LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1494, 30 October 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

; It is pfol>at>ie H»a|Mr aX'Salafwill deliver two lccture'Bin Wauganui, i:l s'' Wanganni is agitating for a telephone exchange. I'^^i .Kyi'-, au U'>\.>uimii)»

To make room for. Iqiigthyv extracts from (sir Julius Vogel'a speech to his constituents at, Christchurch on Wtul nasday night, which will be peruse^ With interest by all classes of readers/we havo been obliged to hold over our loa\ dor", and other matter. Wo cdinrrfend* |, the. Colonel Treasurer's utteTnnues to the~- : oarYiest-ancl thoughtful qoiisio'eratioaUoF I our readers. ! - ( The Hawkes Bay Herald- says***-*' "It is many years since feed was so f scarce as |this season— indeed, \op/j"th& -hills there- is-l ess-feed- now- than' fn^tfie" middle of winter. The few showers -wi>ich,hayeidlleahave not-been enoughto give theyouug grass a fair start, aud unless rain comes soon scarcity of feed will have to be added to th^ Jroubl^ of our^sfie^p'Wrrnera^alfea^y^WafSSfeut•ly puzzled, as to how, to make both ?euds liiWtiin the prfsetit State £s£lth".el yrjSo), meat and tallow markets . " • A-captairi of the SalViitib' ti Army, who gave evidence at the Wellington Resil flent^ Magistrate's; Coutf^jerf rtuftly l-lautied to h«v<J had 7 a Krfce* fefcplrieflc* m religious worship, fie had bean j first, lve *ai.d,.i ( nihe,,G,hurch of [EtTghfricl; j then m the Presbyterian., ! pUoa. the depeiidj-iits, 'aiid the Free^ .^ethodj^tS' and finally. He 'came to ' 'the Salvation ..4rmy-- :i: I| /';' r) . ' u ' : : : ( '- ii ' '■■ It 1 appears 'thiit' v ' the ' four' Priding Magistrates, to whose^ resignation, of their 4 cofr missions iwe ' rfif erFed** yeitei-! day) have fio*t &alod ; tb the Government! their reasons fordoing so. Th«y mere-; ]y. ( sent? jti , ftheir • >:f qrmuj ? (resig'h'atiohs,' which were accepted.. They had, how-; e^ejr.tppeifrl y stated their ,rqaa.o(is^in, thtir < own dist'rfctj'theßebeing as we stated.; W.e adhere; to our that » th^ir j itfc.tWn' was wrong arid pr«]iitficial"tb th«J public interesto^-NJ 2. TvA.es. j What is termed the "fog^fe^er" is, Teryi l preyal'eni; 1 m Melbourne. * Young ] and old, rich >&nd; ; p00r, .. blue ribbonergj and others nave had a turn of it.' Several of the old citizens, and also j some. younger ones .have been , carried off by 1 itVann" atMast-thef'ddcto^^hfive ! started to inquire f about ( -itj TJhe '" fog fer»«r" m a in'ore or lesß severe form of influenza,; with' a little «rncbp'e'o l r faintin v thrown m. Mr Eller/, the nstronoj!^r,>in a" iC'onnnunicatio«' aH.dufr ;tlio MbT jeot, rjß,f§vred|totheopidtimicap,the »• { (^tar/h ; aK< i pretyal^,f; l " c :the. u ot^er terih appareiitly being too commonplace for so great a mind. ' JIJ " '"":' utM'ttt tlieir lown' parcel delivery! On Tuesday jjext a Ijomiiieucenient, will mt/aaai^&U]; attention '^eing^i veh to (he arrival and departure of trains. A !tylje,.flag attached to a. shoo verandah ppst-Svill siimmuu the fine's- cart 'at^vefy short node*, jthoj parcels being taken charge ot and dalivered at the small charge .of threepence. , Arrange.ments havß'ilso^been Wade by Messrs' Pollard and Simos for the~delivoring of parcels throughout' the 'world! ' inltlfe rahiiGcatio'nt of the business is a next of kin registry, iwhiqh MrPollftrd f haa.ial-ready-toiind to bef of some) B#r,yice to .Wanganuj,reßidentß. ■= .In ( pW.ca^.j?omq muntcation has; bVeti bpenea,up' w'itli re-j gird to Botne at the ini&sih*; bVanciVe? of the family, and the Tesnltls'expected'td be patlcnhrly profitable' toithn inqhirerH. Messrs Pollard: and* Simes;file the 'Next ofiilfin Gazette; and it, might • be,; worth while for .those who hayo lost the, run; df relation's to obtain .permissipn. to inspect ! v The, boys, pf St I?atrick^B Qollegei ;Wellingtbnj had on Wednesday one of ■ the holidays begged for them by Bishop Redwood. . The Bislipp, with ten o.f his clergy/ took theboys ior'i'trip to"Plim;merion. ; '■> . ■• v -'i . It is prolmble that~Mr .F. Lethbridge wiJl^rbceivea 'requisition 1 fr6nft[ie Clb\irgess«B asking him- to stand for the Mayoralty 6f Feilding.-i-iStor. ( At the half yearly meeting of the shartjhohiers. of the Bank of New Zeala^^on^linrsM^athe usual dividend arid; bonußwerß. declared, and a balance of corned forwrard to.th«lnext half year. ■ J--^' .;-: ::;?:s£■%/ /•,■-'?.■- yf li; ' : * l M' '■fr* '■';■ ■•'• ;: "'•• •■■■•'.'- ■--••■ ; s' i.are how'abo.ut'adpzen- b'r'id^es across Jtlie rhajnes at \Eonid6fj, an'd'tho wjgoratioh has -^ tb:iblnild ', another. Two centuries a^o "London ; Bridge was {ths pn]s qn^ •[ aiidr the bod j proposition to throw ' not oss 'another as i &Tnip i aß,Ptttriey kicked baCo© t,ht Miss Jessie Chapman, the iFree thought lecturess, V%bl^<ih^^tl>\Ur Sell.v. the young New Z-alarid Freuthotiiht lecturer. This is bow F'-eethonght e%W?iiWS.R^P*»N«;i rThen .Pflgbfc fa b« no scarcity of .them/by-Mud-bj . j The Foxton paperpoblisheß the names ql the^h'ildre&iivho lpaAsßdi th'r> iitandT «^dß-r-|thß taak^as not •j^ifficuUione. ( /«It is, we " (Post)' uadeTßUud, (iiiite p.feßßjbl^thatj.thi9 h» m'efof *ftlr tfoe Drahs9»?yiJs?t)?)»='*4ded;t.o.'rthei list .of , candidates for thej^ellfngtonj mayqi-al ri ty. t f^ rr ./ ri . f t n The a&vi&ee'' in-jfrrfnis-'theTeilding Starkm Wie/ did' remarkably weti^at Marlon 'add ' Bulls.' They, (also ihbwted ac Halcombeto' •'good house. Our Northern' contemporaries vrfifa "n sti;otig! ter.qna ; of .ladmiratioh v of! jthis show. To^Riprrpw, is ; the opening •night m Palmerston. . !&raat,f utr w«g. caused rin^» th # e>Wjfflganuj R.M.lCoufc the otljer day during, the 'h'earrrig J 6if thecasealaib'st^iiliißy* the ranger. It appeared that he had driTehla T fiuniber r of icattte titiftn ">»bdve pJ) ( u; ; too!Bj JSQltegfri ill hJert iW«b i t near^ 'the i w »en #i 4 «s> them one by one into ic. The object m so doing was. to secure the driving fees she Act pfo I vid'iri'g*thatltlVe-Ta ( nge'r*cannot charge more for driving a mob than for dn ; vi.ngion!efb.ea_Bt..' i >Gbakley said -iff. did jElis Vorahip, liovyever. cqiißiderftcL that ilr'wbuld b> paViiiff' too^well to:aliow h ! im" md »ce6'rdinjfly ordeffe'd him to rofnnd r: 18s drivine f wf . B , and pay 1 7s costs of Court— Herald. • A Sailt Lake City jeweller has m vested \n a novel timepiece m the shape of a I Steel wire stretched across his shop win- ! dow, on which^a stuffed- 'canary hops | from left to right, indicatiog as it goes tjhe honjs^of the day v by pditfting -wfibh i.ta beaSto.a dial stre'tclied^berieath yrire and having the figures from 1 to 24. When it reaches the. latter figure ij. glides across ' the window to 1 jflgain. There is no visible mechanism, "nil boing inside the bird." The inventor any 8 ho was three years m studying it dut.T t hi ri •/ ',; : r y- x\ f> j