LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 3, 11 May 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A pair of working bullocks (relates the Taranaki Herald) camo to a peculiar end the other (lav on the Opunako road. It seems that Mr Mulree had hired them from Mr Tisch, nml during dinner time let them graze with the yoke on. They wore rrrissseel, and on a search being instituted, thoy wore fount! dead, hanging half way down a bank 30 feet high. It seems they had been browsing near the edge, when they had fallen over and wero caught by a projecting stump. The animals were, of course, quite dead when discovered.

The Wtupawa correspondent of the Napier News writes as follows : — I am tola, on pretty good authority, that a largo number of two-gallon beer shops nro opened up all over the bush, on the • same princinlo as the one started a short time ago at Ormondville. 1 The arc about seven thousand hands i employed m clothing factories iv Victoria. Replying to the President of the Central Council of the Roman Catholic , Young Mun's Society, congratulating him on attaining his eighty-fifth birthday, Cardinal Newman writes : — " I 1 felt much touched by receiving from 1 you, m the name of the Catholic Young ' Men's Societies, their congratulations on i my birthday, and I bog you to return to ! them from me my sincere thanks. If I f have not acknowledged their kind sympa thy with me more speedily, the counc il must have the additional kindness to 1 impute the delay to my age. which im--1 podes my action m ways young men cani not underatand, and m saying this I do i not give explanation of a silence which has been a trouble to me, but I desire to make an appeal to them to remember, m sacred times and places the needs of an old man." The following story is told of a sporting Irish publican. O'Callaghan, or •whatever his name might be, finding himself on his deathbed, sent for his priost, Father O'Toole, confessed him- , self, and received absolution. " Well now, Father O'Twole," said O'Callaghan, " I suppose I'm all right now for the nest world, and I shall very soon be an i angel with wings to fly about with like thoso I have seen m the pictures at Church." " I hopo so, my son," said the benevolent priest. •' And very soon," addod the sick man, •• I suppose, Father O'Toole, you'll come up to the same place and you'll be an angel also and have wings and fly about." " I hope so, my son," again answered the worthy clergyman. "Father O'Toolo," said O'Callaghan, " a good idea strikes I me. When you come up, I'll tell you what we'll do ; I'll fly you, for a fiver." News reached Geraldine on Wednesday says a local paper, to the effect that the bo ly of a man was found m the bush by children. So far as we can gather the children were passing through the north-western side of the bush, -when they came upon a headless body on the ground-in an advanced state ofdecom* position, and on looking round they saw the head hanging by a rope from' the branch of a tree. The supposition is" that the man must have committed suicide by hanging himself, so long ago that the body must have fallen to the ground and the head remained where it was tied by the rope. On information of the sad discovery reaching Mr A. Reid he proceeded to the spot, and at once recognised the body as that of his brother, who left hia homo about three months ago and has not becfa heard of since. He at once communicated with the police. — Teinuka Leader. Our attention has been called to a rather singular proceeding on the part of the managers of the Pahiatua-Puketoi Special Settlement scheme. They advertised for tenders tor survey, applications to be received up to the 9th May, yet a tender for the work was actually accepted on the 4th of May. This is a singular way of conducting business. — . Post. At 3 o'clock on Friday morning Constable Christie, head a splash near the Queen's Wharf, Wellington, followed by a loud scream. He immediately ran m the direction of the sounds, and found that a man had fallen into the water from the s.s. Tui. The man was hauled up with the assistance of two or three others, i\nd his name was ascertained to bo Alexander Stuart. lie had arrived there from Foxton by the Tni on Thursday, and shortly before the accident was seen, lying asleep near the Queen's Bond. The British authorities at Cape Coas have examined ten men convicted of murders and riots at Winnebah two months ago. The bodies of three natives who had been killed were cut to pieces, their remains being prepared for cooking m a gigantic pie. At a meeting of farmers at Chester, m favour of the readjustment of rents, one of the speakers stated that Scotch milk was now sent to Liverpool and Manchester m thousands of gallons, and might be bought on the station platforms at Gd per gallon. One single oyster will produce 128,000, 000 young oysters m the course of a year It must give an oyster some anxiety to look alter his family. The principal volunteer corps of the colony are expected to take part m the review