LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 24, 26 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lieutenant recently met with a rebuffs The lieutenant w.vs promenading m full uniform one day, and ap/JMpached ft sentry, who challenged him with "EUlt! who goes there?" Tim lieutenant, with con tempt m every linea•t»etit of his f ace,expressed his Fettlingwilh an indignant" Ass !" The sentry's reply, ;rapt and quick, came : " Advaucej Ass, - and give the countersign I" ; A gentleman attached to a Wellington firm has lately been visiting this district. He was said, apparently on good authority, to be authorised to .open up negotiations with a f«w of the lending settlers with a view to starting meat tinning works at. or near Patea. he represent- d two or three capitalists who, if they cotild Scftnre the support of a few of the Inrgo •land-owners, tnwld suttsurilx: the ninjor part of the capital required for the works, and would go m for making a profit out of tho business, entering upon it simply as a payable investment. Tlw agent appears satslied tliat there is more likelihood of profit m tinning than there is m freezing works ; and we believe he has- the advantage of experience to guide his judgement m the mutter. — Ha wera Star. Our Scottish readers will be interested m knowing that the Kennedy family are 'kii\\- before tho public;- ■" Two Hours at Home" was- given by Mr Kennedy ;ai}d, ,thrfie 'of his 'family;'. in T)fin I fe.rmline wli/eii' the last mail Juft to large and enthtmastic audiences. ....... ■■iAy.riting of the proposed introduction of, the shorthand, reportor to the law courts, the Master! on Star says :-•". With the introduction, however, of the. stenographer the wheels of the law will brgin to; revolve, 1 His Honor will h.ive cheer ful times, for instead of having to waste lifetime and faculties m uotn-taking, he will be able to listen and deliberate on ,the-. 4 evidence as given. There will doubtless bo a brushing off of cobwebs and litigants, and malefactors may expect less suspense, clearer expositions, and less incomprehensible decisions." Many a man has broken his back ami lost heart on a poor farm which he has suffered to run down by bad management," says tho Rural World, " spreading the labor and capital over one hundred acres, when by 'confining himse'f to twenty-five or thirty he might havo become happy and rich." An English physician, Dr Meitlcrke, m a recent"' pViblichtion, ventures the statement that a single patent medicine, v^ej^r popular na a soothing draught for infanta, "is tho undoubted cause of the dontli of 150,000 children annually " m the Kingdom of Great Critain. . . Urieat Britain basin her navj', fifty vessels capable of steaming around the world at a speed of twelve kuots per hoar without recoaling. Jack Macdonald, John Heenan's second m the latter's memorable fights With Tom Sayers and Tom King, is dead at seventy-one years. At the conclusion of tho evidence at the inquest on the body of Charles Seed, who was accidentally shot by his playmate m Wellington, Dr Johnston said that he was afraid the jury could not make anyone liable, but, m his opinion, it was a very reckless proceeding to leave firearms , about within tho reach of children. '"Tsni?M .'"the 'Eipploympnt. of Females Bill is m committee Sjr Stout will move that the employment of females as bjir-inardsb^fore-8 a.m. or after 6 p.m. shall he deemed a breach of the law, and shall be nnnishablo accordingly. A Wellington paper is informed that in'cousequonce of the etiorhrous duty °f 20 per cent. (4r inthe £) now levied On all imported clothing, according to the new nnd obnoxious tariff, Mr Thorburn, clothier, of Willis-street, has determined (o relinquish the greater portion of that t'epavtmoat of bis business,

The CWoners Juries Abolition Bill, iutrorincod by Mr (jruimieas, and circulated yesterday, provides that inquests shall bo lu-ld by the Coroner alone, without the assistance of juries. A telegram was received m Wellington on W(>diK(sd.iy sUtiny; that .Messrs l'ulford and Yules, who, it will be remembered, left bore on the 28th ultimo, with the intention of walking to Auckland, via Njip?«r and the Hot Lukes, arrivjdin Auckland m good health on Thursday last. They spent a week m Napier, and, considering the bad weather and various obstacles that must necessarily hnve be«n encountered en route, the • liimt occupied m the journey is very creditable. Under the new Police Offences Act, a man at Westport was recently charged with working his calling on Sunday. The offence consisted m hauling some logs from the river bank which the in-4 creasing tide threatened to carry out to see and transport to parts unknown without any bill of ladirg being made out. The Magistrate dismissed the case. This is usually the course adopted by sensible Magistrates when having to deal with informations laid under this enlightened piece of legislature. The a. s. Wavorlej', wbich arrived m W li'ii^ton from Patea, brought the first shipment ot cheese from the Hawera factory. It compris s 207 cases and will be taken Home by the lonic. The. 8.8. Hauroto which passed through Wellington on Tuesday on her way to . Sydney, b «s 120 horses ami 900 tons of general cargo from Southern ports on . board. One legislator has not had much hard ' work yet. Nevertheless,. a proposal was • "U4d<: on Wednesday that the Hiu*tnoa . should take out lion, members on a. 15 legislative spree " to Pictou, Nelson, or som ; other pl< a-s uit locality not too tar ' 6tt\ Tin; idea did not s-^em to meet with very cordial acceptance, and has, wo believe, been dropped. . . We remind our readers of Messrs Snelsou and Cos. horse fair at Tatter sails Yards to-morrow at 1. 30 p.m. At 2 p,m. the same firm will sell fruit and fi»ri;st trees, shrubs, <&x\ from Mr James Laird's nursery, and on Tuesday they will holdas.ile at Nelson's Heady Money Store, Ashurst, of fruit and foreßt trees, shrubs, and general merchandise.