LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Names of the principal prize winners m Vulcan's last consultation have been forwarded us. The present consultation is rapidly tilling 1 , and it is believed will be drawn more titan full. '; When the summer is departing and the year is growing old, when the forests are assuming richest hues of red and gold,, when it softer, deeper azure tints the cloudless noon-day skieß, and the sunset gives us glimpses of the wall? of pan.disc ; when the songbirds have departed to a region less austere, and their melody mejifluous greets no more the longing ear ; when the wild goose flying southward of approaching winter warns, and the earth's ruo fruitage garnered safely lies m sheltering barns ; when thft nights are growing chilly and morn welcome is the sun— it is then the thrifty coalman adds litre shillings to the ton. During: the siege of Vera Cruz by General Scott's army, a party of sailors were on shore. They managed to confiscate a number of horses and donlee'j- s, and amused themselves by riding about the camp. One old salt rode past General's Scott's quarters on a donkey. Severbl staff officers 6eeing that the sailor was seated too far back, called out to him to shift amidships. " Gentlemen." said Jack, drawing rein, " this is the first craft I ever commanded, and its hard- if I can't ride on the quarter deck;" A pick up of unconsidered triHcs sends the following to an exchange : — One meets neat things m the way of advertisements at times, but I doubt if the latest announcement of a Wellington pork butcher can be beaten. Observe the delicate allusion to the missing- feline pots, and the erratic button. Of the presence of buttons m sausages Sammy \Mler had a good tale to toli (sco Pickwick Paper, chapter 55). " Want-d known. Special nnnnnnceinenr, pair}' fed pork, not Maori ; pork pies, no ant» '■ missing ; pork sausages, no brass buttons ; pure German saucageK, no raddle; liii« pork polonieß, no salt junk ; pure' lard (pork), not knackers' fat ; beef dripping, from bo.cf, not mutton : rah-1-iis slict or soared, no poisnn. Blank's Pork Shop, Manners street,"

The Hawkos Bay Herald says that two defendants m civil cases on Tuesday Kere Kuare and Paraone Kuare (grey .fool and brown fool) did not prove so witless as the names seemed to indicate. One, m confessing a debt, wanted to be allowod till his next crop was gathered before an order for payment was made, and the other succeeded m the almost impossible task of nonplussing Mr Lascellos. A Mr Shakespoaro is reported to have argued that names signified little j and the grey and brown " fools " seem I like a proof of the theory. A first dividend of 15s m the & m the estate of H. J. Haynes, is now payable at the office of Mr G. J. Scott, Deputy Official Assignee. The following are particulars of receipts and expenditure m connection with the production of the Oratairo Paradise at Marton on the 22nd January last by the Paluaerston Wesleyan Choir : Gross proceeds, £VJ 19s ; less advertising, printing, and hall, £3 14s ; balance, £16 ss. A cheque for half this last amount was forwarded to the Palmerston 1 circuit. The refreshments were provided free of charge by Messrs Shan-non-and Jolly. To-day a poll of shareholders m the Wellington and Manawatu Bailway Company was to Ibe taken to sanction the increase of the capital by the creation of 100,000 additional shares of £5 each. ' j The great Moscow Cathedral, lately ! completed, has cost more than £2,200,000 and will accommodate 100,000 worshippers. ;-,;. .-■..■;'>.■■ V. ■ ' . . -v _; ■ Mr Squire Barlpw. a resident of Wellington, is supposed to have perished m the Te Aro House fire on Saturday evening. ' . During the present season the Longbeach and Wakanui Road Boai'ds (Canterbury) have received over 70,000 eggs and htads ot small birds.. A large number has also been received by other Eoad Boards m the county, and the united action of the local bodies to check the wholesale increase of ihe small birds nuisance appears to hare been attended with a considerable amount of success. Our Feildmg contemporary reproaches itself m a leading article for having cried peace when there should have been no peace m affairs municipal m Feilding. Says the Star : — What we want to know is, how the money was spent ? How . much m salaries and commission ? How much m working .expenses? How much m .works of construction and maintainence ; and last, but