LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page to-tlayi will be found CaWe News, Auatraliait News^ Australian Summary, Jfelesranis, Sport-. m« News, Commercial News, and Ruksia and England items, t " ; Two Miclbviurne boys| named Frank Mntill and. King Mppije,. recently save'i a passenger train from dashing through a railway ..gate, and perhaps causing serious dntriag;*. The boys w*»re 'wnllcinsr towards the railwnv cate which , crosses the line, as thei t0.40 ' a.m. train ajv proachnd nt a rapid rate. T)ifty ; noticed, the gate was closed, and that the teftpei . was nowhorc to be seen. Tl»py .';f n'shart foreward, and as quick as possible opened tho grato, jnßt m tirh« to allpw the train to paps thWm?n. Owinsr to a curve In - the linn, the driver could; not see thn--erate until ho wan close upon it. When he did see it ha rnversed the engine ; and ap^plifd the brakes ininiediat^ly, but could not pull, up until the gate was passed. . | Yesterday's N Z Tvmes, says :—Captain Macdonald, of tlie unrque Edwin Bflssett, which 'arrived oh Tuesday last from Newcastle, rnporta that on the fourth day.nftftT leaving, port a young man named Harry Bridge fell from the topiail jMrd, where he. waii.. employed,' tr> tliK deck, a distaheb of 70ft, and was killed, th*» examination showed that the poor fallows skull had been smashed. The body yras buried next daj*. Deceased ha.T coino to this Colony from liraves^nd; and was only 18 years of gge. An. lriquir,y 'into tho- sad affair was held bftforft Mr Hart, Acting Collector of Customs, ypstenjayj but nPt}}i'ig fresh came ou£ m the evidence* The Post says:— There will be two sit.tingg of the Compensation. Court ( during the next fbrtriiglit, On the 24th i will be heard thtj case of AValkev v. Wellington and Mannwatu Railway Com. pahy, m which' the plaintiff seeks to recover 164000 damages for land taken for railway \ purposes' at Parramatta. Two more^cHfiPS will !>•■• taken on the 28tb. The plaintiff m thpse is Mr ..David Braid, baker, of Jobnsonville. wlio m suing th» Wellington and ManaWatn Railway' Company for J-600, the "amount of dnmasre he alloges he has sustained through the action of the defendnnts m taking the line through hi» property. Thesp two cases will hf tried by a Supreme Court Judge and Messrs T. K. Macdonald and A, Easell BBasaeisora, :

*•■ ■ ■ ft Messrs Snolaan and Co., by brderV of j he mortgagee, will hold an auction | . ; iltj at iheir rooms 10-mormw at 2 pirn, j I The editor of a Boston newspaper -BCi'iitly asked the (subscriber* to name. die tun mtiHt iiii|inrtinl inventions of.all time. Mo-u than 800 answers wero received, and lh« 10 in ve.ntions receiving tho moHt votos weiv:— Tl>« telegraph*, prinlin i-prcMH, steam -en jjinej ', cotton gun, ti'li-ph.MM', mariner's compass, gunpowder, sowing machine, telescope, and photography. Twonty-on« votes were m favour of the steatnhoat, six f«»r paper two for timepieces, and only one for the ' ocean cable. i The following is a copy of a letter ! received by Mr J. Wilson, M. H. R. for j Foxton. It explains itself : — With ! referettce to your question of the ;9th ultimo, m the Horise, as to the protftise to give tttlephOiiic communication betwoen Satißon and Caiiipbelltown, I have, now to inform ybu tliSt tlie Superintendent of.- this Department ihas visited tho district;; and it steins, from hi» representations, expedient to defer the:, execution of the work for a time, that is to sky, pending the completion ,m 3or 4 iiipoth's time of the Sandou tm^way; It is believed that the Tramway. Coinr ■ pany will then need the telephonic com* muuicatinh, having ati «>flio«r at Sandon, ..and the linos can also then be arranged, ho, as; to, permit a great saving of money. iu,grantintt the. couvenience, to, effect wjiich I third the short delay 1; will.:jbo. the honor to bp, Sir, yoijr obedient ■servant, J.OLIUS VoGBL, Postmaater-Genbral ■ and Cdiriinissioner of Telegraphs, • „; Thp .Sifcitr says :^-Mr John Stftvens, of IJii M ;is i ikti'ou^ to start mi n bn'si.npas as an ai|ct^eer. '4t Hastings^ ;Napiqr. We wisiiJilm success/ y \ ; . : , . • A doctorjpAssing astonemasonVshop, called out, " Gocid inornin j, Mr D — — Hard at work ? 'I see^yoii finish your gravestones as far an'liitheVmemory of, 1 -and then wait, I suppose to ; aee who ( wants a monument uext tVv^.V^Vhyj yes/ replied the old maur^r 1 '! Uulesu soiMohody's ill and yon are doctoring him ; then I can keep straight on. .; Appiieatiojis areiriyited by the Mana-, watn Road Board for the post <>f Secretary. Applicants; must seu<l testimonials, and apply not later than Monday^, the 24th instant. "' " " . The Palmer'stdn Schbol Committee meet this evening m, the 'School house at 7.30., when the matter of J the Terrace fiiid mastership will be considered. . Notfwittistauding the extra pressure of • matter m yesterday's ibuna, tho STANDARD \ got'" to -presß" 'M' the iisifai 'h(diur: ■— whortly after 3 o'clock-^ahd'th^rejj by our readers were m possession of! news three hours or • more Ijefpre.^ uou» subscribers. A--V: o -•:;■<; ■ f Six convicts redo'ntly- escaped from" the' State Prißrfn at 1 Jackspn, Michigan, by a tunnel Softloug, which . they had dug under an abandoned shop, clear through the main wall I.2ft thicSfc ; Qne was captured. . .. „;;,•• On May 21 there died, at the Convent of the Sisters of Cliarity of St. Vincent de Paul, Clcrkenwell road, Londoaf-tlie Princess Caraffa of Nagles. The deceased lady waß kiiibiwh; m: , religion^ ;as 4 i Sister Xlary^. ftnd iiai^b^eii io^ member ojE the^ aißt«r 1 l ood f i-otit ftti^eariy^j^age. Shp;;w« fialihns^^ GHcdttfil The l«»ay ; was /'abaldt 30 years^tof ag^. V" '^ :M^ " : " ' ■ '■ '■