LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1471, 3 October 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Oar^ usual Saturday Supplement, enn.'tainih'!? the serial take, " Hia One Mistake," will be resumed next Saturday. It is ; pur intention shortly to publish on W jtlnesl iv's a spocial supplement, similar to that issued wit'iito-day'sptip'er, 5 besides the ordinary.Sjiturday supplement j.wlridh'is now sb generally pppnlar with readers, and is so milch m demand.

The Queen inteuds to exhibit several animals from her farm at WindsptV at the annual show of the. Royal Agriciiltutal Society of Irelanl. The Princo of Wales also will send qvir some exhibits from Sandririgham. " ". ' A Philadelphia telegram reports that the lutrrnational Distillery at t)esinonies, lowa, the largest distillery . m the world, has been burnt down. ~ Londo l has a Christian Policemen's Association, which has more than 1600 members. Travellers and tourists should remember that on entering France all> their matches must be left behind. They are otherwise liable to a tax of one frano for every match found on them. The following applications for patents have been made : — P. \.Catherwood, J. ,VV, Welsby, and J. J. Rendle, of Melbourne, for improved means of filtering 'beer ; and ? other liquids; R.^ Bayhs^/qf New Plyiiiquth, for invention for rendering buildings waterproof ; J. Elliot, of Ardlussa, Hawkos Bay, for i tipping platform for dipping sheep; ; J. H. Parker, of New Plymouth, for automatic fire plug ; \J. .lv;ir, of Ashburton, for gorae- fuikv cotter ; J. San,derson,of New Plyiuouth, for combined sasn, fastener, down haul, -and lift ; J. S. Hudson, »t Potiso.iby, Auckland, for d.iubleaction ; el»(.tro-inaijnetic machine. G. McHattie, of Palmerston, Otago, for angle-toothed flexible harrow ; J. Ml Taylor and H. Oakley, ot Christchurch, for safety atmospheric burner ; F. R. .J?r0u,",.,0f Sydney, tor t apparatus for carrying e«gs or other fragile . articles ; B. A. 'Gibbon, of Wellington, for a rabbit trap. . , j Ueftefs of 'Naturalisation have I>een granted to Riibert raucher, iniiier, Mastertou : Kuud Jetiseu uiiA Antou Nilsen, settlers, of Prtlmerstoh North- and Antou Paßki, mariuer, of Wellington. By a notice m the Gazette, section 44| Foxto.i, is set aside as a site for a town Uall. * . = A certain caravan orator at a fair, after a long yarn' descriptive of what 1 was to be seen inaide, wound up by enying : ll Step m, gontlemen ; step m !; Take my woril for i», yi>u will be highly) delighted when you come but." -..:■ w A multing,.sermori was preached m a country church, and all the congregation! began to weep except a countrywoman. ;O being askid wliyj she did. not. cry i with u-.e rest, 1 "• Bejais-)." said ; she; " I am not of this parish." ' A gentleman who had been struck by a you tit; lady's beauty was determined to '-follow the injunction. " aud ? kiss the rod that smote him.'-' One of theiiirj>est advertisers m New York says :— " We once hit upon a novel expedi«nt for ascertaining over what ar«a our advertiseraenta were read. We published a couple of half-column ' 'ads.' iii "which we ;purposttjy misstated historical f acts. In loss than a week we received between three and four hundred letters from : all parts of the country from. '.people wishiug to know why on eaith vve kept such a consuinmale fool who knew so little about American history, The letters kept pouring iv for three or four weeks. It was one of the best- paying' ads' we evM" printed. But wo did not repeat our experiment, because that one I refer to, Served its purpose. Our letters came . from , school* boys, girisi professors, clergymen, school teachers, and, . iv two instances, from eminent men - who have ,a\ worjd-vvide reputation^ f I was 'niorejiinpressed'with the value of advertising" froin those two advertisements than L should have been by volumes of th iories." While repairing. a, locomotiye on the Mount Washington^ Railway Ithe other I day, the engineer fouud that the piston- | rod would mot work. On examination : he-discovered that tliecylinder coutained [nearly two quarts of charryj stones, d,e---i posited thei-erby i a. squirrel wljich had ; built its nest m the fire-arch. In going -'to the,., cylinder to. deposit the nuts the . squirrel had to p«}^s tliroiigh' the gVates iiito'thii fi.re-arcli : through 'a flue to'tlie I Biii6kc-arcljy through' the exhaust steam.pipe to the steam chest, and through the ; steam post-hole into the cylinder,' travel-; :iin;^ioitvloet,.each wavi.., ., •«.,•.../ »..