LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 12, 12 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pntea Mailhaa the following : — Titokowarn wishes us to ask m his name all the Europeans and Maoris m the town and district of Patea and neighbourhood to join him m a final feast of friendship m the grounds adjoining th« Immigration Barracks, when farewell speeches will be tnado m which his endeavour will he to cement the bond of friendship now existing. The New Zealand Government offer a bonus of sixpence per gallon, up to 50, I 000 gallons, for kerosene mamifacrured ■ within tho Colony and sold at a fair' average market price, -.-. ■ • ,-■•■■ •■! The Queen telegraphed from Aix-les Bains (o Mrs Grant expressing hdr sympathy, and inquiring after General Grant's health, on the Bth of April. Mr F Grant replied the following day that Mrs Grunt thanked the Queen for her sympathy, and directed him to say that General Grant was no better.

A linftii.sii fur a iiv»v house near Arauioho Uivilwny Station, Wanj{<iuui, lihs been refused by the Licensing Comimttoee. Messrs Stuvens and Gorton will sell to-morrow at titetr room* a consignment of fruit,4forcßt, and shelter trocn, from the celebrated nursery of Mr JantfH Mitchinson, of Now Plymouth, whiclijis one of the bert m New Zealand ; and tho auctioneers recommend their clients to ntlcnd the sale which will take place at 12 noon. i We remind our readers of Mossrs of G. M. Snclaou and C<i'« sale to talw •place to-morrow at 2 p.m. The oatalogne includes hotise and Und m Taonnistreet, 2 sections m Ferguson Street, quarter-ncrs sections with buildings iv Forguson-Htreet, besides hosiery, timber, fruit tre?g, and other merchandise. A block of laud of abont lllK) acres m th« Gorge Survey District, Provincial District of Wellington, has been temporarily reserved for a forest reserve. We learn from the London Times of 20th February that a man named Mutton was brought before a Parisian magistrate for picking pockets. He was m search of prey among the crowd collected to see the Anarchist demonstration, And began to feel the pockets of Mr Hawkins, an Englishman. Multon, through the. interpreter, expressed anxiety that the; Court ahould know he was Irish, not , Knulish. The magistrate asked what difference this could make. The prisoner : " I was not acting as a pickpocket, but us a Fenian. The English are the enemies of the Irish, and seeing one near me I wanted to recover from him a little of the money taken by the the English from my countrymen." Hi was sent to prison for three months. ! 'Mr Cross; m: his "Life of Geogo ' Eh'ot," relates a good story which Miss Brerner obtained from Emerson. Thomas Garlylo was very angry with the American philosopher for refusing to believe m the existence of a devil. In order to convert him to so comfortable * bulief, the sage of Chelsea took his visitor to flomo of tho lowest haunts m London, including the gin whops, finish•g his tour by leading Eymerson into tho House of Commons. "There!" said (Carlyle triumphantly, '* do jo* believe m a devil now ?" The Wairarapa Daily says that a lot of people on the West Coast aro rutting the day they were tempted to bid hL-h prices at land anctions to secure their choice of sections. They got their land, and the land has got them. The following new rule under the Bankruptcy Act has been made by the Governor, with the concurrence ot two Judges: — Tho recommendation of a person for the appointment of Deputy Assignee for the estate of any bankrupt shall be made under the hand aud seal of the Official Assignee for the district m which sneh bankrupt shall, have tiled hie declaration or shall have been adjudicated a bankrupt and such recommendation shall be duly filed m the Court m which bankruptcy proceeding then are. Any such recommendation when made and filed as aforesaid shall be deemed to be au application under section 40 of "The Bankruptcy Act, 1883." Wheat and oats now command good , prices m the Sydney markets. Prime milling wheat is quoted at from 3s lOJd to At ; New Zealand oats (good quality) . have touched bottom at from 2s s£<l to 2s 6d ; Tartarian (seed) will fetch as high as 2s 8«l. Prime butter is m good demand at from Is 4d to Is 7d [per 1b. — Sonthern Exchange. I At the meeting of the Road Board iyesterday, the dog registrar wrote j asking that he receive assistance from .the police m collecting the tax from the I Natives.- The Chairman stated that he swith others had interviewed the Natives at Awapuni and Oroua, and they had stated their intention to refuse payment for that they had a treaty with the Government, entered into at Waitangi, by which they were to be exempt from the tax. It was resolved that the application of the registrar be assented to. 1 i At the Wellington Police Court on Wednesday Nicholas Brierston,*rho was charged with trying to drown himself m | the harbor on the 3rd instant, was discharged. , Astatement of acconnts on a shipment of frozen mutton, by the Tnngariro, published by Messrs Milos and Co. iv the Lyttelton Times, shows what wonderful results may be attained under exceptionally favourable circumstances. The Bhipmout which numbered 198 carcases, consisted of 2, 4, and C-tooth Border Leicester wethers, first and second crossing. They averaged 75^108 when killed, and realised a not profit of £1 0s 8d each. The steamers Triumph and Wakatipu, which passed through Wellington on Wednesday en route to Sydney, had on bonrd 2800 tons goneral produce, and 173 horses from the South— of which ithje Triumph carried 2000 tons and 100' Sibrses, and the Wakatipn 800 tons and ,73 horses. The Wakatipu shipped 100 ;tons at Wellington, and the Tiiurnph 60 tons. A. Wellington paper regreats to learn Mr G. S. KearU, a journalist, who is fwell known all through the Colony, was ><ized with a paralytic stroke late on Tuesday evening. Mr Searle was playing chess at the Chamber of Commerse on the night mentioned, when h« was suddenly stricken.