The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 54, 1 August 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tiie Oldest Daily JN ?wspaper, on v tlie ■ West Coast.

■A; yery^ homely, man, finding- his little .nephew ; drying one day,, snidto him : — !' Johnny,; 'you shouldn't 1 cry ;it will make you look ugly as you grow older." The little.ifel.ow gazed earaejtly at the speaker for a while $ and -then soleuinly said, ."Uncle, you must h\ive cried a graafc deal when you were. a little' boy," Barnum's Show 1 -is* a "travelling total abstinence; society m itself. Of 710 persons who fiavtd, %wlth iti every :ojd& ' is pledged to tribal abstinence froaiffall intoxicants during the existence" of his or her engagement. : . Barry Sullivan, tho renowned tragedian,- was once playing Othello at a Dublin Theatre: When the scene appoar'od for him toiask Desdemona for the handkerchief, hecomiuencod : "Give nfe the handkerchief." A pause, "The handkerchief.'.' Another pause, "Give iiie the h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h-i-q-f." A voice from the front was heard' to exclaim : "Ah, Mister Sullivan, sorr, wipe yor nose wid yer fingers, and' go onwid the play. 1 " , . .We take the .following from last Thursday's Waipawa Mail: — ''An old •native named Apiata Kukikaihga died at the pah on .Tuesday, last. It issaid that he had reached jhe. wonderful age of 115 years, and so far as We can learn, this is correct. The ijati yes also inform us that the old patriarch claimed to have seen Capt. Cook when he sailed past the Bay of Islands ; but lh i]s \^e, cannot vouch for, as so many : natives cay they remember seeing the explorer, forgetting Ithat the year 1777 was a longtime ago. Several tangis havebeen held during the week, but the largest took place yesterday evening, when a large number of natives were present. Tho remains will be taken to Eparaima to-day -where they* will be interred. A large number of natives are expected to attend the funeral." There are 620,325 Oddfellows m Great Britain, an increase of 38,377 during the last year. \ -. The sum of £212 has been collected towards building a . church at Woodville, and a further sum of £100, which it is hoped will b<S secured, will, enable the members of (the Church of England an that place toicommsnee building operations very.'sopnr "Oh! havi you he.ard the' news?', /'.What newts?" " Mrs. de Poultice's ■ daughter has j(d'op6d f with,thG:coacliman.' 4 "Nothing inSisnnl about that. Sho did what all oih<jr women do." What ,nll oth'siriMifejdo? What do y6u indaif?" She took, a '.husband,., .for, wheel and whoa. ; ■•••"! .•*!:••.•..• ■;■■' ■•■ '-• - : ; ■';•■■." The football iiiAtcli, Waitara and New Plymouth v. liawera, Parea, and Miinain, was played on Saturday last ou the Hawera ground, and resulted m a tie. • From Waitara we (Hawera Star) hear that the Freozing Company are putting on extra butchers, and a larger number of huljocks and sheep will be killed now .than has bocn formerly; m fact, the company has had considerable alterations to iriajke,. which have taken up more time thau w&sTxpected.' • Tht father of one of the girls debarred frfctn going up. for tho approaching scholarship exarninsition informs us (£[ertdd),'ihnt he applied unsuccessfully on three diifercnt occasionß-at: :: the Eilucatioii 'Etdafil office for n copy of the rnlps and n-guiations affecting scholarship examiuationß, so that ho might bo able to take tiniely steps for his daughter's .naine. being sent into the Bo^rd. He thiulcrit' most arbitrary and unfair that his cliild's f nturo prospects should : be. marr«d m the way indicated, ns she wns anxious to socure a further term' of tuition to fit her for a teachers appoint-ineH.t.-'jTJler case is a very hard one, and w* trust the Board will" meet at one-, and undo the mischief likely to arise out of ; ,^isj3 .Blyth's forgotfulness, and Mr BaVe^s iiiofion not to allow the error to bo rectified. ' From the Post we lenrn tliat a return -was on Thursday laid upon the table of the House showing the amounts paid to the several Crown Prosecutors *m the various judicial districts of the colony during the, year ended 31st March, 1884. : nls'o, the' atnoiints paid to other members of the legal profession who had transacted legal business for the Govennneut. Tho amounts -.paid to Crown Solicitors and Prosecutors were :—Auckland and East Coast, £558 ; Wellington, £1377 ; Nelson, JJ9S : Canterbury, £721 ; OtagO dud Southland, £1503 s Westland, £291. Tho -principal, individualratnounts wfire'i^H.i WillMunsori , Ajjcklnnrl, £425; .P. II: D: Bell,. Wellington, £907 ;T. S. 