LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1447, 5 September 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

England is supposed to be a free conntry, with all its inhabitants equal m the c} r e of the law. At Row street policecourt lately a widow applied for a warrant for tiie apprehension of a baronet who had, the widow alleged, entrapped and ruined the applicant's only daughter, a young girl, and had her at present kept m a house m a secluded part of the country. The application was by arrangement heard privately, and although the warrant was granted, the name of the accused person was refused to representatives of the Press who applied for it. Mr Mitehelson, M.H.R., will leave for England shortly. He will be absent about three years. At Awahuri a few days ago (says the Feilding Star) a native was convicted by a Maori tribunal of being drunk, lie was sentenced to pay a sum of money and informed that if he repeated the offence his wife would be taken from him. Another industry has been started at Makino by Mr C. P. Mai. who has opened a cooperage at his place on the Makino road, Feildmg. A billsticker has been returned to the Borough Council of Marton. As a man who is a good . billsticker must possess the qualities of energy, patience, perseverance, with an unprejudiced mind, we think the Marton people have done wisely to elect such a person, even if his occupation is not "high-toned." Feilding Star. A curious way of tryinar to evade a penalty occurred at the EM. Court the other morning (says the Evening Post). A cab driver was charged with driving a vehicle across the footway m "Willisstreet at other than a walking pace. The ! proprietor of the cab then turned up, and asked that the case might be remanded for 8 days as he had heard that the City Council were about to amend tha section under which the information was laid. It is needless to say that the ! proposal was not entertained, and a fine of 10s was inflicted. The unfortunate man Taylor, who died on Monday last," was a very old identity m Wellington, having arrive! there m the ship Oriental m the ye ir 1840. He was a boat-bnilder, and carried on his trade successfully at Petone for some years. Deceased was the originator of the eight hours movement m New Zealand. The individual who was strutting about Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, without his clothes has been identified as Andrew Miller, and lie has been summoned. In the House of Reprpsentutivps on Thursday, the Counties Act Amendment Bill was read a third lime and passed. Tbft English papers have got hold of a statement that Now Zealand cheese from th« factory nt Waiknto has sold m Queensland for Is 6d a pound. Upon that they base advice toTCuelish inakerg to export to that chepse-htmgry Colony. One huii'lrfld nominated emigrants will be B'i)t out to vnrions New Zealand ports por Tontrnriro. Tlio Wellington Garrison Bind is to tnko its tn'iil m fh- bnn>l oontfßt m tho TSxiiiltition fo-ilnv. So far (s-iyg the Wnngnnui Herald) public opinion (peg i m farpr of tye P«?nodin Band. ■

Mr Max D. King elsewhere announces i very important sale of contractors' plant. Further paticulars will be found m advertisinent. Constable Roche the other evening found the bo<ly of a man m a creek at the back of Mr Samuel Burne's house Pukerua. The body is almost a skeleton, i but the clothes have been recognised as those worn by a man uained Richard Price, who was working about three mouths ago at Pukerua as a blacksmith. Price was a single man, 39 years of age, I and a nativoof Wales. At the It. M. Court, Wellington, on Tuesday morning there were 3 oases of crueky to animals. 3 breaches of the Police Offences Act, 4 breaches of the city by-laws, one w drunk," and two I cases of assault.