The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1885. LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1476, 9 October 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1885. LOCAL AND GENRAL.

The counties of Biiller, &r'ey, inanjrahua, and Westland, all on the West Coast of the South Island, with a total valuation of £872,474, contributed" only" £835 to the Property Tax last year! And for the benefit" of these districts a • railway is-asked for at a cost of three , and S-calf millions. ; A dqnhlo exeoiitiontook place at Parin a f»*vt (lays [ago, 'the condemned men s heinjrV Marohandbn, the murderer of Rifndame Cornet, ...a. Creole lady, and Graspnrd, the sflflnsßin of M. de Lannny, a^' trunk' Vinanjifnctiirerr^; Mafch'andon showed 1 the Ram'i) cownrdine .(jig .on the r trial, ftndjhnd'to be siipportod th*> guillotine.a Gusjian! off theUther hand, was quite collected. There was an immense crowd around the placo of execrt-" and |he behaviour thei, Ipsople was characterised by great levity. It was a degrading spectacle. At the Aberdeen Sheriff's Court th* other day, a shepherd was fifed £5, svith the alternative of thiftv days imprisonment, for the thrtft of a receipt for £t7, which it was alleged he had swallo^red. It has been decided to hold another temperance f«*Btiva l at WefUnarton about the 25th of Jannary 'next. Tlie object is to establish an alliance for New ZeaJand v flimilar,to that m ; pxi»tpncprin thoUnited feihpfdom. Sir W.'Pox VilV'W is expsjcted, return to thfi colony m lime to take a prominent part m theprocnedinsrs. The alliance will not be confined ,tp teetotalli»r« ; any person may^ioib jr>ii ( .paying ss, : p.er .annum. The fee for affiliation of temperance societies will be one guinea per annum. , ... ,' „ . A proposition which will sound very curibiißly nerp, has bee.n agreed to by the French Chamber. , TJiis. waaa vote of sbmei£Bo;ooo to' provide for the 1 free education of every seventh child m ■French families — whether boy or girl alike. No gr«nt surprise will be felt, however, at this not«ble victory of the ( aoti-.Malthtißiansl>y, anyone who rem? s whkt ;the} ; Registrar; 1 G'tmeral's ret :nf nß^fia ve* Inte.ly Vseen like*. The rate ot excess of .tyrths^over ileaths has of latcyeara iieen 'steadily declining}'.and increase m the nnmbe.r, of m_ar? v ''lia'ges haslottgc'ensed.to be accompanied' by increase m , the,, number of births. The 'niimher'of births m 1883, for in T stfince, was nhnoßt. the samens m 1881 ; but there were 2000 niore marriages m 1882 than m 1880. r If things we.re jtp ! go on at this ra'to an aotunl decline \n t the population of ' Frrtnco fs wodld soon rotne jwithin ine.aanral'lb ; diatancei ah'dit is no wonder— i'Hpe,c?iftUy< in, -view Ot&i I he cfiloniiiftlioii cr»ae..—^thnt.tho. Chamber ; is' preoft viml to glvo'/a bounty to ihe '■mothera of many children."" ,' ' " ' ■ Tttli 5 " Invalids wHo'tYeppn'd .'upon eod-Hver oil to sustain theirvitii!'f«in'V-rß ! Bho*ild ; bV careful to get the pure nitiole. Cottonseed oil is now doiciff for the cod-liver nil product what it lout; since accomplished m the matter of olivo oil.

The Wairarupa Standard has the following .: — It is proposed tv place a sum on the Estimates for the purpose of giving Sir William Fox v present tor his services U9 a Commissioner m connection with the confiscated land's on the West Coast. We trust that Parliament will refuse to sanction such a monstrous job as this. Sir William Fox has already been very highly paid for the service m question, and there is no reason whatever why he should get a single ■penny more." Besides, Sir William Fox' has during nearly his whole public life m tho colony received ,very laree sums of^noney for hip .services.,.,., .... .......... The Directors of the Wellington and Manawativ |iaflwjay Qompainy haye^jus^ accepted' two tenders for the carrying out of sections 17 and 18, and the whole -ftf the lino hag now been let on contract. Messrs "Wilkie Bros, and J. Wilson are the;sucoess£ul tenderers for the construe-* tion of the section between Ofcafci and Waikanae, and Messrs Macfarlane and Alexander have obtained ..the, contract for jmaking that par t\>f the line between Paikakariki and Waikanae. — Post. Poor. bid Grey Momus, the well-known hurdle-racer, on whom Rho'dy Me Ivor used! to have the mount at onetime here, metj his death lately near Auckland through a. cow goring him m the gaskin. He |iraa the' property of Jack Rae at the time of his death. Momus won many racef here, .and was, m his day,, a first•classj fencer. (Flaneur m Herald.) The Taurangai Dairy Factory is send- '■ ing 2± tons of cheese to Auckland, and if the y,had.more, could sell it. The local pape s say cheese has gone, up a. penny a 1b m Auckland. The following; advertisement appears m th'e Wangariui Herald : — Notice to the public. In consequence of the death of Mr Alfred A: Cameron, the consultations (hitherto carried on m the name of the Fidelity Company will be discon-. tinnejl from this date. Subscribers to the Melbourne Cup will have their money .returned at once. . . . < The