LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1456, 16 September 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following will be found on our fourth- paere : — A Caution, Does Moneydending.Pdy, A Peculiar Case, Hanlan's Narrow Escape, and Miscellaneous Items. In the House on Monday afternoon Sir Julius Yogel said lie regretted that there was no chance to carry -out the San Francisco mail service with Auckland as the terminus. .Negotiations with regard to making Sydney, Auckland, and Honolulu as termini, with separate services between those places and San Francisco were pending, and he hoped to be able to report to the House before the session was over, and get the sanction of Parliament as to what should be done. A professional swindler named Mary Belinda Todrf, with many aliases, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Christclmrch for imposing on the landlord of the Tempbton Hotel by re proddnbin.^. herself to be a lady of means, and getting board and lodgings on the cheap. A charge of uttering a forged cheque for £111 is also pending against her. A special notification from the PrbpI erty Tax Department will be found elsewhere. : Mr Thomas Coady, the new proprietor at the Temperance Hotel, Ridgwny-stn-»;t, VVnngiunii, announces that no. paius will We spared on his part to maintain the reputation of this favourite house. .-,..-.... Mr William Bontley, partner m the well-known and popular firm of Bentley Bros., was to-day marriid to Miss Floivuce Walklny, n dee of Mr John \\'alkley, the host of the Commercial Hotel. With the many friends of Mr and Mrs W. Bentley we join m the customary congratulations, wishing both a long and happy life together. ' ° Wo hear that over half a dozen weddings are to take placu m Palmerston between the present time and the end or the year. Mtssrs Snelson and Co. will hold an important ssle of clothing and drapery &c. to-morrow at their rooms at 2 p.m. , The Maoris m the Lake Eliesmere (Canterbury ) district predict a very dry spring and summer. . The Napier Telegraph says : — lt is ou record that a w.ouiuu explained the loss of her nose, which her husband had bittin off, by saying that she bit. it off herself, and an analogous case came before a police 'court the other day. The women had her throat cut, an.i tier tinkers s.-verod with a knife, which 1 tt'-r she explained was caused by her endeavoring to tako the knife from her husband's hutids. Then she further stated she fell ov a knife and cut - her throat. ."■*'.

Th • Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company, London, told tin; Society of Aits, m a recent address, Hint the daily supply received at Billingsgate, the irivat London fish-market, amounted t> 500 tons. A ton of Rah is equal to the weight of 28 average sheep, so that 500 tons equals a consumption of 14,000 sheep. The Rev T. De Witt Talmage, thinks he has discovered a point m favour of cremation m the latter clause of th« Biblical text, -'■• Dust to dusl, ashes to ashes." He s lys— "That is incineration. Did you ever see that point before.?, I never did. I really think that resurrection is easier after incineration than after ilmumation." Trial was made on Tuesday last. at. the shop of Mr DqrnweU, George Street, Dunedin, of an electric arc lamp, the invention of Mr E. A. . Ashcroft,- late, dec trical engineer to the Lyttelton. Harbor Board. The lamp burned steadily,-giv-ing the light ot about 3000 candles. The limp is o: purelyjcoloaial i"ivent o » and make, and can be manufactured at half the cost of the imported- article. Me-srs R; E. Fletcher and Co., electrical engineers, of Dunedin, had charge of the patent for New Zealand. Mr Ashcroft leaves by the Doric for the purpose of introducing the lamp at Home. ; Latest news from Fiji states that the s.s. Southern Cross returned from her roun.l trip to Windward, Tonga, and Samoa on August 19. Her mission m that direction was to convey Wood}'ear's ' Circus to their destination, Samoa, where they are now awaiting the arrival of the s.s. Janet Nicoll to take them further afield. While at Tonga the Government . gave every encouragement to the show, the marquee being filled for four nights at prices which should be satisfactory to the treasury department. At Apiaj Samoa, the steamer left them with most encouraging prospects, although news had not had time to circulate through the Navigators Group, of which Apia is the centre. A minister m a village church happened one Sunday to be reading a porsion of the 13th chapter of St. Matthew. Just as he had finished the 54th verse there was a noise m the gallery as if some one had dropped a lot of marbles on the wooden floor. Stopping a moment, the parson glanced up at the gallery, and ! then went on reading the 55th verse, " Isnot this the carpenter's, son ?''* "No, sir;". ! shouted a voice from the . gallery, "as shair's death, it's no' me. It's Jamie Murray, the blacksmith's : laddie ; but; they're my bools, and Ws nailt them frae me." It is hard to say whether the pftrson, Jamie Murray, dr the congregation was the most astonished at the interruption. '■ '■