LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 137, 15 May 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Robert . Stevens lately purchased from Mr McLennan, of Oroua Downs, a thousand head of prime beef for the Meat Preserving Company, Wellington. They will bo removed at the rate of 50 per week, . - Another name has been added to the list of newspaper correspondents who have lost their lives m the Soudan. Captain W. H. Gordon, who acted for the Manchester Guardian, was lost it* 1 the desert tsome twenty miles fromJE^orti and never afterwards stion . Reuter's correspondent with "".the' late General Earle's column was severely wounded during the fight at Dulku Island, on tilth . 10th "oft. A Detroit man went home drunk the other day and started to smash things. His daughter ran m terror for the police. When the policeman arrived he found the smasher on the floor with his hnnds arid feet tied with a clothes Hue, while his wife found time betwoen vigorous blows of the broomstick' to say that she wan the policeman of that house. " A Journey Due South ;; Travels m Search of Sunshine," is the titlo of George Augustus Sala's new book published by Vizetelly. It was partly written on his way to Austrlia. The Government steamer Hinem'oa, which arrived from Auckland on Wadpesdayj brought three 64-pounder guns and a supply. of ammunition for the same, including 206 cases of shell,- This war material was transhipped from the Waihora at Auckland. — Post. • Some amusing, exposures, says . ±he . Auckland Star of the 7th inst.i are expected to crop up m a court case m pno of our country districts, m. wliich an Ji<otolksepof is charged with a breach of the Licensing Act by supplying three persons with liquor last Sunday evening, tne said persons not being bona fide triivellers or lodgovs, The defence is said to be that the throQ geutismen alluded to were church wardens of the adjoining church, and that instead of having been supplied with liquor by the landlord, they were simply encrutfetl m consuming tho remains of the ytvcraaiontill wine.

How small a place, tho world is, and how ot'tun people with v tuxfce for wandariug croii.i each other's paths, may 1)0 seen I'roui the fact that two globo- trotters met on Friday fortnight at Menzies' Hotel, Melbourne, who had accidentally forgathered at the marriage of one of them m St. Petersburg, and afterwards met m London, m Cuba, and Madrid. They are both well-known m Australia, as m many other countries, by tho name.-; of Qonevievo Ward and 6eorge Augustus Sain,.-— A rgus. j The London correspondent of tho Auck}and Star says the Prince of "Wales ; has giyon Lord Carringtou a .definite promise that if no unforseen circumstances, intervene he will pay a short -unofficial visit to the Australasian colonies during his friend's vice-royalty of New SbutljL Wales. It is stated by the Grey River Arym that there aro a gr*at many labouring men, m Grbyrnouth anxious for work of any kina, but unabieto find employiiienfc. '.■■"' '•■- •■■ ■ v ' The Otago Daily Times says that the Armed Constabulary men from Wellington, who have been sent down to take charge of the guns at Lawyer's Head, do not seem to keep their watches very well, as may be judged from the fact thai some larrikins took possession of the guns on Tuesday .evening last and fired ■theni'ofF. ....,-. \ ■..-■. . .The diary which General Gordon left ia illustratod : on almost every .page, • tbo Kkdtob.es . bdi&g |aritasJiic 'ami otherwise. Tho:. diary written oh Egyptian telegraph %ms,sew^ together with twine. X ; T ■■ • ■ ■ '(. . ' '..■■•■' 1 M Boaz '• notifies the opening of his" iNinth Hambtirg Draiving. ,;. Particulars will bo found iii.thp notice on our ifourth liaiajt, The fact that these'drawinigs'oohtinue to be'fillod, and. drawn iwhkrly eyoty two months.spealcs for the support given to the proprietors. " Augur," m the Australasian of the 25th ult., states that Welcome Jack wai backed several thousands at 100 to 3. Inthe Flemington training notes m tho same issue appears the following : — " Welcome Jack and Clarence, both m breast - sweaters, bowled along twice round the sand track for good work, the New Zealanders appearing m good health." „ The most, powerful dredger m tho world was launched, for the Melbourne Harbor Trust, at Renfrew on February 17. She will lift 900 or 1000 tons of silt an hour, arid will dredge to a depth of '65 feet below the water line. The population of New York city has doubled sis. times within a century— .doubling on an avenigo once m every seventeen; years.' In other words, the New Ydrk of to-day is sixty-four times .as large as tho New York of a hundred y'eirs aero. : Visitor: »! think' Aurora.would be a very expressive name for the little angel." Young Father (behind the paper) : "Yos, Aurdra would do, because ho was a roarer all last night, but, unfortunately, that is a girl's name, and the little beggar happens to be a boy." Visitor: " Oh, it's a boy is it ? What are you going to name him?" Young Father : "■I am going to call him Albert Edward, because he is the Prince of Wails, and he's prematurely bawled." There is m Dublin a Guinness family celebrated equally for the vastness of their brewing operations and the munificence of their gifts to the Church. The story is told by an American to whom (this-conjunction seemeed rather puzzling. •Walking through the streets of Dublin, lie Usked what a large furnished- building that met his eyes was meant for. "That is ia school being built by Mr