The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 142, 21 May 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— o — It appears Unit the Chinese have found a novel way of making money out of tli« high rewards offered for foreigners 1 heads m Tonquin. Thy disinter the French, or any others who havebeen killed or otherwise died, and carry their heads to the officials to . obtain tho rewards offered. The funny Napier parson still keeps on with his queer titles for his sermons. His latest ia " Hia Mother Made Hun a Little Coat." It this Napier clergyman's mother ever makes him a little coat it ought to be a " straight jacket." Salvation Army bandit and processions have long been voted a nuisance, and now perhaps they will learn something from a little incident which occurred ntcently at Bradford, N.S.W. A horse attached to a cart took fright at tho music ] of the army's band, and dashed through I the procession. Twenty persons were knocked down and injured. A b«y named Wratfg, of Clcckheaton, died a day or two after, and six others are m a j Bon'ouß condition at the infirmary. The instruments of the band wore smashed. Il:iil the unoffending bystanders only boon injured, the Salvationists would shouted " Bosannah " aud declared that it was a v judgment," but when the ranks of the elect are thus decimated, " why chaos is com* again." — Exchange. A block of. land m CoUWstreet; Melbourne, whHi 1840 was sold for £313, realised £88,000, or £800 per foot recently. A contemporary has the following account of a remarkable aviary m connection with a provincial church :— " Some years ago, at Favensham, m Kent, the Congregational Church was located m Partridge Lane. The minister'^ name was Rook, his deacons were Cuckoo and Sparrow, a Sunday-school teacher whs Martin, one of the wardens of the parish church was Goklfihch, the head-master of the public schools was Robinsnn, his assistant was Drake, a leading townsman was Crow, and a police-offiocr was Fowler." Germany renounced f reetrade for protection m 1880, and since then her ironworkers have increased from 153,679 to 206,150. ■ ■ :. The local paper s&ys :— -We learn that a proposal is on foot to ostablish a Mjsut Preserving Company .at Foxton. The moject is being warmly taken up Ity some of, the stock owners of tho district and others, and it is liknly that a preliminary meeting to take initiatory steps will shortly be called. .' In tho Dnnedin Police Court last Thursday, Mr Carew took occasion to romark that tin; mere fact of a polict [ constable leaving a summons at a person's house was not sufficient proof of ! service. It had been laid down by one of the judges m England that magistrates should b» folly satisfied that there had been a reasonable prospect of the person having teceived the summons before adjudicating upou the case. In future, when tho snimnonn had not been served upon the person himself, he (Mr Carew) would require evidence from tho constable who bed left it to the effect that it was highiy probable that it had reached the proper person, or else he would have to dismiss the case. At regular intervals tales are started of the" disco very of recent traces of the moa. The latest of these is from Waikaia, where (according to tho Mat aura Ensign) a party out mustering on the high country Above Waikaia state that they saw mysterious footprints of enormous size m the snow. The impressions wure rather blurred, bwt thero ar« grounds for hoping that the trail of a live moa has at last been discovered. MrT. D. Cummins, ot 'laupoyuay, intends to devote even more Attention this season to his bacon industry than lie has done m the past, having tnade arrangements to put through 1000 carcases. Mr Cummins is well known to bo a skilled bacon-curer, and the quality of his produce is to ba relied upon. The first meeting of creditors m the estate of Peter Pattison, pnwmillor, Pinko, will be held on the 28th inst. at the Court House, Palmerston, at 11 a.m. A young man wants a situation m connection with the timber trade. A special railway time-table for Monday is advertised elsewkefe. Mr Q. S, Rumble has a notice elsewhere m reference to place of slaughtering at A'shur&U ■ Cracks m floors, around the mould board, or other parts of a r.^om, may be ncntly arid permanently filler! by thoroughly-.. soaking newspapers m paste, made of one pound of flour, three quarts of watiM', and a tablo spoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed. The mixture will be about as thick ns putty^ and may bo forced into the cracks with a cast* knife. It will harden like papiermache. To remove the inkstains from a book, first wash the paper with warm water, using a camel's hair pencil for the purpose. By this means the surface ink i"b got rid of ; the paper mu3t now bo wet with a solution of oxalate of potash, or, better still, oxalic acid, m tho'proportion of one ounce to half pint of water. The inkfitains will immediately disappear. Finally, strain wash thiMstaincri place with clean water, and dry' it with white blotting paper.. The conclusion arrived nt from the report of the prospects of the wheat harvest of Indin for the currant Hanson is that m rnspeot of over eighteen million acri'B, or 9.J3ths of th<= gross wheat ar«a of Imlia ('including Native States;, the condition <.n<l prospects of tho wheat crop im>,on tho whole, up to the average, and a bumper crop may be <>xpecti<d m I lie most important pi-orinc of all, the Guiijinb. Information from Rnjniil ana, find tho Central India Slate*, which have conjointly nn nvenigo area undvr wheat of about H/ft million nerps, leads to tho conclusion that thorc nli-o tln>. whp.at crop, m nn-n am] condition, ip quite up to tho average.

