LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1506, 14 November 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! Mr D.L. Smith received a cheque jfroin the Treasury yesterday for £95, toeing refund of the £100 fine ' iuflictjed recently on Mr Manaoit undor the Sheep Offences Act. ; i. ? • AfMarton shoemaker, m announcing his intention of giving up business thus ;explainß :rrr" After due considers! ion I jharecome to this conclusion, as 'l find it jUjterjy impossible to carry , on business - Witli so' much of my oapitaj in the hands of other, people," '' j It i§V«pected ; ttiat the Wanganui telHphbne exchange will tie m operation py New Year: Over thirty subscribers haveiexpressed their willingness to join j -Which' is more than the required number, ■','// f , -, ? j. „.:-:■,:> :'.• . I ■ : * > y>_ ■An i excellent investment is' offered 'elsewhere m Pulford's Hotel, Hawera, iow doing a first-class, business. The terms are easy. Application, to be made j id Nolan,' Tonka and Qp. , ; ' Among the passengers by the Rimu tnka wasftlie.raother of Captaiu jWalkjir, of Fitzherbert,' who though nearly four score years of age, has crossed th^ocean to spend tin* declining years of her life at her. son's adopted home m the antipodes. The^oldlady is wonderfully hale and\ hearty, arid was the life of the ship on the voyage out. Ht-t first experiences i m New Zealand; wer,e ijul. < She travelled coachito^fixToii, and:ti(e^ipj^B^x^epiioha]|y;ro^^Ut <me tirno VhV cbacti beiuK- < .alinoat'^fiatmg ; when crossing the floorfea*, J riyefs. The old lady rather seemed to enjoy the trip, its discomfort nptwitUstanding, and appears pleased with- the- country to iyhi/5h she^has^migrated bo, late,iuMjf». . ! Shift] isj p^ess/d of^ondejfijK \ aetji v\fy x and viTßci'tyi aud believes'ih'early rising' as a cardinal tV£o v Jrust »he will be spared for inaiiy year« td>hsr.Bon and liis family, """* j A l»rother o^ Captain Walker of FitzIjerbcrt; lia«* come to' "MaiiaWi^ftpaVid' en ay possibly decids to settle permanently m this distrtct. - 1 { A DunSdin pbblican was fec^ntly] fined. fi*;e pounds aud costs -for 1 Sunday i trading., Hiß.]iceuse was also endorsed. f Ai correspondent informs a Bouthern exchauce that; t hednst meeting: -, of the l^ictl Borough Council, was a .very lively,, an.l interesting, oiie. Two of the .Coun- . cellors became personal, and one inVited -the .other to «• ooiiie "; outside." When^ tlie ,. meeting was over , the {bellicose OouncHJorrt mot Mpqtsid«i;V ( }.coi»t8 ; ««se v taKen l off Yd there jwas a " mill," tho pleasure of which (from the, sppctators' pjoiht of'viow) w!a« marred bV.iho inrefference of some 'people wKo stopped the titf*. n^. t . ; - ;■- ,\_ x _..,..* j Thii^ rem'ai"ks the' Tarabiki -4-The followirigia a sample of what may be expected to be of frequent occurrence now, sttiat, the . Hospital .and iCharitabl* |Aid Act , has ( ccqme into , force. Th«, papier Telegraph, says :--'' A manj wjfip was ill and destitute m Maflborougli had his fare paid to "Wellington lately, m order th.at he i^ightv- be I 't'»K«n\. care of. The Benevolent. Society x of Wellington pai^, jus gar.M. back agj»,in." sUamers and the ri*l' ways wilf: '{>c most benefited bySthia aimless . he'ediess '.and unintelligible ! • piece of ' • legislation { whilst the poor a'hd ailing will have' t<v pass most fif their time m ? travellfag f rjom one ; part of the colony -. ■to another. ]At Berna, m Switaerland, a large B.engal tiger escaped-the other day from a menagune.; /Instead j\ pf 'fstiiDingr at large, howeVef, or attacking liiiy human being, it contented itself with killing a . large Newfoundland dog and guarding the body until it was Tecapturod. |Persqlsarb>4uty; is fo wdmanFwJiat! strength is to rain. - Woinen ? s-'beaiit*y % iV *h«'.r B word and ahield, her armour offensife and defensive, serving her m lieu oft courape, intellect, fortune, friends, , interest, — by which men oonquer the world, to be, m turn, oonquered by women. jnJrderthatJ'eijdingHhoqia'ny oV without some Juatieea of the Peaoe — the four Justices m that distriqt having recently resigiieii owing to tlio appointment of a fifth, to whom they had an objectibn, and who has since died— Mr: Tole communicated with the Resident Magistrate, requesting him to nominate fojir goiitletnen to be placed on the Commission of the Peace. The names 'of these gttiitleinen have been received,and will be gazetted as soon as the necessary formalities have been complied with. — Post. -. : .■■■■.:!■■■■■■ . "■■ .. The Attorney-General of Great 'Britaiu has decided m a case, informally submitted to him that a barrister who receives a retaiuitig fee to try an action and fails to attend the trial, ought to return so much of the fee as oxceeds the amount which would have beeti ptoper formerly giving au, ; opinion. Heretofore barristers have pocketed their! re-, tamers and kept them whether they rendered any service or QQt<