LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 3 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The business announcement from the Newmarket Hotel, Wanganui, appears elsewhere. The proprietos has made special provision for the requirements of visitors from tho country districts, whose comfort ami cotivonieiico lie will do all m his power to promote. All the great rivors of Russia are interlaced by artificial canals, through, which thousands of barges, koiiiu fisliiyh :is 1000 tons burden, make their way every navigation season from the Volga tA'tho Nova. The cost of maintaining those waterways reaches £240,000 annually. Princess Montleard has just died at Vienna under very mysterious circumstances, Her servants informed the police; that their mistress had shot herself with a revolver. According to their story the Princess had a (juarrel with one of servants, and m a fit of passion filed at him. Tho man, though unhurt, .full down,.pretending to be dead, upon which the Princess, seized with horror, turned the revolver upon herself. A b:illet was found lodged m her brain. On the other hand, abrasions and cuts have been discovered ou her neck, and this throws doubt on tho servants' story. Tho guneril opinion is that a murder has been committed and the servants have been arrested. A tradesman, a married man with a family, eloped last week wijh a young servant girl (says Truth). The •' guilty pair " started for Liverpool, whence they were to sail for America. The man hits money, some joweJlei'y (his wife's), ami tlu^passage tickets to his canipanion. On his journey he quitted the train for ja few minutes at one of tho stations, and was left behind. On reaching i Liverpool after some, delay caused by ;l i is lack of means, he found that Ht.hu inytupli had sailed with all his property, leaving him- without a farthing. A local paper adds that he at once wrote to his wife, " begging her forgiveness, and promising, if nhe would take him back, never to desert her again." In future the Armed Constabulary will only be engaged m the defence works, as there is no longer auy urgent necessity for completing them. At a fancy dress ball recently given m Paris thore was one or two exceedingly novel costumes. One gentleman appeared as a missionary about to be •.cooked by savages, with a large slice of : bacon on ea-h side of him, and a Bilver | spit 'through his body. Another came ;iu a dress suit only partially finished, 'covered all over wiih tailor's white stitches and chalk marks ; and a' third as an habitual drunkard, with-a nose of tlie most fiery, red, which occasionally "lowed as though burning — an ingeuiwus effect produced by the aid of a small incandescent lamp and an electric battery carried m the waistcoat pocket. 'lhe Grand Master of New South Wales, Dr Torrant, says the Sydney Fteemason forwarded at the latter cud uf March, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, ; a cheque for the amount of £500, flic donation of the Freemasons of New Soiiih Wales towards the Soudan Patriojtk- Fund. In a recent speech John Bright stated tbut tho cost of- England for her "ivavs "diirliia: Quoeu Victoria's reign hid w«en £150,000,000 of money, and /jjp.OOO lives. ']: Mr F. R. Jackson received a telegram nn : Mouday afternoon from Wellington, stating that the judgement m the case Jinrik.of Australasia v. Wilson has been (•(jufmnod. The judges, we believe, .were .equally divided on the matter, the ■ Chief Justice and Judge Williams being m fjivor of the defendants, and the t>fcli<ji\s for the pi tin tiffs. The Judges lu<iiig divided dv the matter, the cpuscjji ence is that the verdict will be uphffltt — Herald: •. ■ ■T ia-Mt4b&urnff-:Ai'gWo-Biyß *~A great scar i has been caused hore by a report that a tiger escaped at Mansfield from, a misiing'M'in some time a.o, and has bcei m rhat uud the Wangiuvitta disjt/ictjs ever since. Mysterious disappearances of sheep and other animals are put down to tho tiger. It was seen by the railway gatekeeper between Chiltern and Buna wart ha. The members of the rifle corps and the police have gone out to hunt for the animal. i .The. occupants of promises m proximity to the Boresters Hall will not be sorry to know that the .Salvationists have completed their arrangements for the occupation of Gillot's buildings, a .lease of' the premises for s years having been agreed upon. We fancy All Saints .Church congregation will not appreciate tho new arrangements. , ■ A court affair has just lately transpired at Auckl uid m which two former residents of Pabnerstou were concerned. It i appeared m evidence given by the R.-v Lloyd Koatiug, thata person(thc ; accused) called on him and represented having been instructed by Misa Mac-bin to procure some tickets for an entertainment, and £l o,\hl> which ho after smne hesitation did, He subsequently found out tin 1 fraud. which had boon practised, Miss Mnckin dfnying tho , whole aftair. upon which lie at once instituted proceedings". " '. MfiP.F. M. ftiirrows. late Govern m/ni Artihitect, is tho wuccessful com pi't'tor for the pr<»po«<»d new buildiit^r for the Young \len's Christian Ansoehtiau at Aupklaud, which., is to cost £6000. There w«ro twenty desigun ! sent inj-ont of which those bearing tin--1 motto "Stct" were considered far the beet.

