LOCAL AND GENRAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1481, 15 October 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENRAL.

„i .>,,::;,.„■, „- , •».-•■■ ■■ ;.v>» v..-r <■• » Messrs' Losran and? Curtis .were;, apjpqintedibyja^Feildips: lneetin.^ |to.pe/» m\U a, clnira and^prospert at Ifohansjina.. , We. irasit'tney' are' more enmneten't tWh the last parry Bent ont'f rbrri Feildinj?'. ' ' ' The. ' Opunake Dairy Fa'ctorv" waVaiicceßßfnlly startpd last "Monday, ' and ! prdmiseß to be a success. • •' . ■ An eminent physician says the causeof sea sieknefis is tbe lack of blood m the head, anil, that the surest preventative is to stand on one's head.

The first horse m Jacob Faithful's <weep on the Spring- Handicap was lrawn by two Napier carpe.iters, named Reed and Oliver, the latter a brother of the lucky winner of the tirst prize m a sweep a few months buck. Luck runs m families, people are learning to say. The value of the prize was £030 net. The second prize goes to Puketapu, and the third to Taradale. Shakespeare's first prize- fell to a Napier expressman, ami the second to a local publican, the third goes to Wellington. Seven years ago Minnesota, by an Act of the Legislature, substituted life imprisonment for the death penalty for murder.- Michigan has also given a long trial to the exoeriment of doing without capital i&urishi^ent rfor isriine. Maine tried it for 'sir years. Now all have returned to the old-fashioned but thoroughly sufficient Old Testament plan of putting murderers where they cannot by any possibility , d(j further harm. , - sij t We v understand that Robert Warct, Esq., K.M., who has with the sanction of the Attorney-General for tliis : c6lohy, been requested ,by, the; Royal- Humane Society, of Australasia to nominate, suitable gentle i ntn to act as honarary local correspondents to that society m his district, has' requested the permission ot Mr Gobdbehere,.of Feilding, to submit his nuibe for the appointment of thai part of tliej district; extending from the liarigitik£i lliver to the Palmerston Bridge, including the towns and neighbourhoods of S Halcoinbe, Feilding, Pahnerston, AsHutst f! , and Cheltenham. Mil Good; behbre has' 'acceded to the request.— Advocate. « „ , „..., At the last meeting of the Education Board Mr Marshall, of Fitzherbert and Marshall, the board's solicitors, attended at tbe request of the board, to advise on the subject of the suspension by the commissioners of the teacher recently appointed to Whenuakura. It appeared that! the teacher, who came from the ! Napier EJißtri6tV f was appointed : by s the board, but failed to attend, at the ( board's offieo for instructions, and presented luuiself at the Whenuakura school: in' a state of drunkenness.— The Corninissionljts.:i^fuse.d'. to admit him,, and sub, ■ eeqiiently -passed a resolution suspending him! kr Marshall said the commis-, sionefs liad acted rightly, and that the board were entitled to peremptorily dis,miss him under clause 47 ot the Edncalion Act.— Resolved that/the teacher (Mr J. H. Ste.vart) be peremptorily dismissed from the board's service m consequence of ha yiiigf presented' Jiimself the 'Whenurtkur* school m a state of drunkenness. ] i^he prbspects of gold being fli'scovered/j m payable quantities at; Pohang^ina has set all the towns oh" the West Coast m a-j state of excitement. Paliuerston was the J first ; then r l4ilding joined m the visions of the future; ultimately Woodville could see a way of sharing the pickings'/ from | the new Nevadaof the i South, and now we find a;Wuuganui paper, gloating over; .the discovery, and, shewing, that^ town of all others will be the one to draw the lion's share of the spoil.