LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 56, 4 August 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page to-day will be fount! a. condeusad report from iho N. Z. Times with r«t'orerico to tlw opening of the Exhibition. A"T. and F.T. Society" has been found til iv Connecticut. It is a Tar and Ft ather Te.upranco Society. Every metnlß-r who breaks the pledge is tarred and feathered, .... ■ • . The child of the period. — Grandmam? ma — " Hark, Dorothy !Dp you lieai\lh«; puff-puff ?" Doroth y (three years bid) — "Th • locomotive, I suppose yon mean, grandmamma !" — Punch. The W niigaii ui Herald says:-^-Thx following ia the text of the Old .^oldi sr.s' Petition : — To the honorable the members of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Now Zealand m PariiVinent assembled. — The humble petition of us, the undersigned Old Soldiers of HerMaj sty's Imperial forces' residing m New Zealand, request that the honorable members of .the Uousi 1 * of Uepreseritar tives will grant us our 60 acres of land according to the law under which we were discharged. That we ask no favor but merely our own as laid down !>y luvr, we now nsk the honorable membercto accede to our request, and we as petitioners will ever pray, &«., &c. There are at present 22 signatures attached to th" document. Messrs. Stevens & Gorton's next stock sale at thn Borough Yirds will bo held on the 11th instant. The entries at ' present received are published m our advertising columns. Th*y include beef, milch cows m full milk, steers, yearlings, heifers, dairy cows, store wethers, and fat ewes*. ' In the House on Thursday, Mr Mncarthnr moved, "That a return bo laid before this House of all expenditure by (hfl General Government on roads and bridges from the Ist April, 1882, to the 31st March, 1885, giving the expendi-. tnr«- separately for each' financial .year, and for each county under the following headings : - (i) Grant for main roads linger the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, exclusive o? the one fourth repayable by the local body. (2) Grants for district roads under th," same Act, all repayable ■ by the lo'*al body m fifteen yrars, with interest. (3) Expenditure to ope.n up Crown Lands boforo sale. (4) Exp-nditure 'on colonial roads by General Government. (5) Total of one-third of instalments on deferred p-iym n nt lands handed over to local bodies. (6^ Granls for ronds on golrlficlds, nndiM* special yotft. (7) "Expenditure under the vote *• Roadn North of Auckland.' 1 Tho Minister for Public Works s:ii'l the fctufti vronld cost £200 to prepare, and suggest that the motion should bo postponed until a similar leturn moved fov had been presented. The discussion on the motion was interrupted by the 2.3.0 adjournment. S-nntor Edmunds, of the United Rtntes left for London on .Tune 1 on an interes ting mission. His testimony was needed m x civil suit affecting the title of one of the oldest poerasrep in|England, the Income of which is £10,000 a year It is that of the Earl of L'»mWdal\ The slit was to bn fried m th^ Hiuse of LorcJs m Jun^, and to ha argued before the Committee on Privileges by the Atfornov-General on one side and tho Solicitor General on the other. Th>- ! case tiirr>B on th.' validity of the marriage of Sir Ru;h«rd Mnitland to Mary ; Mi-Adam, wbicli was celebrated m 1772. jin Mew York. The estate is claimed by i two Miiithuidi — one Major Henry Ftvdfri.-k Maitl-nd, of the Tlen?«J Cnvnlrv, and polific.nl ngeijt for ' -Central India. n"d the other is Sir Jam&fl linmpmv MflMlnnd, who ip the depoqdant of til© fifth boii of the Hixtft earl, »■

