The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY. MAY 29. 1885.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1, 29 May 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY. MAY 29. 1885.

An attempt tv cut out ilic middlemen is being made by the North New Zealand Fanner's Cognitive Association, who are opening retail shops m Auckland for ll»o suiu of all kinda or faun produce. Tho N(!W South Wales patriotic fund exceed* £32,000. ' At the Dutxulin winter race meeting £4,000 was put through the totuliaatoja, not i-1,000 an slated before. Ada Mantua has agaiu supplied us with names uud addresses of the principal winner* m her last evout,'alßo names of tho gentlemen that formed tier coinmitttic, the uainus and information thus furnished is so reliable that we predict a long and successful career fur Ada. Ist, £288 nett to a well-known saddler of CJreymouth, 2nd £144 uett to an Employe at an Hotel m Dunediu, 3rd* £96 to the poundkecper at the Dunatan. The Wanganiii Borough Council are considering a proposal to vote a sum of money from the borough fund* m recognition of the able und arduous services of Mr T. D. Cuiiwnins as captain of the Wauganui Firu Bri^ad* during a period of some ten years, At the closing entertainment of the Baldwins, m Wellington, the Professor spoke out that about Spiritualism he proteases to lay bare, and explained that he would have been more correct m designating it, not Spiritualism, but the tricks and frauds allied to Spiritualism. "There ' is a forci', ladies and gentlemen, ooi*» tinned the Professor, quite outside my tricks' that i cauiiot account for, neither can science, so far as it has yet investigated. What it is Ido not know, but the higher manifestations are of it. 1 ' The dose relations now existing between England and Italy has led (says the latest Home News) to a project by a strong syndicate tit English ami Italian financiers to publish « daily newspaper, called the Anglo- Italian, to 'promote iu-.creua-jd polii «al and comuiercia'Pt'uterconse butwtyien the two nations, , The following curious .shipping incident is rulatod by the Ghrisldinrdi Press: — v Mr liobert Klslon, of Asltburtou, was at the st:a beach near the Wakauni'Crcek this morning, and noticed a brig lying off the Bhpre near the mouth of the creek. A boat's crew put oft and attempted to land, but. owing to the huavy surf the crow could hot reach the shore. Mi* Elston waded as far as he could into the water, and was able to learn that, tho vessel had lOBt her course, and that the crew had, been sent off with t view of making the shore to ascertain their geographical position. Th<> crow stated th«y wished to make Timaru, and on Mr Elslou giving the necessary direction's they gave three ringing cheers and returned to the brig, and the vessel headed for Timaru, which port she has probably reached by this lime." - Lady Codtington has resigned her post m the Queen's household as woman of the bedchamber. The place is worth £800 a year and involves 48 days of waiting (i.e., residence at the court) m each year., ...... rr " ■ - Four thousand two hundred men are employed daily at the wonderful new docks at Tilbury, near London ; 55 locomotives, 30 portable engines, 87 cranes, 1100 iailway waggons, and seven ''steam navvies" each excavating 300 cubic yardsper diem. When finished the new docks will accommodate 200 ocean-going steamers. . , ; „ An English ship, the Daphne, capsized wlien launched, and muuy persons were "killed. She was raised and re-named tho Rose, but only to he sunk at her anchorage m harbour. Again raised, she ran ashore, wns got otE with difficulty, and named afresh the lanthe, and' n month. i^b, enrouie to Smyrna, she struck a rock oi: the Inuh Coast and is laid up for repairs. A sad fatal accident has happened, whereby a child of Mr Cottrell, tailor, of Napier, lost its life. It appears that while the mother of the infant, which was only a month old, *>as giving it a bath a bottle of carbolic acid fell from the, man tlepiece upon it, the contents of which spread over the child's akin and inflicted injuries which unfortunately proved fatal. ~News. . An ice-floe has been discovered bearing upon it the body of one of the crew of the ill-fated Jeannette. This ico-raft, with its ghastly burden, has drifted 3500 miles. In Terre Haute, a lawyer isn't considered as amounting to much until he whips tho opposing counsel, shakes his fist under the nose of the Judge, and dismisses the jury while inviting them out to drink. The Nelson