The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1489, 24 October 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It it officially notified that as there is no criminal caße for trial at this session of the District Court, the attendance of comraoh jurors i will not bo required. rMeeßers Kennedy Bros, of Wanganui, artverfis'e on our second page that they have for sale at the lowest prices, best quality of 'coal for, household and* black- ■ ■mUh'^.work. .Also coke, and fireclay goods, Jthe latter having taken first prize at several exhibitions. Messrs Kenqedy Bros, tre agents for' the steamers St. Kilda and Maori which are always open for cargo or stock charter. / Durihg'the past quarter the deposits m the Postal Savings Banks amounted to £345,240, and exceeded' the vritH-~ diawals by £37,902. The •xcess of dopo|its m the Wellington district amounts .to three-fourths as much as all the, rest of the jColjJtiy put together.^ It ishotewortHy, lib waver, thattfie excess of deposltii is almost as great m Dunedin, r where the depression it said to be so saver*, and, there is also a. comiderable excess of deposits m Christchurcb, where it is reportetl to he worst of all ; while m Auckland, which is reported to be so prosperous; the withdrawaU materially, •xceed the deposits, These facts, prove r^lf.pfPXjfjjiiierjeneedeiJ-^the utter faU lacy regarding an excess of deposits as a proof of prosperity. It goes much more to show that satisfactory : investments fur money are difficult to find.— Wtlliogton paper. . , The postal revenue for the past quarter was £45,610, or nearly less than for the September quarter of 1884. The falling off is maliily due -to a decrease m " oiiftcellaneous receipts," most other items showing a slight improvement.

A Chinaman named Ah Ching has been arrested at Wellington on a charge of beating his wife, who is a European, and who applies for a protection order. The Telegraphic revenue for the Sept. quarierwas £23,798, as against £24,176 for the corresponding period of last year. This is a decrease, yet the number of telegrams despatched was larger by over . 11,000. The Italian Freemasons now admit ladies to the order- As the Grand Master give* each fair novitiate " five •kisses of peace," there will probably" be" a» rush of candidates. ■ The following scale of railway charges for. store sheep, inrltrge mobs, for "100 miles and upward, will come into force next , Monday :— F^or 'distances; pf |lf)0) miles aud over, sheep certified by stlte5 tlte consigner to be bona fide store stock, : not consigned for slaughter, will be charged for the first 100 miles 58s 9d ;per truck fpr the first thirteen- trucks,; and for each additional truck truck." For each additional mile 3d per truck ptr mile will be charged. We give this par exactly: as we clipped it from the . Wellington Press ■:;— He is only a Customhouse official but ho has already established a reputation for, frivolity. His latest vagary ' is as follows :— Thore is a door m the Customs' office, which, despite a piteous appeal i passedMipon i}, the' ; unthinking public will persist m leaving it open. A happy thought struck the erratic mind ot ' the clerk, and he wrote a jwge placard— 'I Please shut the , Dpre.'', And now c; very Body stops to snigger at "{tie! low standard, of ..education prevalent i m Government bffiVesj .but the request is i implanted m their ininds, and 'the clork m a cosy corner where draughts never enter, smiles the smile' of the serenely just and happy. I The s.B. Zealandia, which left San Francisco on the 13th instand is now niaking herlapt trip under the flag of the Pacific Mail Company. When next she arrives m Auckland »h« will be running ulidar the Union Steamship Company's auspices, whom* uew contract trour the Bau Francisco end she will inaugur ate on the ,2lst of November. The; s.s. Austral starts , the new service trom Syduey on the 3rd December. There Is a boy m the New Plymouth hospital whp doesn't know how he got there. He is indebted to a German, friend for the information that a cranky ' cow took him upon her horns last Monday and carried him a*~gopd part of the W^y?>j .•*;■--.;•::'";■ vT.. '" ; >.' '\.L I : V A meeting of the Wanganui Gold Mining Company was .hurriedly > called for on Thursday afternoon to ; roceive the report of Mr A. McDonnell, the leader of; the prospecting party, who has just returned. Owing to the short notice.the attendauce was too small to warrant any business being done, and , the meeting wa« adjourned until Monday next. ■' ■■ J ;■ ■ The late General Grant (says a writer m 'Harper's) was never kuown to utter 'a profann or impure word. The General w4s not by any mean's a perfect man; but we should like to; know ' of; bow many fajnous soldiers the same could be recorded. . It w«8 said, as something quite exceptional, of a certain poet that djjing he left no line' 'which he could' - wish to blot. An appropriate inscription on Grant's tomb,' and oao as rare as appropriate, would be : " Here lies a , soldier who never swore." • : ' • ■■ ; More than a quarter ; of century ago the Young Men's Christian Association of established a free bureau for the benefit of employers and those wanting work. About. 4,000, are; annually employed through this agency. In a. speech at a picnic m New S6uth Wales lately, Mr Dion Boucieault said there should be. two or. three Pacific cables and several good lines of steam er4, to bind the English-speaking races together by their commercial iwtorest — a league of 100 millions of English Bp4aking people. If there were a war^ what would become of the -Australian telegraph wires, which would cross the territory of halt a dozen hostile nations^ Would they not be cut upv? . Of J they would. Butif the Australians^had a line iccroas the American Continent it would never be stopped, because war with ua and the American nation was impossible. ■■- He - thought that such: a sch>jne as this was practical and ineviÜbileV , The Governor, has appointed Mr Herbert Monlyneuk Brewer to bo Land Purchase Officer m relationto the negotia- ■ tiohs for . land, .purchases .for .General Government Railways' in the Provincial I Dlstiict of Auculand ; and Mr Thomas Mapkay to be Land Purchase Officer m j relation* to the' negotiations for land < purchases , for General Government Railways m the Provincial Distriots of v Tai^annki, Wellington, Hawkes BayNelson .and Westlaud, andfor , the tonf A water'e Railway, m the Provincial, District of Marlborough. Both appoihtmetits to date from August' 15; . < : -j The Governor has^accepted the resignation by the following gentlemen of their appointments as. Justices of, the Peace for the Cbiony of New Zealand : — Messrs . ; George Crichton, Ha^velock, Couuty Marlborough ;Andrew Jameson Ellqs, Invercargill ; James Hoyte Fry, \ Feilding ;^ Frank Yates Lethbridge, j Fei Mi rig ; Douglas Hastings MaoaFthur, ■ Feilding {Hugh Ljnd Sherwill, Feildingi •■•■-■■

The District Board of Administration Ofi'Jer the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act. 1885,, will meet on November sth,— Guy Fawkes Day