'Duncan, Ca'riterbiirv, £518; B. C. Hag gitf,-:ptago and Southland, £1238 ; W. Perkins, - Wp|tlnnd;' !£291 . 'The ..total iiiiKiuiit.pfi^l'to Crown Prosecutors and soti^itois wns £454?. The amounts pnld to other mettilK.-rs of the legal profession wtTp— rCi^oniiil.Secrfttary's OIHc«, trnsV, £1004; Fecretary ftir : ??tiiinps, ,£l7 1»3 ; Department of Trad* nml Cnstoms, £2 2s' ; Marine Dephrlindiit, Jg2oo'; Property 3Tax Depart-im-nt, £"43 ; Trens'>n\ £63 ; Public Works D-pai-tirifMit, £1708; Railway D. |>nrtmi'iif,-£2 2s ; Drpnrtment of Juslice,.i;2!7; Prisons Depnrfment, £48; Crown L.'.uda 'Department, £127 ; Armed Constabulary, £6 ; Ppat and Telegraph Department", £146 ; total, £3865,

The largest organ iv the world was ra•ently completed by Walek, of Ludwi<*3itirg, and placed hi tlio cathedral. church .iC liiga. The instrument measures 56ft m width, 32ft from back to front, :md 65ft m height. It . contains 6,82 5 „ipcs, distributed among: 114 sounding sw.ps. . ■ v . ; Several ollicciswcio -assembled hi the billiard room of the mess house at Seoundcrabud on June 14. About 3.30 piin. two seniors, who were playing, throw down their cues, saying, laughingly that they could tiot play, a. bit, and; strolled but into the verandah. The cues were instantly seized by a couble of young subalterns, 'Lieutenant- e>ey T ,' mour and Lieutenant luncs, when almost nt that instance a crashing peal of thunder was heard, accompanied by a noise as if a caunon had been fired m the room. Those /outside rusho4 inside to fiv.H Lieutenant Seymour stone dead, and Liciitenaut Lines gasping ; he died almost immediately. Both officers had been struck by lightning as they stood by tho billiard table, the room aud the furniture being almost uninjured. The funeral was a most impressive ceremony almost every officer m the ..garrisou being, present. The coffins wore coveied with wreaths and flowers, and were laid side by side m tho regimental cemetery with full military honours. The. Hawera Star says :-~T wo . thousand sheep arrived at Waitara on Wednesday from the coast for. the New Z-aland Frozen Moat Company, m charge of Mr Bailey. A good deal of amusement was caused at a recent meeting of the Auckland Education Board by the reading of a communication from the Dargaville School Committee, m which they stated that they .had appointed a gentleman to tlie head-mastership or! the school out of a large, number of applicants for the position (many of whom were married men) upon tho tiuderst-niding that he futi'ie : married life within three months.. The commkteQ considered it : was absolutely necessary that the teacher should be a married man. Singular to saj', the tnr.ster so appointed, who had been informed of tho proviso, wrote to say thcit it was impossible for him to strictly comply, with the stipulation, but he said be could m coufiienee state that h-; would be able to be married m fonr months. The board approved of the appointment, and recommended the committee to grant the mouth's grace. French gentleman to his rustic \snrv.i t :—" Wei!, Jean, did you give theMarquis my liute ?" v Yes, Sir, 1 gave it to him ; bat there's no use writing him letters he can't see to read them. He's -blind -Mind as a bat T'= "blind?" " Yes, sir — b md. Twice he -asked 'me wh'ire my h it was, aid I had it on my be id all thiitiino.- Blind as a bat .!" , ' : The trai,n from ,thc south was .late yesterday :in6n)iug, owing to ono of fho -boijlerOibus- having burst at Turakina. '■'A. "apcciul cMi.ejiiie . Wcis sent- out from Ea3 own., ond the .passengers roached town abont'an hour late. — Herald. ■ It is stared that General Komaroff Ins a relative hi Wanganui.