The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1474, 7 October 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily N ewspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER , 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENRAL.

6vS ; the leader will be found a card from:; Mesfrs E. H. WrighT^S Co. ofc FeildiQL*, the welUcnown architectsr builders, and contractors. The firm are prepared to give prices- for the erection" of buildingf, or to surpervise carpenters' work. y 'From-.word received m town there is 'reason to'", believe that the Wanganui prospectors are out of the Tuhua country now, and that one or more will by this time.be on the way Wanpanui wards. —Herald. '.' t A Siibscriber'\writing pn the condition of ; : Main-street fbotpUth has omr •'mi'tted-fo forward his';' name as a gnfcV- I antee of good taith. ' When forwarded, his ! letter will be published. , to draw the attention of our readers tovthe advertisement pf *Mr Polliird, who' na's started business' 4 ih Wanganui as a parcels receiving and for- ., warding, agent, undertaking all kinds of general comn"i*sion business. Mr- Pollard claims to afford business men and the public generally special facilities for the cheap and prbmpt conveyance of parcels, large and small, to and from all : paiftibf th& colony .* His business also includes a 4gxt of kin ageucy, he beinjf. the Wariganui. represensative of a wellknown London firm m that line. Among the muny charitable institutions of ''which; Lprdy Shaftesbary was one of tfie promoters may be mbntioned i the, London Shoeblack Brigade, which started with six members, and now in* eludes a regularly organised army of boys, whose iwelfare, if they,;beliavo themselves,: is watched over through ,-lifo. The Refuge for destitute Boys ,and tne Female Reformatory m the Whitechapel-road aiie bwb other highly successful organisations which are monuments of the deceased earl's practical beneficence. ; The Home for Lost and Starving Dors, at Battersea received last year 14,772 dog.9 into the home ; of which number 14,542 were brought m by the Metropolitan Police Force from distances ranging up to ten ,milesj> Every dog, it is saidVlost m London, which falls into honest hands, .finds its way into the home, arid through the home back to its owner again, that, ,is, if it-* owner will visit or send 5o the- home once or twice after the lost one. During the hearing of a case m , the Compensation Oburt ut "Wellington, his. Honor Judge Richmond incidentally re--marked that the New -Zealand farmer, hud a good leal more to ; contend^ with, rnow-a-days than formerly^ are' 70,0^0,^.00 6 H sheep' in"' the ' ' Argdntjiie ! ' Ropnlilic,"' rernarkeiriris Hondri ' "tTlie^ liitost'i'ijtiirri shows that there are neai-Jy 100,000j000," said Mr Travera. "Then what is to become of us," pathetically aski'd Mr" Stafford, " with, our' small number of sheep; aftd bur Very large 1 debt."

Tlie following advertisement appears m au English newspaper. The ndveriiser evidently knows what he wants :-rr ; Dcg ftierce) warned for a yard, with fondness for trous t seats. Address, stating price, Mr , No. 5. Bankstreet, Birmingham. At a meeting of representatives; of Friendly Societies, held m Christuhurch on Tuesday last, the following resolution was unanimously carried : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the various Chriptehurch Fiiendly Societies should take part m the proposed demonstration »at> Wellington on the 15th- October, /and take, advantage of the proposed excursion!" . One of the representatives said, from what he Jcnow of the . Eriendly Societies m Wellington, "tie """was" qiiito sure tip visitors could depend upon a hearty welcome. /•'• <"' '' p : | f _-.. ) > , In the last Gazette is published an Order-in-Council under the hand of hi* Excellency the Governor, revoking the rates 4 and tables hitherto m force m tVie New Zealand Government Insurance Department, and establishing a new : scale of premiums, which came , into force on the Ist instant, but will apply only to' new insurances affected on and after that date. Taking one or two typical instances m illustration of the new rates -we may mention that .the annual premium for insuring £100, payable at the death of an insurer aged; 20 ;at entrunce, mW 'bp) £1 Ijss 2d ; wheu the age at entrance is 25, £2 4s 3d ; 40, .£2 18s lid ; and so on m proportion. I— N.Z. Times." •' : ! ' ' i The excursion trips to Pliinmerton advertised by ; the Wellington^ and ManaKvatu Railway Company for Saturday and Sunday, were patronised very largely > pnd may be accepted ks an indication of the future popularity of the line. On {Saturday close on 600 ticket were' issued, and on Sunday 400 passengers were booked. . ;!