LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 73, 25 August 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I On oar fourth page today will be found the following : — Cable News. Late Cable News, Australian NewH, Telegrams, Taiipo News, Additional Mail News, and Political News. An acru of l.uid m Te Aro, Wellington, changed hands the other day for £1500. Stock m the VVairarapa is looking rej markai-ly well ; and it is expected that there will b« a good supply of fat beef m the Spring. A man named Edwin Bent, a tailor, died early on Sunday morning at Timaru through an over-dose of chlorodyne. At an inquest that was held on the body, a V' r.liet of committed suicide when m a slate of temporary iusauity, was re. tur. cd. The football match, Marton Club v. Wangantii Star Ciub, which took place at Marlon on Saturday last, resulted m. a win for the former by eight points to nil. Owing to the growing indisposition towards matrimony of the young mew of Connecticut it is proposed to pass a law imposing a heavy tax on bachelors over twenty-five years of age. A meeting of all the sawmill proprietors was held at Feilding on Saturday afternoon r the private uidiugs access by-law published on July 16th by the Minist-r of Public Works. The following resolution was passed, That this meeting eondems the above by-law as calculated 'o interfere witU and check the progress of the timber trade, while being an extra tax on an industry now contributing very largely to the revenue. Copies of the resolution are to be forwarded to Messrs Macarthur, Wilson, aud Bruce, members for the district. A large outlay will shortly be made on ti.e canals and harbors of France. A lump sum of 879,000,000 francs is to be expended, of which 713,000,000 francs aro for canals, 100,000,000 francs for ports, and harbors, aud 60,000,000 francs for rivers. In addition there has been a supplementary grant of 100,000,000 francs for ports aud _2,0,000 J OOO francs for th«-oau«Js. H arvro and Bordeaux are to have large amounts spent on harbor works. q The Danevirke-Onnondville district, with a population of about three thousand, requires a resident doctor, aud will givo a guarantee to a suitable man. " You never saw my hands as dirty as that," said a petulant, mother to her little girl. * No, but perhaps your ma did,' was the sharp, if not respectful reply. The N.Z. Times says that Mr Jellicoe was rather unfortunate on Friday. He called a witness named White, residing m Garrett street, who refused to giro her name until ordered to do so by the Jndiie, and then shrf asked what right Mr Jellicoe had to bring her to the Court. The sparring which took place created a good deal of amusement, but Mr Jullicoo h id to give up the task as hopeluss, and the witness (a very big specimen of humanity) left the box m a way which was likely to be remembered by those who saw her, defiance towards the learned gentleman b<Mng depicted on her countenance. Later on Mr Ji-Uicoo cam* to loergerhfiads with Mr Travels, and the Chief Justice had to interfere m a very peremptory manner. Some timo afterwards Mr Jellicoe essayed the task oF cross examining Dr Grace, but the bitter was rather too clever of fence, and as ho left the box he exclaimed m his fascinating wav, " Is them anything else you would like to know ?" But Mr Jellicoe did not trouble him any further. A New South Wales settler m the Bega district, who visited Waikato some months since, writing to a wellknown Waikato settler, draws a comparison between that colony and this much m the favour of the latter. Since his return to New South Wales the continued draught has made sad havoc with stock. This has made dairy produce very dear, and he has realised 8J per lb. for his cheese wholesale m the Sydney market, and this price, he say 3 the Waikato factories may depend upon securing until after after October or eren lator. Although butter, which is now worth Is 6d per lb m Sydney, will again grow cheap with the young grass crop, cheese will not bo ready for sale for some time afterwards. It must be remembered, however, that New South Wales, the great exemplar of free trade among the Australian colonies, has an import duty of 2d per lb on cheese. Even then 6^ will leave a sufficient price after freight is paid to find an outlet for the remainder of our last season's stock of cheese. A singular funeral took place m Paris on June 10th. A wealthy bourgeois of the Tlue St. Jacques, named Begis, tired of this life, and carin<r nothing for his relations, made a will m favour of M. Poubnllo, tho Prefect ot j the Seine, and then proceeded to hang himself. The succession is estimated at about £6000. Whether the terms of the will imply a general trust for ! charity may bo doubtful ; but M. Poubelle has executed the first instructions of the testator, which wore to give him a decent burial aud to pay 2f. to any poor person of his arrondissiment who would follow hia corpse to the grave. M. Pouhellft issued 3,000 invitations, and a string of fuMy 2.000 claimants for 2f. appeared as ino'irnors at the funeral Tho clergy of St. Jncques refused admission to thochnrch r>n account of the Rin'oid' 1 , and the cortege proceeded to Pero la Chaise. Intelligence from Mexico stares that a waterspout burst on the niijht of the Bth inst. Nt fvisiri do Cauranta, twenty inilos from Lagos, ciusinuj £re>»t loss of life. One hundred nu I soventy bodies have been found.

