LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 21, 23 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Southern exchange has the following: — The Local Government Acts are slowly but surely preparing the way for their own abolition. Lake County has an overdraft of £3600, Bruco County (never m debt bcfoie) had to place itself under obligation to the bank, and there is scarcely a similar body m the country but is m the immediate! neighbourhood of Queen street. Fortunately help is nigh at hand. but. it will not come from Sir Julius Yogel or the Hon. Robert Stout. Tha following sentences were recently passed by the Recorder of Liverpool on the same day :— (1.) EugitinsQiilnn, for having- stolen from his employer £862, eight months' imprisonment. (2.) Bridget C. Thompson, for having stolen a pair of boots, twelve months'imprisonment. (3.) Samuel Ptmiell, for having slolen a fowl, twelve months' imprisonment. Baron Nordenskjold is now reported to be preparing to reach the North Pole by way or the islands north of Fiberia. He intends ro be gone three years, and his expenses will be borne by tho Russian Government. A weight-carrying contest, which caused a considerable amount of interest began on the 16th of March, and was 111-ought to a conclusion at tho Prince of Wales's Grounds, B»w, London, on March 23rd, half a. dozen competitors . being loft m. The distance was one ' mile, each man to carry one hntidredwftighr,' and Lyon Morris, who never gave his opponents a ehancc, won easily by 40 yards, m 7 mins. 32£ sees. ; The export of New Zealand horses to Sydney ia increasing every mouth. It is very satisfactory to know tlint the colony can hired innre horsea than it rrquirrs, and that th» surplus animals aro of such good quality that they command n roiuly salt* m tho other colonies; hnl it would nfti-r all ho hett«-r f<.r us if w« could iihu tin-He horsirs for productive work. If (hey aro being shipped away la-calls^ thtsre is scarcity of capital to employ them we are losei'B*.

Wo are requested to stato for the ' b«i)cfit. of whom it may coiici<rii that aoine stook belonging to Mr Jeffreys, of Bunnytliorpe, were impounded m tiio Borough Pound last night. The Foresters will hold their halfyearly summoned meeting this uvoiiiug. ; Osman Boy, the favorite Chamberlain of the sultan, followed an Ottoman practice of chooaina; a mechanical trade m early youth, an the Sultans do. Tho Trade Oslhan Bey took np was that of a printer, and lie acquired such a liking for it 'fchat> it became a favonrate amusement eften during his Court career. With the view of encouraging' the printing; of Turkish works, he set up at great cost a large printing office, with the best machinery, and employing two hundred men. He ia now devoting a considerable sum to a great paper mill, and as his attendance on the Sultan no longer allows him to give adequate time, ho has turned over the management of the whole concern to his grandson, Jevad Bny, who shares his tastea. It is a significant fact (says the Woodville Examiner) .that the returns at the Gorge Bridge have fallen off considerably of late as compared with previous periods. The reason ia not far to seek. The heavy tolls at the Lower Ferry are killing th-i traffic between Woidville tmd Palmerston, and many people who formely had their goods delivered from Pulmerstou have changed .their market and shipping to Napiwr. Traffic between Woodville and Tahoraite has increased enormously since the opening of the line. We hear on very good authority that a site has been purchased at the Wangauui Heads, and an arrangement beeu entered into for the erection of buildings and the establishment of: meat preserving works there, the. whoU of the necessary capital being promised for the purpose. — Patea Mail The Fiee Methodist Church at Woodvillo has just obtained a now organ from the States, and it was played for the first time yesterday. It is a fairly good one, extremely so for its cost, the price having been only about i>l4 m New York, and landed m Woodvillo. Mr Sinclaire of the Bank of 2Vew Zealand, kindly passed the draft free of charge. Itwillbea vast improvement to the singing m the church. A farrier m England was recently prosecuted by the Society for the Pievsntion of Cruelty to Animals, for having burned the mouth of a horse for "Lampas." A witness stated that he saw the horse held by a twitch on the nose, whilst the farrier was searing the roof of the mouth with a hot iron. There wa3 a quantity of smoke, and a frizzling noise arising from the burning flesh, and the animal was mo ring its head backwards and forwards as if m great paio. The magistrates dismissed the charge, as "the evidence shewed that vererinary surgeons were divided m opinion as to the treatment for " Laiupae." •■" A young girl m town (says the Northern Ensign) received a letter one day last week by the five o'clock post a letter from her sweetheart, who formed* one of the Naval Brigade, now under Sir General Graham m the Soudan, that he (vas well and would be home m Angist. By the eight o'clock post same evening she received uowu 'from tho WarOftice of his death, he having been killed iv action near Hasheen. A Sunday school scholar, only six yean old was asked by his teacher " why they took Stephen outside the walk of the city to stcne him to death ?" The little fellow was silent for a moment, as though absorbed with the problem, whefy brightening up suddenly 1 he replied: "So they could get a better crack at him." Sunday was th« 48th anniversary of Her Majesty's accestiion. We regret to record the death of Mrs Burchnm, wife ot Mr A. C. Burcham of the Saudon flour mills. The deceased lady had been ill for a considerable time, a Birfferer from consumption. She went to Palraarston a short while ago on a viuitß to her mother, and &hn sank bo rapidrapioly towards tho end that it was inadvisable to remove her home to Kaudoti. She breathed her last on Saturday moning. Great sympathy is felt throughout the district for Mr BuVcham in.lriu sad bereavment. — Marton paper. Mr John Beid, near Ashnrst, invites tenders for about 100 chains of draining. Maori curios m tho shape of mats, mere-meren, greenstones and othur articles meet a ready sale m Canterbury, tourists and visttors being the purchasers. These articles are chiefly obtained from Taranalti, where the natives manufacture them for the Canterbury market. A private tnetting of shareholders m the Wellington iVlanawatu Railway Company was to havo been held m Wellington yesterday, to discuss the present and future prospects of the Compariy/ It is rumoured that the Directors (flrijlreccommend to the* shareholders that the ■Company shall withdraw from the negotiations which for Bom's time past have been pending with the Government for the sale of the railway to the Colony, favorable information having been received from London as to the prospects of the requisite additional capital^ being raised on satisfactory terms. The following regulations with regard to the sale of poisons m New Zealand has been gazetted : — l. Every snller of poison or of any poisonous admixture shall enclose such poison or admixture m a bottle of an octagonial shape, and shall, beforo delivering the same to the purchaser, firmly affix to such bottle a label with the word " Poison " m white letters on a red ground appearing theroon. Such letters to be m block typo of not less than a quarter of an inch m length and one-eighth of an inch m breadth. Lieut-Colonel Stapp, who has not been m very good health for some time past,; is, w regret to hear, under medical attendance at his residence. New PlymDuth. The examination of pupil teachers was to commence this morning m the WanEanui Boys' School. Mr Smith has given notice to ask the Government, If they will place a Bum- of money on the Estimates to be used for the purpose of granting subsidies to public libraries. Speaking 1 of the narrow essape on the Wangaoha Hill, the Marton paper observes : — We may add here that tho practice of attaching so many heavily laden timber trucks to a train carrying passengers when going over the Wangaeiiu hill is one which must m. any caae be fraught with serious peril. — From the Herald we learn that the driver and guard, (Bowes and Fletcher,)who were m charge of the South train onSaturday have men suspended from duty pending an 'infjuiry into their conduct. In the in-tr-robts of the public tho inquiry should bo rjublic, and not merely a departmental one. The driver, Bo'wes, is a steady hand, nnd one who has always m the past proved most nxemplary m his con•luot, and 'his suspension will be heard of with regret by many who know him.-