LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 95, 25 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An average Atlantic steamer consumes Jhe.tweo/1 ft|ty and' eighty tons' afe co'aV'in 24 hours. Therefore if five tons, of coal is sufficient tQ/feod'an ordinary grate iv our dwellings il^jjng the jmtire year, thecoal consumed on board a steamer m one day 'would last a small fftmily; burning one fire, from ten to sixteen; 3'eafs:' '■>■:■>■■■■■■■■'■ : '■' :•■•■■ ■ It may he interesting to. know (says the Herald) that about £1,200 a year flowaihto Taranaki from pensions. The, individual, pensions range from about £300 a year to £10. ; .■ , : ' -..•:,■■• •,. .' ' •/ •' '"'' In "this ias'ue"' will -tie'' 'found "Jacob; Faithful's" newi. advertisement relating to his consultation on the May Day Handicap. v Jacob" sends us thG,naincsß and addresses of 'the 1 'three 'pifmeipali winners m his last drawing, the pmos 1 going to Napier, Waipawa, and Hast-i itigs, thq winners- being : a bricklayer,; coachbuilder, and carpenter. The.bricki layer was at that time going through the Court, and as soon as he heard of his good luck he havidted the money to the official assignee, telling them to pay 20s m the & to the creditors. "Jacob " • liolieyos m conducting these consnlttiT itous on the business principle, giving nsiniicli publicTty as possible to results^ ajid liis drawings being conducted patistnaiimiy tb4be RubkcTibers, render them (popular iv tlie HaAvlcen Buy district. Tlh* na*tt«n and addreHses of the three wmhiiiers *ari be seen at tin's ofilcc. - Tlio New Zealand ' Illuslr'aied News \far Mixr(fb l&tU i« to limiij. This dviiiUc.v fully uiaiut«i])H" the . "rcpitftitiou of this wc'-kly., suiil tbe fro i if. picture is un "xcwllftiil r^prt'tieiitatiuu;, -of !St Josi-ph's Oatlie<l rai, ,Dn nud i n. woll-kaowu .cJor^yuaaii, has niys'tßrjonsly disappeared from Oauiarn, where I^3 was ft telegraph operator. The closest soaich

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• ...IE a touofconl ift placed on tite ground itxld left there, itnd another- ton, is plaodd under a slied, the latter loses about %b " per cent of it heating po.w«r, the foi'inpr abouts27 per cent Hence i$ is i^ • grcht 'saving of coal to have it m a dry place, covered over, and on all sides. Landed estate does not appear to be /m demand tn Toi'toii :'{. By <*"'Wid"""lbßftl paper we nee tlmtthesection of-larid, m the estate oE th» lato Mi Jameson, offered at Messrs Thynue Liuton and Co.'ts .sale on .Saturday last, .vas not quitted.' The three othersections alao offered were passed m. i " Tlie Otngo Daily Times considers it deplorable that our Volunteers should still be using the almost absolute Snider, and the sooner we arm the Rifles and Artillery witli Martini-Henrys, and the with naval Martini-Henrys with cutlass-bayonet*}, the better. At present oven tf they had' ainnniriu\i()ti, they would *be at a "serious disadvantage m resisting; a landing party, who would cerjtainly be anriod >vith the latest and best rifles. The Wanganm Chronicle in--concr«.d-ing an article on the :death or Uiojate ■ Mr- John Higgie, writes %-r-- v O^ O^he hotel m which Mr Higgle djed- w¥"hhve -notliintj at "present ta "say. The jury exonerated the hotel keeper from all blame, and we have no desire to go behind tho evidonde. We may be doini; our AViinganui hotels an injustie^B— but we verj' much doubt if half-a-dozen of them would decline a man a fair chance •if be declares" his intention of going on the spree for a week, and proved his ability to pay for his liquor.". The population of the city of Auckland is stUl rapidly swelling. By the 4 Gazette to hand, we notice that thu !Rfgistrar-Geueral estimates the populati«a of Auckland at the und of last month at 28,158, while that of Dunedin at. the same datb was act down nt 24,802, tuM that of ! Wellington was 2.2,808. The Marten water- works contract is - expected to ba completed within six ' mouths from the date of starting. - I -The steamer Triumphis tobe employed m the carrying of horses and. passei%ers between new Zealand and Sydney. Her "tare part is being fitted up to carry 100 or 150 horses. At jMr |R H. Woods' saiefat jWairarapa, on Saturday, a quantity' of sheep -of-different breeds, and owned by various farmers, were condemned by the .'