- -Napier News. The Post says :— A case of love at first sight .his occurred at Wellington within the last few days under circumstances which are not generally, considered favourable to the development of the tender paßsipn. Last Tuesday week the Bench was called upon to adjudicate upon a cross action .brought by two women, who charged each bthor with having made use of exceedingly .. bad language m a public place. The women were each sent to. gaol for 24 hours, yvirijst m the dock a man m the body of the Court became enamoured of one of the defendants, and upon sentence being. pronounced, offered to pay any fine the Magistrates might iuflict; Tho offence, however, ndmitted of no fine being imposed, and, much to the man's disgust, the lady, of his love underwent her term of incarceration. On the day of her release the love-sick swain met the woman outside the gaol and her sought her to name the dsty, which sho there and then did, and three days' after the proposal the twain were made one flesh by the local registrar. "The happy couple " left for Napier on Thursday. ' . Rhodanthe, the wonderful Australian greyhound, which won the Victorian W atcrloQ Cn p a few days ago, was- sold at Mr Ef, M'Quade'sisale afevr. days .•before the Cup was riin;for 150 /guineas, the purchn'si'r being Mr "L. G. \L.a\vfqrd. As long odds as J50 .t0 : -l .wsrelaidvagaihst her before the '. running |-'of .the,- first course. ' '"' .'■■ • "-■ ' Telegraph communications between Bombay and Aden is at present reported as. : bci"S imperfect. ' \ "■.', '[ '. ' ' 'Ihe Post saj's i-^-The suit m which the 19 sailors who were imprisoned m May for refusing to proceed to sea m the s^tt-amcr Coptic have' instructed Mi Sliaw to sue the capfain and owners for w.ronqiul dismissal, vyill be heard jnlthe ■Sup'reirie Cp'-ii ti n about a fdrtnight'a time;. Tzard & Bell, have accepted' service oE writ on behalf of -tho captain and owners. , . . " The state, of the = English money market is .thus, alluded to by Mr Eell, one of the East and West Coast railway delegates, m a letter dated London, sth June :-— "The state of financial and commei'cial piatters is' quite abnormal, there being a groat ' plethora bf money-, iiot on account of any actual increase of the amount m existence, but of a complete absence of confidence, which stopped people investing m anything of a speculative or commercial character. People actually preferred lending their money from day to day,, at from i to £ per cent, per annnm, to investing m anything but Government bonds. On that account the time selected for putting put the New Zealand loan of one and. a half millions was a most fortunate "one, but the state of things m no way assisted the delegates m floating their scheme." The movement to supply -penny dinners to poor children m one of the poorest districts'in South London, has been closed for the first season. The number of dinners supplied from October to April was 42,788. The average cost of the dinners was l£d per head, being the ac tual outlay for the food at cost price. Mr S. Kingdon, of Masterton, has applied to the Borough Council for the bonus of £20 which the Council offered two years ago if the stand-pipe which he fixed m Qnocn-street proved to be efficient for extinguishing 1 fires. The Council consider that the offer has lapsed, and will have to bo revoted, an"d Mr Kingdon has agreed to wait until summer, so as to further test the value of tlie.'stand-pipe The Slar says if Mr Kingdon has satisfactorily demonstrated the efficiency of Abyssinian wells tor fire purposes, the value of his discovery to the public will be equal to some scores of £20 bonuses. The hews that prosecutions are being instituted, m Auckland for -selling the Rationalist newspaper m the streets on Sunday contrasts strongly with the fact that m Wellington, almost every Saturr day night,' the disgusting publieatiohß of ati Atlcklarid' quack are' with impunity thrust into the hands of mon, women, anil childron t .to form nice readiug for Sunday.— rPqst. .' - . The Exhibition Meeting of the .Island Bay Rac.'in'g O.hib is to be held. on tho sth Sfptemher. The amount to be given awry m stakes is £310, the principal flat wro being the Exhibition Handicap o£ lOOsovs. one milo. Tho Hurdle Ilandifap is allotted a prize of 70 soys, and a like amount is offered for the Sessions Handicap, a three-quarters of a mile spin. Wo observe that Mr J. Q, Evett will do the Handioapping.

