LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1446, 4 September 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

0 i our fourth page to-tlay will be found the following : — Calilc News, Telegrams, E ist and West Coast Railway, Commercial Newa (including Englisli markets, The Wool Sales, Wellington Markets, Wanganui Stock Quotations and Ster^ns and Gorton's Report), Turakina Items, The Lower Hutt Tarring and Feathering Case, IVle-striansm Extraordinary, and Miscellaneous Items. Messrs C. M. Ro3S and Co. of the Bon Marche, announce by adre.rtistnent elsewhere the continuation of their sala for fourteen days longer, 80 as to f >utln:r the object m view which is the reduction of their stock. Another blacksmith is about to start business m FeiMiug i«i a few days, at the forge near Mr Lowers' ato'-e. — Star. The meeting oF the football club last evening was adjourned till next dayYesterd.iy's N. N. Times says : — A curious accident happened last evening at eight o'clock to a hoy named Henry Lake, son of Mr C. L*ke, expressman, Willis-street. The boy, who was on the tram, attempted to jump off while it was m moti.m, with the result that he fell and broke hislftg. The sufferer was taken into the Ship Hot^l, whorw his injuries were attended to by Dr Gillon, after which the lad was conveyed to his father's residence. In a letter to the New Zealand Herald Mr Samuel Vaile assarts that the Hon. Mr Richardson's claim to have increased the railway rccipts 10s per cent, is fouudnd on taking the expenditure on opened lines only, not as m former years was done on lines opened and unopened. In the case. Thos. Wray v. Wi Mahnri. claim for £5 15s, judgment was given for plaintiff yesterday for £5 6s and costs. Mr Neil, manager of the boot and shoe establishment adjoining Messrs Welch and Co. stationers, requests us to draw tlio attention of the public to the fact that the premises will only be open for a few ilnya longer, and parlies wiwliins to pur.Jiasn genuine b.irsjiins should make an early visit. The stock 19 a large and well assorted one,. ' , It will bo se*»n by advertisement that the nomination oFOi's received yesterday by th-> R.M-ongh R-tiiriiitig Ofiiuor are null ami voM nti aacmuit of tl]"ir bojqir no burareaa ro'l.-* m pxi«t:\nfi», the same having been destroyed m the Town Hall lire. Proceedings will shortly be taken agninat some persons m Wellington for keeping disorderly houses.

A. private lotto? to a Capatown newspaper reports M alagasoar to be rioh with preoioua stones an 1 niatals, but that the law oi the country prohibits mining under a penalty of twenty j'eaw m chains. French engineers are about to begin further surveys m relation to the propped African island soa, with the twofold viow of: constructing a harbour at the month of: the Oueil Mellah. and of aacei-tain'mg the feasibility of sinking artesian wells along the proposed line of the canal. Engineering skill m China has achieved a notable triumph m the bridge at Lagang, over an arm oi the China Sea. This structure is five mile* lpng,.builtjgntirely of stone, 300arche3 70 feet high, the roadway is 70 feet \ride, y&ritf the pillars are 75 feet apart. There will shortly be m operation m San, Francisco an electrical railjvay. There is said to be no limit "to the pace, at which cars can be run by electricity, and experiments on the electric roads at present existing show that to propel a car conveying 44 passengers costs" only from 2d to 2Ad for each nrile run. ; ? The 248 beet sugar factories of the Austrian Empire, exported, \m. 1884, I.OOO.OOOswt of sugar more tfiaii m the preceding year, but received for it 24,000,000 florins less. Added to the loss m price on Home consumption, these factories suffered a .loss of 40,000,000 flpi&xsj or 160,000 florins; for • (Bach; factory*. ■• "■' ' • ' -.'■-- . : :.i\r There is a curious, analosy m China to the English cU^m^f burying suicides at cross roads; wioj^i%ake through their body. The body 'Off^h'e felo de se who is so irreverent as tocojhmit self-destruction within the precincts' of that portion of Pelun m which;, the' imperial Court is situated is >Bolemrdy;'brrtught to some public place, such as a fridge, and there flogged.; - : ./; ;-;;•■:;■•. We again remind our readers of the stock sale at Mesdrii "Saeliou and C/s sale yards m. Fitzherbert .St, ; to take place to-tnoTOur at noon; .' ■ : It is staged that, pending the passing of the Public Works Estimates, the Minister of Public Works has issued instructions that no. nW contracts are to be entered into.— Post. The cunocs phenomenon known as a mirage was seen m great perfection from Timaru between "one and two o'clock recently. Stretching out from tUe Peninsula, an exceedingly clear and weli-defined itnage of a girder bridge was seen — presumably a mirage of that over the Rangifata river. The representation was so"exceedingh r vivid (says the Waipawa Mali) that a stranger vvouM have been positive that it was a real bridge and approaches on which he was gazing. The weather was close and warm at the time, and there was apparently a good deal of moisture m the air,— conditions favourable^ the production of the phenomenon; For distinctness the mirage wouftf almost rival the famous case which occured m 1798, when the whole coast of Franco from Calais to Dieppe, although, 50 miles from Hastings, became visible at the latter place, and remained so about three hours. The Island Bay Park Racing Club Exhibition meeting will take plac* tomorrow. The Evening Press says :— Constable Hernett, of thn Hutt, brought m to the police station on Tuesday the tar pots and brush which were used m the late lar and feathering affair. The detectives who have the case m haud hope beforo long to he able to identify the perpetrators. Notwithstanding the small army of detectives and police who keep duty over the Exhibition (remarks Tuesday's Evening Press) some petty thief last night between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock stolo a quantity of window cord from the Art Gallery. .. The gale of the last two days (says the Evening Press) has done comparatively little damage ashore so far &s reported. A large bill board standing m Manners-street, opposite the foot of Cuba-street was blown down and demolished ; m falling it struck a young lad named Levy, knocking out three of his front teeth. A runaway horse, started by the fl >pping of a sheet of corrugated iron, ran against a post m Courtcnay Place, and broke one of its legs. A large lamp i» Inrabton Q>iay was blown down and broken to pieces. Several panes of glass m the Exhibition buildings were smishol m, and the gate of the R.M. Court was destroyed. We regret to record the death of Mrs Sarah Wilkinson, teaoher of tho Mount Cook Infant So'io)!, Tory-3treet, Wellington. The Post Bays that the deceasul lady had been m the service of the Wellington Education Board for the last 14 years, and has been ailing for some time past, she leaves a grown-up family. Mrs Wilkinson was the mother of the unfortunate lad Alfred Wilkinson, who l*ft for England by the Kuapehu last Sunday. We believi! friendly sumraonos wor« taken out to-day to protect Councillors from the possible attempts or. informers to take advantage of their positions by recovering fines as m the Graff-Park case heard yesterday.