LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1454, 14 September 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth pago to day will be found an interesting piece entitled, Tne Death of a Noted Criminal, and another extract headed, A Night of Horrors. Mr Stratford has just turned out a merchant's spring dray to the order of Messrs Stevens & Gorton which would doj credit to aay English or colonial factory. The body of the dray is constructed out of the ordinary style with float'ns* rails, which are both substantial and ornamental, and the show boards containing the name also add considerably to the appearance of the conveyance. The whole of the ironwork, we may remark, has been manufactured by the proprietor m the new forge which has just been added to the already ex • tensive premises ot Mr Stratford. The body of the dray is painted an olive green and the carriage vermillion. Word has been received m Wahganui, from the Board of Directors of the Bank of Australasia, stating- that they will not take their cases against F. It. Jackson's guarantors to the Privy Council. The Directors will also return the amounts paid by W. T. Owen and J. S. Civerh 11, two of the guarantors, also allowing interest for the- money. We are requested to remind members of Lodge Manawatu Chosen Few, L.O.L. No. 43, of the monthly lodge meeting this evening, at Bank Chambers, at 7 o'clock sharp. 'Mr E. H. Bhodes, of Woodville, is inviting tenders for felling about 60 acres of bush m l J ahiatua. Specifications can be seen at Standard Office. Tenders will be received till" the 19th mat., (next Saturday

Mr P.srata, the Southern Maori member, distinguished himself early on Tuesday morning by making the first speech m English ever mule m fie House by a Maori meinb r." It was short and to'the point. The question under consideration was the striking out of the vote of £100 for the Chairman of the Waste Lands Committee, an:J Parata had voted for the omission of the item; He had previously voted for the retention of a similar sum for the Chairman of the Goldfields Committee. A good deal had been said about the way members had chopped about m the various divisions, and Parata felt called upon to explain his vote. There was no interpreter present, so he rose solus amid loud cheers to address Mr Hamlin. "I voted for Pyke" (Chairman of the Gold Fiel Is Committee), said Pratt, "f >r him to get the money. You knock it off him, you knock it off the Int." With great vigour, and slapping lys fist on the table, "You wait a bit," continued he, when there was some interruption, and the way he said it produced roars of laughter. " I vote for all to get the money or else none." — Post. The Herald says : — Mr Walter Armstrong of Wanganui, machinist, has applied for a patent for " Armstrong's unfailinsr pneumatic grippar." The gripper was designed and supplied by Mr Armstrong to remedy 'a defect m a lithographic press lately imported by Mr A. D. Willis of Caxton Chambers. The preuimtic " flyer" sent out along with the machine could not be got to "fly," the work going through the maclvne, except by fits and starts. MiArmstrong's invention is a very ingenious application of compressed air and might have been nptly described as "the bellows flier." It never misses its grip, and takes each sheet off as deftly as possible. The Wanganni Herald learns that the business of stock salesmen and auctioneers, Irtherto carried on by Messrs Barns and Hisrsie. will m future be con-dncte-1 solely by Mr Albert Barns, who has taken over the whole business, Mr Ilicrgie retiring from the partnership, which has been dissolved. We wish Mr Barns every success m his increased sphere, and feel sure that where prompt, active, bns'ness halvts, and a high reputation for probity are the passports to success, he must, succeed. Mr Hicjgie enntemp'ates an early visit to the Home country. Friday** Nnpi«r Telegraph says :— "■Jacob Faithful's" consultation was .drawn tins morning by a committno, and m the., presence of a number of subscribers. "Fhri'o tji'>iis:tnd and sixty t talents wero sold, which prndnrfd £1530 for distribution. OF tlii* thr> first liors« will srnt £300, second £150, third £75, others (divided) £606, while -forty- five cash prizes, ranging from £50 downwards, will absorb the bftlanpe of £405.

Th« Wang>tuui llwald liaar tlusr^ t likely to b-i a laws lit over a disputr insuraucy oasa m that district short]* The facts are shortly as nndisr : A ptr eon insured a eotHge, and for som time before it was destroyed by tire it had .ceased to b • tenanted. Th« com pany's policy has a clans? that all buildinjjs unoccupied for morn than 28 days must l»e notili-d by th«s insurer lo thcompany. This, it seems, was not done by the insurer, who most likely n«ver read the long list of precautions the insuranco companies take to hedge themselves in 'from loss. Those who insure should study the policy they are asUed to accept before finally doing so, as it is too late to demur after several months or years have elapsed'and a fire takes place. Judge Johnston lately stated from the bench, that^f insurers took the trouble to read the conditions of many ot the policies they 'would never accept them. Sir William Jervois (siys the N. Z. Times) spoke iv v>ry complimentary terms on Thursday- ni-lit of. the good work done by the early missionaries amongst the Maoris, and specially referred to Bishop TTadfield's successful labors amongst the Natives. A few days ago a boy named John Jones was sentenced to twelve strokes of a birch, by theAuckland Bench, for larceny, the. sentence -to be carried out by the Police. In the afternoon . (says the Herald) the sentence was carried out iv the police guard- room, under the supervision of SS-rgeants Donelly and Kielv. Tho modus operand* was as follows :— Oonstalde Christie got the boy's huad m chancery, and then Constable M'Connell -holding the' youthful sinner across his knee, struck home on the old, old spot, as the Human matrons did two thousand years ago. Friday's Post says: — A very old settler's death is notified to-day. Mrs George Hill, whose decease too f f place at th-.i resid nee of Mr Joseph Hall, her son-iii-lay, at the Lower Hutt this inorning, arrived m the colony m the ship Arab m the year 1841 V and was then nearly fifty years of age. She has resided m and around Wellington, principally «t Karon ami the Lower Hutt. ever since, and at the time of her death was 88 years of age. She survived her husband, also a well-known old settler, but a short time.