■Sheep luapector for being' infected with ■vermin, aud were ordered to be cleansed forthwith. . , • "■,".'' '; > ri At a meeting of the members of the JFoxton Racing Club, held to . consider tlie advisability to hold a Winter Race Meeting, a resolution was passed to the effect that owing to the lack of interest shown m the matter, it was not advisable to hold a' Winter Meeting. " The father of tlie lately isppoih'ted G6vernor of New South Wales assumed the uaino of Carrington (his former; •name having been Smith). The present ! Lord Carrington obtained, m 1880, a royal license to Bpell the name with one r. . It is reported at tho Thames that' some of tho rvirikiri natives have had j thbir ire aroused by the action of a settler along the Oliinemiiri road — who, it ; is said, manipulates bones for agricul-? tmal purposes— appropriating the relics; of sevoral Maoris buried m a c,wo at VVaralioo, with, the object of grinding' them into dust.' ; In Opotiki there aro 11 00 acres inj maize,, which, taken nt £12 an ncre,[ would distributer £13,200 m ; the^com-' '.inunity. ; ; A gentleman who has recently return-j 'eid froHi To Aroha : Baths where ho hud: gone to get relief from. . rheumatism,! speaitf highly of thenu, 'Hj3 regards them as the baths of the future, and feels cbhfid'ent that they .will contiiiue.'to at -i tract large' number of visito'r3. : , !: oij - j TheTaranaki Herald Says that Mr O'Conor, (Undor-Secretary for Public Works), Mr Humphries (Chief Sur-J , yeyor), "aiid Mi, Staudish, who went ouC to try tho, ascent of Mount E^inont hy, thoVieW track, wero : able to ride 3,300 feet abovo. the- sea level, .o.r no'irjy tip. toi • the scrubs line ; and they report that tlie; ascent can 'how b<v mado with compara-n tive ease m oue day from town. ! The Wellington District Court orf Monday gave judgineut m the oase of Pownall and Co. v. Abbot Bros. The 1 action was, brought to recover £200,J being commission on a loau of £20,000' negotiated by the plaintiff, but not taken; up by the defendants, vvlio ate squatters m the Rahgitikei District. 'Hii 'Honoij , gaye judgment for the defendants, withi £14 4s costs against the plaintiffs. Mtj : Edwards, who appeared for Messrs Pow-| nail and Do. t stated that his clients iu-j tended to appeal. .;'!.:', > The Otaki" people have arranged^a ;' Raee<;Progrannne aa follows, -for Queeu's Birthday;— rHack .Steeplechase, £10 ;' •Railway Handicap, £15; Handicap 'Steeplechase 2£ miles, £40; Birthday Handicap, £15 ;' Railway ' Einploj'ea Race, £7 10s, for horses owned by ::worker3 on, the railway line and owned oue month before tho Races ; Hack Race, £5 5s ; Forced Handicap, 4,10., Any surplus is to go towards the Navvies' Accident Fund. Mr Walter E. Hall, dental sunjeonj has issued a neat little pamphlet bearing on the teeth. In it is the following :-r " Great attention should also be paid to; the cleanliness o£ the* teeth. Children should be induced to form the habit ' of brushing their teeth well regularly twice a day at lnast— .on rising m the morning and at bedtime,; and this rule should tie strictly adhered to throughout life, llncleansed teeth, besides giving a palpably unsightly appearance to any face, however otherwise agreeable, spoij the taste of the palate, cause the tongue to * fur,' and afteoU (iigestion-rthus actting dotvinfentally to the health." \ Spain has a public debt about as'largo as that of the United States without 4 -tenth part dfher wealth and. resources. ; During the dry season 50,000 men were employee! on forty-seven miles of tho Panama Canal. ,-•;. j- ! The London correspondent of the Sydney Mail writes that in' consequence of the' Australasian Colonies having been well advertised m Great Britain during the past two years, the number of emugrants to Australia has exceeded those to Canada for that period >byX 40,000 souls. New ' South Wales has been particiilarly . active. The '•' nomination V system has been ; adopted and' ia,vgety used by that colony ; but the oorrespondent says :-—" From my experience and from enquiries. I have made, I am not certain that the nomination system ib ; the best that could be adopted if. your ■ cdl6ny requires a particular and suitable class of labor. In such event it is clearly desirable to leave the selection to <the agents of the colony her?,!' i It is reported • that the. nrospoctlyfJ bridegroom of Princess Beatrice has not received the congratulations of the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Eduv burgh,, nud the resentment of tho young lady at this snub to her beloved was indicated by her absence from the rejoicings over the.coming of age of the Prince's ,8011. ■. ,: . , ;, "... , ,'v . ;.,■) : 'i i ■ : . Above the familiar signature " J .H.N .' ' the ;fbllo win jj letter, appears m tho Lyttelton Times of a recent , (late i^" In the event of a war with Russia,' a great rise "m the price of wheat, etc., will immediately take place. 'Therefore. it is ■a'R well our farmers should not overlook jfcljjs veritable 'little , bit. of, b^e sky:,' and", hy b^lfllnsr thoir grain until reliable iiiloniiatioi] ;;.;- to whether it is to be peace or war lie obtained, do well for

