LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1573, 4 December 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr E. Cilne, Croft on, is m want of a good wheel w light. A writer m Harper's Bazaar, for September states positively that '• nothing will be worn by the ladie? this winter txcept knitted hose." This presents a moat shocking outlook. Apart from the colds, coughs, influenzas, etc., which must inevitably ensue, the spectacle of a woman walking with nothing on her but knitted hose will be a melancholy illustration of the lax spirit of the ago. Bishop Burdon has written to the Times stating that 40,000 lives were lost by the Kwonting floods m China, and 50.000 are utterly destitute. About £20,000 has been subscribed from all sources, which is only sufficient to support th» gtiffernrß 66 days. He appealed to England, his former appeal not haying brought £10. Preparations are already made m Berlin for the cslebrMion ot the 55th anniversary of the accession of the Emperor William to the throne of Prussia, whic'i occurs on January 2nd n^xt. The Anthropological Congress, which is soon to be hwld at Rome, will have a feature m a collection of 700 skulls of criminals, numbered and classified. It is said that the wreck of the old flhip St. Paul, ono of the ships that Phillip sent m 1588 m the groat Spanish Armada to demolish England, may now i be seen at certain stages of the tide m the outer harbour of Santiago.

The musical critic or! the World- says : -Of tlm Martha" of Madame Patti'thc .iil) f nuW/point is that she had exactly the sunn success as usual ; but she olucirifiuil the audience witli that old song "Th ■ Lust Rose of Summer" to such an extent t li :it tb'iy made her sing it three times, ami were fain disposed tw ask for it n fourth time. In , Mass, not !oii£ sinco, a church anniversary was held. The Sunday school chil'lren had a processional, as m the Episcopal Church, and a good old deacon was to lmid them. Tho choir gang the first verso, of " Hold the Fort," tv which they were to march. The dou- . con stalked m, followed by the scholars, just as the choir commenced the second verse, " Sea the mighty host sulv.auciug, Satan leading on !" A daughter of Sir A. Weld, late Governor of Tasmania, has entered a eonvuut recently m England. Miss Editli O'Gorman, " The Escaped Nuu " is to be^in a series ot lectures m Wellington on Monday evening. A branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory will bo opened m Cuba street, Wellington, on the 12tli hint., for the Christmas aud summer season. We learn that Mr G. Howe has taken over the whole of the Porewa contract ; the original stir. -ties were Messrs G. Howo and P. Bell. As far as we can liiarn, Mr Howe will be finished m good time, and will not lose u(ivlhi(i_' by tha job he had to take over. — Herald. j The Clnistiau Brethren, of Feilding, have erected a hall m that town for the purposes of worship. The hah is 30ft by 24ft, and contains sitting accomodation for 150 peoplo. The building is lined throughout, and m every way m made very comfortable. A w ortby Scotch magistrate of tho last century prescribed the tawse for all juvenile offeuces, and without any foruihl trial or leading evidence,, .'ordered lu<lsI u< l s and lasses to be summarily corrected after iliu good old domestic fashion of the time. He was not particular its to the age of the culprits. On one occasion a young woman, whom he had ordered to bo flogged, tried to get off on ttie plea of being married. Married, are ye?" exclaimed the bailie. " Yes sir," said the woman. " Then its mair a shame that ye're hero this day, Skelp ye her weel," aitdud kis Honor to the jailer. People are beginuing to wondtr what is the cause ot the delay m getting tliu furnace to work for the. La Monte process of smelting at the Thames. A test was to have been made over a fortnight ago, Uut the furnace waa not ready when expected. It was then reported that everything would be iv order for a trial a day or two later, but so far as we can learn the expected tent is as far off as ever. From private information received from a reliable source there appears to be something going on behind the scenes which is causing the delay. It would indeed be a great pity if, iv a mutter of such importance to the interests of tho country as the full and complete testing of the La Monto process of extracting gold, any spooulativu tendencies should be allowedjto affect the matter, or that by delays which cannot bu sutitsfflc.orily explained the public should r-vt-ntnally lose faith iv the nnlter. — Wellington paper. . It is rumoured iv Auckland that, for reasons which it would be (inadvisable to specify, the La Monte process of extracting gold has not had a fair trial m the North. There is still no reason to believe that it will be found so effectual iv New Zduhind as it hus beeu elsewhere. The quantity of milk now received at the Waikato clmese factory '(Uumiltou) is about 850 gallous. Mr J. Hi Corbet t, of Mastorton, who was compelled to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court some lima. «go, has now paid his creditors 20s m the £. We regret to learn that Lady Whitmore, who has returned by the Coptic, has not experienced the benefit hoped tor from her visit to England. The best medical advice was obtained there, but without much avail, and Lady Whitmore is still a confirmed invalid and a grrat sufferer. The Hon Mr Larnach has received a sunpleof fine gold from Mr William Fox, one of tho oldest gold mining prospectors m the colony. Mr Fox stat<:s that it was obtained from some rubble m one of the mines at Teravrhiti. The drawing for prizes m Mr F. Bradey's Art Union of oil paintings of New Zealand B.:enery will take place m tho Sansou schoolroom nt 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16. There are still a few tickets to be disposed of, nnd intending subscribers are requested to make application without delay, m order that the litt may be arranged by the committee.. It is said that Mr Walter Johnston, formerly Minister of Public Works, and M,H.B. for Manawatn, has sold his residence m Wellington, and intends to permanently reside m England, where he is at the present time. The .directors of the Sandon Dairy Factory Company have arranged the difficulties m connoction with the winding up of the affair, aud matters will be finally settled on Tuesday next. A terrible accident reuniting; m the death of a young married man named Robert Walker, occurred last week at i Hondor'B brick and tile works, near I Brisbane. Walker, who waß engaged emptying clay into a shoot which fed the crushing- rollers, by some means fell m, and his body passed through the rollers, and was literally crushed to a pulp. A Napier paper saya : — According to a correspondent, the condition of things at the end of the line, where the railway extension works are m progress between Tahoraite and Woodville, is disgraceful to a degree. On paynights, and sometimes on other occasions, grog of all kinds is disposed and drunk as freely as water, and the result is dreadful. Fights amounting to drunken insurrections take place, and black eyes and injured bones are plentiful. On a recent occasion, our correspondent states, numbers of the navvies were running about m a nude state, infuriated by drink, and fighting among themselves like so many demons. The resrjectable settlers m the district were very much terrified, and the great wonder m the district is that the authorities do not interfere. Says the Taranaki Herald : — The enemies of fruit growers seem to be inumerable, and include all the intermediate creation from boys to bugs. In some parts of the. district swarms of that pretty little bug called the lady-bird are playing havoc with the apples. Tbey feed on the stalks of the fruit and on the leaves, and are said to be more numerous than ever bofore known. In Moscow and St. Petorsburg the word " student " is a term of reproach. Tell a gentleman you are a student, be will turn his back on you ; tell a police- ' man, he will follow you ; tell a moujik, he will spit. Three students out of four m Russia are Nihilists m sympathy, if not action ; and most of them are under I police supervision. i As certain as the sun shines, says the New York Voice, a national political j party which will push Prohibition to tho ' front until it becomes the dominating < and deciding issue, is destined m the near future to rule the country.