 25th ink't. The action is brought , to, recover caused ,to; plaintiff's bush by a fire'vrhieh,'it is alleged, was started by defendants' . .eervants^ about three years ago. The case, it will beremembered, was heard «ix months ago, when the jury were di«etiarged boingr liriable^o agree. Daraageawe laid at £2500. The last rail way excursion from WelHngtori to.thn Wafrarapa was exceediogly successful. A« rtiany as 230 pa'ssongers left by train. "Mr Ashcfoft, inatia-; ger of railways m that district, considers 'that the practice of hoMing;tliaßo choap ftjtciu'flibns has been 80 f ar^tte'nded with great success. ' . . > /> >,h :• ■ Th« Jocal paner reports that a large flhag took up its abode on tliQ.' cross of the spif«'«f St. Patrick's Church, M-aster-ton. oh St; Patrick's Day, where it/:rejnained for uo«rs. , ■ . : ■' ■ j '■'' \V^ liear Mrl!Ui«. : thephsychometrist intends shortly making a tour of the world with Mr Gerald M assey, the leoturer, illustrating his address ou spiritiia-

; It is said that tho site of the present Pier Hotel was being for by the Union Steam Ship Company m order to erect suitable offices thereon. £18.000 was offered and refused, £22,000 or at the rate of £300 a foot being demanded. The tender of Messrs Murdock and Rose for the Wellington 'Industrial,. Exhibition building is £2,397. There 1 yew' ""eleven oth'e'r "tender^, tlie Highest Being £4,183- ,> Not a single tender for building the '•new lo.comotivea was received from Wellington, th« tenders coming from Auck- ! land; Christcli"rch, and Dunedin. i Messrs, Scott Bros, the successful teni ders will have two years m which to j wake the locomoties, which are to be of the simplest possible pattern. The Minister/of Public Works, is of opinion that tho terms offered for the construction are on the whole of. a very favourable character, aud certainly an favourable as m the case of New, South Wales, where they have been constructing locomotives for many years. . ,. t ?>,., At the Napier races, Pasha, m the Hallway Stakes, paid a dividend of £& I4sy A total of i' 5028 was put through the, two totalisators, being the largest total Hawke's Bay has ye^ reached. : . -The Secretary of the < Wanganui Small Farm Association, has received a ■very .important, teiecmui ' from the Government with' regard., to the Valuation [of the block selected, "but is very retic>aut .with" 'regard to' the information contained therein. A meeting of the association will be held very shotly. r . t Writes an exchange :— " The Willmott Troupe, though lost to sight,; to memory dear, are ih Wellington. . Don't, don't please come lip here again. Enough's as good as a feast. ; Many persons m and aboutfWanganui ) ■will' experience feelings of deep regret ; (says the Chronicle) at seeing the an* j nouncementin our obituary column of j the death of Mrs Macdonald, which took place on Thursday at the residence of her' sister, Mrs'Brujce; Glencaira, Tjirakina.i I »The deceased : lady, who -Was^ ever most' active and zealous m the promotion of; ~true religion, was well known and much! respected throughout the district. She] j "WaS, jbm we ; have said* >aT sister jof Mrs' Bruce, of Giericairn and aunt to" the pre-; -sent member for Bangitikei. j \~/A. drunken jellow attempted .to swim; Hhe Wanganui river on Thursday night,: but only succeed m half drowning him-, self. He r was rescued when thoroughly exhausted, and carried' into the Masonic Hojtel. : ' ) Testimony to the excellence of our! colonial mutton crops up m all kinds of i unexpected quarters. Yesterday, at the 1 ■jSnpteme' Court,; during the ■ hearingof the case against Wilson for obtaining | money under fatee pretferices, some let- !.< tcfrs' were : read, from, a friend of prisoner's ia Scotland, m which high praise wa? accorded bythe writer to New Zealand } mutton,. which he had for the first time: j taeted. ' ' The w^tep. furthet 1 expressed the wish that he was a younger man, so that he might come out to the colony an^. | turn sheep farmer. | J The large public room of the Wellington Young Men's Christian Association . was crowded to excess on Thursday' evening by upwards of 200 seamen belonging t6 various vessels m port, who'/j I were the guests for the evdning of the'j Committee ot the Association, arid several ladies and gentlemen, who hod invit-. Ed them to tea and an evening's amuse- J ment.- Each guest on arrival was presented" with a* nosegay of flowers by the . ladies, who also waited on the guests at ieaL The ..was.ajnple provision made' for all, and the sailors thoroughly enjoyed the amusement, .'