Mr Joseph Beale is m want of . 40 or 50 good store pigs of any size. Four hundred omnibuses piss under tin; marble arch nt.tho coriier of Hyde Park, London, every day. Tho omni'His drivers work sixteen hours per day, with four quarter hours for meals, -md, unlike the cabman have little or no opportunity | for " lips ". A Wellington paper liaa the follow ing. Thi- Colonial Trnsurer h.is received a remittance of £140 from New South Wal'H:i« conscience money, Ilia dofeitdatit saying he defrauded the GovYcriiment to that extent several year* ago. A slight accid nt to our printing machine last night caused a portion of tin) issue to he very iudiatinct on the outside. An alteration was fff-cted immediately the defect was noticed, and the remaining pap-rs were printed all right. Nupinr should not have appeared on the list uf Sydney uutri.-H for tho M-»l bourne Cup the name having b-en supplied m error. . Mensrg Stevens and Gorton's next 'sale v) Palmerston will he .held on Tuesday next, thi- 9th instant. The entries at present O'erived are published m our , advertising columns. Further entries are solivited. Tlir Marton paper understands that one of the BVildiii£.lWough Councillors ;h ih forfeited iiis seat m th» C-Miucil, i owing to his' name appearing ou the defaulters' rate roll. . -. ...... . „'. The F.-xion pap*r says that now that Mr Roth-ram has Urea removed an alteration will perhaps bo mad<* m th>morni'ig train from Foxtou and it will run through to Wangaiiiii. The morning train from Foxtou to Wang.nu' uev(«r paid i-xp«ns's, we bt-liuve, ho far las ijiiods au<l passenger tr.ilfic from ; Foxtou was ooncfined. Tin; Pulmerston poition of the Frinco in.iil will arrive m town by the YVailgitiui train this evening. The Messrs Irt.dxle Hrou. of Hawera, intend closing their factory for » time until they can find an output for their chcetse. One of tho brothers proc «d« home, at once with this ol>] ct m view. They sold off all their cows by aiiotiou, some 80 m number, all realizing good prices. For two centuries tin entire industry of Mitten vrald, a town of Bav.irh, shut m by snow-clad mountains and' deus" forests, has been violin-makin>_', for which the surroutiding forests furnish the bent material. Kvery yard is oroHHCd by a labyrinth of ropes and pol.-s, on which hundreds of violins are hung up. to dry. Kvery kind of stringed instrument, from the (luest violin to the cheap eat banjo, is manufactured and shipped i-i large quanlitius to all paits of the civilised world. The following is an accurate method of measuring the height of a standing tree: — Make two lines on the ground exactly three feut apart. .Ou one of the linos drive a stake m tho ground ■ • that the top of the stake will be exactly three feet from the ground : then when the shadow of the stake will have reached tlu other line the shadow cast by the tree will he precisely the length of the height of the tree, and by measuring i the length of the shadow at that moment you will, obtain the exact height of the tree. Of course any other measures would do equally well, provided the h-ight of the stick is exactly the same a« the width between the two lines, so tint an iuclinatien of 45>legree8 can be obtained. The lines should be drawn north and south.