LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 13, 13 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the new rate of railway charges for parcel* , & package weighing 3lh can bo sent by rail any distance up to 100 miles for 6d. A 71b pa run 1 will be sent 50 miles for tlie namo money, a 141 b parcel 20 miloa, a pac'tage weighing lcvrt. will be Bent 500 miles for 19s 6d. Meßsrß Welch & Go's, windows havo again undergoue a complete transformation. Mr Carter's ability m arranging display to good effect is shown to advantage iv the beautiful array of choice fancy goods with which tho windows are at present artistically and tastely decorated, and which many pmMurs-by pause to admire. In reply to numerous applications wo regret to say that we have uo uo|>i>.s of last week's issue of our supplemont, containing tho opening chapter* of tho new serial tale, which has created so much interest among readers. As a matter of fact a numhitr of agents and subscribers hare to go without snpplfin<:iits altogether until the additional number ordered comes to hand, when we hope to have sufficient for all demands. Some days ago we had reason to complain ot the indistinct almost iihigiblu caligraphy m which our pn-stf messages were reproduced. In justice to tie local department we have pleasure m scyiug that sirica then we have had no cause forcomplaint. The Governor's speesh received on Thursday came to hand m excellent time, and with scarcely tn error m transmission, the manuscript being also very distinct. Messrs Bentley Bros', great sale of D. M. George's estate which is taking place at the Public Hall, ib attracting a rery large attendance of buyers from town and country. The display of goodß is most taßteful and artistic, and the public art availing thcmaelres to a large extent of the special prii.e list which is being offered. The goods are being disposod of vory rapidly, and already a considerable portion of tUe stock has found purchasers. We are glad to hear that Mr. Wood, who Sustained severe injuries through a fall from his horse, is improving as rapidly as can be expectad. In the colony of Victoria the Licensing Act, m express and untnistakeable terms, assures to every licensed victualler, without exception, a reuewal of his license, provided he has conducted hi* House properly. Several Chinese carrion on the North Queensland goldfields reported recently the loss. of their horses to the police, who on searching the country found 18 with their throats, cut shot, or otherwise destroyed. This is supposed to be the work of the European carriers on the same road, who intend to put an end to Chinese competition. There appears to he a rery rapid thinning out of old settlers going on at the present time. A Wairarapa cxehaiigo j givos" us thn following particulars of a worthy old lady whom death has lately | removed : — " Another of the old colon ists baa passed away m Mrs Holmes, of Okau, Cashpoint. Mrs Holmes, with | her husband and two children, arrived m the Aurora m Jan nary, 1840. They lived for a few years m Wellington and the Hutt, and m 1854 they camo to Ctstlepoint. A few years later thoy purchased a section of land at Okau, where they have since lived and reared a family of cliil-lrcn, five of whom are living. Mr. Holmes was drowned m a 1879 m attempting to cross the Wharejjaroa river at its mouth. Mrs. Holinos rwas looking on, but unable to render ..'assistance." i Last week a public meeting at Hawera passed a resolution that it is desirable j 'to start a dairy company m the district sand that a committee bo appointed to information as to the amount of support likely to be awarded to the project, j . Tho "Resident Magistrate of Dnnedin has decided that the R.M. Court is not a " public place" under the Public Offences Act. A man was arrested for being drunk m Court, hut when brought up on the charge the Maeistrat* Raid he had no jurisdiction. The Court waa neither a theatre nor a place of public ontertainmnnt, nor did it come within the definition of a public place under the Act. If the man had been arrested .m the. street outside ho would have been liable to a fine. "I say, Charlie, who was that T saw yon talking to this morning?" "Aw, he was a man who had made me a slight advance on a note." "Have you known him long ?" " Yes he used to shave, my father." "Barber?" "No broker." Payable gold is reported to have been discovered at the Bay of Islands. Lieutenant Brown, of the New South Wales Contingent, has di«d from fever. The Auckland Star states that for th* position of messenger m an office T32 applications were received by letter, The steamer The Peace, sent out from England for the use of the Baptist mission on the Upper Consro, has bo«n launched at Stanley Pool. Tt was carried m eight hundred pieces from England to the place of launching. The N. Z. Ifail, of May 29, # actually devotes three columns to an article upon the so-called thought-reading of Mrs Clara Baldwin, The writer of the article, who is we believe the editor of the paper, is evidently s firm believer m all the absurdities and mysteries of spiritualism, divination, and other swindles. This is n striking illustration of the fact that most men, even the cleverest, are ashiugla short eomewhbre, and cranky m Home department of their mantal economy.— -Exchange. In British India th« lanr« river Sutlej. which has a decent of 12,000 f-et m 180 mi!es.. or nearly 67 fiet p^r mile, is jaM to be. the fastest flowing river m tho world. i A man, lately rmrriod, waa asked 'at •the el nb \hant bis bridr*. "Ts shn prntty?" "No," roplied ho, '« *!>•> U not: but sho will he when lit father Hin«." "No v«liiolfi drawn by mor* than omp anit)i:il is allnwnri tn cross fliis bri.ljro m oppoaito directions :if. lh.» >«.i no (im»," is a notioo posted on a briilge iv Providence. J

' The essence uf beauty is health. We inii*t first secure purity of blood. To purify the blood t.iko a tcaspoonful of charcoal well mixed m wntor or houcy for throo successive nights, then use somo purgative to remove it from the system, else it remains then; a mass of impurieties, retaining all the poison collected by it. 'Ihe action of 'charcoal is similar to thr.t of calomel without its ovil I'flwtß. This pnrilii!:\ti(ui should 'ba repeated every three mouths. Char foal may be eaten at ixny time at tho ■rdt«v«f an ounce per day without injury, if a -mild- aperient to bo taken subsequently. In largo citieß.it may be procured hi the form of crackers. We know of nothing better to improve the complexion through purifying the blood tlun a free use of eharcoal — Fxdnuig*. It soemß hard tays tha London Globe no doubt, for &v employer who takes live boy* into hit service, of whom thre» had pnesed the sixth, and two thn fifth standard m London board schools, to find that only one can write decently, and that none enn spell, nor add up a column of twenty figures, nor calculate interest at five percent. But gui you les V0U8? It is likely enough thAt any one of the lads could h*ve answered questions m anatomy, geology, chemistry, or lulf a dozen " extra subjects. ' We don't pay eleven hundred thousand pounds a year to teach boys the three