The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1501, 7 November 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Carroll notifies m this issue that the Government prize money will be fired for on next Friday the 13th November. Mr McMinn'a Arabian mare dropped a very handsome filly to Morpheus yesterday. If anything it liaa better points than the two year old filly by the same parents just broken m by Mr T. Cran well. Several advertisements from Wanganui, Auckland and other places are hald over for a few days until room u&ti be made for them. Special attention is directed to new advertisements from Messrs Pollard and Siines, Wanganui. Messrs Btevens and Gorton notify potatoes for sale at 7a 611 per sick cash, and wool sacks at Is lid and 2a Id eauh. A young man, aged 21 named Albert Blackinwre, of Lynton, Deron, met with his death m a very singular manner. He was at his usual work m the stable* of the valley or Rooks Hotel, when he waß bitten or stung by an ordinary horsefly . He took no notice of the matter for a day or two, when his face began to swell and become painful. Assuming that it would result m an ordinary abscess, no serious apprehensions were entertained. As time wore on, however circumstances changed and he became delirious. The medical men could do nothing for him, and m a few weeks he died uuconscious. The Pasl'says that it is expected r that after the liabilities are dischargud the credit-balance m the possession of the Committee of the late Friendly Societies' Demonstration will be about £200. It is proposed to divide the amount equally between the different benefit socitieß m Wellington. The following is a literary curiosity : — •• Sator arepo tenet opera ro(as. v 1. This spells backward and forward all the same. 2. Then taking all the first letters of each word spoils the first word. 3. Then all the second letters of each word Bpells the second word. 4. Then all the third, nnd bo on through the fourth and fifth. 5. Then commencing with the last letter of each word ■pells the lust word. 3. Then the next to the last of each word, and so on through. Henry Ward Beecher's recent remark that " Heaven is a place of restless activity" is probably based on a previous Htfitenient of Mary Elton Chase's that " there will be throe women to one man m fJvflYtn," Mr T. E. Ballard, one of the officers of the Tflegraph Department m Napier, baa been promoted to the charge of the Foxton omoe,

According to the Napier Nevbs another -xUiiision of Woodville is talked of, tfr-W. Cailile proposes to cut up a suction ii to building sites. Like all other sections to be cut up, it is close to he railway, the banks and the bars, and possesses all the advantage that a geographer or auctioneer could give it. If Woodville goes on growing at this rate it will soon spread ovevthi* Ruahine and Puketoi, and Pohangina reefers will pay taxes to the Woodville Town Council. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Manawatu County Council, to have been hi-ld on Thursday, has been postponed till November 26th — the date of the statutory meeting of the presentation of the annual report and the election of chairman for the ensuing year. The Sandon people are looking forward to have quite a gala day on- the opening of their tramway, which is fixed for the 16th instant. One of the most curious coincidences we have heard of for a long time occured recently m a certain billiard room m. the Wellington provincial district. The talk was of old identities, and the boss of the hotel said, " Well, gentlemen, I think that most of. us aro old identities ; let uh s^e how the acores stand." Th* compmation was made, and it was found that there were only six gentlemen m the room, that all of them were Englishmen, and that the total of the periods of their residences m New Zealand amounted to 250 year's, or an average for each of 41 years 8 months. They met by pure accident, and resided m various parts ot the colony. j Telegrams published m the San Francisco papers report the successful completion of another exploring expedition across Central Africa. Two Portugese explorers, Capella and Ivens, who [ started from Mossamedes m Vl arch 1884 arrived at Capetown on August 24th. They had traversed Central A f rica from ( west to east, while Stanley and Cameron crossed it; from east to west. They ; reached Quillman m June, 1885, after having marched 8,000 kilometres, 5,000 ■.of which had never been explored before. They discovered the sources of the Lualaba.'a tributary ot the Conga, m a country rich iv copper. Eighty of i the one hundred and twenty mr»n em- ' ploy, d by them as an escort died on the rOUte. , ' -.:; The first prize ot £600 m Jacob Faithful's sweep on the Melbourne Cup, j falls to a Scandinavian at Norsewood named H. Bushk«, the second of £200 to J. and O. Oxley, siiip chandlers, Auckland ; and the third of £100, to a ' lady at Hastings. We hear that Robin Hood's firwt prize, a big one, was won by Mr Jus. Scott, of the Masonic Hotel, Gisborne, formerly of the Masonic ot Napier. — Napier News. We .regret that there is a probability ! of the annual spring show of- the Bulls- { Horticultural Society not being held this. ! year, owing to the difficulty experienced: i m securing the services of a honorary secretary m place of MrG. Moore, whoresigned about a month ago on account of leaving the district. i It is recorded of Charles IX. of France i that, having been assured by a magician he would live as many days as he should turn round on his heels m an hour, standing on one leg, his Most Gracious Majesty performed toat solemn exercise for an hour every morning, the princij pal officers of the Court, the judges, the chancellors, and eeuerals likewise, m compliment standing on one leg and turning round. The Court must have presented a singular spectacle while the function was m progress. Laying m a stock. — Young wife (to husband) : " Don't you notice a difference m the milk, dear ?" Young husband : " Yes ; this m much better than we have been getting.' Young wife: v Very much better. [ got it of a new man. He said ha would guarantee kto be perfectly pure, so I bought enough to last for a week." A editor lay m an unconscious condition, and for some time it was feared that he was dead. '-Can't you rouse him doctor ?" 'was anxiously asked. " No," the physician; /repliedT "I fear that life.is extinct." , Then ;the editor's assistant .bent over: him and whispered m his ear : " A gentleinent wants to put an advertisement m the paper." Immediately the unconscious ■nah's i face showed signs of "returning' life*, and struggling to a sitting posturehe said, feebly : " How many hn«sV" ! ;A Calcutta paper, W;ariy- of [tß.numerous readers, is asked (says the Bombay Gazette)hy a correspondent to ?ive advice under.the following circumstances : — j-He is a widower with, two grown-up sous. He is courting a widow with two grown-up. daughters. His two sons arc courting the widow's two' daughters. So thjat there are six of them. ' He' waotß to know if there is any legal abstacle to their getting married on the same day, m the same church, aud by the same parson. : . „, . . „; . ! " How dare you, sir, go about calling yourself my biother.in-law !" "1 didn't exactly 'call myself your brother-in-law." "ffhan how did the report get about ?*' " I said I wasn't exactly your brbther-iM-law," „•' What do jyou mean, sir? You are not at dll my brbthe'r-iri-law. You never married my bister." ♦' No, but I wanted to." No matter how busy, a map may be he should find time every day to tell his wife he loves her. No matter what social demands may be made on the woman, she should find time to kiss her husband ahd give him one of the smiles that wore so sweet to him when he came courting her. No .matter what their daily cares, the parents should find time to take the' children on their knees aud carnsa them with kind words and tender itiucbtts.