LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1472, 5 October 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENRAL.

The direct steamer Uhmit.ika Bailed from Tcueriffu for New Zaaland on Thursday moniiug List. A Wellington confectioner who ad wrtisus fur mi iipprenticu requires a premium "of £50 with him. A new scale of fares, rates, and charges, on ihe New Zealand railways, to come into force on the 12th October, is gazetted. .His. .Excellency, the Governor lias been pleased to accept the- resignation of Alexander Richard Fletcher Johnston as Lieutenant m the Palmerstou North Kifle Volunteers. Ten thousand trout fvj', being the moiety of 20,000 fry presented by the Chrißtchurch Acclimatisation Society to the Wellington and Wairarapa 1 Society, arrived on Friday at Wellington i by the s.s. Kotpii>aliaiia,.and were lauded m iirst-ratc conditiou. It is intended to liberate 1000 of the fry m the Makara stivaui, 1000 atOtaki, 1000 at^Waikanae, and the balance m the waters of the Upper Hulr. Anglers will be pleased to leant that some i xceedingly line trout have within the past few days been aeon at the Pakuratahi. From the accounts received from every stream *m the vicinity of Wellington the season now opening bids fair to, be a most delightful one to Sdheriiieii. — Post. . . ; The well-known Ohineinuri chief,. Ropat te Pcikika, died suddenly at Shortlaud the week before last. It appears (says a cotiteuiporary) that hs was about to return to Paeroa by the n.s. Patiki when he was seized with a spasm and expired within a fow moments. The deceased chief has been a linn trieinl of the Europeans from the. days: oP the early settlement of the goldficlds and was one of the wannest advocates ot the opening of the Ohinemuri district to th. j . miners. Mr Jas. Macl;ay ; , m the cow rso of iiia recr-nt lecture, mentio.isd that if it lud not been for the exertions of liopata and a fuw others the Govertiuieut might not have gained a footing there at all. Deceased his for ninny years been m receipt of a small pension f rom as a re'ioguitiou of the services rendered lo the colony m this respect. ; Applications for sections at Huntervillew'ere received' to-day at the Crown Laitus office Wellington and the Temperance Hotel Mai tou. The follovving extract is from " Advance Australia," a book lately published : — Away up North, "an occaional raid after the wild blacks enlivens the monotony of life, and there are some men who-, are brutal enough to enjoy hunting them down. But apart from" the chance of getting a spear through his ribs, or a tomahawk m his scnll, no ■ one who h us not lost every vestige of decent feeling could possibly look upon this as sport." "Of the few kinds of snort which Australia does afford, undoubtedly thu finest is hunting wild cattle,", (p. 107). .".When the ; blucka are troublesome it ia generally considered snrfii:i>tht punishment to go out and shoot one or two:" " Whether the blacks deserve any mercy is an ■ open questiotJ, but that they get 2) odd is certain. They are a doomed race, and before mauy years are over they will be completely wipi-d out of the laud." The.Harden Grenade had a practical test at Maxwell's fire m Hawera. The effect of one is_ said to hii^e been iingicft). :. . . Mr D. Frasor elsewhere advertises tlio celeltmt d American Trotting Stallion Bill Elm, to stand m the ttaisgitikci and \lanawatu districtn. Particulars will be found m advertisement. , Tenders for the lease of the Botanical Reserve close on Weduesday at noon. The Roa<f Board is inviting tenders for the purchase of various ai'.clions, more iully particularized m adrertiseinent. - < Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale nt Awahuri takes place to-morrow at 1 p.m. . • i Mr M. Prendergast invites tenders for I.PBg"',S n P Buuuythorpe. '.. ! • C' ■ \ r ; 'Mr H". W". Byers. advertises' a "rewanl for a lost bayjnare. Mr A. Uee.y.ps- inquires 20 'axemen for bushtalling. A^i)l|catiou to be made at Messrs Wollermau atfil Hutcheson's. The Oroiia Lodge of Druids wijlineet m the Lodge Hooih/Mr Mowlem's Bnildiiigs. to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. . '. The regular inceting of the tiO.O.f. Orient Lodge will take place to-niorrow : e'.eniiig, ftt 7.30. o'clock; at the L'dclge; : Rooms; Bank Chambers. -• ' •' ; ' • '*\Ve' were glad to .see His Worship the i Mayor down town to-day a?torhis ; recieht ; indisposition. ; - : : . ; ' , .ACtqc tli,e. heavy rains of Friday; fsd jSatur-Uy the weather to-day_and yester- \ day was very enjo\ able. . ! Mr J. G. Cox, Featherston, Wairarapa, : invites'' application; for the purchase of \ certain properties iv Foxton and Pal--1 merßton. .._.... ! A married couple desire' a situation -on 'a farin;or slatipn',. -.._'■ . v Messrs Walker _and Hatrick, Wanigahni, are buyers of prime salt butter. ; ; . Jlegul aUpns are now. being prepared j under the Forest. Conservation , Act, and leverything is beirig done to give'prac'tical efEect to the Act. ! '■ ■'■. ■:.■'. > ■■•."> ■ ■■.■■:' I The teßt of tlie Pohangina" quartz made m . Wellington referred tc; elsei where was by Mr Jen'ness, - the' 1 welliknown jeweller: Another assay is-being made '.-'by'-. -Mr .Ske^',. the Government ■ analyißfc.p „■; ;,-: ; . 7 ■-■■: ■ ■ '..-,,.- ■ ;.:* .; It ,\ras, decided, m a. recant case, tried 1 at, R.angioraL^ha.t persons attending a : church or at any meeting 1 , and no,t coniforming to the rule 3 that were m { f orce ;as regards , the standing up and .sitting down, ; rendered jtlieuiselve's liable fto be sutnraoneil for creating a disturbance, : and fined. The Magistrates ruled that ;as the defendant was not compelled to ! go to the meeting, if he went he must abide by what regulations w^ere m force an the room. -■'"•'■