LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 20, 22 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'" Atte.oti.on \b .to' "'Mi^James .•kau'ds'.s <exte.nd.ed ' arinbunqeraent apf>ear r (iaig elsewhere. ;'■■''''■ ''■■ lvi • -;MasS; was said m St> '.iPafritfe' l^' Church lyegterrtwj^y^i^j^r^yaJah/ >ftho also fiOßduoted the ; evening devotions'-in the same place' of worship.^- .'--^.ij/'T - : •, ! ;'i Some letters to' tbi ; 'eßit6r aM under consideration, and others are unavoidably \ .'.' : f .During 1.884, 1186* persons weroKiHes .on railways m the Ouiled Kttrgdftifi, the injured iitnnbeViHg : B(i23*-- ..•-: i - The War Office hao offered twenty bix cpmtuissions m the' : British- Army |to the! Royal Military College, Canada.; Lord Hartinglon was asked m the Htriise of Quuimoiiß why the sumo facilities we-xe not offered to other colonies, aud fepiied' that Canada, alone possesses a Militaiy college*. '-' • | ;; : The immense stone bridge coijilriiefc-.' i nd by UiQphiiiesc.ej.iifitieers over tlearin i or' the LViugang is finished. Tho. iridgo is five miles long, entirely of stein?, and "h'lftfSOO arches, each : seventy f«ethiglv; The budge is seventy feet wide.: .;•; ; .; The fdriig'n telegrams of the .L«nd,Qn ' TMe^j - inel riding ,= «• loii^ f , letter from Khartoum, cost on a singl^djiy, ' Mike Fonimoro .Cooper;, 'sisten o£i tl« [ fanlous • American, novelist ift,de«Aoo! „ Vanderbilt, the American mjlliouare, v iß-b ; uiJdiiig a tomb at a coßt of Another wire-walker — Leo»i, calle<! the'Kihgof tlie AiF— hng-nnßthJs-deail)., ;in,Amvrjp,a by falling from tlfo wire'.B!is i naiiie%*BM<il6jft:v. ft'i/T < "/Tji?^tna'nganese«'AiiKn«i4'at the^ Bay of ISlaiidß'are-tO'be wotked m ear-nest. , „P. S. Arthur, author of "Tw nights! ,m a bar-room " and other, tal^s| is dund. He' probably accdmplished as much for the cause ot temperance as any man of his time. .. ; r - ? ;;';\ . ■• i'--' • Tire ; •* Astonißhei; and Paralysef""'iß the' name of. a now papjer jnut started m, Oarbondale, Kansas, '! ' The French Press haft lately shown considerable .animus tpwards England; A Pariflan paper called -LeGrelot has a colouied : cartoon r«preseii*tttig Que^n Victoria holding the torch off civilization m one hand, a bottle of gih m theothw?,and..trampling uuder foot the prostrate forms of China, Africa, Ind^a, Ir.-laffd, and Egypt. ■ The Series of coinplicatious with cither Powers, into which England has fallen is supposed to be part of the working oul of a great schema of Bismarck's and to secure his own ends heset the. other nations to work as puppets! while ho skilfully puils the wires. 't The death is announced m the WeU. Hiigton papers at the Lower Hint, of. • Captain E. Stafford. As a boy Captain Stafford served iji the navy^ but he had been m the colonies for about 45 years. He w.as. for Io : ng master" and owner" of the Ca'ihille, which traded but w^eft.Wellington and Newcastle. ;St»liseqtieu£ly he lived m Wellington. He took a. great interest m Freemasonry, and had 'erected in'the* cemetery- the couspiottoiis j Masonic monument to /a master of one of his: vessels. Captain Stafford, wh<J haß.b^eu.i« bad healfh'for some ti^tih y . was atipiit 63r years 6f age. Mr :Gi-ia'dsJ;oue'B,,salayies ampuDtj.itp . £7500 a year— i y ot ' Hb chopß ..his . ,^wn , wood.. •■"• ■■"' 1 *»:•.'; ! ' ' Testiuipnry. -,-""• AyV' Dugald," " 'said Dugald's fuehd, " - as you Bay, youSSr.« i ; B.oberaiid holiest, but very little of either, Vana^o'fc'mfifch^fcbbth^ ; '-Ui .-.. i.^vf.,- --... Th? tptjiV'iii^nin*r'«of -sh^p:" «i»li J the7 colony; iti. May;" l«B4ji wd» Ifyffl&iaik x againsY:l3;3o6; 329'lhe i^N^jrj^ }, v .__ . A- person i 8 liable to ajfttJtfrdiP'iSlO Sop. , 'beiiig rffilriK l at'tt raifeva^ slaffonfr,,.; r : ,- , .: TJie ■followitig' ! f i actß / a^WAt.-flw/ late v/ General' Gordon arc taken from the DeutscJie Rwiuhchan ofi..,<Riijy...r tf 18.8!4They; have now an intcrr-st a thousa'iidfold intonsifiod:^-" Ho:- cat»i>>po .meat, smokes no tobacco, drinks no Vvino, and partakes of no spirits. He lives almost entiivly on fruit, bread, ricfi, tea, and water. He detests the Engliah dinner, with its heavy dishes and waste of time. His meals last from 5 to 10 minutes.

,-i Fj^m the; battlo of Creasy m 1346 to the rait of deirastupool m 1855, a period „o£soo]yearß. Britain has -gained 28G ilistiuct victories. ' *' . . p is- related" that' at :. the. opera, m a gentleman sarcastically asked a/ui«n; standing up m front of bin if he 'vraft'awara he was :bpaqiiis? The other <lenie«| the allegation, and said ho was W(f regret to notice ..that Auckland's prosperity lias run the length of its pre- <*»{>! : tetifer." There nee' now ; large* numbers of unemployed there. The Citizen calls attention to th« fact that 95 applicants came forward m response to an advertisinent for a store handwithin ; an , hoi^r of the adrertisMnent being pubilshedl There was: a- good "doal of genuine prosperity during, the ' r^cc^nt °"gdbi¥' times' m the northei;n ceutto ; Got; th« fictitious prices of property told very plainly fhat a-rcaction must ensua. .'V.'^fiiis isho\YtljeGisbornc oom-spondent of the Wiiirott paper makes' lighr of a js>r|o4ifl matter : — " We have not Htrnck oiljyet. VVhen we have you shall know. [\W« have liimp going to strike any day fofl the last two or three years. O\\ has hepu seen — so it is said — and sm«lt — so it is said ; but it has not yet come /up through 'the pipes. There is however ing mistake about the calls, which share flli(jld«rt'do not respond to rejoicingly; ri» f'u6l'very' v aany do noi respond at all." L - 'The protection to be accorded . to the rae'veharit ships of this country m any coining war will be quite differeut frotn the o'UI convoy system, insf aad of the iperchaut ships proceeding on their vqyages under escort of ships of wnr, tho plan will be that of sending swift armed cruisers to hunt down the same class of Vessels engaged iti the 'enemy's Bervicel This little enhance the value of the great ocean liners, with theirhigh ! speed and large coal-carrying capacity. Should they be in-'inicoiJ uy an i'roiifdad, thay could sesk safety iti flight. 'Iheir tuu.ctio:is would 'b« to attack those ships which resom'blo thetnselves, and which would be the clads deeignod to harass the merchant fleet. It has.be.eit .A'osolyod, to introduco the chamois into OtagO; '[ . ' Further additions are made to Messrs Stevens & Gorton's stock sale at the Eeilding yards to-morrow.