LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 35, 9 July 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I : Qn t our fourth, page will be found Cable Newsi Australian Nevrs, Telegrams, continuation ot the report] of the Manawatu Boad Board, and a. • re ; ■ port of the sentence of Waring Taylor. Says the Tiniaru Herald of the 4th July: — We were shown last evening .Bom,e f spurioiis silver f coin which a (wellknown shopkeeper m this town has had the, misfortune to have passed: to him m the way of business. One of the coins is an exact imitation of a sixpence, and the othey-i of> half-arcrown^ We; -have compared them with good , (Joins, ,and after a mpst minute ofptical examination pffthem ctohot.afetect any thing J^froiig • with ' them, ! Taking one lip, /however, and " ringing " it the Bpuriousnessis be.trayed at, once. •No ." ring " is at all r giyen ,forsi ,by eithe? of .the, coins. The sixpehcft also bends readily. "Shopkeepers will, therefore, do well to test all coin. that passes their hands m the old style mentioned,' and which is known to fail but seldom, lit would appear that many , of ' fchos« coins are m circulation, the shoopkeeper who sent us the ones we have before us at time of r writing informing ;j us that :he has de-^ tected several otherß 'among his silver: thithweeic." '•_•' . •"'.. / ;• ';' '.. '." „ Cr.J. King received another damper ,at; .Tutsday „nigh^!s Ijoiwigh Council "meeting. He wanted very ba/Uy to 'h,ave a~ brand: new^Rsturnirig Officer 'm place of Mr Keeling, "to whbm he objected on account of his' returning^ Ms:, ow*i l ;audito.rß',,Rn(i;,ialßo on, the /groundj that a good deal of grumbling had been evinced because an indepentent man did not hold tho position. , The Mayor very ' promptly i- althoujgh hatu i rally^ somewhat , .staggered at the suddennesa of this nroposition; of Cr , iKing's,; jdeclared he would strongly oppose any such motion, 1id v (the Mayor) ■ would' take it>at once as ;beiuJEf^;YQte;of censiiTeon .their Secretary, he also kfi'qv£|tljat . t^he work had always been faithTulfy 1 carried out by Mr Keeling.and that the Council had heretofore,and he had ho doubt they would also m the future place every confidence m him. The proposition was seconded by Or West, all the other Cr's. • voting .against it. , .* v TheAwaburi Bridge now appears to ■be a substantial structure, the approaches'and recent additions having been constructed m a substantial mann«i;. the course of the river.. filters • very : much the, communication should not be suspended through floods for some time to come. J ■>[': A • On Wednesday Mr John Stevens and . Colonel Gorton made a valuation of tho stock, 'farming ' ihiplerrients &c, on the Westoo estate, on behalf' of the purchaser and vendor respectively of that magnificent proporty, Mr James Bull acting as referee. \ Goods intended as exhibits at the New Zealand Exhibition are coming forward rapidly. About 150. cases and packages were received at 'the' Exhibition buildings on Monday v frpm Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago.—Posi. 'Mr J. Pickard, of the Salvation Army, havingbeon, asked, by several friends to give them a copy of the beautiful lines he quoted last ' night at the army meetih'g, has handed them to us (Post) for publication. He states they were found pyer 3Q years ago ,writtenon the wall m. a iunatic's. cell . They are as follow :— THE LOVE OF GOD' . " Oould we with ink the ocean fill, '■:■-'. And SvQre,the:eartli <jf parchment madb, ' ; Were every single stick a quill ■ 'And every man a scribe by trnde, To.write tlie love of God abovo ,'Twould drain-. the ocean dry ; f -niTdr could tlie scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky!" Among th« Colonial , possesaiona, or more correctly, dependencies of Holland, there is a remarkable little State which, m itS'Constitution and original costume of its inhabitants, surpasses the boldest dreams of the advocates of women's rights. „-^n the Island of Java; between •th'e cities of Batavia and Stimarang, is the- kingdom of Bantam, whinh, although tributary to Holland, is an ludopendent State. . The Sovereign js, indeed, a, man, but nil the fast' of , the Grovornmeht be- , lo.ngs to the fair..'Bei'. '_. % The Kuig is cn t - ' tirely dependent w'pon his State Coun T ail. Tlie jughast authorities, . military commanders, and soldiers are;* without exce'ptioH, of the female Bex. : These Ama^onß ride m the raasoulineistylft, wearing. shnrp »teel points < instfind of spurs.^ They carry, a pointed lancp, Which they swing: voi-y {rrrtcefnlly, r.h ! d also a musket, which : is f dischargnd at' full gallop, -.., The capital, of this little State lies m thet mnat pictnrosqne part of the island, m a fruitful plain, and is defended by two well-kept fortresses.