j J'liiu:.: lJir-iii-irtik di.sol.iinn any per- , sonal antipathy tv Mr (Hailstone. Ho j merely dexpis' x him. m n conversation with iu i Auierioaii journalist at Berlin, on the lftt oEJarmarv last, the Chancellor stated tli:it hit r-gsirded with the titmost equanimity the party struggles iv England. So long as the Earl of Beaemisfield lived ho could rely upon his keeping Groat Britain m accord with the rest of Europe ; l>ut whatever Mr Gladstone's policy or no policy might be it was a matter of the smallest possible coucurn tv Germany. Although the premises Iwve not been formerly opened Massrs Welch & Co. are receiving numerous orders fur stationery and special lines of good 8 not previously procurable here. Subscribers to periodicals wanting samo delivered promptly should forward their iiuiims t.» the firm oar'y. The advent ot Messrs Welch & Co. has "already considerably affected the prievs of stationery goods which have ruled here for a long titim past. The Now Plymouth Borough Council regrets that it cannot agree with Sir Julius Vogel's rating proposals. One councillor declined to be dictated to more than they were at present by the Government. The New Plymouth Town Clerk han been saddled with the additional d-itios of rate collector, for which he is to have £25 added to his salary and be allowed to procure extra clerical assistance not exceeding m cost £25 a year. A Queensland exchange s:iyn : — " It is stated that the lion Mr Dickens who m reported to have bt>en probably mannered by the Indians at Curt Pitt, win a son of the great novelist, Charles Dickens. Ha was formerly v sub-inspector of the mounted police, Canada." The law-points reserved for tho Court of Appeal m the case against W. Wating Taylor will probably be argued to-day. A marvelous clock, soven feet high, has just been made by a blacksmith at Leesville, Ohio, without th* help of anything other than the tools wf his trade. It is all forged steel, strikes the hours and quarters, gives the time m eleven different cities all at once, and is ho exhibited iv a glass ens* as to allow the whole movement to bo soen. According to a Wellington paper it was stated on Sunday that the Christchurch Salvation Army Band, following the example of tho bootmakers, worn on strike, owing to a disagreement with the officer commanding. All the iron and wood work of the Wellington Industrial Exhibition Building is now nearly completed. It is probable that the plans for the additions to tho building will be iv the contractors' hands m a few days. A settler m the Feilding district informs us that 84 acres of land for which about 7 years ago he paid £2 10s per acre he had jnet sold at £10 per acre. We hope this is an indication that land generally m this district is increasing iv value, and that better times are iv prospect. — Star. We learn that the first pile of the Railway Bridge over the Otaki River was driven on Monday, m four hours. The Taranaki Education Board is about to attempt an enforcement of tho compulsory clauses of the Education Act, and the assistance of the police is to be invoked. We hear that the Rev Mr Parkcs of Tnrakitia, has ruptured a blood- voasul. Last week he was getting on his horse at Tnrakina, when he felt something snap within himself as if it were a bit of gloss broken. On- Sunday last, whilst engaged m conducting service at St. Stephen's Church, Marton, he had to retire before the service wks enaed. Yi-sterday, Mr Franklin drove hint to Wanganui, and consulted Dr Connolly, who has ordered him complete rest for two months. The state school at Turakina was closed to-day. It is expected the Education Bond will sond a teacher to take Mr Parkea 1 place temporarily. — Marton pacer. Short as Remenyi's stay has been iv Now Zealand he has already shipped to his agents m Sydney no less than fourtyfour b»x«s of varieties gathered together from every nook aud corner of the C«»l---ony. His collection includes two complete, skeletons of the ivor, presented to him by Professor Von Haast, besides innumerable other specimens of the extinct fauna of the Middle and North Islands, immense quantities of greenatone, kauri gain, Maori mati, and other native manufactures. Peter Pattison, sawrniller, Paiaka, has filed a petition to bo adjudged a banknipt. | The year after the Constitution was ! granted, 1854, to the colony, it took the ! Dunedin representatives 70 days to reach Auckland to attend the first meeting of Parliament. Letters for Nelson i from Dunedin