LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 8, 8 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.through the- publication m the §tandakd of the last Borough impounding notice, a settler resident near Ashiirst was enabled to learn the whereabouts '. of : liis stock within a "few days of their be--ing impounded. But for tlie notice appearing- m the Standard, he would probably have lost his stock altogether, as lie with the : majority : of the other residents' o£;.Ashnrst see no. other Manawatu paper but the .Standard, which circulates all over that part of- the district before six o'clock every evening. ; . We are glad to see that the Borough Council; at . its last meeting adopted our original suggestion to depute the Mayor and Town Clerk to interview the Bank of Australasia ;at Wellington re the Boroug-h Loan. Tt is .satisfactory to note that the Borough Council have ; so , completely rdcogiiized the expediency .'of our suggestion and. ha ve- decided to carry it into efliect. The only opposition were Crs ,"Park. and "Abrahams. . Tlie former thought the Bank should" come to the Council, instead of vice verm. But his suggestion was so absurdly ridiculous and unreasormble on the face .of it tliat the.:. Mayor and other Crs faiiiy lauglied at it. - Ci 1 ' Abraliams on the -other hanil did not see how the .affairs of the town could go on even for a day m the absence of -the Town ; Clerk ! The : Cis again laughed at the ridiculous ''objection, and the objector forthwith retired within himself and looked like a man who had lost a shilling and found sixpence. A correspondent inquires how it is the Inspector of Nuisances never makes any allusion: to the keeping of pigs adjacent' to streets and dwellings. Ho says there are numerous cases of the : kind, but the Inspector apparently is blind to the fact. ' ■ ■tt'was the reading of the Inspector o± -Nuisances' re]sprt^that caused the merrimeri't m the Borough Council meeting, not, the Poundkeeper's report is erroneously stated m our report of the proceedings'. - ; .'...■. ;■.... ') Wiith regard to the Now Zealand Loan tlie (igiires sliould.have.been £100 3s (>d as of those receiving m full, not £103 33 6d as telegraphed m: error. The averag-i • was £100 6s 3d. The amount tendered for at and above par was £5,555,000. •.".'■ We learn tint another of the men Avho handled the body of KaM r ana Hunia is suffering from blood-poisoning. lie had a slight scratch on his hand at the time 1 and now the' -hand. and arm are swollen to a great size. . . : The people about Taoriui are making anxious? enquiries as to the wi{ereabouts of the Pahnerston ranger,. as lie has not been seen m their locality for a long 1 time, and the . stray.- cattlo arc numerous and troublesome.— Star. : The GUizp.n, a wcokiy paper, publislicd i'n.Duuodin by; Mr Hutchison, has ceasod 'publication. ; •: ; '- : -."■" Messrs 11. McTCcnzie and Co. Avill be m a .position to -hand' oorb\ r bi tl the Manawatu Bridge nn tho Mast'jr.f;oti Hn.xd to the Gn-vGrhttiont-üb'iul: the Ist July. . TliO.O|)Ofiiiig of Mus bridge will be, h great boon to the- district. ■ I '.- Parliament- ojians on Thursday next. '..'iewre G. M. Snol.-i.n :ui.lC). liol.l" a vory "B'.ioßiJSAful sal 1 , nf fr.ft tnica lit ?,[r J'Vturrt' Iforsu Biixiuir, AVoodvillo, on Wednesday. ' - .

According- to a contemporary, the member for Wunaka (who has since resigMutl his scat) is a model farmer. Mr 0-rrigg possesses 1,400 pigs m oiie paddock (the whole of which are fed by one man) and lately received a cheque for £5,0)0 m payment of pigs "which lie sold.. He has a total of 15,000 acres of freehold land, a largo proportion of wlvch was m cropi o 1 ; various kinds this year, and his last crops of wheat and | > its average 1 forty-six bu-jh-jls and fifty-one bushels per acre respectively. The friends of Mr Founta ; ne, formerly of Woo.lvllle, will be glad to learn that lie arrived safely at San Francisco on April 20, where he was staying at the Palace Hotel. Mr Fonntaine intended leaving for a trip across the continent on his way home on April 23rd. He was m excellent health at the time of writ- : ing.' ...... -j The Wsllington-Manawatu Railway line is making- good progress. The tunnels at Paikukariki are all but pierced through, and the other contracts are being pushed on. The line will probably be .open to Parramatta by August next. D. H. Macarlhur, Esq., M.H.R., has been gazetted Captain of the Manchester Billet . ' .',..; .:.:. . Ninety-three bushels to the acre is a remarkaVly good yield. A. M. Dunn, a farmer m Bruce District, Ota-go,. : has recently tlireslu- 1 out 1851 biisliek af oats grown on twenty acres of. his farm. Mr Dunn attributes this large yield to having; laid a quantity of lime on his, land last year. Vulcan's discussion m the Wellington Steeplechase meeting is /--elsewhere announced. It will bo drawn about July 7.' It is quite on the cards that thcro will be a dissolution of "Parliament this session, and that Sir Julius Yogel will go to the country, on his policy bills. : The case of "Lieut. Purnell v. New Zoaland Rifle Association over the late competition for the Champion Belt, will be heard m "Wellington about the" 16th or I7th of this month. , r In proportion to its population there .ire more policy holders m the Government Insurance Association resident m the Manchifster Block,.than m any othor district m the colony. — Star. . The Wakatip Mail hears that two tourists, who left the Head of: the La'- c for Martin's Bay about a month ago .passed through some unpleasant experiences. They were lost on, the ranges for a fortnight — the half of which time it islstated', they we're without food, the weather beinir also very wet. \ Tii' ; y were discovorod by Mr Webb, a Mnrtin'a, Rayi settler, wlio brought one back to; the Heads ■ the other gentleman was vn r ablo to return/ anil is now lying at Jamestown awaiting the Government steamer to be conveyed to Christen urch. The parcel rate s and reduced freights for native coal, fireclaj', bricks, &0., on: fie New Zoaland Railways,, are gazetted "o come into force on 15th June. WrHes a correspondent of the Waikato Times :— Th'o Auckland evening paper is by no moans- perfect. It has a nasty, habit of" having a fliiig " «at the Herald' which is not always m good faat6,''/iHp'rc" csapdcially as tlio proprietor of the eTenin^ pAper has sometimes to accept favours at tho hands of the proprietors of his ; morning-, coutttuiporary, as, . for inßtauce, on Tuesday last when his machine broke 'down, and lie hud to get his papers printed at the 'Heraiflbfticii'."Messrs ITalcoimWand Sherwill haying fonnd it necessary to increnso tho accom- ' modation for /slock at thoir Feilding sales, have recently enlarged and otherwiso; greatly •."■■improved" : - their yards. • These arts iipw ;abuut double their "tor--, mor sixn, jind together with the "races " hay is. been thoroughly, .well ."tueullad.— ;. Slav; ; ■.. -■■-■" ■. - ."•■ '" J ,.:' ■- ' *..-■ .'■ Atjan examination pprf r the.College; <.f Surge/ius/a Ciiii'diiiate. was "aske<l by 'Dr .vbern- thy what he wouhl do if a. man _weroiblo"w"n up by gunpowder. fi Why," cooly auswer<*d the tyro, " wait till ii© - ■-cwracKiOAVTrnT^aTQT^ . uethy, " suppose I kickod you for such an impertinent reply,, i what' , ! 'muscles should I put m motion? "Why," r^pliiid t'-ie young man, " the. .flexors and-! !.extt.'Hs«-rs of viny arm; J : should floor you diiecf'v. ."■'■-. v '■■■■■•■ .- ■"'■■'- ; . s •• s i