Mr E. VTood, Messrs Stevens and Gorton's travelling representative, who lately had liis leg brokeii on the road to Mr Sker.nans, when riding after a horse, is progressing favourably towards convalescence. He hopea to be up out of bed and getting about on crutches beforo man}' days. The fracture was a very serious one, but waß .very skilfully set by Dr Macintire. v • -■--"'> „ .- We notice that.MrJPodevin,. of Rangitikei' Line, is ploughing up the ground near his residence. The soil appears to be of a very fertile description. This being. the first ploughing, roots abound m all diiections aud occasionally stops the operations of the team. It is said that, over a dozen families have cleared out of Bullb within the last twelve months. At present .., the township is very d all^ and business iv a depressed condition generally speaking. 1 The purchase nibn<iy x of the Westbe estate was £6 per acre, or a total .of £15,000. . It is now placed m the hands of the Rangitikei Commission Agent, tho ; reserve being £22.500. If thisprice is bbtaiued, the spec will have yielded a handsome profit to the iuvestor. . •',■,:>■ -.; ■■■,'.:] '.. A practical'joke played on a man m Wataelca, 111., has niado him insane. Ho invested heavily m lottery tickets, .and some one who knew his weakness sent .him an announcement that he had drawn s priz» and enclosed a draft for £200,000, Tho discovery that the' draft was bogus has completely unbalanced his mind. We hereby put up $10,000 against a like amount to be put up by Capt. Bogardus or Dr Carvor, one or : severally j- ! that neither or both of them can put 60,000 bullets m O'Donovan Ronsa m 60,000, days, the tlrst 1000 to.be; put ill m 1000 hours." — Merchant Traveller. A gentleman sent a lad with a ; letter to the post-office, and money to pay the postage. Having returned , .with the money he said : "Guess I have done the I thing slick. I seen a good many folks putting letteis m the post-office through a hole, and so I watched my chanco aud got min.e ih^for.nothing.i, Friday's Evening Press had the following :i _Two policemen on the Manners-, street station got badly scared last night. The! body of the man Cook had just be«ii conveyed to the* Morgue^ arid tho policemen on duty were congratulating themselves on the completion of a ghastly duty. Two of the" ; f brtfe ' were pacing up aid down outside the building \rhjn suddenly' from tho' interior came a series of soul stirriugraps. Their first impjilse. was to ruu but tli^y were too frightened, more particularly aa the, weird .tapping. Btill r continued. At la^t they musteied up'cb'urage to goto the station house/get the .key, and return to,, the morgue. But there some little difficulty OGCiired. Neither*- af; the men jJared oiitt»r the grisly building, and they might have ,beeti r standing there still and listening tb'ttie ghostly'rappings ftad not P. 0. Slight come b'yi;- He wasn't afiaid rof ghostis^ übt'he. He boldly entered: the morgue; struck a -light,- andfbuud— all quiet. Another rapping sounded, from the outside of the rear wail. The' L .trio rtheii went round; to the back and found that a stable abutted upon the morgue, and that the horse. stalled thcrainJuid been creating all the rovrP TJiilr morning- two policemen are loudly • talking about what thoy;woukihavo done to the ghost if they could only have taught J>unj; ■P..;*p. .Sight; ,w.ink> quietly and smiles a sad, long, summor-befbre-last kind of Binile. „ . .; r , T)ie Te Aro reclamation work is progreilsing rapiafy,] tfiid contractor, Mr (Tos. SauniJers anticipates *that *he will! complete hiscontractin about seven months from the'pre'senttiiri*. ; tJpwards of 200tfuck-rbads of spoil are discharged %on the works, .eyery day. and -as each trudk contains* five ,tpns of dirt, .this is equal to a deposit of 6000 tons per week. —Pptt. Editing , a ; n«wspap,ef m Japan is, eyidently fattier a difficult matter: One natiya journal recently appeared with a large blank space, for which; the editor apologised by stating that" at the last moment he founds that .what ,he had written for ;tHat ) was wrong, and must b« left out. "Accord- 1 inglyhe had ng 4 tiuie to obtain matter to fill the yacaiitcol(UQnß. The: lohibvwhidhidtbfbr London 4ast Saturday-, took m her cooK- chamber 70 case's (cheese; from .the vGisborne;, Dairy Produce Company. ; Tins be,ii«gthe cpm- '- pany'B first ; shipment • for the' : London raarkVt, evtiVy care has. Been, / talceii m packing^ '&c>., <b insure its. arrival"'- in good ' 'c'buditioh- In addition ' to- the abtoytftlift ionictook ; iii i'liei-'Coo! chamber <B ; bm,e 30 tons of cheese and honey from: Welliugtou,. Nelson, and Napieri— Post. - .^iji t i^ 3 r tifahLo rod that a' 'taecli^- 1 cal gentleitfah of-'Rangitikev who formerly •Tvisitedl.Ealmeratoh, i has ; suddenlyj left this country on a travelling tour, accompanied, jby , his favorite domestic. : - It fnlfty ofc interest to < many of • our readers to lehrn-tliat although Waring Taylor has received a sentence. . of five years' penal servitude it (Joes .not. ;f ollp.w^ that/he will be obliged to" remain m prison for such a length of .time. .The sentence pf f five years ; cbninienc^s' f fom: tlie date, of tlie beginriing of ' the 'sessions at whioh ; the ,cbnVictibn; jiopk'i place; nThei verdict! of '! Guilty ..was -jbrbughfo in-.jby^ ■»! at 'the sessions which .commencedj pearly m January last, ; so that the pri;'Bone'r has already served;, nearly six - During, the time rher has been awajtino; .aentehce he hdsl behayed/ him-] self iin.flie.most-.exemplary; manner, and. if he coniiiiiiies liis' gbbd conduct ' He will' be entitled to about 15 months > remission of sentence. This, addedxto thertime he. has jalready served,, will reduce 'tnfrrsenv tence to a little over three years from today .p-Tuesday's Post ,. RV T: . " We are 'indebted to the \ Mahawatu Herpld for the paragraph which appeared m oußi'last issue.- t .with reference, to the presentation to ? Mir . W. Gr'. " Rbbinsoii, of Foxipn.';: ■ ; v; -\\ •'>:. - -. . Said an English lady ona night at a ball : m Edinburgh : -"I pity Scotchwomen, because the men never marry till they are weary of lodgings." The remark caught' the ear of the beautiful and witty Countess of W , who retdrted, '* Your "countrymen are tp.be pitied, because the r men; never weary, for lodgings until .they 'are married !"