•.:» ; 'A gentleman' v 'who recently 'viaited Danevirkb '(says the' ''W-alpawft :; . MMI-f---has expressed liisrsurprise; at the num|b.er,f>f fpeople -that ;are ;no,w ,to,be.secn' I jbustling about in^^thot^tprwnship.. He. f 1 says he cannot imagine where they all ;come from, and can.; only conclude that 'tliey" : fiiid occupation J in : "this ' rapidly irising neighbqurhpodr I During 't\\e last ljKf years* England and Russii)fhave r enlarged ,thoir possessions as follows : — English^ annexations, i 2,650,000 square .. .m.ijes ; ; , population, 250.000,000.' ; ' 'Russisln' ' ' r annexations, 1,642,000 square miles ; population, 17,13^009,^1^011 shows that En gland's. annSxxitiqbiTjßJpcled tn I qse > to^ Russia by/ 1,008,000 square in.ile3'and 232,680;000 m population^ ; r ; s ; r . '/ ' / i Mrs Ettie Moore^ the talented lectur!psß, is tadvertised to appear at vtho •Eyfiemh/t^otmorrow. X^DoSrs'op&n, at (|:80 p.m., commence at 7. * ! English ships will soon be armed with srrius expefcted ,'to\ carry; projectile 1250U) weight 2,100 ft m a secondnearly tyviee th? velocity bt sound, ?• ; A, facetious dandy who danced with a couple; of country ;girls a*; .a ; party re-r cently, remarked, that, althouyrh he liked ringson his fingers, lie couldn't stand belles orihis toes: ' ; : i . > : It is stateo* that several '.hnya'. reading' at the'sO;Utb T enil of . Oamaru bayo ;bften guilty of maltrentinsr shopp, tfte. prbpertj'. of Mr, Bissef >, of RHid-str/'ft. : riio T^'Tth Otago Times says: — " S.»ine .of,; tlie sheep liave.beotu.- treated with d : s gustinw savagery: ,One was,fp,nnd with its body, ripped op^n, another wif-h. its IPgsjacerhted',*1 P gsj acerhted',* wh il e aVi 6th e r b aifl v be'en •'»paten about thfe head anVl. left to dio. 'Thrpo sheep have been thus treated, but ■Mr Bissett saj's that fully a dozen of his ar.r missing. Such con<.liiojt. to,'wards'iinoitMiding dumb aiiimals is outTageonßly villninons, and deserves, to .. ba .rigoi'busTy punished, and it is 'a'-'satisfac-tion to know that steps are being taken to bring the supposed offenders before the Resident Magistrate." \ Thursday's N. Z. Times says :— A sit tine of ; the Compensation Court AvaSi held yesterday - morning. -His. Honor Judge Richmond presided, and Mossrs J; R. George and Hassell acted as assessors. The cnsf*s h*arJi" were two. m wliich Mr David' Braid claimed from the Wellington Manawatu Railway' Company .£6OO for severance of land on which premises stnnd at Johnsonville.;, and £300 on account of section No. 25|at Pbrirria. In the first case, when some evidence had been taken, £112 10s was accepted as a compromise ; and m tbn second, an. award of £150, with , £15 costs, was Ynaile. By fallins from a waggon, a Chinaman m California whose life wjas in^ sured for a large amount, was seriously hurt- There was some doubt as to bis. ever getting better: and at length one of his friends wrote to thft Insurance company :-r: v : Charley half dead, ; ? likee half money." The: innocent' looking 'egg *poßs>sseß l within itself the gnrms of a power which when fully developed, : unites the attri butoß of the Chinese stink-pot and the, Rossian dynamite bomb. At a y breakfast table the other nay m Napier, . a boiled egg was fondly handled and' then gently tapped with a spoon. The egsr instantly exploded, .with arfiport : asloml ; as that of a pistol-shot, throwing the contents all over tho room, and driving everybody out with the smell,--?-Exchange.