Colonist Bays that on Tuesday at the Bcsident Magistrate's Court a plaintiff was nonsuited m an action, which had been brought under an Act which had boon repealed. If the party had taken legal advice, which . would probably have cost 6s 8(1, she would have saved an expediture close on The steamer Hauroto which passed through Wellington, dn Sunday,, on hor way to 3ydriey ; ;,had -on board from the South 920 tons of general cargo, 187 horses, and 20 head of cattle. From Wellington she took 320 kegs of butter. / According, to the statements, made at the last meeting of the' Wanganui County Council the Rnngitikei County Council have been guilty of a very great blunder, involving, a considerable wasfco of public money m tho erection of the ferry house at Kauangaroa. It appears that the house, costing somewhere about 4:300, was built on native land, the owners of which now refuse to sell. As a consequence a property which, if properly managed, should now be bringing m a good sum of monoy annually to the Council is instead a source of serious financial loss. This is the more vexing as the ferry is a source of considerable annual expenditure to the two counties, the nett cost last year amounting to nearly .£BSO. Altogether the ferry has cost some £800 or £900, for -Avhich there has been no return.— Chvoniile,, . Mr Ellery Gilbert, tho well-known pianoforte tuner and repairer, who while resident m New PJymouth was accustomed to pay periodical visits to the various townships up and down the coast, has now determined to cast m his lot with Wanganui, which will m future bo his place of residence and constitute his centre of operations. We have no doubt that Mr Gilbert will find the change to bis advantage. A disgraceful scene was witnessed at tho early celebration of Holy Communion at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday, the s th of April. A respectably-dressed man made a rush at the communion-table, ; and before he could be intercepted I smashed a decantor of wine. He was Jit I once secured and given into custody. He has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment without hai'd lauour.

There is a screw loose somewhere. I again to-day received a letter of coin-pl.-uiii ,iii>>ut another schoolmaster, living not ninny m les from the fcjuv?iity-inii« Bush, bavitig (to use my correspondent's own wtirdn) " brutally ill-treated a child about seven years old by first tying his hands and feet, tli'-n beating him, m the first place, with a Bupplc jack, and afterwards breaking n ruler ov*r the child." I bt'gin to wonder wh- th- r our colonial mastt'i's are too severe, or wlnther the parents are too pcttigli. and spoiling tlu-ir children, or if perhaps our progeny are worse than the children from otluT places. — Waipawa correspondent of Napier 1 Neios. ! L On Tuesday Messrs Snelso & Co. will sell at Mrs Vivian's residence, Pitzher-bert-atreet, a superior lot of furniture and books. Sale at 2 p.m. A special train conveying Messrs •Hankey and Beattie, Mr Kothoram's successors, passed throngh Palmorston from Wanganui, thifl morning, at about II a.m. The now managers wore accompanied by Messrs Eothoi'am and j Stewart. ; | Volunteers are notified of parade inspection this ovoning at 7.30. Next Monday evening, at tho Young Men's Mutual Class, Mr R. Leary will deliver an essay on " The Magi," and Mr, Dillon will contribute a composition rof original poetry. A very interesting evening is anticipated. Should Mrs Harvey be sufficiently recovered, the Terraoo End School will be re.-opened on Monday. Wo remind our readers m town and country of Messrs Snelsou &Co.'s auction sales to-morrow, the horse sale at 1.30 I p.m., and the fruit tree sale at 2 p.m. I Further addition are made to the catalogue of Messrs Stevens & Gorton's next stock sale at Awahurion Tuesday next. The once celebrated pugilist, Joe Gobs, died at San Francisco on tho 22nd March last. We observe by Hobart papers that a man named Watson and his mate, two diggers, arrived at Waratah on the 13th from the Bocky Biver, on tho ,Wost Coast, en route for Launceston, having on them a large . parcel or gold, about 1500z., one nugfjet weighing 41b. The whole, is a splendid sample of gold* Watsou formed a party of three who discovered the second largest nugget found m Tasmania, about two years ago, and which weighed 121 b, aud was discovered also at the Bocky Biver. The latest find is causing quite a stir, and will probably lead to further prospecting and fresh discoveries m that locality.