The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oh our fourth page will be found an extract on the Anglo-Russian difficulty, Telegrams, Commorcial News, and a quantify of miscellaneous reading matter. The adjourned meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening. ■; Messrs Stevens and Gorton, under in- ' Btructions from Messrs Ollivier and Brown, solicitors for the Wellington and Hutt Building Society, will sell on Wed- ; nesdajf,^ «fjily^ lstb, ~J at'iSfc p.na.> '#- large number of town properties. Full particulars, will be found m advertisement. _■ : The Manawatu Road Board meets tomorrow at the usual tune and place. Messrs Stevens and Gorton announce their usual monthy sale at the Borough Yards for Tuesday, the 14th inst. En tries fpr which are solicited. • ? .v:. i Our Gundegai correspondent (says an Australian paper) informs us by telegraph that a person who ,has passed . through Gundegai with sheep from the mountains gives tlie following as his experience, and which , should be of great importance to sheep owners if correct :— lhat one, part of butter: and .two parts of tar smeared •■ on the legs, belly, and, the hind parts of tlie sheep will eventually prevent their destruction by dogs. lf Thfe remedy is also a sure preventative against flies. A somewhat aerio-comical incident happened! a few Sundays since m connec , tioh with|otie of the ' W esfeyah Churches at Ballarat. Says a. correspqndentj!-the minister, for, certain reasons, rebuked some of tlie members of the congregation from the pulpit. t This .rebuke evidently, f struck home to some of the choristers, , f or, tß ey secretly determined not i to • "sing m the choir as long as that-; individual ocI'cupied the pulpit. Sunday came, and wheii the clergyman gave out tlie 1 nymri^ and read the first verse, only a few joined m the praise, and their efforts-were unsuccessful," as they soon brokVddwn. The meiabersiwho , were On : "strike " were ;in ' another part, of :. the building, and *. were said' to be enjoying '.the 'situation. Many of those present f elt for the miniater ? m the awkward predicament, and, according to a locahipape^ 'sttnie of them' f w6uld probably have " taken it put " of ( the. of[fenders had it been, anywhere else But' "a place of worship. The cpngregatjonjare now organising another choir. > ; '-■■-,■ A storywof Sydney Smith, one of ?the many which never : grpw old, ? has it; that ,he\ was once looking through^the .' hothouse'of a lady very : proud ot her flowers,' and used, hot very accurately a profusion of botanical names. "Madam," said he, , " have you the. Septennis psnrfc asisT' "No," said she, "I. had 'it last winter and gave it to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; it came out beautifully m the spring.',' (Septennis psoriasis is the medical.name for the itch.) . ~, r _ . , You don't often catch a weasel asleep '"■jor'a bank manager on the hop. certain New Zealand tpwn they Had * a limited liability /company, which ".■ K^id exhausted its capital, and still wanted mbre. The , directors were pretty substantial men, and a local banker was about the most substantial ot them ; he suggested an overdraft on the "joint < an^several '■ of the directors,; who agreed but when it came to making the bill the 1 bariker adroitly avdidedvadprhing it with' his. signature,' by telling his fellow 1 direc- 5 tors ,'■ it- was -against the rules of his bank jfor..him to sign any security on which the bank made an , adyance." , The bucolic and uoßuspecting, directors allowed . the ' man of joverdrafts tb stand-out, 'arid ' now ;they/ wish they iliadn'it,* as they have to face the music and pay up ! Verb sap. A very amusing story w reported from *a cathedral city m the west of England. For many years half-a-dozen devout old .ladies have been m the habit of going m fine weather and m foul to the early morning service m the old minster. Recently it was decided to warm the church "but>the old ladies, with one voice, protested a'gaihst the innovation. "We shall be '■'; suffocated!" they declared. u We tshalL be; 'b,prne out fainting !" One morhihi? whehthey arrived for their devotion 'they found a number of . stoves set up, m ysrious nooks and corners of the . cathedral. In the course of the servico|- ; theref ore^thf ee old ladies fainted, antfe were carried out by the^ vergers. " We-knew-ho^w it would be,'\.they said tojthe^ dean, whenj later on, he" sought them m the ..porch; "those new stoves are; perfectly suffocating." "But," explained the deati, with a smile, "those new stoves have not yet been lighted !" " What influe»cs has the moon upon ithe tidij ? " asked the professor The class wag replied that he didn't know exactly what influence it had upon the tied, but it had a tendency to make the untied awfully spooney. The perfection to which our Now Zealand wools can be brought has been amply proved by Mr W. Barber, Cubastreet, who has dyed some Kaiapoi wools m almost every conceivable sliade.