Post takes the Advocate to task for nq'w complaining of the slowness with ,>yhicH the' Central Railway is to be cairied Bfh ' It says .:— '• The /Advocate blame's the (lOverhhient for this condition ' of affair?. It should rather blame the member for its own district and those Mother members who despite a clear warning that no new, contracts wo\ild be. let for public works it the .Estimates wore reduced by half^a, million, ,yet voted with (jjJaptain Russell to make the reduction." j T;hel Katikati Cheese Factory sTiowsai loss lor the year of £81 lls £d. .Old cry — want of capital. • ' ! * According to. a, book just published on the^sebject of 'suicide, it : appears that vFran'cei enjoys the pre-emirience m, this respect. Whereas only -74 persons' per 1,000,000: 'per year m England lay; vidlent hi.nds. upon thems.elyes, the number! JiuJlrance is 216,, which^is in i f act; the, "li|ghesjt, average m all Europe. In Aus-. Hria tne number of suicides is nearly double) that of 'England, but both Italy and/ Russia are lower on the list. The v fnerease tin most' ■ European countries ' has been considerable during ! < the last five, ybars, but m; France; ifr has > been | enormous. .-. . .... ; . :. , ..• ■ The >. French artnee territoriale was' called '} out, this year for thirteen days'triiinirig, m ;imitat|on ,qf; tlie German •landwehr system (under which the period' 'of traihing is twelve days) but the result the experiment is not considered satisfactory ..bvthe French military^ papers: ' The Avenir Milttaire praises the punctnalityj with which the men came forward, and the. rapidity with winch' they,, 'equipped themselves for duty, but it strongly censures their want of military smartness and discipline. ' They were rather, 1 it says, like hastily raised bands thanlike any army ; they seldom saluted their ojneers, : and never their non-co mmissioned'"officefs, arid each man carried his rifle on the march as he liked. Such faults may ; appear 'trifling ; but it-is only, by rigiH discipline and drill that an "army can gain that unity of action to . which the German armies have chiefly owed -their success. '^ ; . , '. • \ " Mr Montgomery. M.feS., has resigned the chairmanship of the B^pard of (ioywnors'of Canterbury' College. He is going to Eng|land'for S",liip','and expects to.return m March next.v v ■ ■ . '= ; The Rfady Money Store is inviting tfinders for the privilege Vof cutting andjroinovin^ totarabn section 5, Bunnythorpe.- ■—■■* — A special notice if roin the RailwayDepartment appears elsewhere m refer-«nee.-to! issue of market tickets to Wanganne at Saturday return fares available for the lone- day only. . ■, .: ; When allthe bnnnaids are fßayß the. Wellington Press) ;the unepiployedjyonng ladies, .might, tjirp Jheir ftlti-ntion to tridm-condhctmg. In" ' Gh ll i tliey liaVe a monopoly of ' tlie Vuisinea^ the eo'lirtuctors being URtially girls f foiii 20 to 2p, dressed m a natty uniform of blue flannel, with jaunty panama hats and while pinafores, witli lots of pbcketK .m which she' oarrieß her ' surplus money and a ' supply of tickets. They are usunllyjneat m their appearance, arid some are quite pretty.- The average Chilian youns man has now sold his buggy and fast trotter, and spends his days tr't versing the city m the horse cans. And he IHces it. ! ' A gentleman who has. been spending ifiome timo m Stewart Island infoiiiis the- Southland News that he has sent a quantity of iron-s md from Half-moon' Bay $rofpflßor Bickerton, with a view of ascertaining whethervit can be worked more easily than the Tarariaki sand. The iron sand at Stewart Island appears to be exjaotly snnilartd that fomid m such quantities at Taranaki. ; > Sweden has imposed a 3u6y on jiving flowers, 'frhits, and regetablei, m orrt«r to replenish the 'Treasury by -taxing supposed luxuries, i - >.: The British Lifeboat „. Institution, dnrinpr the 61 years of its existenpe; hjis been thb means of 4 savin p more Hhan Sl](XJO]Hyes. It may fairly claim to hnve reejsued from death an average of about 500 penons every year. The three Miwket ooUs, Treiifon, ,T;hflniderbolt, and Norienfelt have started iji 15 races, of which they havo won 13. ) The two pacea lost were the Dunedtoj Cup, m whibh TremonP ran s'eco'n'd "t§ Vanguard, and fi« Hawkesbury Guineas, m which Nor lenfeldt was left at th,e post. Nordenfaldt lias won five races out of six, Trenton three out of four, I while ThunderboMt holds an unbeaten certificate, haying won all the five he has started for. Leading phyalcans of Nef York city . ««ys tho morphine habit, part?cul»rly m the form] of hypodermic ! ihicction'a, is faarfnlly, increasing, and that «leaths from such habit are continually occiirringVth°»s:h the cause is not smpeeted by^ intimate friends. One physician estimates the increase m the 1 ist year at 15 to 20 per cent. . The price at which Messrs. Sconlar and Arcbibalrt bnve taken the con^r»rt for the erection of the Wellington Woollen OprtvpanyVj mill and offieft at P^tone ia ; €7,845 , 18s. The conditions stipulate I that thi shall be completed' hy the' ftlst March next.