The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY JUNE 18, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 17, 18 June 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY JUNE 18, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wairarapa Star says :— We un drvsland that thure is likely to beago»d deal of competition over the survey of the Mastertun-Maugahoa Special Settlement block. As showing the widespread demand for special settlement soul ions, wr may mention that the Secretary of the Association has lately' had applications from residents iv tho South Island who are anxious to become nieinbevs should an opportunity be offered. Captain Macarthur successfully passed his examination for his commission the other day m Waugauui. The Protestant population of Berlin has increased by half a million, siheo 1870, and yet only two new churohis have been built. One Sunday afternoon sumo time -since ono pastor had to per form onu hundred and eight baptisms aud nine inaniagas. A correspondent asks the Tiawera jStai'; " How is it that m Adelaide, with wheat at 38 8d per bushel, country brands of flour arc sol ing at £7 10s to £8 5s for best, and m Ilawera, with wheat at 3s per bushel, £10 is the lowest price quoted?" Many of our readers will be pleasod to hoar that Hone Pihama, the YVamiate Plains Native chief, has nearly recovered from his serious illness, and hop-s soon to be about again. His life was at ono time despaired of. Here is an itom of so mo interest at the present moment. It is, taken from a Wellington paper. — Frasw gave some knock-down statistics last night at Booth's mission meeting, as to the distribution of profits of liquor trades ! £5 spent m making woollen goods gives £3 to labor. £5 spent m making crockery gives £2 108 to labor. £5 spent iv making grog gives 2s 6d to labor ! Har.lly any human assistance required ! The devil Bits by tho still and does nearly all thu work ! Stokes tho firo and boils the kettle, aud chuckles to think of the sport he'll have when the stufi: goes abroad and makes men mad, aud woman bad, and children sad ! An exchange says: — Several hundred cabbages were taken over to Sydney by tho steamer Triumph, which left Wellington for thsit port'roceutly. The cabbages, which are of large size, aud as hard as could be wished, were shipped from Christchurch. At tho present time vegetables of all kiuds are very dear m Sydney m consequence of the drought, and it is stated that cabbages m particular are so scarce that they are fetching as much as a shilling a head. This its not the first time that a-B|>ipment of cabbages lias been sent fi-oin New Zealand to Sydney. On other occasions when there has been a water famine m New South Wnles similar supplies have been drawn from this colony. A bushel of fun was had at a St. Paul saloon ou April 1, by moans of^BSTathef cruel and practical April-fools' day j<>k<\ Some cruel joker nailed a twenty dollar gold piece to the floor, and by means of a battery concealed behind th<» bar, a thin wire was attached. Then the spot was soaked with water, and whoever attempted to pick up the bonanza was treated to a terrific shock. The air of that placo was blue with profanity all I dayAs will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, Mr R. T. Wheeler, j of Dunedin, has reduced the price of his Bankruptcy Gazette to one guinea per annum to subscribers, Mr Wheeler's publication is the oldest of the kind m the colony, and has always beeu carefully compiled and made most valuable for reference to by business people, who should ke^p themselves well posted up on such matters as the gazetto deals with, Tho men oharged with the robbery at the Simpson's road branch of, the National Bank of Australasia have been' again remanded. It is ruinonred m Danevirke that the Bank of New Zoaland is about to open a , branch there. The Manufacturers and Producers' As- 1 sociatioti of Tasmania have published a | manifesto against the proposed reciprocity treaty with Victoria, the effect of which, it is said, will be to swamp Tasmania with Victorian products and manufactures, to the prejudice of local industries. New Zealand factory-made butter sold during last month m Fydney at lid. per pound. After deducting expenses, 9J remains a« the net price. The Melbourne Sportsman, of the 25th March, contains tho particulars ot a most extraordinary agreement which was made m Sydney lately between Donald Dinnie, the Scotch athlete, and Folcy, the pugilist, for a " go-as-you-please" fight for £1000. The two competitors wore to be fihut m a room by thomselves for half an hour, and weft to use any means they liked to disable one another, provided that only bodily ffiriTM was rmploved. if at tho end o£j 30 minutes Foley was able to come to tinio, he was to bo proclaimed the winner of the fight. " Choking or breaking an opponent's leg to be all fair, but no wood, nvtal. or slone of any kfnd to housed.' Fulry'a backi-r net ually d«postd ihtt whole nf his tttak<>, but at the last morn-nt Dinnie withdrew from tlm conti'Hi, which, hud il eventuated, would have been the most brutal on record,

LaKt yuar HOd'd drunkards iire said to have boen reclaimed by the London City Mission. The liishop of London designate is a total abstainer. Mr T. \Y. Glover has been giving an account of his journey round the world m tlio Dover town hall. There" ;iro now 25,000 abstainers m the UriLish army, lv t!io railway sorvicothc number is estimated at 40,000. •Daring the past twelve months upwards of 2000 persons voluntarily signed the pie Iga at Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms, London. i Enough liquor, it is calculated, was ■ last year consumed m Groat Britain to make a lake a mile long, a mile wide, i and thirty-five feet m depth. i The Duke of Connaught continues to interest himself m the spread of Temperance principles among the soldiers m India. Speaking rocently, he gave it as his opinion that three-fourths of the crimes of the army were due to drunkenness, | . In Belgium an order has recently