The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1564, 24 November 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY. ) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"It's an ill wind that blows nobody good " ■ Sceu« : - Cubu-strcet. i Garter liolding his mare by tho rope while it grazes the luxuriant grass by thu road side. Another carter . pmtsos by, ami thus he observes: — " Lot her go*Dav>y, she won't hurt. Ther's no ranger now." Messrs Woolcock and Honking ar^ now making an iron shooting '/nllery for Messrs Jones and Partridge. . It twill bu about 40t'i m length. It will probub-. ly liberally patronised When erected. *- :l We learu for an absolute' fact that while the original Dairy, (factory was m operation, a thrifty house-wifu bought a galKiu.autl a "hiilf of biifterihilk. 'This 1 cost hur T sixpence. Noticiojj th^t .it looked pivity ricH, she put it tiirough her churiij and the result was a pound avoirdupois of 'good butter; wdrth 10d. She still had a gallon and ift half of good buttermilk left. She wa» sorry thu milk carts left off running, ns'sbe'^iw' her way to make a thing out of "tue buttermilk. Messrs Wise Caffin aiid Co. have presented, thu Borough Council with ; a fresh Directory of N'Z'. to replace the volume destroyed iv the recent fire. Writes thu Woodville correspondent of an exchange :— l .\La,nd< speculation, aeeiiis very quiet liere just at, pregenti and probably, will be 80 for some little time to come. But several buildings are going up, and tuuders are callod for , th 6 erection 6( two shops l m YogelStreet."i ,;:;..'/ -i. ' ■ ' --.- •■"'■'■ ■■' ! ' Tho Croton aqueduct:, which furnishes New York City with water, is forty nnd a half miles m leugtlv, and lv-»*a capacity of 175,000,000 gallons daily. Five years were occupied hi its constructidri . The entire cost was 12,5 0,000. 1 01. ■ • ,-.- • ; . • ■ I i . .'.■■. Private Barry, .ot the? Wellington Guards, lias confessed judgment m thu test case brought ag«ih'Bt him by ratVtain Loveday, for being absent froui parade on the Prince, of W«il««' B.irthdayi ii'Ue sum of ss, with 3? costs, has been, accepted m Batißf action of the claim.' . The formation of a Social Purity Society m Wellington has bweu decided upon, and initiatory steps will at once be taken. A statement, was published a few days ago that Professor and Mrs Auffniy badbeen stoned .by. an excitable mob at i Hamilton. The Waifcato times de- ' nounces the statement as false. A Duuediu paper states that, the proproprietors of another boot factory havebeen cpuipelled, through slacktiehs- of l trade, to suspend all work for soiiih time to come. Thin means that, about 40 men have been thrown out of employment. --. How- the money goes— the ;Ngatiwhukahe tribe ■received £600 for'tuwnirehtala at Rotoniaj and; according to a local, j wiiter, "melted" it to provide fora tangi, at which 350 gallons ot beer, b<) siifrs him, were consumed m three days. This does n«t muvh look like an iucroaso of temperance among : the MabHsl I A iabrvant 1 girl at Mr Dudley Eyre's ). had a' lesson yesterday. Which should ' prove a warning to her, as. well as to others who are In the habit of using ■ kerosene to start fires. There was >n fire on m the washhouse. which had been allowed to go down rather low during breakfast time, and the servant took some kerosene to it. This wWs thrown tlii-ough the door of the boiler-frame with a pannikin or cup, and immediatelyUhe flames rushed from the aperture, Kcorching the girl's face nnd one of her arms severely. All one aide of her face ; and the front .portion of her head m quite ra.W, and sho experienced considerable pain for some time after the accident. Dr Sorley was at once sent for, and ho took steps t* alleviato'tlm paitras much as jjossible.' How the girlfo clothing escaped'being burnt is a wonder. Hnd her drfeSß caught, -the injuries would have been much more severe. — Herald, The Rev B. G. Gange, speakipc at Bristol- the other night," said h« believed m careful preparation at home for sermons for Sunday, instead of " gadding about from house to house visiting." . Sir Julius Vpgel continues to progreaa /favorably towards recovery from his recent accident. ;: -^ The chenße factory m Woodville has got into full swing now, as the daily receipts are runnincr to about six hundred gallons of mjlk, which keeps the staff busily employed. The legal guardians of the infants who gamed prizes at the Wellington -Baby Show presented themselves at the box office of the Theatre next day for the purpose of obtaining their respective prizes. The promoters of the exhibitiqn were m attendance^ and explained that ; owing to the small number of spectators last night, they had beon heavy losers, > anil, whilst admitting their liabilities; they asked the prize-takers to be content with a composition. After a lively discussipn, m which some badinage was indulged m by the motners of the children, tho offer was accepted, and the money paid. Says the Nelson Mail : — A marvellously quick telegraphic feat w^s per- = formed 'm sending theresult of the..'Melbourne Cup. -All thb arrangements were made for wiring through to New Zealand as soon as possible the name of -the winner. As Boon as the' horse passed* 1 the i winning post, his name was flashed to La Perouse, the Australian terminus of the cables letter by letter of course ; as each letter was received it was cabled, to Wakapuw'a'ka, and there the operation was 1 fepeatetl to Wellirigtfoil, the 'result- being that before . the last letter ihad lef t the Flemington course the .first f horse , wjj^ known m Wellington* , In other worda the result was known 'm ' Wellin^t'o^i' thirty-five seconds after the race was w6n;' and almost before the gallop; at which the. leaders m , the? .struggle iso graphically dpscribed by the corrcspon- j dent of the Pres3 Associa,tion rushed past I the post, had been reduced to a canter.