-.yEe, has a caseiof woolen thread ?wfiich hi intends placing at the Indnstrial Exhibition to bo held next month, and it will contain no less than forty-eight different shades p£ • coloring, , some : of , tipm bein? very beautiful. Those who wish to patronise local industry might with advaltage inspect the v^oojs m the meantime, which are alike creditable to the Kaiapoi Woollan Mills and to Mr Barber. — Wellington paper. One of the latest inventions of the age I is the Harden Hand Greiiade Fire Extinguisher!. Of these grenades MrJ.H. Horn has just landed a supply, and already some of the larger hotels have " been supplying themselves with them. In recant teßtstheße little .extinguishers have proved beyond doubt that they possess properties which render it an easy matter to put out a fire m an incipient Htnge t when one or two grenaden are at hand. In shape they are somewhat, nkin to a small water bottle, they ar«.a dark ereen color, and aro filled rwith ' Borne/liqiiid. 1 Their merits 'oret nNinerous,' amongst' them may be stated conyeniehcrf or handling, readiness , immodiale;uae,'inßtn'nt«neoiis operation, arid ecoribmy. . Th«y only requireto fre thrown into a fire, and the contents of the bottle doeß the rest. Mr .Horn intends Bhortiy holding a public trial of; which nnticf will clonbtl«?f?H h«> tjivon m due course.T-Wanganiii Herald. ".Alt ! you flatter- me," lisped a masher to a pretty young girl fvHth"'"\vh'oni"*h'e" was conversing. " No, I don't," was the reply, " you couldn't be any flatter ' than you are." • .

A novel incident which occured to a stenographer of a New York Court the other day, will raise a new point of law for the judges to decide. ' The stenographer had taken the official notes of a case tried m his Court, transcribed them, and placed the transcript and the notes m his overcoat pocket; That night he went to the theatre, threw his overcoat over the back of the seat anil the notes and transcript fell on the floor ann were lost. This is, therefore no record of the testimony of the witnesses from which to mako up an appeal, unless the parties can agree to make it up by memory. The case is unprecedented and the unfortunate stenographer, is m ' trouble lest lie be mulcted m the costs ;of jajuew trial, should Ono be deemed necessary. i ; The Hawera Star] says : — A. .-story is 'current that Te Whiti lately ordered a ; party of his followers to go down the coast and commence the erection of a large meeting-house on European ground .between Opunake and WaingqngonC If they trod on a thistle and it pricked 1 them they wore te pui down the other foot very softly ; if they were again hurt they should, stop the proceedings, They were to be very cautious. This is understood to mean that if they met with any opposition from the' pakeha they were to try to urge their, point gently, but if further opposed they .were to withdraw quietly. . . • A Chinaman lias joined the Auckland Parliamentary Union, ! The"' direcCdfs of the Wellington^ Woollen Factory has accepted the tender of Mofsrs Cable and Co., Wellington £2446, for the construction of engines, boilers, ,apd.Bhaf ting for -their factory; .. Teridersifor .the-.erectiop qfljtie necessary Buildings were all found to be above the engineer's estimate, and none consequently vwere accepted. 1 ; It is proposed to start a starch factory m the neighborhood' of Greytown. - " Consider," says the Marquis of Blanford, the matter of Education. Tliuro is still a rage to teach" children everythiug but their own language or >theprinciple's of their fnture occupation^ /the village boy -is. still taught the history Che Norman kin igis and the -latitiidV of the Cape of Good Hope, whiles he is never helpeii'to think for himself by studying Nature at first hand. Praciu^gardeuing.or agricultiire, r^adi'iigi or; ealiy discourses on English literature, would give the lad ay chance hereafter, n His . future occupations m life would not b« entirely divorced, as ttyey are at present, from his early training, faud he, would not, after a few years L at the plough, have forgotten the greatest part of what, was ouce dinned into him," .;,;,-,.....