The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY JUNE 16, 1885.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 15, 16 June 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY JUNE 16, 1885.

According to a contemporary tbo Chnstchurch medicos have subscribed th« funds necessary to proceed against the Wellington. Press for alleged -.libul. m respect to its article ou the Clnistchtirch Hospital management... Damages are to belaid at tbo moderate sum of £5001). . * " Great complaints have been made by parents 'iu the Bulls Town District of the danger to their children arising trom the habit of butcher boys and others of riding ou the footpaths m the town. The offenders, we understand, have frequently been spoken to on the subjoct but take no notice whatever, and m some instances irnpudont and insulting re-plies have been given. We are glad •to See that the matter has been taken up by the Town Board, who, as representatives of the ratepayers, are certainly I interested. Uutuler the new Police Offences Act, a prosecution can bo instituted by the local constable m cases of this nature, and offenders are liable to a penalty of £5. Should occasion arise, it is into.uded to mskv. an example of one or two of tht persons as a warning to others.— Martoo paper. Mr Greenwood will pay his next visit to Palmcraton on, Thursday, 18th instant. '-.■'' : . Attention is directed to Mr. James Laird's new advertisement appearing elatiwhere. j /•.)'■ a-:'. .;•<- A peculiar disejase is rife m Bladuill (Queensland) jnet now, terminating fatally to, a number of children.' The complaint attacks the throat; and -has somewhat the appearance of dipfheria, although the local medicos aver that it is quite distinct, and results from dufec- ■ tive draiunge. One family of selectors, named Johnson j have lost' their four children .from the disease m as many we.-ks, aud many families mourn the loss of oue or two of their loved ones- Opthahnia also prevails ; several bad cases have occurred m which children have lost an eyi 1 , and m one case an unfortunate womau became totally blind. It is stated that the Commercial Hotel, Wellington," has been purchased by Messrs Gilmer Brothers, the wellknown hotelkeepers. Tbo price quoted is £5000. Immediately after the reading of the iudictine lit at the trial jof Charles Trengrove at Timaru for wife murder, his Honor Mr j ustice . Johnston asked who M. A. Pratt was, to which Constable Willougljby stated that she was the sister of the.prisoner. His Honor then directed (tliatfShe should come forward, and oh stepping forward lid asked her why she had ;wntten to him. Mi's Pratt said. that her brother was deaf, and she .•thought he-would not hear what was said. His Honor said he would take care that prisoner knew; wlmt passed. He said he presumed that she was anticipating legislation, aud was desirous of exercising the privilege which hersux would have] of acting as lawyers, aud asked her if she wished to appear on her brother's behalf as It ib council and ask questions, to which Mrs Pratt answered that she would like to ask Mrs Bennett some questions. His Honor told Mrs Pratt that she might sit m Court and suggest qnes-. tions, but she must, not interfere, and mentioned that probably if some legislators had their way anybody passing nlong the street might aoon be able to come m and interfere m cases."

The Napier Telegraph says tliat funny Irishmen aro not yet uuder the sod. One was rushing to the fire on Friday night, when he knocked forcibly against a well-known Scotch bootmaker, of Hastings-street.' "Where is the" lire.?" - shouted -Scotty. " Don't ask mo " replied Pat, " I'm breathless, and can't speak.". A correspondent vvntestd thd, 'J^all Mall Gaze\te :— " Re'fei'ri«^ : -tb van -fie-' count whicfi appeared m a .recant issue '6f 'yoilr papier of an interview with Mr Sims Reeveja, a lady friend tcHs me she knew the gront tin'or when he was* a 1 act, and relates ;the\J ]£ollbwhig concerning hi m : — ' Sims was called ' Jack ' when I knew him,.aud goodness knows why ho calls 2 himself Sims now. His father was sergeant iv tho military band, m my native town, and clerk of the barrackchurch, and was known to us little girls as ' the amen man." • Yuung Reeves used to sing then, and occasionally the band boys would laugh ;at the 'horrible faces' he made when singing. His father noticing this, as he considered, ill timed mirth, said to the boys, ' Yon laugh at my Jack ! His voice will be worth a guinea a minute one day' — a prophecy which has certainly been verified." ; Hie Excellency has appointed Mr J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner ..of Crown Lands, to be a School Oomraissioner for the Provincial District ot Wellington, vice Mr J. G-. Holdsworth,. dt-.ceased. Two -persons,, well known m ..Welling* ton, were committed to tho Lunatic. Asylum last week — Mr Pnynter, who had been for some years a post.nan there and Mr Crawford, btevedore. Mr Payntor is suffering from religious, mania. The man's unfortunate condition ia duo to the study of spiritualism. He has a wife ami two or three children at Newtown. A moiister work m bridge building is to be undertaken m Russia. The structure is to bo thrown across the arm of the sea which flows between Cronstadt .: — the famous fortress which guards the mouth of the Neva and tho approach to .St Petersburg — and Orauiedbanm — a seaside suburb of the capital of the Czars. The length ot the bridge is to bo five miles, and it will be stretched ' across granite columns er piers,, whose sides will be. protected by angled abutments of granifq, of (considerable height". Pcoplo who gushed over the visit of the Redmonds' : 't6' these colonies- and gave '(h^ir money, and support will, ho ; grad to 1 hear that 'Mr ..Red.mondj M.P., fcdifhvsfiing a National League meeting/ at Puud.nl,k;O.n ; . April . .10th, _" expreeVi? ' his joy at the difficulty of ;Englaiid • with the Squdnn and Afghanistan. He hoped th;it tl'ie Russian bear would would- Rtick his clnw m the British lion. He was sorry that the Prince of. Wal'S was not there '-'.to see what tho real feeling of (he Irish people wns, instead of Bciunperingnhout theconntry.attendcd by military and police awd blot-uly 'E'irl Spencpr. He advised his audience to boycott land grabbers, and said there were throe words dear to Nationalists. — God, Ireland, and boycott." ,

Eve long the despiaed North will be looking up (says the Kawakawa newspaper). U'i tlie ono hand a new coal company m the vicinity; of Kawakawa, commanding a largo-capital, is at present behind the curtain, awaiting terms with one parly out of four ; while on the other, a good payable, goldfiold m ihie district lias been proved to exist — a criiohing producing 2083 to the ton having talccu place — but we are debarred from letting out tire secret until those entitled put m their claim for the usual reward. . - . r ' The champion yield of the harvest is claimed by tho Bruce Herald for Mr J. C. Cranston, of Furnyhaugh Farm, Gltnledi,-who has just threshed out the produce of a paddock of oats which yielded at the rale of 108 bushels per 1 acre. i Messrs Ptovcns and Gorton's stock snlo at Woodvillo on Thursday vraa a great success, cattle being m good demand and bringing high prices. Before beginning the Sile Co!. Gorton stated that a settler wnV. had entered tertain [ cattle had withdrawn them having, sold them tho previous day. An action of this kind he cha-aeterised as unfair both to those who attended, the sale aud to the auctioneers!,. » Tuiire is nowat this office a veritable curiosilyiin the shape of a copy of the Belfast Neioskter 06 January 2, 1818. Those talcing aXiiuterflst m such matterß can peruse^t on application.

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