The Superintendent of Post and Telegraphs rtilvovtiscd for tenders for 2000 telegraph poles and. 2000* polo butts, to bo delivered at the Telegraph stores-, Wpliin<*te>ri, biv at the Telegraph- yard, Spit, Napier. Tenders to be m not later than the 12th of May, 18a5.1 „■ _ The action Henry Adsett v. Manchester Upara : witl .conTLe^pn Vfor hearing on Fridayatthe Supreme Court, ■* Wanganui. At Leipsife a musical critic has been' sentenced to five days imprisonment for describing the leader of an orchestra as a "| '.violin scraper.! „ ...'•,: . A gold mine Garfiold boii'jrlit shortly before being snot isi turning out a fortune ; for' the widow. A recftnt; traveller along, the Panama ; Canal predicts that of the 15,000 work- j men fully two-thirds will be dead before , the completion of the canal. ; Twenty -four .steam fire, engines played j on a tire m a timber yard on the bank of St. Begent's canal, London. They put ; the fire out, and m doing it flooded the basements of ! all the Bouses m the neigh-; borhood. . ' " •■■<•:., Mr Kingslake is' engaged oh the last chapter of the: concluding , volume ; .bf his "History of, the Crimean War.* 1 ; Twenty-two years have elapsed between the publication of the first volume and .the . last.. ,<•.-■■,. ; '■ ■'.. 'An extraordinary, case of drowning lias occurred at Beading. A man named Jefferies and two others were emptying beer into a large vat, and Jefferies, m placing the ■ lid over the vessel, fell- into it. It was impossible to reach him, and the beer was set running. This took ; place so slowly that a man was let down by ,a rope, but he was overcome, aud had to be ! 3rawh up. 'When gftt' out Jefferies was qujte dead. The first printer m America was a Spaniard. _ . ( .. . . . , r . .■ ' ' Tlie' Obs6ri>er is the ' only liigh class ; London paper pubh'ghecT on Sunday, ! England paid £5,000,0.00 last year i to toreigners for cheese. * The "'Queen's ? omission :td corigratu- ; late Mi' Gladstone upon his seventy- ' fifth birthday is much remarked m Lon- : don. ■'■■> .■■■■ ■'■'■*}*• '->•'■•.•! The Earl of Aylesford, who died m ; Texas m January, had his life insured for £300,000. .. | Jews own and work more than 1,250, ; 000 acres of land m Russia and "rent from the Crown . nearly 1,50.0,000 acres more.'" /, .../_. ■. ■ ..'_ , '■•■. ■ :> " ! The' town Council of Vienna has or- ' clered an inquiry into the reason why the bakers buy wheat cheap and sell bread . dear. ' , During tlie last year 320,800 steerage . passengers and 59,500 cabin passengers landod m New York city. The British Australasian publishes an interesting table sliowing that duting ; the first 'days of January 7 the Australias and New "Zealand between "them paid ■ over £2,500,000 interest, on money borrowed. . " This," observes the Australasian, "is certainly a' very surprising . amount to be found at once out iof the , profits of communities uuuibering only j 3,000,000 inhabitants all told." j ' : The London comic paper, Judy, lately ; had- a cartoon representing Lord Gram ! ville, Mr Gladstone, and Lord Derby :walking along a road covered, with snow. The Premier is carrying a, .brpqm labelled ."The Treasury," Lord Derby has under his arm a shovel' labelled " The Colonies," and Lord Grauville, with his two hands m liis pockets, has a " squegee" labelled "Foreign Affairs." . All ■have a frozen ontrlook.'and are supposed, to be crying ; out, " We're Ministers ; we are perplexed.; we don't know what, .to do-o-q-o-o ?" and Judy adds, " and ' they never 'did arid iiever will." ; ''' j ■ Says? the Wellington Post of March 16: — A sitting of the' 'district' Court was! held this morning, His, Honor Judge ■ Davy presiding. ' The only cagje heard! was one m which Charles Pownall and ; Co., were the" plaintiffs,' and Joseph and. Henry Abbfitt the defendants.. The: latter are station-holders m the Bangi-i tikei district, and the plaintiffs are commission agenfcsin^Wellington. •' The de- • fendants' applied ta the- plaintifts for a I loan of £20,000 on the security of their landed jM'operty. -^he money was pro- : mised but tho defendants did not borrow through Pownall and Co., having made '.other aiTanglemen(;|. The action before j the Court to-day Was to recover £200 as! commission., Mr Edwards was for the : plaintiffs^ aftid for the de- i fendants. His Honor reserved judg-j men'ku^ .Hii-..c ■.. ; < ..