Guinness." Later he came to a church undergoing extensive repairs. •.." The repairs," said his companion, "are rieing executed at tho cost of Mr Guinness." Finally he c;wne to a colossial brewery, — Guinness again. This was the mine whence all the money was dug. " Wai," exclaimed the Yankee, m astonishment, "this is wonderful ; education, salvation, asd damnation, all run by one man !" i The sale of borough proporties by Mr Liifiton on Wednesday -airorded most convincing proof of the extraordinary decline m values that has taken place m Wanganui during the last half-dozen years. It ia true the sale was a forced j one, but with a large attendance, including a considerable number of capitalists, it is strange that the bidding should have dragged as it did, and that, the amounts' j finally reached should have been so low. i Lot 1, part of BQctiori 73, Taupo Quay, ' having 42 feet frontage by a deptli 6f ! 132 feet, with shop, was knocked down for £170. The same property changed hands some six years ago for £850. Lot .2 brought £140; Let 5, £85, and lot 6 £185, the lattor having cost the original purchaser, £450. Lot Ga was sold for £75, but was bought a few years a«-o for •£175;10t 3 realuui £Gl, but was sold between three and four years ago for £265. Lot 9 brought £15. The other lots were withdrawjp,, — Chronicle. The -reigning beauty m England is said; to be the wife of an officer m the First Life Giiards, named Cayley. She is a danghter of Mr Ghappcl the wellvjepown music publisher m Bond-street. Tall ;in figure, and lithe and graceful m .movement, she attracts attention whereerer she goes by the sweetness of her expression and the simplicity of her manner. Masses of curly brown hair cluster Jirouhd a Greek-shaped head, and a pair of largo violet eyes light up :.a countenance m which 'the regularity -of the features is not more admirable *than the wijisomeness of her bright look. > The Citizeji. a Lincolnshire paper of March 21st, states that the retail butchers of tho metropolis have been paying m the Central Moat Market a higher price 'during- the week for New Zealand than f or English grown mutton. ;A bank manager m a New South Wales town,and father of a large fan»ly, has. been carried away so far by the ravings of the Salvation Army that' he Mi kivQh up Hi's billot, and now devotes .% time pitching '"Blood and fire" doctrines m the streets. Whenever a 'dramatic show comes along he rings a bell m front of the place where the 'por£orniunce is," warning all who go to see it that they are lost. : The foundation stone of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, wis hiid by the Chief Justice yesterday afternoon. It is situated at tho corner of i WiHis and Dixon streets, and is being erected to replace tho edifice destroyed by fire on May 9th, 1884. The contract ] price for the now building is £5,000, over an.l it is expected to be completed m October. The height of tho tower and spire is 150 fnet. It will provide sit- J ting accommodation for 1000 people, j Tho new church will be of wood, and will be m the style khowu as the Early Decorated. , i Acni'ions law case is recorded by a Jacksonville, Fla., papor m the case of a Florida judge who wna arrested and locked np m jnil for drunkenness on tho ■ street. After becoming sober he called for pen and pap«r and issued a writ of lmbfius corpus, dh'octing the Sheriff of the county to bring th» body of himself as Judgo, and, on the perplexed offli-er's refusal to ol»ey tho mandate, fined him for contempt of- Court. We may remind persons liable to Militia service, biit whoso name-* have not yet boon placed upon tlm roll, that ! they will iti a few duvs bicomo liable to heavy jwiultios if tlwy do not at onco .*.ind tha nufo-isriry iurorimt'on rjg-inl- • ing thoiniolvoj to tho udjuL.int of tho distvict. ' .

How liv oli.intatild -m- i.n;»<>s=!il u[>on was illustrate! al Sh Hi'-I.i r-M.-enlly, when a ma-i' ii-uiinil Richard Ariu-rtiou^ was charged with Imping. Hu was attired m woman's clothing, hid a baby m his anus, and was accompanied by a . man represented to bo the hnshatid out of work. The baby was hired-, its mother btsijnj; an unfortunate. Armstrong waa committed for a month. . It's an ill wind that blows , nobody goixi, and the Waiknto . jwople expect jrfiod from a war. The New Zealand Herald's correspondent reuotilly teleKl'iVphud as follows : — "Thero was grc.it disappointment at the non-arrival of! an Auckland mail by the goods train : also ■ at tho pacific character of the- Russian news. Tho owners ol! honae property m r ,tho \\faikato. townships are, looking for a; large influx of Wealthy Aiibkliiiid families into Waikato on the declaration of war. ■'■■■'■• M Bishop McQuoid, of Rochester, has; ordered that hereafter m his diocese none but Roman Catholics and actual communicants shall sing m the choir, i Ho aays : "How revolting it m for the, [ congregation to hear tho voice of one I who dous not believe ia what he-or she is singing. It is mockery iustead of\VOl8llip." It is stated, by the Wellington correspondent of the Christohuroh Press, that AlrTole has decided to employ shorthand writers m connection with tho law courts. . The New Plymouth Borough Council, have field over the consideration of Sir Jill i us VoguPs proposal re alterations m Borough rating, a motion regretting that liv', council could not agreb with the* •change bluing bust. Ti»om*iii difficulty with aU the councils seems to be the triennial valuation, m place of annual valuations as at present.