• — .....;■ -„;.■ ( A peculiar and* amusing termination rio a school board election has "just been. reached at Normandy, a town m Middlesbqrough, Jin Yorkshire. Amon^ ( the candidates retu rned lately was "an £g'f ij ' cultural lobburer' named George Jubbl The other four members, who were farmers, thereupon umbrage, and refused to. sit with him. i They • resigned, arid ; the School Board business, .was brought, to. , a , deadlqck. Qn the facts, being reported (to the. Eatucatiqtr Depart-, , mient,'an brcler was sent do wu to Juhb, -giving'him^ull' power, /as the i Btirvivihg m'emlie'r, to' appoint four menibers m the place of those who had resigned.' Jubb' called the electors together, When four -working, irien. were selected, and appointed. The result is that all the members o& the School. -B^ard are now working nteu, and the fanners will have to stand by for the space of three years, and>submst to the arrahgements'the new Board makes for carrying on the educational wbrk of the district, ■ r - jA ludicrous incident occurred w hen Carter, the lion king, as he was called, was exhibiting with Ducrow, m London. A manager with whom Carter had made and broken an engagement, .issued a writ against him. The bailiffs came, up to| the, stage door and asked for/Carter: "Show the gentleman said Ducrow ; arid when they reached : the stage, there sa.t Carter composedly m the great cage, with enormous lions on each side of him. | "There's Mr Carter waitings for you, gen£lemenj" r ßaid -Ducrow,' 11 go : m sand take him. Garter, my boy, open, the door." Carter proceeded to-obey'at-the saino time elicitiug by a private signal a tremehdbus roar f rot* bis companions. The bailiffs staggered back m terror, piled: ovbVeach , other as vthey \rushed? down stairs, and nearly fain ted btf ore -they.^.qched, the; street.; , ■ , ; . ;i <; .-f A Cremation -Society | hftß been started • m JLqndoii. , The Society has issued circulartktjo the effect that, it ia now m a position to * undertake the cremation v of boHiesat Working Cemetry, m Surrey. This method of disposing of _the dead is cominginto "general favourj v iri-bonse-/ quieiide'oS'tlie overcrowdihg of;;mbßfc'of the cemejerjes:. ; . •<. .• \ ■, • -n;-:!> ■<■>;•-■; Several of the newspapers state that, tbi late Duke of Brunswick languised allhis life under ' a hopeless passion 'for the > Queen.: •-:■•, . •..- . ■■ ♦•- ■■'■.■;■' 'v ■.;■.<■• ■■ Eerbsenej-'oil is shipped m barrels' frdm America. - During a'lorig' jou'fney by: rail, sometimos half a barrel of oil would leak through the pores of the woocU and evaporate. So .some sharp . fellow.; began, to study some w.ay of preventing such loss. He first painted the barrel blue v on the 'outside i and then filled it vn\,h water and allowed it to stand until it had soaked up all it could. Then the qiiiwaß put m. The water kept the oil from soaking into .the wood, and ttte' paint on' the outside kept the water from coming' out.' He got a patent on' his discovery, and now he sits m his office, and draws his royalty of one. .cent on every barrel made to hold kerosene oit for shipment. ::','■■; A devout, and worthy gentleman is the:clergyma,n of a. suburban parish. l : ;His< congregation was somewhat amused^at the singularity of one qf ;his recent an nounceoients, which was as follows:— '• Beraember our communion service next Sunday afternoon. The Lord will be with us during the morning service, and the bishop m the evening. ; The guarantee fund for the " Colonies," as next -year's exhibition is to be called,' amounts to the sum of i' 128,000. Everything connected with the arrangements is progressing satisfactorily : the' fact that there : are to be no prizes, but only commemorative medals, is the sole' circumstance which does. not. meet with general approval. '"' ' ' ~ A Natal paper describes , an enormous ray, of devilfish which was recently takfenat Port Elizabeth. _ 1$ weighed over two tons, and was nineteen feet m width./ It had no teeth, but was pro--, vided with two paddles ahead. Great, difficulty was experienced m its capture, and the boat was several times 1 in;danger; The monster was to be sent to London. " '•■' '■''.■ The largest ship r canal m Europe is the Great North Holland Canal, completed m 1825. It is 123 ft wide at the water surface, Blft at the bottom, 20ft deep, and 51 miles long. The Suez Canal ia 90 uolles lonsr, of which 06 miles, are; actual canal ; it is 20ft 4iri deep,-72fti ,sin wide at the bottom, and 829 ft wide at the water surface, The Panama Canal 'is to be 45J miles m length. .