to be held at Wellington on the 25th. Munich is to havo before many months a panorama, representing no less a subject thsn the crucifixion of Christ on Golgotha, the •xeeution of which has been entrusted to artists who will soon start for the Holy Land, m order to make their studies and sketches from nature. Mr Johnston, the secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Society, m his report on the factories m Wellington, said that m one factory some ot the girls "were well dressed with high heeled boots and gloves." Rather light costume, suggests a contemporary. The Australian colonists are pronounced " Jingoes," as many be guessed from the following sample resolution recently cabled from an obscure Victorian township to the Home Government : — " Residents Echuca express profound disgust at the pusillanimous action of the British Government m surrendering to Russia." When this was received Consols went down with a bang. We are pleased to learn that Mr Gardes is doing exceedingly well m his new premises under the Standard office, his trade connection extending day by day. He is m constant receipt from Mr Retemeyer, of Westoe, of specially manufactured small goods, which are meeting with a ready sale, the supply on Satur- . day being quite unequal to the demand. His shop on Saturday evening was thronged with customers till a late hour. Messrs Wclsch and Co., are busy erecting the necessary fixtures m their new stationery warehouse (late Johnston, tailor), Broad-street, and will be opened up m tne course of a week or so. At the Wanganui R.M. Court on Saturday last C. Hartley was charged with having disobeyed an order of the Court at Palmerston North for the maintenance of his wife. Accused pleaded guilty, and made a statement that he had paid the money to the Marton constable on Friday, and was afterwards arrested. The Resident Magistrate, Mr R. Ward, said shat accused would have to provide securities for future payments, and remanded accused for 7 days to find the same. Special attention is directed to a notice appearing, from Mr Gardes m the third page, The advertiser has received a consignment . of freslv hams and bacon from Mr Rctem'oyer'a farm near Greatford whioli ho is offering at very reasonable figures. A well assorted stock of German and pork sausages, trotters, &c, is also on hand and should have a ready sale. Mr Henry Meech, one of the earliest pioneer settlers m Wellington, died there on Friday, aged 78. Mr Meech came out m the Oriental m 1840, one of the New Zealand Company's first ships. Applications for the office of assessors for making the next triennal property tax assessment are invited by the Department. The assessment will be commenced m August next.

Mr McKerrow, Surveyor-General, who left with the Minister of Lands about a month ago for the purpose of selecting locations for special settlements, has returned to Wellington. ''.Nothing more can, however, \a done for seme time, as the 100,000 acres which Parliament decided to set tip:irt every year have alreidy boen applied for," Mr Ballance's schem-j meeting with mere favor than wjsexpaeted. In Mr Mciierrow's nest annual report, there will, no doubt, bo some valuable suggastions as to the moat suitable sites for special settlements m the South Island. The three tunnels on the Paikakariki contract have been pierced through, and most of the timbering m tho big tunnel, where the accident occurred, has been finished. The works have so far progressed that Mr Laughton, Mr Brown's overseer, has baen able to dispense with several of the workmen. There is some difficulty •m making the bricks, not through any lack of good clay or firewood, but because of the trouble of getting the exact heat m the kilns which is required to produce bricks of the very best kind. Some of the lining will be done with concrete, there being plenty of the right material close at hand. — Wellington paper. The Kilwinning Lodge will hold its next regular meeting m the Masonic Hall, Main-street, on Wednesday, May 13, at 7.30 p.m. Business, passing. Visiting brethren are invited to attend. We are requested to remind those of our readers who belong to the Loyal Orange Lodge Chosen Few, that the monthly meeting will be held m the Lodge Room, Bank Chambers, this evening at 7.30 sharp. Visiting brethren invited. Some months ago the Presbyterian Church m Willis-street, Wellington, was burnt down. We see by the Pout that the foundation of a handsome new structure is to be laid this week by the Chief Justice. The Bishop of Melbourne, addressing the University students recently, said : — Let me tell you this — I can smoke my pipe still, and keep my manhood still under the gold-braided gown of a chancellor or a bishop's cope. And it would be more shame to me if I could not. We (Chrouicle) have just inspected a large case of mirror plate glass consigned to Messrs R. and E. Tingey. It contains the largest sheets we have seen m Wanganui, some being 7ftx3ft Gin m size. Messrs Tingoy have imported it to replace broken minors.