> - ; ', : - :• . : *:■■■ ] i A man named Edward Docherty was fined £1 wit l i the alternative of 7 days' m gaol at Wellington) on: a i charge, df travelling without having paid his fare from Port Chalme'rs. His storj was: — Pown m port Chalmers he lent a young fellow £2 16s, and the. man told llim if he would accompany him to Wellington the money would be repaid by a brother who was' living m Palmorston. The man: to whom 1 'he lent the ; money assured him that all would be ric;ht, and he .accordingly came up to Wellington. The Court thought ' his . story was somewhat $hin.,, He ; went to-granl;,.. ■ ... ; . , ; , , „; ; i The Daily News correspondent m New York, telegraphs that much interest jias been excited there by the "report that Mr Gladstone had intended to sail this jveeldtq Hmerjca, but that' hw physicians forbade the voyage. There, is a general hope, the correspondent adds, that the visit is only postponed. The Evening Post says- that no English statesman," Except Mr Bright, would be so cordially welcomed, but it fears that "he never would be r iible. to meet thedemands inartej upon him. Every man .and woman~in ! the country would want to hear him and he would' either have to' take to the woods or exhibit powers of withstanding popular ; desires of which he* has yet given no sign." •; . ...... An extra supplement is issued with the Standabd this evening, containing a large quantity of Specially; compiled reading matter. The Standard now issues two supplement every week, a single-page supplement on Wednesday, uncl a double-page one on Saturday^ After this week we hope to have our arr rangements completed for issuing the; Wednesday's supplements double page also. Still further improvements, will shortly be carried into, effect, which our numerous readers will doubtless ap preciate as thoroughly as the recent efforts put forth to give them as large arid yaried an amount of reading matter as possible. • ■ ■' : At Ayr the other day a cup was sold by auction for £55 simply because Robert Burns had drunk out of it. There ought to be. a good many similar " articles de .vertu" m the country if we only knew where to find them! The vessel was purchased by the hostess .bf jhe Hbirsrh Inn, a; place which Jn future is likely to gain the .patronage of the bard's devotees. *In a labial, as, vweil'as m alitei'ary serise, the true poet, seems gifted with the power of ,. adorning and adding: value to whatever he touches. , .Fiirther additions are mane; to ; the" batalogne'of Messr3 Stevens arid Gorton's next stock sale at the Borough Yards. The TicHborrie* Claimant's 'wife haß applied for and obtained the admission of herself and two illegitimate children, , aged respectively 'eight and ftire'e 1 yearsi ; to Greenwich Union Hospital. I ' The death at Cambridge is announced bf Mr Robert Potts, UA.\ of Trinity Col| le.Qfe, acred eisrbtv-tliree ; he was 26tn Wran-rler m 18*12, and a well-known person years/ago in 'Connection with University, refoijn.; The :sad .event took placte at his re^idenae m Park Terr ipe, Cambridge. He wis editor ef "Euclid's Elements with - Geometrical Exercises," *' Paley's Evidences," and the author of other works, being: active inliterature tothe close of his life, _„ „; f ' There is scarcely a newspaper published from one year's end to aiiotner that will not, if critically considered, give offence to somebody m the community. This one objects io that m it ; another because j too mucti is made of one thing ; another that such a thing is not fully reported./! I The newspaper offends some one just as | ihe weather-frrain to-day and sunshine to-morrow— ia sure, to annoy somebody. The common sense view is that thp.se who; conduct a newspaper care nothing :fb'r individuals biit to do them justice — Exchange. , S •■•.■'.■•'■•',•.'>.. »..-0-'V ■>■ -;,.\: * The present Spanish earthquakes have not beent without; some of thosa accompaniments which almpst invariably, tend earthquakes of any, severity. Serion s landslips are often the seq-iei' of siich' ' shocks ; streams disappear, "sj>r"rigs cease flowering,' rivers are' dried iip,' and their course' ib ; so obstructed that they form lakes. One village m Granada bas.;b.o.ea f moved bodily some sixty feet m a northward direction^ a, deep semi -circular, crevasse appearing on its former site. The course of the little river near which the river utood has been blocked up, and a laka is being formed. Many of the sulphur springs with which the reeion abounds suddenly ceased flowing, but reappeared a day or two after m ,a state of unusual heat— indicative, no doubt, of the character of the force at work below At Periana a landship m a mountain m the neighbourhood destroyed a church and 750 houses. — London Times.