LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1493, 29 October 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It has been decided at the Napier Harbour Board meeting that m future a precis of -the correspondence shall be prepared, instead of reading ail the < The Hon Mr Ballance informs the Taranaki Herald that there is a block of Grown Jahd;»containing. 10,000. aorea^at, the end of Kahua's road, near Opunake, ''and that this block' will almost immediately be surveyedjf or settlement. The Taraaaki'^iZeraW says" that the breach bStw^en, ,-T^^hiti (tftejtoihal&f prophel?);L and 'i TohuL (warrior^ chief )s "appears to be yer^. pronounced. They do not even deal at the same store. ' ' , A pessimistic account' of. the |, forest | destruction m Eastern Ainnrica i« vgiveirtiby a Writer toa then 86u\tiern Bivouac, from which it seems that .if '• ;tha prpx gressoftreedestructioirin the Western. Allegh'ailies should <pn'£inue at th'e present tate, the yearly' inundation of the ' f Ohio '(Valley 'will 'sobti! assiime ab'appalling magnitude, and ere long the* scenes vof the river suburbs of Louisville aud Cincinnati will repeat ..themselves at * Nasiiy.j Jle^ ,aji i^Ohattancoga,... while,, the, summer will b'ecbme hotter' anal drje r £ Jin the Gulf States' the; 'worfe of des^icaV tion has made alarming progress ; brooks and ; streams shrink f rom [year #! t6 ~- y"ear- J and warm summers expose the gravel of river beds which 50 years ago could hardly be touched, by the keels of h^avy, laden vessels. ' .Easj America,; is drjiog up | even m the pawfise v of; th'e blue grass I region 1 the faiiiug *{>f ' springs hUs obliged raatiy l stbbk-raißerß ;! to' remove their herds to the mountains. ." H Dr. Smith the w^ell-known minister of Cathcart^anuounue'd from liis> ; pulpit a tew weelcs; ago ttfit the"^i{6i»l ininibtratiqnß bf^he-parish : hidniow^eeh ftf£* fiHed for exactly one hundred yearsrby;. |wo clersymen, himself and his^precJe'libesßor. He came to the parish m 1829^ BDCc&ded.th^Rev^Da«Jd '"Elow, who was instituted m August,' 1785. It may be doubted^ whether there *-is r any jOther^D'arjah m Gr|at Britain^heKisucliv a state of thing's exists!- Tiie manse* rtiukt be a t^ly.hfillthy <hd;a|6^ja|tdi $»c whple parish exceptiooiUy. salubrions. *'The Japanese are v yery t fqpd- of ->eggs. They eat thomUt dea B rb?likeifrqit.. s aud -vo^y otten^v/th oranges. The. rich <Tapa--nette^ 1 are very; particular ; ' : fconcefiiihl:^ theimV' They wilKnbtieattliose'of fowlati which have full liberty and <feedi< on whjat they p.igk|dpjliTh,ey must; bej fed onlrice, aud they must. jay. their eggs m room* p. repare.d for that Durpose. , • „; i TThe Melbourne correspondent of the . Sydney Mq^teUis a lamentable" tale of' th^ depression^n :(1 Außtrali'a:' !f He 1 isaytf that jipWards 6t 4000 citfzens; iinH J families 'had emigrated f rom ' de[- ' laide to Melbourne m search? 'of* employ -,' padnt."! Happily/ trade ipf allr<kiiidg is*br|sk m -Melbourne^ and thus; the rush of r labor has, beea readily, abso^bed^^ „^ ; , China, which only sik/years : ago vhad ; but six mil.es^of; telegr.aph/jlfpeft, haa^ nojw completed a system iy which Oani^be.m A hina » '*■■> brbught into direct communication ; with : ; the metropolis of £he north. News of princip^f'cif {it %%i»owWaW JLt^bdon within four hours."^ ' JThe Loridon^ corresporfdeul of Hbe Otago£>a*7y Tims -writes *,-~The inveptigation of the murder of Preller has raised quite a mystery around "the indentitv o| i'JMaxV|U," tha alleged jnur-/ derer; wbo'waa' some nxpntliff' »ajgb* rested at Aucklaud. It now becotns apparent that {he; isj indeuticd with a young selector of Hyde, m Oheshir*, ] namedcHalhMotran. Brooks, the^son of I thje hW m^er of -St. George's GBurch' 4 schools m that place.,. He had left ostensible on legal bußiness v< for , London, but not returnirijaf^his oflSce was seized . t and his- establishment en^ terediby his creditors. It is proved, that Preller and Brooks #ere acquainted , aqd that they left together iv the'Cepha- 1 om'a fbr fAiuerica;, and as throwing Some -light on 'the assumption of the riaihes' J»f ;;'* i Ma;xAyeiP r : / atKi "^Aagnfer^jt 1 appears that Brooks ' once took ' [p,art m private,' .theatricals, (/under , thej fprime,r,. name, and that th'e latter, was' the naiaa of bistutor m P|reuch.;i:This rornaucing has thrown considerable mystification, byer the case, but his —connection with tl»e murder is now becoming very clearly established. -, ... . r - j ,\M'''>'>>.^--VV. ,v.-.-.-^x'. .i r v=.-^,V.>%-VV-{ I ]Mr John During has taken the Livtry =apd Bait Staßlea ot the Sitiifc Packet Hotel Wanganui. Mr During has for many years been known as ? a careful and pppiifp jeh y u fen Gbbb arid Go.'s coachesV ;afad his many friends-will no doubt look him iip m his new 'quarters,'! and give hjlm a share of their patronage.' Jii '"'■• ••' / j Aconsideiable part of .the American getroleum shipped to .Europe 'is' after' eing deodorised, maile into butter and sueti which, are used fiy tho poorerglasses to spn^e extent, biit very largely' " by bakers m the large _ci ties, who' use it m making, .cake,, The confectioners ajlßo employ it. It his a great "advantageoyer butter/in that m stor.e. cakes, or,^ dandy .the petcoleujn not: only \ '. dge^'pot become rancid and betray the age of the article,but acte asapreaeryatiye i m kee^ibg the other ingredients of the, cake ; or, 'dandy from, spoiling. A' recent hygienic i douncil.sitting in 'Paris protested against: t ( his use of the oil, but it is not thought its consumption m r this way will be lSsssened.'/^/ ;•/:., 7 rfi: -,>:.. -.yv./.r s ' j In a* report lit a~ cotfdert ~ given ""at ; Manaia which appeared m the Wangaixjtui Chronicle "the i)f olio wlng^bccurs : — Mr Hurley, the coDductqr,{is .entitled to great credit for the manner m which the materials at,' , his ; disposal Tliave been . j ijrbrked iip, especially having last severkl members by removal since the society started, among these being* Mr Kendall pleading tenbrV : "/ : Q»J