LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- The local paper states' that the Greytown Cheese Factory is still m full swing,' the milk supply being well kept up. The quantity sent on .Monday, was about 420 gallons., exceeding the highest contributions of last year m tho height of the season by so'inn few gallbns; Last year 'at this time the .factory was^cloßed through lack of supply, thus showing that, cpmpared .with last year's business, the factory is going on very satisfactorily.' -. .' D^ichai:dson,farnouß for his sanitary 1 scheme's, has come out with a death-where-is-tliy'-sting remedy for the surplus dog and cat, by means of which he hias transferred several thousand fourfooted domestics from the here to the hereafter without their knowing anything about their ;most interresting jour;ney. He^uts them m a.cloae room or i box and passes m to them carbonic oxide mixed wi|;h vapour of chloroform and bisulphide Of carbon. -This hushes the occupants into a sleep that knows no snoring. ' - „, 1 / It is reported that the. true heirs of the Dukedom of Brunswick have been discovered m the issue of a former legitimate marriage. It will be rather a rise fer them, as one is m a workhouse., New Plymouth is m it. Owing to the : advantages afforded by tho breakwater, goods are now delivered from Welling--tori at six shillings por ton. . . Three thousand horses die each week m London. Their carcases arepnrchased ; j by, a company which delivers meat for , cats and dogs to many thousands of customers. There are 700,000 cats m tho city. One day last week says the Westport Times, a. man m Reef ton backed himself to drink a gallon of beer at a single draught. The beer was measured out m a large basin, and the man having loosened all his tackle, turned the benr on. Incredible! as it may seem, tho fellow drank it all IVut about, a cupful, but t\m effectually hitched him up, and so lost the wager. A. possible source of danger to mari-n-ereis suggested .by a report that during tlie night of August 23, the lantern of a Cn'ban lighthouse was surrounded by such * cloud of red insects that the light, as seen fronra distance, was changed to ;,fc decidedly. red colour; Great alarm was caused at Gnernsey on January 25 by a terrible explosion heard all over the ' island and far out at .sea. Some persons thought it was an , 'feaiirtbquake., others supposed it unusually ireawy'thiMvder. The «;rew of the Commerce, corroborated afterwards by others, spoke to iiavfn^: seen, about 3 o'clock wheniftearing' Guernsey, an enormous ball Qf-fim shoot from thft heavens anrl' fall i»tg -^ho seato tho. west of the island}' the fall briti}! attended by a terrific exr fplopion. liousoK vibrated with tho shock, and Homo people were so frightened aR to be 'deprived of their senses. ' ■ ' Mr Micaiah Reirl, tlio Governor of thp Mount Pleasant Gaol, Wellington, will retire on the 31bC Jfargb, oq ft aunfirantiation allowance,

A leeluro \v;is delivered last week at Christchnr'ch under the auspices of the Ni:w Zealand Protection Association, hearing the significant title " What shall wt! do with our hoys." The question is one that is troubling many a paterfamilias, and will take a good deal of solving m these days of free education^ | overi;rt)>vded )»rofessiuns, and disinclination to- '^o on tho land. It is sinCi.-ivly ' to he hopod fiat parents wili m future do their hest to stamp out the idea so provaiunt amongst our youth, that dirty liandd and mechanical occupation are a sign of low social position, as such nonseiisicaHdcas only till oilr towns with a population of clerics, shopmen, and the like. Tis labour that dignities a liiau, and manual labour, whether at inecham'cal handicraft. or.ou some of our grand virgin land, is what we want to see our boys turn to, not bank clerkships and miserable, shabby genteel Government billets. Tlhe profits to Mbody and . Sankey on . the sale of their revival hymn books are said to have reached half a million dollars. No -other publications' m that field have appioached these m popularit}'. ; The proceeds, are divided equally between the evangelists.,.. Moody has endowed a school with part of his share and it is now' reported that Sankey is about to do something handsomely philanthrophic. - The'Wairarapa Star says :— " Acouplo of small Mastertou settlers have been prosecuted. and fined m • the minimum peualty for exposi-ig sheep m the saleyards, that,- wqro infected with;iice.- It is a subject of general coniir.ent that the Sheep Department carefully avoids all interference with big and influential settlers whoso flocks are notoriously lousy." This is a very' serions accusation, and if there are any grounds for 1 the statement made by our contemporary, prompt measures should be taken by the Government.' ■ . ; ( \ ! .) ■ ■ ■' .-.■-• ..i > * A little dog got shut up'i'ri" tho Catholic Church at Greytown about ten days ago, and when the doors were opened on Sunday morning, it was found to have eaten some of the candles'that bad been ieft out, and torn the drapery of the altar into shreds, The unfortunate ani=xnal was still alive, but, as might be imagined, was m a very pitiable condition. i At a recent meeting of the Wellington ladies branch of the Society for prevention of Cruelty to Animals, it was resolved that tlie society should be recommended to have the following lines ;placed over the water trough at the junction of Mauner-street and Gourtney■place: — " A man of kindness to hisbeast .is kind; But brutal actions show. a brutal [mind. Remember,' He who made thee made the brute ! Who gave thee speech and reason formed him mute : He can't complain ; but God's all-seeing : eye Beholds, thy cruelty — He hears his sigh. He was designed thy servant, not thy 1 drudge : : But know, that his Creator is thy ] Judge!" .. ,ii ; . There should bo great joy among the dairymaids, for a French, scientist claims to have discovered an expeditious method of making butter, which is thus described:— "The milk or cream m placed m an isolated vessel, and oy means of two electrodes immersed m the liquid, an electric current is established and kept • up until tho entire segregation of the particles of butter has been effected, j A, dynamo-electric machine of 40 elements ■ is said to be sufficient to get the,, butter, out of 45 quarts of cream or milk m five minutes. ' • : The South Australian Register of a recent date has the following :— The list of passengers for London by the Liguria, contains the name -ooff f Miss Knight, daughter of the ltev. S. Knight. It will be reuiemberod that this lady some ' months ago succeeded m passing the matriculation examination of the London University by means of papers forwarded from the colony, and that it was then stated that she designed to qualify f oi' the profession. During the interval she has-been studying at the University of Adelafde m preparation for the ureliiuinary scientific examination m July next at the London IJniversity, and when she has passed that she willenter upon a five or six years' course of study at the Modical School for.. Women. Her career will be watched with iutercstas that .of the ; first ; Australian lady who has devoted herself to the arduous task of obtaining, full qualification for the practice of medicine, and as the first lady representative of, .the students of ' Adelaide University in 1 England. ' ' ; .