The fri.-n.ls of Mis. Riuhi;;! Thacker, will re^r-jt to hear _sh* is suffering froiii a ssvare attack Q't: bronchitis. Last evening fears were entertained for. her recovery, causing her family considerably uneasiness. This morning we aiv glad to. loam that the invalid lady jm taken a turn for lint, better, which wo siiiuaroly "hope, -will continue. - \ An error m the figures as representing the attendance at the Wosloyan Hall ou .Thursday evening, occurred hi our last night's issun. A Swiss guide recently made a bet with. a- wealthy Briton that he could: visit every country m Europe during twelve* months' time, and make the on-, I'tM'jc/Srney on foot. The guide gets his expeusejj any way, and £1000 prize money if successful. He begins his tour on.Jani^y l,Airi(lis now m Spain, having also visited Switzerland, Italy, France, and Portugal. . ' •! 'Tlieffollowing d-tiila o&'h'owia family "of fathpr,~iriother ami' six children managed to Jive on lSdlO^d a week m sex may be of interest :-— Rent, 2s ; flour, 78^; cheese, la 3d ; butter^ Is 4d ; soap, 2d; soda and blue, id ; "salt and pepper; £d ; candles,' 10£ d ; tea, 4-1 ; sugar, 7d ; schooling-,'7d ; cotton, mustard, #c\, .3d ; milk, . 3£d 5 washing Is ; mangling', Id. ;Total, 15s 10£ d/ The Man a watu Herald . says •: — It is statedthat the two Sis.tcrs. of Mercy collected the sum of £40 during their recent canvass of Foxton for the Orphauage at Adelaide. .* If the ? nuns^_ar^ as ' 'successful atall;the" other t6wns 'm the colony, J.hey will have .a > magnificent sum as the result of their-effortsi ; i ' ? ■■« '■ . *■* i ' *' «••■'•" ■"• ■'■ '■* : * 'The Waipawa Mail leafiis that Messrs . Biclite'r j Nanaa'stea'd arid Go. "of Paltnerston intend establishing sawmills at Tahoraite veiy shortly.- 'The site will- be close to that oi the Tamaki Co.'s mills. . Anihstrunierit is now m use m the . Englisll Secretary- of "State's office * by. wiiich the taxes on any amount _can be to|d from a small sum to a million of pounds, without making a figure, and work can be dope }by ■ almost any one which heretofore has required thq services of an expert m figures. t Interest, at :ail ordinary rates, cari also be computed' instantly . We (Hawera Star) regret to hear that, after jyiying the, industry c - a, two years' trial,, tlie Norinanby Hop Company have been, forced to wind up.. The affair was '■'stiffed more as an/ experiment, .and to show the- settlers "how to grow the plant, m which resDfect it was! ; eminently successful, as some very fine hops were prodaced/bjut owiagto-the glut> which has taken place m ±he market, together -with :the;lo.w pripes prevailing, and the heavy. ' vyirida iniiarch last,J|liliß '.'unpleasant, alternative has b33h torced u|iotfthe directors of %yinding, the affairs vp r: ..Each o| the shareholders, we understand are. at a parsonal los"s of sornsthihg like £301 Mr James Day; a wealthy lawyer of New York, reading a letter from a working. lipy m a newspaper, asking where he and his companions could go to play at ball, answered the question by setting apart five and twenty acres of his estate •on the Hudson, accessible m twenty minutes, at a fivepenny ■- fare by steamhoatjiind \yith a spring , of • fresh water and, ai shady ', tprest '; close >%y. He "'[ is Agoing to erect a large ten t for the use: of the hojs x to lay out a running track, abet to "puf * lip svyiHgs m . dijßferent p.arts .. of the wood ; beisides pr#viding acccomodation for football and baseball players ; and all free of charge. It was a-fprtunate thins:, fo>- the boys of New York: that' the letter of oiie of ?heif number should have fallen under what Macbeth calls ",th*9 ; tender eye of pitiful day." .