LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 65, 15 August 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- A Mr Peathcock, * butcher m Birkenhead was lately fined one shilling and coats for hawking the royal arms. on his private 'Carriage. 'He pleaded' having' on several . . occasions = ( supplied ' her' Majesty with beef, undVghewed a letter from? the comptroller oisFthe household. This (was held to justify, the royal anus being displayed 611' the trade vehicles, but not 011. the private carriage. The fine Was merely nominal on. the .under* standing that a license would be at once; taken out for the royal, arms on the private vehicles. \ „ . •'• \ ' One of the recent . Justice! of the Peace \ at.,- Wanganui objected tq take an oath upon tho-ojucasion of buingK sworn m to the office. \ wThe matter was; coran* u nicated to the Government, who decided that; under the Affiririation m .•lie 11 of: OaU«L Extension Act, an affirmation wwatts tt sufficient ..for the purpose., It seems to us that this magistrate will bftplaced' m a peculiar poaitiou- when discharging his official duties, lie will have to administer to others au obligation which he cqngcientjoußly b'eliev.ei to be jthprbperj antl „f or -which ; reason he has refußed;tpjUk% it himself. , is wrong f orJiim ' t(J ?. take ..ah "• oath, it i.nust surely be. equally wrong to administer one.— Exchange. . . . v = - ■ ;*i j 4 At a xeceut meeting 1 of the New, Zealand Farmers' Association the 'intention of ;the;localiußurantf« to' increase;, the .. tariff^f-da, ;fire;r -jrisks: outside .'• towns . was ;, ...con i 1 sidered, -and tjhe executive committee .was instructed t6 take action Hn the raatteri A vory general 'f aftling : wai» ex % pressed that coiuitry risks were a paying busing, 1 and that the sooner they paid; thoextht.2s per cent., the shareholders, now uam^ering I^oo tO' : 1300 f > should^ assist theVaß3ocution in< supporting an insuraaqeibranch coafining its business^ to purely cpuutry risks; ; ■■}].' ■ Among the warlike tribes of the, Soudan the! unwritten law of the desert for- ' bids' any? settlement around the wells, as 'they art common to all. ' The Bank of England employs about 1100 persons, and the salary list including pensio'us is about £300,000 per •annum.' . • . :-; ■ . : .' ■;.■•• • . .•■-~ l - •••••• - :: ; On the authority of an English paper,. \t isjstated that^Mr Pa^hell will shortly' lead to the altar a yoiing arid wealthy American l.idy, an intimate friend of tha Irish leader's mother. ' ' " Tour beau seems very bashful," said a Dayton avenue mamma to her daughter. 'V Bashful I" ; ech^d the daughter; «" bashf ul's 3l6/- natii^fbr ftt.^..'^. Why. don't you encourage. him; a little imorei?Soine men have to be taught hbw to do their courting. He's, a good catch,"' " Encourage him l !"'said\the 'danghter-.^ " lie can't take the most palpable' hint. Why, only Jast>night,. when. I sat alone on the sbfa, and )ie^ perched up io * chair as far away as. he could get^ L nsked him if he didn't think it- stratige that a man's arm -and a woman s waist seemed always to be/th«. same length, arid what do you think he did? 11 -** VVhy,> jiist whatariy sensible mm would have done—trind it." " > He akked; mis^ if I could find a piece of string so' we could measure andsee.if h wa s so. Ain't he horrid'r'.y"^ 'K^M^' - A New; York; man applied to Ahrahtm Lincoln, some years bVfore' )>e b«bainf Presjde'ntv as t6 tH« finanoiiil Btan«lin?"ofone of his neigh&infs. 'Mr L?nc'»ln replied as follows :-~Yonrs of thniOth instant received. I am well acqjiaintnd with Mr.-; — -, and know his oircumfttances. .^irst of all he has a, wife and bahy; together they ought io be : worth 50,000 dollars to any man. Secorifi!y, he has an office m which there is a tabln worth 1.50 dollars, an<^' threi* chairs worth say, 1 dollar.. Last of all them is m onecprnw a ilararo rat;hqle which will boar lboklnar*-fhtd..' Respectively 1 yours. A. Lincoln." ' , ~ •■» ' The folio win ar applicntionß for patents have been lodged :~ J- Carter,, of XJonlburn N. J?. :W. t([ , tor improvenieats An quartz hatteries ;W> Qy Dodd, of San Francisco.Jfor imDroveraenta . m waterjackets smelting f,uraa,Cßß ; T- Dacombe; of Christchnrch, for invention *°T m*king confflnlionerj r ; ltnowii .as gondH" ;P. OaVfUn, , of Dnnedin, for ecentrio safety catoh for lifts ; G. W. Bull, and (i. Rayper.of Thames, for indention for treatment of -gold:' ojes ; T. Garland, o|f:WeJlinarton, for niilk strainers with mbveable bottom ; C. Walkden; J of Chmtchureh, for a