not least, how much m law ? When these questions are answered, then the ratepayers may be satisfied, but not till then. We have cried, " Peace ! Peace 1 when there seems to have been no peace," long enough, and think the time has now arrived for the burgesses to demand from each and every member of the council a public statement of his views on the present condition of the borough, and the remedies he has to has to suggest if any. Writing of the Wesleyan Bazaar, thu Palmerston correspondent of a Wellington paper thus discourses : — " If members of the congregation had given two shillings each, matters would have « tided more satisfactorily, and so avoided this dubious mode of money extraction." Tim District Court sits to-morrow. The only business is the criminal cases, being the committals for perjury alluded to m foiraer issues. There is also s long list of bankruptcies to be deal with. Operations at the Marton junction of the Central Railway begat) yesterday morning. Between thirty to forty men are already at work. They are employed by the Government. 'Thursday next being 1 St. George's Day, the banking institutions, with their \ •customary loyalty will be closed. i The public would be aaved some trouble and time if they would bent i» mind that affidavits of jurisdiction," which are required to be made when a defendant lives outside the R.M. district, can only be sworn before the Clerk of the Court. Mr Willis, of Wanganui, is about to manufacture playing cards, aud will shortly be able to place some 30,000 packs m the market. The Marton paper gives the following explanation of the delayed Wanganui train yesterday : — The engine of Ihe train coming front Wanganui broke down ascending the Matarawa hill. The guard went ontoFordell, arid telegraphed to Wanganui for another engine. The up train from Palmerston went on to Matarawa and met the Wangauui train there;. Writes the Waitara correspondent of the Wanganui Herald:— li As a sign of the times m our vicinity, a full fledgod clergyman with broadcloth on back and spectacles on nose, was "seen to-day driving a cart loaded with corrugated iron: through the main thoroughfare. A mob of cattle and, three-year steers have come through from Hazelden's, Murimotu, by. Murray's track, to York Farm, where they are now awaiting sale at one of tho auctions m the district. This is the first lot of cattle that have come by the Mnrimotu-road to this district. However, 200 head of cattle were sent, from here, via that road, to Tauranga, by Messrs Stevens and Gorton, some time ago. — Marton paper. We Je»rn that fully 1,000 shares of the upriver Steam Navigation Company ' have been taken up, and there m ev«rv probability of the whole of the capital being floated. The articles of association nave been drawn up, and are now being printed. — Herald. We are requested by Dr Fwjirzbach, who'has been very busy with patients since his arrival, to state that he will he obliged tc postpone his departure from Wangnnui nutii April 30th, on account of Rome serious cases under treatment. Mrs ETampßon,the well-known evangelist, has been conducting services m San Jose,' California ; they have been largely attended, many being turned away from the doors. We remind our Ashurst subscribers that our collector will visit Ashurst tomorrow on his usual quarterly collecting tour. "We again request the favour of prompt settlement of all accounts rendered. With reference to the special settlement scheme which the Government have m view we see by the Canterbury Press that, he great difficulty m Canterbury, of course, is to get good land for .the small farms, AThich, form the feature of the scheme. The Minister of Lands intends to pee what amount of really good land there i 6 available. This will be set aside, and then the work of organising and setting on foot a perfect scheme will m some measure be left to the people who take advantage of the offer of the Government. " Query " asks the Auckland Herald —Why a return ticket by rail for Cam- | bridge is 9s for one day, but 18s for tlfcee days' trip ? Surely if the trainß run re- j gular, and the holder goes up by one and returns by another three days hence, it makes no difference to the cost of carrying him. Why then should he pay double, and where is the advantage of taking a return ticket ? There were about 100 applications for tho billet of night-watchman on the wharf received by the Auckland Harbour Board recently.