■•:•. -. .;..■•■" ; A Dakota Juage the other day left his: bench' (it was a pine. board). arid knockSd' down , a .lawyer who had .called him a ,liar, . Then he . went back and, jthe.case proceeded.. „.,.:. . : ■ i i . , Ju Lima, Peru, the jinpressarjq % ,of an; Italian, op.era. company, has been fined , alittle over §3 for not raising the curtain promptly at 8 o'clock. ' Portugal is to have , a Chamber of Peers', composed of 100 members to be "appointed loir lite" by the King add fifty to be elected by an indirect process. A meteorite a foot m diam-tor fell! no'iii' 'Quebec on' ! Decctnber 4th, and ' was 1 afterward dug from the ground, m which ' it had buriod itself. The people say that tlie falling meteor presented the appear-; ance of ahuge ball of fire^vvhich liglv.ted up the whole countrywide almost with, the brilliancy of the noonday sun.,. . • „ Judging -the niah by his speech the Rey . Mr Coff ey must be ,& q ueer . sort of. clergy.map.,, .At.St,' Mark's Church on Sunday might he declaimed m vigorous' language against the Premier taking; the chair at Gerald Massey's leqturq at. the Lyceum. The rev. gentleman concluded almost, invective discourse with the* sftiteYndnt 'that the Government of the country was m Unhands oil ."■ infidel dogs." '-■• ■-••••■ The well-preserved skeleton of. art enormous aurochs, or primeval ox, has been found at Aden, on the Elbe, bysome workmen occupied' an digging a canal. . Tho horns from one extremityj to the other measured over . 9« feet. The vertobra and ribs resemble those of the janti'diliiVianan'onstors.- - As the aurochs avoided the proximity of man, and as the district wlioie the skeleton J»a» been fodnd was L woll populated at the tiine'of Julius Cs93ar, the skeleton muat be 2,Q00; ■ymirs nidi.,.,' ; ;•>, " • v-: ■ ■■■' j The •proposed expedition o£ ProfJ Nqi'densjolii.to the douth Polt) is postponed until IjBB7. A Y en K ue^ a g°y& mino has yielded! under American. inanagcmeut, 2,,PQPjOOO-: dols.ii) six. Jnoiiths. " , j .. It .is reported that cholera and typhoid f.aver .are racing among # the French troops m the Tonquin delta. Parties of scientific observers from both the Melbourne and Sydney Observatories intend to. visit Wellington m September! jje^t to watoh tho total eolipag of the suuj whioh ; will be visible oijly m that fteigh: borlioocl on 'Bth Sept. The best position to view it will be from near Mastertoni and there the instruments will be fixedt Mr A: D. Thompson, olevlt of thell.ML Court at Peilding, is at present ahsen^ at Wellington,,, to undergo his law ex^ amination. Mr Hatiltain is also absent on the , same ■ business. It will "surely nex(i}be, the ,t»nrn of, the B.M-. to. pass his examination. ' ; , . ■;! . | The i nut understands that consider-able-reductions ura. being mule m the staff-' of ! the Audit Department,-' no les^.-, than eight (jffic^s. hjvyiug,,received notico that their services are'" w be dispensed with. Several of them are of high standing, and sufficient length of service

R. Donald writes to tha jPosi noting tho absence of apple blight, which has not occurred m his experience for more: than 30 years. „ ■/■•■.''*. '■' >v '^ At a stock sale at Wairticjipa on Satui'-' day last, 300 merino ewes were sold at '2s per head, and 400 merino wether«hat 2s 6d per head. \ R. Loudou left Feilding by train on Saturday evening last en route for New South Wales where he intends to ''commence business. Mr Loinlou'wa's" one of the first settlers on the Manchester Block and during the time of his resilience, there proved himself to be*** pushing and shrewd business man. He took an active part m municipal matters,, and has been a member of the Feilding! Borough Council since its inception.: Tb« Star says that a number of geptle-' ir.en were on ■ the station platform to, wish him " good-bye," and many hearty' wishes were expressed for his prosperity m the new land of his adoption.