subaqutons excavator. •, j . ; The,followiiiff resolutionn ware ear riod unanimously at, a public meeting recently ;held at Wimbledon, MrC. F, Db.wßett;presiding :— " That to chock the gradually incrftnsine: practice of betting I and gambling II is desirable that an Aot v of Pnfliament be passed— :(lVMakingit an .offence 'subject' to penalty for the Pypss . to r e por.t ;b,e.ttij»fc transactidhs* aifd this eive encpnr.asfement to the system^ as if it, were ,a lepiiimat;e" coirirne'rbiall ftntarpris'*;, 'whicn 'the - country hv its yoicft m Parlfam*»nt>. hns dp^lared'thntit is n,«t, as proved by ; B and 9 Vift., c.109 ; 16 hnd 17>Vict.; oi 149 ;i3O and 31ViH.; o. 134, js«c. 23 ; ; 36 nnd 37 Viet,; c. 36. rpc. 3.,-, (2) making it an ofi<»ncft subject to penalty to transact betting transactions by telegraph ; (3) restricting the Post Office authorities from transmitting betting telegrams. 1 '

" A bAker writing to the New Zealand Herald on the question of getting flodf to keep says ;— '* Lust year, I bought flour enough m on* lot to last for ten months. It caked very w«ll during the first three' or four month* ; but after that time I found the dampness of the iituiospliere had nffected the fermenting principle, and the flour proved absolutely unsuitable to turn out a good loaf of bread. The discovery has saved 7 my baker master many hot words. It being a fact that New Zealand wheat counts amongst the best m the world, all you want to produce, is a good floor of a longkeeping quality to do what the Californians do, viz, pack your medium brands' of flour m barrels, and the superior branda-in.tiiis. If the New Zealand I millers will dp this. then, there will btv n* flour m the worlds soperior to that produced from New Zealand wheat." > • The New Zealand Postal /Department is calliug fpr tenders for the conveyance? of the mails once "•very four weeks between Auckland and San Francisco, yia> Honolulu, for a period qf three ■*•«•, [ tlie cpntrict,tiine ' between Tjisco^and; j Auckland and rice versa to be not more \ than"!; 431: hour* .{IB. days). Separate* tenders for a 19'day^ service may alsd be .. put. in.-. ; . /.,; ..'• .. ; .'-,-, • . ■ . < "" " ■ Writing, to the Oamarn Mail its " special' 'says :&- [understand 'that the Union Company have definitely^ determined tofenderfor the Sfto FrapcilcV' ■mail- servjceU -' — '■ -" • y y* ? >'V ? -*-"•>,-< Hi *■ \ ■. : V.- '"'■"■■*■ -■■■■' ■• *(-, -..''- ' : .-.■■■ ■• f; i The Hoi^Mr Bryo© s leave* for ' Eng^ land m connection with the Busden suit next month. He expects^to be absent four months. Wfth i regard^ to the visit about to be. paid b> jthio ."Hbn Mr Backley to the old «>untrx- a J^puthern paper says—that if negotiatioiis., afoot prove successful, ; a ; tuat^prjoba^ly Cork— wjll be provided tor hittiv Without ft vcbiitest." " \y>}r t ? '?!7M^&ssk The school boards of >Bpgl^n^'|r|i ia debt some, thirteen- millioni::I?he Dublm^ews^i^i^ftrfi^b!' Irish. man and tHi^y*ish.. :^^iH?e^-JFdap'. 16 halve boen suppress^ verument. I..;:: "^oZ%t£ss ( \We havt to receipt of^No's 14 anf , m Signor Otto H^|s,to^|S m Wellington until the 2nd,- September, when be will leave for Napiift '-?^j V : lt Oh,l think it must bt to^iilce to be connected with a newspaper^" said Him M'Flynn to young CjiuUdriver, as they sat; together one •veiling.' t '« Yes, it is. so so," he replied, do you jhihk it is?" -,« Wl^it' has so many advantages. I should thirikVypu would glory m the freedom, the" "power, the liberty, and all the privileges of the press." " Certainly, I do. It's/,* , pity, with all' your enthusiasm ovt the " snbject, that you are not* journalist "''' I think so, too ; but you know it is hard for rjkt woman to get.recoijnitibn { ; lj should be deli^htfld fofeel 1 that tlieprert embraced ine^'" ••.Ohi'^oa: wbuld. would you?; Great ScotVl waii till I turn down ih« <?*■• :;. ... j *<"•>■■.. ■ v-- ,«..=. v.-~v ./ :,'>.>'-•••; -A full repOTt'otth^ discussion which took place at the jneeting oithe ; &nopV 'Committee held last evening, will appear m Monday V is^ue. Some very • 'strong language was made use; of, s and the Chairman had inora than ones i^to call one speaker, to ordor. •• ; ; ; - ■. '; } . Tne gradual .decline of the hnman ' no,Be is the result of the introduction and general use »t handkerciiiefs. The Roinrns never used c handkerpbiefg, and their rioß6B, we all knowij^ere'the largest and the finest- type. Moreover they were less liable to colds in the head than are the people at ithe^preiJent-tirat, and their noses enjoyed'almost a siutfeure.