been I issued by the ministry of railroads, post- I offices, and telegraphs to close on tho afternoons of Sundays and fast days, all the government railroad offices except those at tho stations. The Napier Corporation pay the g«is cotnpnny of that place j>7 15s per lamp per Hii'itiiin for street- lighting from sunset to Midnight, and as thun; arefify-fivo lamps, the cost of street-lighting is £426 per annum. In Wangarnii tho Tights are supposed to be put out on an ayorafce at 11 p.m., and tho price paid per lamp to th« company is five pounds per annum. The very remarkable statement is made m th« Medical Times that Dr Fieischl, ot Vien.ia, has disoovored that tho hydrochiorato of cocaine, adininis ter.ed hypodi-rtnically m doses of from one-twelth to one fourth of a grain, will euro morphinism, alcoholism, and Bimilikr habits within ten days. The Church Association hay« sent a memorial to the Queen, m which they state that the i:ew Bishop of Lincoln holds doctrines which disqualify him from holding tho office of a bishop m tho Protestant Church of England ; and they pray that an inquiry may bo made into Llia charges they prefer agaiudt Dr King. A commemorative service was held at Holy Trinity Church, Windsor, m honour of tho late Colonel Burnaby and General Gordon. The band of the Royal Horse Guards pla3 r ed an appropriate selection of aacrod music, iiov. Arthur Robins preached, and m the course^pf his sermon suggested that a church should be erected m England by a penny subscription of the British people all over the world m memory of General 'Gordon. We have, says the World, heard lamentable tales lately about the discornfoTts'which" the nobility and gentry" arc suffering m consequence of tha " depression," and things must indeed be very bad when, at Christie and Mansoii's, the late Lord Wilton's champagne realised only 2505, 300s and 410s per dozen ; while the claret was given away at 160s and 175s per dozen. Evidently we are living iuvery lurd times. The New South Wales Minister of Mines estimates that the loss to the Colony, m horses, cattle, ahoep, and quantity and quality of wool, from the drought hst year was £4,500,000. There vr'ere 10,000 horsey 232,000 cattle arid 5,800,000 sh^ep less at the beginning 'of this year thau m tho previous January. The Dunedin Evening Herald says that an liinusing instance of the ruling, passion •"manifested m unconsciousness has just occurred. One of the leading counsel was sufferiug within the last few days Xrotn. the pangs of a racking toothache. He resolved to bring an actio:i of -'ejectment against his tormentor, and repaired to the dentist* The molar being of a daogerioua character, the patient was put under chloroform and the ememy duly got rid of. On coining to consciousness the barrister found the operator enjoying a hearty laugh. On asking the reason he was toldjthat just as he was getting free from the effects of the chloroform he said' "On this point, your Honor, vre are all agreed." The Act under which any person who can pass a prescribed examination may m-actise the profession of the law has opened the door of the profession to many who otherwise would never have becotrie lawyers. Whether this will prove to the advantage of litigants remains to be seen. Among those who have recently passed is tho late messenger of tho Supreme Conrt, Wellington A -humble calling, bur, doubtless, while faithfully discharging his duties ho was driukitig m the learned remarks of the be-wigged barristers, and has turned the knowledge thus gained to such good account that now he is promoted from thtj. position of a doorkeeper m theTeinj.ple of Justice, and, will m future take his positiou among those who expound the law. Verily, m these modern days, the world is beiug turned upside down wfth a vengeance. A case of apparent ingratitude ©n the part of an animal has been brought to our notice. A farmer m Dubbo had a prize ram, of which he was pardonably proud. The best understanding— indeed a mutual respect— appeared to exist between himself and tha beast. But one day last week the innn stopped m the paddock to tie his boot. His hat fell off and he remembered little more. The treacherous creature seized the opportunity, and launched itself at its master's head with the momentum of a catapult. A wound six inches long was the result, and there is now a noticeable coolness between the parties. No roal explanation has been givwn, and it is surmised that it was mere playfulness .on the rain's part. It did not think it had such velocity on, and intended only a little surprise— probably imagining the owner was turned tha other way". The man was bald.— Bulletin. The London correspondent ot a contemporary recently visited Whitechapel road on a Saturday night. Noticing a pile of skinned rabbits, he aßked the price and received an answer.—" Eightpence a pound, and you'll never get them cheaper." (J pon telling th c dealor i that he came trom a country where he I could get twenty millions by just fetching them, that gentleman smiled incredulously, but was too polite to say he didn't believe it. Mr G. Hansen, of Rangitikei Line, will supply milk to customers m Pahnerston North.from tho first of next month. We rogret to hnnr that Mrs Alzdorf, one of the very oldest settlers, died on .Saturday last, at Makara, Mrs Alzdorf, who was tho widow of Charles Earnest Baron Alzdorf, arrived here with her husband m 1840 by the ship Adelaide. Th*y took the licmse of the old Wellington Hotel (which was subsequently changed to tho Wellington Club), and old residents of the city well remember that m this house Baron Alzdorf was killed by the fall of a chimney m the great earthquake of 1855. Soon afterward^ the widow retired from the hotel, m which sho was succooded by Mr Taperell. Since then Mrs Alsdorf has lived a retired life, having ample means for hor support. Sho had been blind for tlio last thirty-five year*, and, whilo she wis iniivorsnlly estefinnd, was paticularly noted for her fondness for and attention to children :— Wellington paper.