LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 123, 29 April 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I Notice of election for Nos. 3, 4 and 6 \fcirds in the Manchester Road District is elsewhere given. Notice of taking the Local Option Poll in the Manchester Licensing District is officially made elsewhere. First meetin«rsof creditors in the estate of Moore Rangihene, of Motiiiti, native, nad D. M. George, draper, are elsewhere announced. Messre Stevens and Gorton's stock sale nt the Awalinri Yards, will be held on Tuesday next, nt 1 p.m. Tho catalogue appears elsewhere. Justices' justice .with a vengeance, on rending that nt. i Auckland recently, a woman who had pleaded guilty to breaking a pane of glass, was dismissed, been use the prosecutor did not turn up, while a mnn for being drunk and disorderly and resisting the constable, was finefl £20 and costß, in default 3 months' iinprisoinncut.

The following paragraph appears in the Anglican organ published at Marton : — "Canon Awdry conducted divine service at Greatford ou Sunday, and preached to a large eongjegation. His sermon was highly spoken of by those present." Who is this distinguished divine Canon Awdry ? We do not rutnember heaving heard of him proviously. There was a capital attendance at Messrs Becdctt, Hammond, & Dick's stock sale at Marton, yosturday. A largo number of sheep and cattlo were I sold under tho hammer nt very satisfactory prices, showing a considerable incrensu on quotations. Tho following advertisement appears in the town paper : — Wanted, by the undersigned — A man cook ; *none need apply unless a Blue Ribbon mau and a baker. Apply, efic. The high respectable organ of the Upper Ton body at Marton thus con- ! eludes a paragraph : — ' We would advise Mr Soinmerville to keep out of print, for whenever he signs his name to a letter in a newspaper, he simply writes himself down in Shakesperian language — an ass." IE Mr Soinmerville were to reply in the tu quoque strain, how nicely he would smite his assailant, the auctocratic dictator of the paragraph iu question. A good story is told of a country parson who wont to preach in a remote pariah church. The sexton, in taking ( him to the church, deprecatmgly said, 4 1 hope your reverence won't mind preaching from tho chancel. Ye see the church is a quiet place, an, Ive got a duck setting ou fourteen eggs in the pulpit." Ou board a translantic liner first day out : Captaiu at dinner [looking round for parson, and at last seeing a man next him with a white tie onj— " Will you say grace ?" f^o answer] " Will yon say grace ?" [No answei.] Very loudly : " Will you say grace ?" Passenger (at last turning round) — " Would you mind repeating the question. I'm bo d deaf !" A respectable gentleman wont to thg cars to see his daughter off. Securing for her a seat, he passed out of the car and went round to her window to say a parting word, as is frequently the case on such occasions. While he was passing out, the daughter left the seat to' speak to a friend and at the same time a prim old maid took the seat and moved up to the window. Unaware ot the important change inside, he hurriedly put his face up to the window and said, " One more kiss sweet pet !" In another instant the point of a cotton umbrella was thrust from the window, followed by the passionate injunction, " Scat, you grey headod wretch !" He scatted. It appears that the Chinese have found a novel way of making money out of the high rewards offered for foreigners' heads in Tonquin. They disinter the French, or any others who have been killed or otherwise died, and carry their heads to the officials to obtain the reward offered. The English Salvation Army authorities have announced a new scheme of campaign for use in country towns and villages where there are no public buildings. A number of waggons are being built : they are to be called forts, and manned by cadets and officers, who will perambulate the country in them. Incendiarism is evidently rife in Feilding. It ts only a week or two ago since a stack of hay was burnt, belonging to Messrs Gichard and Newman valued at £90. A few days later Mr Sherwill had a similar loss, and now we ' hear that on Monday in broad day-light, a* large stack, the property of Mr J. Belfitwas tirod and burnt to the ground. Each of these cases is supposed to have been : the work of an incendiary, but no evidence in support of the supposition is at present forthcoming. A country corespondent writes of a somewhat curious elopement which took place a few days ago, a man and wife who had had a " silver wedding " and who have been resident in a small township for some years keeping a boarding house, have had their home suddenly upset, a young man (one of the boarders) having cleared out with the man's wife. The runaways were found at an hotel in an adjoining town, from which they were quickly ejected on tho landlord finding that things were not as they should be. rio far, nothing definite has been settled, although it is generally understood that the husband, in consideration of their long married life, is willing to take the woman back, and, to forgive and forget. — Herald. Mr Ballance is auxions to exempt married men from the first-class militia (says the Post) but it is not yot certain whether, under the existing Act, they can be exempted, but if so they will not be called upon to serve. It is not thought necessary to enroll the secondclass militia, which will only be done in case of urgency. An extraordinary Gazette was published on Monday afternoon further proroguing Parliament to Friday, Bth May. W© have agaiu to request any persons having complaints to make of irregular delivery of the Standard to forward same forthwith to lhe office so that they may be inquired into and rectified with as little delay as possible. Notice is given under the authority of Mr C. W. Walker, the Liquidator of the Mannwatu Butter, Cheese, and Bacon Manufacturing Company iu Liquidation, that legal proceedings will be taken for the recovery of all calls and accounts due to the above company and remaining unpaid on Wednesday, May 13th, 1885. MrT. U. Walton will be in attendnnce at the office of the Liquidator, Mr Linton'B building, on Wednesday and Saturday for receipt of same from 1C a.m. to 4 p.m. Wanganui is about to send out a prospecting party into the Tahua Ranges. Tenders for the purchase of the plaut in connection with the Palmerston Soap and Candle Company Limited in Liquidation, will be received by Mr T. R. Walton up to noou to-morrow. Tenders will be received for the plant complete, as a going concern, or for any portion of the same, which can be removed. There was a change in the weather to-day, the recent lovely weather, aimost suininer in its warmth and brightness haviua: given way to steady rain, though the air is not cold, and the season is in many respects more like spring than the approach ef winter.