The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY DECEMBER 15. 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1582, 15 December 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY DECEMBER 15. 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A netice of interest to blacksmiths, and those m the habit of using charcoal, i» inserted m this issue by Mr W. Luigh of Terrace End. Since starting (he charcoal business industry, Mr Luirh m forms us he has had wondorful success, and is kept busy supply iug the wants of customers daily. Truth givfs the following cricket anecdote ; Mr Hornby takes hia County tenm at the cud of each year to play a local eighteen of Nautwith and district, and four years ago, at the tail end of that ti'am, came m a veritable yokel. Tlik first ball h<> received, on« of Cross ley's fast yorkerfl, hit him on the knee. " How's that ?" shouted both Pilling and Croßsl;ui<l. " Not out !" said the umpiru. The batsman, however, carefully shouldered hia bat, and was se-Mi to be painfully limping for the pavilion. " You're not out, my man," an'u\ U>« umpire. "No," he said; but I'm going." It may not be generally known that the Gaining and Lotteries Act, passed last session, contains a saving clause m respect to sweepstakes, which by th« Act 1881 were prohibited. The provisions m the Amending Act ia as follows : — " Nothing m the said Act (the Act of 1882), or m this Ant contained, shall apply to auy sweepstake got up on a racecourse, provided that the total amount subscribed does not exceed five poundH, and that the several contributions thereto do not excecjd five shillings each, and that the whol>* sum contributed goes to the winner without any deduction on ai.y account." Mr Rendf, of the Bank of New Zealand, Bulls, has been removed to 0m Woodville branch, and on Saturday left for the scene of his future duties. Dur ing his residence m bulls Mr He ado huts made a host of friends, and he lewes with many good wishes for his future prosperity. Mr A'C'wrt.of Woodville, is his successor, — Advocate. Mr Phil May, one of the rising English caricataurists, has accepted an-en-gagement on the ?ydnoy Bulletin, at J-30 a week, and leav«s at oncn for Ni**v South Wales. He made his name by Home rather clever political cartoons contributed to St. Stephen's Review. The Napier News says the Press Association twnt false telegrams respecting the Chief Justice's remarks on the loading article which it published reflecting on grand juries — It adds : — His Honor stated that he considered our article on the special jury ns " highly improper," bnt novt r described it as " scandalous," or " disgraceful," or a " contempt of Court." Says the English correspondent of a Dun^din paper : — "lf MnjorT* Whero 1 and his Maori friends expect to g t more sympathy and assistance from the Conservatives than th«y did from th ■. Gladstone Administration th^y »r« I wofnlly mistaken. I hear that Sir John I Gorst, when taxed the oth -r day with j deserting the cause of his quondam • fn«nds, shook his head and observed that thn lato Government had done n'l that was possible for the natives at this side of tho watrr. Russia is building a strategic railway to the Austrian frontier A strategic railway is not difficult to make. The promoter buys a rieht of way from th« farmers for an annual pass, then g<-tB all their land condemned and takoa up the passos, then gets a State grant of two or thrne districts for the directors, buys its iron on long time, and pays for its grading with construction bonds, then issues equipment bonds to pay for rolling stock, borrows all the mon»y m the country on the mortgneen, cillsin everything outstanding and exchanges it for a deficit, then changes its name. A Wellington 'paper states that Mr Henry Gordon, Inspecting Engineer to the Mines Department, has be«n lately visiting the Mount Criffwl goldfiold which is about 35 miles from Ctomwell, and oight from Lake Wanaka. There are at present about 60 miners »t work, but if water wens available for sluicing a much larger number could be profitably employed. There are also 30 miners engaged on tho. " mid-run,'' which is situated on the fall of Mount Pisa into the Luggate Creek, about I 1200 feet lownr down than the workings at Mount Criffel, and fair prosp<»rta have been obtained. Close to the old workings on th« Lttgsratfi Plat 1 there are 20 miners employed, and the prospectors have obtained vpry fair returns. The difficulties that the miners have to 'contend against are very considerable, owing to the want of water, and if a race wns constructed it is probubl« that several hundred men could be profitably employed At the Mount Criffel work ingfl the gold ia found even at the roots of the grass. In one claim the men lvßve earned £3 to £4 per week per man, including the stoppage during the winter months, when it is impossible to work. There are symptoms of revolt m sotna of the counties m Ireland over the pnrment of the Irish members of the next Parliament. Mr Parnell insists tint each constituency shall be compelled to pay its own member a salary upon which he can manage to live m London.