As a practical outcome ot th'vinterest lately ti'^n m tho condition of tho poor m tin) 0 tat. mid : south of Lon'lon v aS'j!i-m:i is on f.»ot fur m-ikin? a Palarm of Dfi-lij-jlit m (In* Mil-* R'i-1 road to cO.it a!-r>ut £100,001 Technical schools, m which various trails are to h* Ungjit, and a • library, a reception hall, ami prvuids vnppliyd with plenty <if music and other la iun:t! .'ii:ji.i3!»m nts, a gymua^iiun, nid n siviinining halh aro all included m tli3 planTliri Gfi-r Company have rocfived an or.li-r from th* Ad.nir.ilJy for 900 cases <>C prt»s;-,rvt«d mnata for tlong Ivons?, to tie forwarded \>y the Wakatipn onMontl;iy, ii! order to catch the mail steamer leaving Sydney for Hong Kong. This ivi'l curtail the Company's show.at the .Exhibition, aj3 noarly half of the goods had to be takori away on Fiidny. : In a few days the exhibits will probably be replaced. The following are the'vital statistics for the Wellington flistriet for the nvinth of July :— Births, 130 ; marriages, 25 ; deaths, 42. Un Friday an important alteration was made m the arrangements reirarding season tickets for the Exhibition, the price, , which had been originally fixed at 30'<s being reduced to onu guinea. In addition to this, the Executive Committee have intimated. their intention of considering the plan of issuing weekly tickets. This idea,- wo suggest, should certainly bo adopted, as grijat numbers of visitors .will no doubt arrive here during the Exhibition with the intention of staying 'about that timo.— Post Tho news telegraphed from Napiei on Friday that letters received thero announced the, arrival of the s. r. Coptic al the Cnpe. is we {Post) are inclined tc , think, open to some doubt. The' agents here have heard nothing whatever of her arrival at Capetown, and tho latest Cape papers to hand do not mention her j Had slie arrived, it is almost certain that Captain Babot would have rec iveri advices. When she loft hen? it was foi t a port m an entirely opposite direction to tho Cnpa, and 'it was estimated thai she would take 21 days to reach it. She was thon to report herself- to '.thn AMriiiral of the station, not the Acstraliar one. It is quite possible, however, thai she might have been ordered to tin Cape. ...•■:; The funeral of Victor El'igo was ar impressive affair, unprecedented' m it! cersinoiiia! and the pttlilic etiUuisiasin it evoked, even m • th« ..: city of -sensations Paris. Two millions of r f rancs( iboni -.^90,000) were spent .on flowers ahme Flora! tributes vyenv sent from. al)*. part; of Europn, and fully a milli(»u. p?op.l( witnossi-d tho obsqiiifs' Part ''of -the cei'tunony vviih siijnifioant of tha jLTfea! deceased,' swayed by • profonu'd buifiiirtj and his nativs origin ulity. .AlindSt his last words gave instructions for, his remains to be conv-j'ed to the plnco of sepnlt,re m a common pauper's hearse oi the city. Hence, afbfr lying m state or a lnftsniliotMit catafalque under the An tl« Triomphe, -the collia was blaced ir the hf-a'rse and' taken fo the Pantheon The distiuee — four mil^s by the route taken — occupied four hours ~{i\ ' (ravers ingr. A "singular feature "of the day'i doing vvastjie fact; of the family of 'the docoased- lunching- m th« Pantheor whilst avvat'ttng -the jarriyul of the re mams. : . '-..-'■• ■-■'■'''' ■_ ■'■ The N. Z. , limes says:— Th connnction with the ppeuiug of the Kxliibition it rn:\y be' stated that Saturday last was feii'e. 3iHli anniversary of the landing oi the '/Imperial troops, who were sen from Sydney, at. Porinin^Jiadif ur. The settlers m and , around PorT i *Nicholsoi were then engaged i" a fi^pe^s^ru^gh • w|th.- -the Maoris for supr«)inacy. '•■•• :M least one of the soldit-rs who then lan dec at Porirua is , now .m Wellington — Mr IlriwHt who drives an oxpress van. .Tht prpgn-ss that the Colony has made since that time is marvellous. "If a -photograph of the laridingof the troops were availably, it would form a' nice companion picture for.one of .the Exhibition The two .might not, inappropri<iteiy be headed " Then and Now : ." - '.'.'.

, Hop Bitters glve3 goo'l digestion, active -liver gooil circalation aiul buoyant spirits. "GcttUe.oulj gcnuhio Anißricaa Go. Read. "."•'.' ''„ Being unable to accomplish the re-mark-ing of the whole of our Stock during busl nes^ hours, we have decided to close oui premises forthat purpose to-morrow (Friday). We hope to be ready m. all departmsuts by Satuiiday morijing. Furthei particulars with to-morrow's issue.— C. M iioss & Cos, The Bon Marchi.