—Exchange. ' " ; : ' ;. ; In future, no Town; District : may be formed' without the permission;; of the County Council of the district m which ..it is situated. ■ v ' ! ■ ' A female office-seißker m Washington ■ a short while ago' inanceuvred- ! her way .into* the Whitehouse with six small children m tow, and made a most pathetic plea for an appointment which would enable her to supporbher widowed brood. It was a neat bit of strategy, but it wofully miscarried when she was recognised 1 by ohe of the attendants. - ! She was never married at all, and the squad of juveniles had been borrowed .for the occasion.: A! 65 year-old Benedict applied to a Benevolent Institution Committee 6 ri the West Coast for assistance to co to Melbourne for work. lie has been married twice, and is the fathor °f 27 children. When asked if -he • was strong and able to workj-he reolied :—^* ( Why, Lord bless ye, I'm as strong and hearty as I was 20 years agpv' • : •: Everyone knows libw difficult, ' it,is to remove^weeds • from the garden ; walk, when they have once become rooted and grounded. Salt is: oue of the remedies most frequently applied, and the followingj is salil" to Vie' the best '^vav V-of■apply-ing it :— Boil-ti>e salt m water^one'pouncl to the gallon, and pour the mixture boiling hot out of \a, ' vatpringT pot, with spreading rose. Tfiis will keep weeds and worms awa3' for two ok. three years. In subsequent applications the solution may be soniewhat weaker. It will be 'as well to take care that none of 'the 'liquid falls on the warden mould. " With hut one exception the Liverpool transports which were engaged ' by the British', Government when' -the 'Russian difficulty was most' threatening, have been returned to their owners.' -;' ! -*t * r Advertising is one of tlie fihe' rtfts. Success greatly depends-;, on the proper choice of a'paper. A paper that is well circulated,- 'read „ and , talked about, is always 'to- "bo prefei'rerT to a Kniii drum journiil that is i tnUlinir'oii the reputation of a circulation that it once has had,— London paper. " ' " "' '"' In the British House of Commons recently, Sir William Harcourt said that his attention had tbeert' called tothe.casS of a man who had ;been sentenceel to eight years' penal servitude for perjury, and had served tw r o years ot the sentence. Enquiry showed that the man' was frino Seat, and he 'was ' pardoned. It then turned out that fifteen years previously the same man had been sentenced to ten years': penal servitude, for burglary, and after he had served two years of that sentence he was, found to be innocent, and received a free pardon, being' thus twice 'wrongly convicted' and twice pardoned. !: .;..-• ■ ■ '.', '.:■■' . , -i ; Th© Jaibe Dbttulas nad a very tempestuous passage from Wellington on Tuesday nicfht, and before crossing the: bar the cabin doors were secured.. .The "rip " off TeVawhiti was tremendous, and such a sea ds was running had not been-noticed m the Straits for many montlis past. Those on shore who remarked the gale .that; was blowing, could readily/understand what the weather must have been at sea. r% r ., „ t fh, „ Mr A. S k . : ?Raker, the bank^ rupt, ;n' tifi.es meeting of credit-ra of Edwayd Gascoigne, of Awahuri. The' Advoenie says that the captain of the.Marton Fire Brigade managed to secure' about £3 for the funds of the brigade by c j bar l £f\n^r tor „ iidmissTon ta the ? balconies brtlie White Harfc and RailwaY hotels^ on tbe occasion of the 'Governor's visit tp Marton. r „.,,»,,..,. w* - ? A remarkable o«»se of loneevitv is r*'portpd from a village of .Rh^ppshed. m Lf»ices;tprsh?rp, whpr« a m couplo— ■Richard hnd' Ellznlwth ' Wortley— liavn lntely ,cpl«*l>ratipd tl'eirdiarriond wedding. Th" re'sristry .of the marriage m the (ihureh i'r dated July.' 1815, of 1 when t1»o ii"wk of tlm battle of Waterloo was pfili rinffinir throngli the country. Twpnt)'- years ago tli« golden weddins of rhis vpnpral)li« couple was celebrated,' and tliey havH now completed the extrapVdinarv term of seventy years of married life.