LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1572, 3 December 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next meeting of the school comr tnittee will be on ijonday at 7 30 p.m. G. A. Sala has left New Zealand for New South Waleß.

According to the Tablet Bisliop Rfdvood will be received m grand style on iis return from Syduuy. We remind our readers of Messrs Snwlson ami Cos. Fitzherbert-atreet Stock Sale to take place on Saturday at noon. The Thames gold returns tor November au>! 10,205 oz«r ,lh« largest yii'ld for 8 y»;;i's. i '><.■■ Gaufiforia .Company contributed 733'20z5, At the Road Bonrd meeting yesterday (hiring the discussion. of the Fitssherherl Gorge Road question, the Chairman remarked that a ferry reserve existed at the far end of the road, and through which the hitter passed. If the reserve was divided between the Board the asset (40 acres) would be worth possessing. The man Duano, who was originally arrested for the murders at Gastletowuroche, confesaua to havin? boen an unwilling witness of the crime, which he slntes was committed by the prisoners Sheehan and Brown with a grift'aun, an instrument resembling a cooper's adze, Duane admits that he assisted m removing the bodies to the well, wh»re the remains were subsequently found, and he say 8 that the prisoners, after disposing of the bodies and washing blood off their persons, joined m festivities m the house. At the preliminary inquiry Duane denied everything. The subjoined simple preparation is said to be denirablo for cleaning and polishing, old furniture. Over a moderate fire put a parfectly cleau vessel. Into this dr«p two ounces of white or yellow wax. When melted add four ounces of pure turpentine, then stir until cool, when it is ready for use, The mixture brings out the original colour of the wood, adding a lustre equal to that of varnish. The property tax is coming m satis•factorily. Up to date 8000 taxpayers have paid £70,000, and it is estimated that by the 10th instant, the last day for paying without incurring the additional 10 per cont., 15,000 more will pay £80,000, making m all £150,000. The following advertisement appears m the Post : — Dogs.— The noise made at night by Mr Brown's dogs m Hawke-stone-street is a source of considerable annoyance to his neighbours. Mr Brown will bo. conferring a great favour by ketping his pets shut up after 10 o'clock. The .'cable steamer Sherard Osborne has successfully accomplished the work of laying a duplicate cable between Victoria and Tasmania. Writes '* Puff " m the Evening Press : " I once knew a shearer who swam a river and walked ten miles to an election, and when he came out of th» booth I asked him what he'd done 1 Yes, aud what did he say ? " Scratched out the 'ole bloomin' lot 1" Ha, ha I" A meeting of the creditors of Ah Get, a Chinaman, recently held m Wellington, owing to a quorum not being present,, lapsed. The assets are set down ai £140, stock-in -trado ; and the liabilities a» stated m the schedule amount to £456 10s, made up as follows : — Sung Kea fWaoganui), .£185 ; Yong Jim (Wanganui), £51 -10s ; Thompson Shannon and Co., £160; Sam Choy (Sydney), £22 ; Scott Bros., £13 ; H. C Haseldeu, £10 ; F. R. Huff (Wanganui), £9 ss; Hop Pong Tin (Duuedin), £5 15s. The following appears m the Patea Mail: — Caution. — Having received a threatening anonymous letter, any person trespassing upon grounds m the vicinity of my dwelling between sunset and sunrige will be vigorously dealt with. S. Watt, Momahaki. W»- often hear (says the Wanganui Herald) the cry raised of the colonies affording few outlets for the young people growing up- m 'our midst. In the face of this, Mr Nicholls informs : us he has been advertising daily for several weeks for an intelligent girl as an apprentice to the dressmaking without receiving a single application. Here is a practical reply to the question " What shall we do with our girls ?" In some parts of the United States the oyster ' beds are planted by nature thickly along both banks of rivers, so that the)' actually form solid walls which serve to keep the course of the water permanently m one channel. This would be impossible if it wore not for the habit of the oysters of growing on the shells of others of its "race. Banks of live oysters of this kind exist \n Georgia, whore marshy land prevails and the Bea runs up for miles along estuaries till it meets the tresh water. The Queensland hangman has retired and been placed on the pension list. He m to receive £50 per annum. By a recent steamer there were forwardod five lunatics from the Napier Asylum to that of Wellington. Iv order to prepare certain blocks of Crown land for sale, the line for a railway from Wood vi He to Ekatahuna is to be surveyed at once. One day, while Dickens was being taken by 'a photographer, the result being the well-known picture m which he is shown writing, the artist told him that ho did not hold the pen right, and suggested that he should take it more naturally m his fingers. "Just as though yon were writing one of your novels, Mr" Dickens, " I see," said Dickens, " all of 'er twist." The orrtward 'Frisco mail closes to- | morrow eveniDg. | Although the advertisements announcing the promotion of racing sweeps have been suppressed by the coming into force of the Gaming and Lotteries j Act 1881 Amendment 1885, it must not | be taken for granted that sweeps have i been stamped out. On the contrary, they are flourishing under the rose, anil badly ■ as the public were swindled of old, they are likely to be ten- fold worse treated tinder the new regime, as no publicity being given as io numbers sold, time of drawing, results, or other particulars, there is nothing now to prevent the reckless promoter from sticking to the bulk of the plunder, as some return for the danger run. A Taranaki contemporary says : — '• Another morning paper is projected at Napier. That town must have some monied people m it willing to be easied of their surplus cash." The Rev. Mr Bunn delivered a lectnre m the Temperance Hall, Marton, on Tuesday night, m aid of the Palmerston Wesleyan Church funds. The attendance was by no means large, but the lecture was a success from an intellectual noinfc of view.