We have taken the liberty of eliminating some portions of a letter appearing m our correspondence' column over the name of " Ono Who - Pays Bates " the writer evidently is incansend at the inanoevuros'being carried on by the clique m the Council and uses sonic very strong language which we do not consider advisable to publish. The following is the verdict re tamed by the Jury at yesterday's inquest on the body of'the unfortuuaSe man Neil Wiikie : — " That the said Neil Wiikie, on the 22nd day of August, 1885, on the railway line at Tokomaru, was found dead and that the said Neil Wiikie had no mirks of violence appearing on his body, but by heart disease m a natural way did die." The funeral took place to-day being brought up to Longbum and conveyed from there by hearse to the cemetry A number of the deceased's former companions followed the remains to the grave. . The Manawatu Racing Club are calling tenders for improvements to the racecourse and trainin? cbiirse, also road formation; &c. Tenders close on Thursday next at 6 p.m. and should be addressed to the Secretary, Mr Thos. King, Commercial Hotel. New Zealand mutton and American beef are now sold m many of the small towns of England. The retail ppices.in June for mutton were per lb- respectively : — Legs, 9d ; shoulders, 7£d ; necks, s£d ; loins, 7£d ; hind-quarters, 8d fore, Gd ; sides, 6Jd ; breasts, 4£d. At these prices the meat is delivered at the houses of customers." Miss Julie Jackson, only daughter of Stonewall Jackson, married recently, received from W. W. Corcoran, the Washington philanthropist, a wedding gift of a fruit set of solid gold. , Some statist has been collecting the figures of the dead meat trade m London with the following result :— The . total weight of: deliveries last year Was 230,873 of 2,2401 b each. Of this the United Kingdom furnished 179,000 tons ;|Ainericaj including Canada, 22,071 tons ; Australia and New Zealand, 11,128 tons. The ; item of interest m this, m the American trade, mto know that while its consignments show but a very slight gain o%er the previous year, the weights of Australia and New Zealand meats show an increase of 138£ per cent, over that of 1883. Capt. Walkar calls tenders for 80 chains of fencing on his property Tikura. Tenders close on Saturday next at noon. Mr J; B. Hamilton is advertising for three or four young ladies as apprentices to the dressmaking. . •? ■ ' . Messrs Snelson-And Co. notify by advertisement their next horse sale to be held at Tattersall's Stables on Saturday nest, the 29th instant, 15 saddle and harness horses are entered for this sale, and also two thorough-bred brood mares m foal to Natator, viz., Laura Bell and Storm. Both of these through-bred mares have a yearling foal at foot which may possibly, we understand, be offered at the above sale. . Down South a farmer was fined £20 for allowing sheep to tresspas3 on, and damage his neighbour's property. It is estimated that the cost of establishing meat turning work 3at Waikato to turn out 2i "tons daily would ie £2Opo; -■■■■■;. .•::';*' ' - Two" hundred and fifty poan&s is being subscribed m London to start a monthly journal m the Imperial Federation interest. . . A correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star says it is a common thing to ha% r e a hailstorm m Texas, U.S.A.; that will cut through your clothes, and cut the flesh, cut a sheep's eye out, lame them, or knock them down; (pleasant .country.) •