; A : steady rainfall was the condition of for the greater part of last night ; and during the forenoon. ; Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at the Awaburi Yards will tako place on Tuesday next, at one o'clock. , The subject of discourse at All Saints' Church to-morrow morning 1 will be ''Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ," and m the evening The way of Salvation, No. 1, " Faith." A specially compiled supplement of interesting reading matter is published -with to-day's issuer "'■ ■••"——">-. •> The ,Borpugh is inviting/' tenders from ' persons willing to lease the Botanical A terrific explosiou of t^7&packages of dynamitd, '" ' <& c case of detonators, and 70 cases of lithofracteur, took place, -about three o'clock on (Saturdaj morn' ing; >Sep£..;sj on; board tn#l>i^ulQ_B.ock"hampton, at Kiinberley, pn the north coast of Queensland. The vessel wag blown to atoms, and not a vestige of her timbers could be found when daylight broke. According to 7 a telegram from • Normantoh, the crew, whilst_.dischariing cargo the day before, became aware of the fact that there" was a.large of powder on board, and "consequently refused to unload the vessel, and abandoned her. The v ca.ptain, ,G. Killen, appears to' have followed the same courae The cause of the explosion is not stated. The. Rockha'mpton \yas/= a twellf appointed .barqui 6^717 tons register^ *Th ! e?dwners will be heavy losers, for the vessel was uninsured. The cargo, however, was insured m various offices for £4467. Elsewhere will be found the preliminary ndvertisemeut of &arding's Almanao for 1886, one of the best publications of its kind that ,is issued >|p Jhe Colony. The quarterly revenue; returrs issued by the Treasury at Home. show a falling off of six hundred: thousand pounds as compar^dj with the corresponding period, 1884. •( ''%.. Mr M. Prendergast is inviting tenders for logging up at BjunnythorpeV A censqs taker atl.lß^ffalo had a funny ; experience; i Aft^ the usual questions liad been put and answered at a house, he was about to Iriave, when the woman who had seemed iji an uncertain state of mind made bbl'df to say:- "I think there may bo another by this time ; wait a little while, l^. ££ sat for a few minutes. She returned, exclaiming: 11 Vis, you qan add another. It's a girl." ' ■•::, ' \ : Too Otago Daily .'Times has an article bended "- Whether, the true locality of local industry is not the ploughhaudle." Captain Ella McMillan," the young lady who so long had charge of the Salvation Army m Blenheim, is to be married m a few days^— so 1 says 'the War Cry— tOiMnjor Barrett, j > commander of the 'force's m New Zealand^ ■'' ' ! [ ;*'- " The" following .ad vertisaraent; appears m a Wellington paper : — Two young ladies would liku to correapotid with two y=OMiigsgeHjtl^men of and appearance, with -a view' to ma'frTmon'y*: photos exchanged. , For sinking -spells,: fits, icjiwiiiess; -palpitation and low spirit.-, rely on Hop Bitters; "Gonuine made by ; : .^f, ~p n r rg We are now showing^our ! : JS isw SPBlife and Sumhbb Goods at The, Bon Mabchb, aud respectfully invite Tnspec- • tion and Comparison. — 0, M. Boss & Co. T. R. "Walton, Draper, &c, Edinburgh. House^ Square,— Begs to notify vto his - numerous customers fanSfthe>, repaints of Mtmawatu that he is tHe r 6nly 'Direct Im« porter m the district. Few Spring and Summer Goods arriving per " Doric "now due, anduilso;: per TongariTO to'amvenn'a few days. : Further pafliculak nkfiftuie advertisement '•.•>. OpiSsjnmpMpn,'*,' Baxter's .Lung .PreiSgrer Bag'*been signally successful/'-' V 'I <■■ if^flu I