..,- i , special meeting of the Foxton fiae- r dug Club is pailledfoir' Monday nexti !at;B p.'m.'tb'xtfrisider the qtfestioiidf llo'ldirig ■ d Winter Race meeting. { | There \s now a post office open at the Mokau. ''•'- ■'■■'■'■' ■■'iu\u;'h'[ ... j For the i purposes of %c Animate Prbteeiipn Acts, the ,new.pounty of Horb.whenua has been included m the ManaWata district. ' > • ; _ Writes the Napier Tde)raph :— Will J the Hon Mr Buckley, or the Hon Mr 3 ! Ballance " make a note " of *the following :— The lessee of the Bajsaitai block has been m correspondence for a lohg time with the railway authorities on the -J subject'of a siding to his saw mill., Mr*; H. Smith was put off from time to time on various official pretexts, till at last , he offered to construot the sidjng;at his own expense, and to guarantee' a traffic of £800, per; month. The siding was then actually refused! ft" would appear ithaJi officialdom regards the railway iaft ; an institution to supply salaries, and not : ; the ' convenience •of • the'; ( public. \ Salaries are not paid by. results ; hence, •it siu'ts every one connected with the railway traffic. We presume the acme" 6f .management will be ' reached when .'fcne' railways cease to '• work and !all ; salaries are doubled. : , \ - : : . . „. ••. , ■'■■ j There are ii,ooo ship-builders out of work;in Sundarland, 4.000 m Glasgow, 25,000, on the Tyne and Weir»~ i'O,OQQ', m Wa}es a#d 20,000- m. libridbn, and 20,000 imbre'ini <Londcra o wKfr%bik; on; half time. '•'■'. For the past 30 years Denmark has"contributed a yearly ' average of 1500 ' people to Mormondom. j ■ " The WelUbgton Acclimatisation jSociety nave "recently liberated a lajrge r number of young blackbirds, chaffinches' and '-other English' songsters, m the neighborhood of the city. ' ' The s.s. Jane Douglas, which arrived' 1 at Wellington from Foxton on Thursday morning^ brought the following passengers . .. Myers v and child, Boufe and child, Messrs Boss/ Mitchell, j Gill,, Nutt, and" Master Waters. ! A Press Association telegram says :>— ; • «■' The Dunedin \ Chamber, of ODminferce on Thursday carried a resolution urging the appointment of shorthand reporters Thi* is certainly a step m the right direction. ; , . : ■ ) - ' -■ i.l ' ' • ' ' Very fayorabw accounts of the tobacao iiron m Hawke's . Bay have been telegraphed. . . , ;. „. The editor qf the Taranaki Herald ac» ; knowledges ttie receipt of " a couple of cases of apples " from one of the readerai of that journal. • We (consider this ; custom a very commendable one, and smaller Quantities than cases would not be unworthy of grateful acknowledgement. " The Foxton paper says that iman Bobert Lawless, who received a 1 sentence of ten months' imprisonment for housebreaking at PalmerHton, is the indiyfcwAi who a few months ago visited IMr Mud:ford's boarding house, representing himself to be the Hon*. Robert Campbell. , , A meeting of shareholders m the Manawatu Steam Shipping Company; wa l^ lield oh Tuesday' lastv when a formal resolution authorising . the ; sale •of ■' the steamer to the new company Was> carried. ;: ! : A son of Sir Arthur Blyth, AgentGeneralfor South .Australia, w.as seni, tenced to twelve ,month t s' imprisonment at Adelaide recently for forgery. The \ Wanganui' ilerdld has thf .following, : -rThe .. Palmerstpn v folks are' (Jetermined Wangahui shall have the oare of t\i* patient refused admission' to the Wanganui Hospifnl on the grounds of erysipelas, but admitted on another ailment, xvhjcU it»Fj)fld put to be chiefly an. acute #W*ck g^fiui hmtin& fever." Ho, . .was di^eh.ar^ed 'sput back' to Palmeraton' '" c4ij'i»g«i' ipai<//' and now he is franked back to'Wan- | ganui Gwl for 8 months on a charge of i vagrancy ! |

We were shttwn the other day ' m the office of Messrss^Stevens and Gorton a journal used bythe firm weighing about half at'Wt. A most ingenious and yet wHhal sijriple contriyauce has been arjranged by tlie manager, Mr Leigh f for the easy manipulation of th.s book/when m use. A cavity large enough' to coh"- J tftjn the voltnnr!, oas.beeja ., made ;-in the desk;'. kavingji loose bottouoLaiid nw.orked by a lever underneath so as to bring the ,Bnrfaco-ef 4hc book on a ley^l with .the desk.' The happy idea has been admired by a good many. Very extensive alteration,? and. improvements to tho Feildiug Hotel have j jufct been, completed,- and .certainly . for j accommodation and geueiial couiforfctbe hostelery will now compare with any other oD.tliiß coast. A very handsome balcony has been erected, ou two sides of the building, to which access cau be had from sitting and other rooms. The interior has also undergone n complete renpvaiion, a|l ? the rooms being neawlv painted,' papered, ana* each furnished with a patent ventilator adding considerably to the comfort and freshness of the apartments./ . Passages, corridors, and all other, parts of the, building have beon renovated and improved to such an extent as to make recognition almost impossible. Mr Haistie, the proprietor, evidently believes m the future pros perity of Feihling, and has not failed to give practical expression to such belief.