LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1496, 2 November 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Ste/ens and Gorton's stock sa'e at AWahuri will take place to-mo.rrow. It will be seen by the report appearing olsewhere that the suggestion made by iib m reference to amalgamation of peiaons interested m Pohangina leases was adopted by the meeting held on Saturday aitei'qoou to. discuss the question. Cardinal Moran was a passenger from London to Melbourne by the Liguria on Friday. « ' The Feilding Borough Council have passed a resolution under which nil circus companies, visiting Feildmgjin future and using Borough land, will have lo pay a pound a night for the privilege. The goneral Synod of the Episcopalian Church meets m Auckland next January. The ' Bishop of Sydney will preach the inaugural sermon, and the Bishop of Honolulu has been invited to attend. - The Nelson Colonist celebrated its 28th birthday on Friday wreki TbAfirst number was issued on Friday, Oct. 2Ejrd, 1857. I

We Ixiliov-fl there ia every probability. of the Feihling list of Justices of the Peace being made up to the required: autnber by the addition of the names of Messrs Thomson, Bayly, and Bull. All th« gentlemen named are well kuown residents, iv intelligence equal, to say the least, to those who adopted -'the method of resigning their appointments the. other day. We hear that one of the gentlemen will find that his share m that business is not likely to be forgotten by the residents of Feilding at therproper time.— HeraZd; Mr AuderHon and Mr Bugg distinguished themselves m the use of some choise- 1 an gunge* at Saturday's meeting, It is a great pity that at a public meeting of tho kind personalities should be indulged m by persons who ought to have better judgment. Mr Bugg complained of a threat he alleged Anderson had inadeto effect that if he (Anderson) could get the party who cleared out the face of the reef he would throw him into the creek. Mr Anderson , denied this statement m a decidedly- negative rejoinder, and Mr Buga;. returned the compliment with interest. The "inseemly bandying of words was iorfru-. cately put a stop to m a practical manuer by M,r Notuian, who at the -proper moment addressed the meeting,; during which time the excited parties. had time to cool their feelings. At the Prospecting Association meeting held, on Saturday last considerable discussion tJulc plate over the question of further expense. Mr Buicfc was not prepared to go beyond £5 01 behalf of his Company arid only on the stipulation that all combined m the expense. Mr Notman was so iirraely convinced of the ultimate auccess of tho scheme that he was prepared on behalf of Mr Liffiton'a Company to join if one more Company felt inclined to "' go to further expensV.' As will be seen by 'the report the matter; was finally left to' the Committee to decide. It is estimated that the expense of getting th« ton of stone out and transmit I'd to Auckland will cost about £50, or £5 per company. • .-. . .ToMr Gisborrie, for many years' -undeY pecretnry, and afterwards colonial secret tary,rf"'New Zealand, is writing the aiticli; on _" New Zr.aland " for. the new edition of the Encyclopaedia ßritannica. Acrording to private correspondence' received recently from Shanghai,'? tradej is very stagnant at that place at prosent. A 'few European residents thereabouts have contemplated going to Nf w Zealand. It is further stated that the doctors have been having plenty to do there lately owing to midden intense heat. An id<>a may be formed of whit heat means there, when it is stated that the atmosphere improved after a ; trer mendous waterspout, the : temperature being still 90 degrees m the shade. No traces have yet been fo.nnd of young Richardson, the companion of the hoy Lewis who was killed by a gun' accident last week at Wairoa. Mamma— " Don't you think, Emma, yon are getting a little old to bepla'ying .with the boys so much?" Emma— " I know it, but the older I get the better I like 'em." .. ; . : , „.-." - A rumour was m circulation m Christchurch lately that private kiformatiou, had been received from London to the effect that there was a probability of the construction of the West Coast Railway being undertaken by a London syndicate. " "".;■ ......... ; The value "of the. railway materials brought to .New South Wales last year, m the conveyance of^which-175 vaissels were employed, amounted, to £507,165, including freight and' insurance of £39 500. :- Commenting Jorj the- systems .^fsroad making that have 'lately; been' discussejd} tlie Dunedin Herald [says :— lt may, how ever, be ob,serv«d-th'at while settlers cannot m their early years be expected to, hear high grates /for .road»making, yet 3 they *might contribute yearly a* specified' 1 number of days' lab,or> by themselves and horses. { ,It was by this .system of statute lahof,- a sit is "called, "that the roads m; Scotland were mainly formed. "§ 4 gallant colonel, somewhat addicted to uiortds of abstraction, the other day ordered his battalion to •' fix bayquets This otherwise simple . process on the, m question. was rendered diffi loult, owing to the men: having paraden with. Bide arms only. The adjutant at last came to the rescue, and, upon : the mdlter being explained, the polite chief replied, "0, or. course. Beg pardon. Uiijix bayonets J" From the Post we lealrn that Messrs Fitzherbert and Devine have received instructions from M rs Syme^ of Fox ton, ■ to proceed against Dr Ropkatrow;i of that township, for the recovery ' of £500 an damages for alleged unskillful treatment of a broken arm. The case will be hoard m about two months • hence. Mr Shaw has been retained for the defence. [Dr Rockstrow informs us that the paragraph m the Post was the , first he had heard of the suit referred to. Ed; M.S.| ■ = : ' : Before he oould get away to see th« Melbourne races an Auokland publican had to get leave of absence from the licensing committee. The following peculiar notice was posted on tho door of the. Hawera postoffice one morning- receiuly :-^— " Wanted —A man ■or woman' who has sense enough to appreciate tho value of 10s, but whose pride will not prevent them from eam.iug it. Apply to , the postr master*"., We believe the explanation i B that a woman engaged to clean the windows at the office apologised for non-ability to perform- the engagement, and mentioned that she would not like to bo seen so engaged. Hence this, very unofficial notice