Something will have to be done- sooii m this Co'.iutv (says an Ashburtonite) m the mutter ot hares. The little wreteln-H are iii'-rensiug R<nuziirisly, atid already • luiuliivvni'irf an; beginning tci growl. Inone paddock I know they are nearly !«« '■plentiful as the aparrows iv the heiis^s, and the youn^ whent near by is suffer inir m eohmjniiuct 1 . 'If tlie protuchon'.. is not :emu\'ml fntm tin; h.-irus S"«)ii it will take all tbe mvylioiiiiils m th« County :\iui ;ill t lie spare juiwdcr and Ktiot tn cc»pe with the ijiiisiuic-* The Hiuall lijnla trouble is' bad I'li'ou^h, with-' out having this new odd nddvd to it. A steam artitsian borer, the invention of M.llamp.iiit, ii French engineer, who had haH a {f«iod deal of experience of the difficulties of procuruij^ water JiL^l'f:; trftUft, is beioir exhitntod m the grounds of Urn Mtflbpurno Exhibition biiildjti^. It i« ciaiiutiT it;t)mt it i^! af.irnplbj' *m. construction, more portable, and more 7 easily worked by a comparatively unskilled blacksmith or mechanic than thu generality of well-borers. The nn^toijis a BBveb-horso power steam engiiin cap- > able of putting down a 6iu bore to a I depth of 750U ; the cost of boring, in(iluiimgtiihing, ranginc; {rotiii'Bx to" 15». per foot, according to tlie nature of the soil through which ; the perforation is effected. Tlie boror is riipr. Hented as being egiially applicable to tuiiiint; purposes ; and the wbolo apparatus, mounted on a Hiibstantial iron wagoon, can be, transportOfl from place \ by § horse of (VittuTck'toain. ' ' , The names of the now Justices, of. the . P.fac^/ who' are 'to i)e appointed ! at Feilding m the place of the four Justices who resigned owing to tho appointment of the late Mr S. H. Wright, will probably , be submitted to the Cabinet at its next meeting. The. liesident Magistrate for the district (Mr Ward), was r.aked by the Minister of Justice to forward th«. nameH of gentlemen that he might deem suitable forjtbe Commission of, the Peace, and he has done bo. Tho Ministor of Jnatic« was unablo to ask the member for the4dis|r,ic( (^r Macarrtiur),j to'no/hinat'e suitable gtntlenien, as he' was one of the four who thre^y 1 up their commissions.— Wellinglon t ,, An interesting sto.y involving a romance of tlie \\nrt... and the, ;highe ß^ 'aiiatoeracy lias just beeii brought to light. A we!l-ktiown sporting Duchess becatiie ihtatiiated ■ with tiie niost Wece»»fnl jockey iv the world and proposed ' to marry him. H.<> was a widower, and slie had long been tt- widow 1 . 'Herpre;-'' fer.enco was never etnphasizod until ithe' last race meeting at Newmarket. ' Fred Archer rode $r*y Hermit, andf ran -^ dead "'heat ' with ' Modeiia. When he failed to win, Archer found his fee was j§spO instead, ofrrthe .eustojnttTy/' jfilQr Just after 'this lier 1 idysliip broached the delicate question ot'a inatrirnotiial partnership. Th«n Archer- reflected. . Her ladyaliinis 'over/ S^ty. .years j old, "and .Archer is only thirty... He wrote a rtmpectful answer to her ladyship's ofterof |an alliance, but , the letter '^was: characteristically horsdy. , ! -l " *