used m those days to be sent via China or London as the quickest aud surest route 1 So stated Mr Macandrevr at a recent meeting of old settlers m the " sunny south." Mr S. M. Baker, who has been absent from his duties on official business at Nelson, Pictou aud Blenheim, returned last week. Mr Thomas Tanner has set an example to other land-owners which ought to be extensively copied. He has cleaned out the ditches aud trimmed his hedges and trees growing along the road to Havelock, so that nothing overhangs the public thoroughfare. If similar work w«re done by all land-owners there would be less expenditure required on the countiy'roads. — Telegraph. It may not be generally known (says the Auckland Star) that the A Battery of Artillery is the oldest Volunteer company m the British Empire. It was originally a rifle corps, boiug known as the Ist Royals. It subsequently became the Auckland Artillery Company, and when the New Zealand Regiment of Artillery was formed, it was affiliated to that body and was nude the premier company. Another fact of which New Zealanders may bo proud m connection with the Volunteer movement is that it was m this country that British Volunteers received their " baptism of fire." The Printers' Register is informed that the proprietors of the London Standard are about to settle an allowance of four guineas a week on Mrs Cameron, the mother of their late correspondent m. the Soudan. No one can &ccuse th« great London dailies of want of generosity towards those who serve them well, and this case for the welfare of Mrs Cameron reflects honor to the owneisofthe paper with which her son's name will always be associated. Accounts have reached London of the brave conduct at the groat fire at the lunatic asylum. West Philadelphia, U.S., when 50 inmates lost their lives, of Miss Alico Fisher, an English-trained. nurse, who had recently ai rived at tho institution from the University College Hos- j pitul, London. It is stated that, while j nil the confusion was m progress among the men, Miss Fisher did wonderful work ! m preparing the women patients of the insane department for the inevitable abandonment of their quarters." She laid her plans with perfect coolness, her assistants were told off to definite posls, and tho patients were gathered m groups. It is (further added, "No undue haste wan olituM'vablo, and there was compnra lively little confusion. The wretched women weio told to take, what they could with them, and blankets were even served out to nil." At onetime the lives «>f over 700 lunatics were iv iimniuuul danger.

I " I nil) quite |m; pared to nut minic-l i j if a married man is pivft.'iT»»d, and I j should bo able, to take up w.nk at once," I wrote an applicant for a position under i the I'arauiiUi Education Hoard. Hisde- ! sire to make himself eligible met with a j proper appreciation, and his name is n«H< d for a suitable vacancy. We hold over some comments on the acceptance of survey tender* for the WniUpu Block, pending the receipt of further iuforuiatiou. At tho last meeting of the lately flo.ited Wiiiiganui Steam Navigation Company Mr Willis communicated to the meeting a most important message from Mr Kallauce, which it was docid-ti should not appear m tho newspapers. Whence the mystery ? M OBBIB Stevens and Gorton's sale at Bulls on Tuesday was largely attended, and the entries were considerably more numerous than at tho ordinary monthly sales. Cattle showed a slightly upward tendency, while tho sheep sold well. Immediately aft«r the sale the valuable farm m the Saudon district belonging to Mr J. Roberts w ; .g offered. The property was bought by Messrs Steveus and Gorton at £7 per acre. Me«s<s Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at Feildiug will be held ou May 26. The entries at present received aru published itiour advertising columns. They include steers, heifers, mixed cattle, fat bullocks, forward bullocks, purebred Uomuey ewes m lamb to puie-brad Romnoy rams, weaner pigs, horses, etc. Mewn Snelson and Co. announce a special .sale for Saturday at the People s Mart. A variety of consignment* wilt bo offered, and the sale will enmmenco at 2 p.m. Mr T. King informs us that Mr Walkley will have the booth at the race mooting, Mr Gardes the fruit stall.and Hopkins & Co., the legal games. The tender of Messrs Davis & Leigh' for the fencing and bushfelling contract advertised by Messrs Eichter and Nannestad, has been accepted. There were about 30 tenders sent m.