LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 6, 5 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

:/■ . . ; ® ; — . . , : . f For fourteen days only " ; Mr' li J."' B. !l -Haiiiilton announces iv another column startling 'reductions m the price of all ' g"oodB ' -purpliased at his well known drapery and clothing establishment. Country settlersj and tlio public generally will be but studying their own interests by visiting Mr I-Iniuiltoii's during the next 'fourteen days. His extensive and'-'i old 'established ''business sis so 'familiar to almost every settler iv and around the district that further, coimneut is unnecessary. - " There was quite a collection of old identities at the Welliugtou. Comp,nnsation Court on Tuesday.— Captain Holliday,. whe; has been harbor-nmstyr for about thirty years ; Mr John Howard Wallace, who, has been here since, the .settlement* of the Colony ; Captain Kreeft, whose acqii.ainthnco with the port embraces; a quarter of a ceutdry ; jMr Geoive Allan, who was amongst; tlio early settlers ;. and Cnptaiu ..Williams, : who traded to ' th'a port when he was ; : able to take his vessel on to Noah's A'k ITliere were many 'refi ; renc«B m the J«violence to the '" mosquito' flt-et," and to its, .gradual decline and almost ceitrtili ■extinction. "Ah!" remarked' judgeRichmond, " we are dttc'jniug away too, thougn wo have managed to survive, so many of them." Mr John Howard Wallace stated that ho had built a wharf there .forty ..years *go.. Mr Cbapman afterwards eroas-oxaminiid him us lo bis knowledge of. wharf building, and asked the witness to go iuto details. " You must not ask thoso old colonists if they did this, that, or the other," said Judgts Richmond, " they were moil who could do anything they turned their hands to."- ! ; r ; •'''■"■ -

For the benefit of those who are not acquainted with the provisions of the Employment of Femalus Act, it .may )>&[' mentioned that there is nothing m ,th« law to prevent females from being employed as saleswomen until any hour on avSaturday. — Post. The desirabloness of insuring one's life has been startlingly demonstrated by the case of the Inin John; Wilding:, who expired m the Fox ton coach between Ngahauraii£a> and Wellington on Thursday last. It will be recollected that a conditional receipt for £3 odd, given by an agent of the Government Insurance Department for a £200 policy was fouad on Wilding's bOily. A son of the deceased instituted enquiries at 'the. head office of the department and -ascertained that the proposal had been accepted, and that the policy, though not forwarded, was lying m tint office. Consequently the money (£200) will be paid over to the heirs. Complaints are rife m England of the growing tendency of English clergymen to introduce politics into their sermons. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at Woodville will tako place ou Thursday the 11th inst. at 1 o'clock*. ■It is reported that after tho division on the vote of censure the Queen advised Mr Gladstone to resign and to • reconstruct a ministry which should be based upon a thorough and consistent foreigu policy. Mr Gladstone dwelined to resign, maintaining that he hold power under acommission from the people. A Wellington paper a short time since, m an article upon the Wellington Msnawatu railway, stated that the Bel - mont Viaduct on the line was the highest wooden viaduct m the world, 'ib'e.intf some 172 fnet above the watercourse and 373 foot long. Wo, (Waipa,wa Mail) have just soon a letter from, Mr Josiah Harding- of- Chile, (a sou' of Mr J. Harding, Waipukurau) giving a description of a bridge lie is constructing there, 330 feet high and 800 fi-et •Jong ; -.also. stating that thereisin France another bridge of stili greater altitude, t'hongh'this latter is of iron nud stone. The one being constructed by Mr Harding is a' wobdciV trestlo bridge, and the second highest bridge m the world. Some anxiety has been created m Sheffield by the presence of mad dogs. One man who waa bitten has died from hydrophobia. Many dogs are being t destroyed. Sporfing folks are much perplexod at the non-appenranci! of Welcome .Tuck's name m the list •of enterics for the Melbourne Cup. The omiKsion is gene-, rally supposed, to be an error m trails^ mission »f names,. as it was well nud<>r stood that Mr. Piljiivnr .in(e,nded to • nominafo tho horso. Tim New Zealand owned horses whoso nam^s ar^ included m the list are Vanguard, Liverpool, Ondeis, Manchester, Tasuian, Trenton, July, and -Thunderbolt. ■■• Noticing tho arriral of the Hon.' 'Mr -jßob'inson'n hors'os at Sydno) r , the Morning Jlcrald says they will eventually be taken to England. This is news indeed ,j jto New Zealaijders. „.-.:! The arms ,nnd acooiitroinents for the -Rangitikei Mounted Hides have arrived ip i3ulls.

Circul-.rs are to issuo I tv .ill policyliuld is m tlio (x<iv«rutn'?nt Lite liHiirance Department over 21 yours of asj«. provided tliuy aits insured for £ll)0, aslcinc them to record their votes on the ■ :uestion of tlie constitution of Local Boards, and proxy forma will be supplied to them. Several uew Wanganui advertisements will be found eLsewhore, to which we have not sp:it:e to refer individually. Tenders for the c^nvefsiouoi:' txillefc-V' Building.s into a Salvation Army Barracks , close; -at no'on'-to-inorrow;' Plans; artd < be -seen -at Mr West's" office. Tenders for the erection of a shop and dwelling house for Messrs C. and W. Bray, at Ashurst, close at noon to-mor-row... . .:.„.- . ... ■",. .. ;\..'. :■■".„■; j. Mr Ellory Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, ; will visit the Rangitikei district on ,or aboiit the 9'tlf inst. Messrs Snelspn &* Co. -sjoext, stock sale at the 'Fitzherbert-street sale yards will be held to-morrow. The entries at present received are published m our adj vertising columns. Further entries ', are I solicited. ' , '; The Manawatu Kilwinning Lodge will meet on Thursday at 7.30 p.m. Visiting brethren are ihvhed to attend. Messrs Rivers .& Go. were the,successful tenderers for the bnshfelling- contract advertised by Messrs Richter and Nannestad, and Mr A. Mitchell for the logging for the mill. ■ We are -'.requested to remind thqse interested that the' Young Manawatu- Court ! of Juvenile Foresters will meet this i evening at 7 o'clock*,. in the Foresters' j Court room. All respectable youtli3 are invited to join, and adult Foresters are asked to be present. Messrs S nelson & Co. will sell to-mor-row at their rooms at 2 p.m. the furriitkire and effects of a person leaving i the; district.