LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1504, 12 November 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is said that a piec© of zinc placedon the coals of a hot stove will clean the stove-pipe. The vapoui produced carries off the soot by chemical decomposition. •■:•••' : ■ TKe following is the textual copy of a letter lately received by a clergymiinjin Pittsbury through the post office : — . " Riverent sir, I forbid the Bands ; of ! Marriage between Edwoord Bluitt and Mary Ann Ho well,, the reason is he, is under, age ; and she Have got a husband alive, and went away from him ; He ism. Carrahna and she is with her unkell, ;so you cannot marry them, sir, and Dursent." ' The date of Mr Greenwood's next visit to Palmerston is published m our advertising columns. ' ■ Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at Bulls will be held on November 19. The entries at present received are : published m our advertising columns. They, include forward bullocks, fat cows, first class store cows, . cows with calves ' and m calf > well bred 2-rear-oWheifers, well-bred yearling heifers fat sheep, etc. Advices have been received that the two Rallarat Fire Brigades have booked paHsagi's for Napiur to take part iv the competition. A machine for shearing sheep is said to bo m successful operation m Victoria. It is ma.dv of brass, m vthu. shape of a small trowel ; the motion is actuated by a tuvhine wheel, some throe inches m diameter, glared into anotlior wheel, on which is fixed a cutter. In front is a comb, nerving as a guard against cut. tine: rhe skin. The steam is conveyed from the boiler by a tube of indinrubber, which is double, having ono inside thu other. The inner oh« is the injection, and the space between the two is the ejection. The machine is used m thu same fashion as the shears, but: cuts, it is stated, much quicker, and far cleaii er, without the least danger'of injuring the fleece or the sheep. • ; At the Wellington Resident Magistratr. Court, Arthur Mitchell was charged with having on the 29th April lust, disturbed and interfered with the Saivar tiou Army m Taranaki-street ; and ho was called upon to show cause why he should not be. bound over to keep- the peace. The defendant admitted the information and was bound over to keep the peace for six monthB — two sureties i of £20 each . It seems curious that whilst the demand for domestic servants is greater than the supply m New Zealand, the ! supply is far greater than tho demand iv England. The Liverpool Mercury m the course of an exhaustive article on j the question of female emigration, say» there are thousands of personable yo'rttig women m this country who would lie veiy willing to go out to the British colonies it they could secure the means of paying their own passage, and had a prospect of either employment, or a home of their own on reaching their destiiu tion. Why is it (the Merc ury wants to know) that colonies, like" New Zealand for instance, which acknowledge a lack of good domestic servants, offer so few inducements to female emigrants? Occasionally a batch or two are aunt out but-eftchjjear tln?y seem to become" few-er.and-.farther.between.,.. /.'.,. ; Mr Meynard, a French cotton-spinner,; who has died without 'leaving any rela- ; tives, bequeathed his fortune to himself.. His houßß is to be caiofully maintained m the state m which it was left. His bpdy was cemented into a block of granite, to become the corner stone of a free picture-gallery. The excited passengers on board the Wairarapa on the occasion ot the late fire had some ludicrous scenes presented to their eyes, which, m spfte of the surrounding circumstances, excited their mirth considerably. One gentleman appeared on deck clothed m. his nightshirt, reaching to his heels,' showing he | had not wasted much time m dressm" 1 , and which would have evoked the coui--1 passion of his rellovvs, ware it not that his costume was completed by having on his head a shining black belltopper." A man m the Nupier Refuge is possessed of £2OU iv cash and has £200 on fixed deposit m one of the local bank*. What a glorious institution that . must, be. The above is known as a fact to at least four members of tho Hospital Committee. It is stated m a Wellington paper that several Justices of the Peace have already resigned their positions, rather than comply with the conditions of the Act passed last session. .