The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1583, 16 December 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable message slutiug that the R.M.S. Kuikoura, which readied the Cape on tho lOlh instant, 19 days out from Plymouth, with one of her propeller l> Units smashed, was docked, and left again for this Colony at noon on the Uth. Beer is more dangerous than wliipky. That is the verdict of the Scientific American, which nets forth that the usu of beer is tound to produce a species of degeneration of all the organs ; profound and deceptive fatty deposits, diminished circulation, con ditions of congestion and perversion of functional activities, local inflammation of both the liver an<l kidneys, are couBtatitly present. A Blight injury, a severe cold, or a shock to the body or mind, wili commonly provoke acute die ease ending fatally m a beer-driukur. It it I'leaoiug to see the joy beaming m th» faces of the children as they return home from school after being Huccesaful under the Inspector's examination. " I've pa«ued ! I've parsed!" is heard on every hand, and th« little folks are as proud of tlie position as many a man when he h.s been elected to Parliamentary honors. " But you only passed weak," said a little fellow to a gM yesterday as she was telling of her success. "Oh, well, you n-fln't talk," was th-* quick rejoinder: 'You didu't pass at all ; you wer« all behind like the cow's tail." — Exchange. The Greymouth people are anxious that the clock which Mr Littiejohu placed at the Exhibition should be an adornment for their new Post Office. The Postal Department has no objection provided the Greymouth peoji are prepared to advance a certain amount toward it, as the residents of Christ church and Wellington did under similar circumstances. Mr Littlejnhn's splendid exhibit can be pure asod for about £250, and ns an ordinary clock, which would cost. £40 or iso, would be considered suitable for the Greymouth Post Office, it would mean that the local bodies and residents of Greymouth would have to advance about £200. If ->thf-y ara wilhm: to do so, the Postal authorities will probably not object to make the necessary alterations m tho tower. No official communications have been passed on the subject. — VWI liugtou paper. Five thousand carcases of froaen sheep will be sent Homo by the Wellington Meat Export Company m fhe Taonui. The Rimutaka, which leaves Wellington for London on Thursday, will take a number of exhibits for the Indiau and Colonial Exhibition. Land Courts will be opened at Taupo and' Wangauui on tho 14th January. Majors Mair and Scannel will preside at Taupo, and Messrs O'Brien and Puckey, Judges of the Native Land Court at Wanganui. It is expected that a considerable quantity of land will be put through tUe Courts m both places. A capital system ii adopted m America for the prevention of tampering with fire alarms. Every citizen of good repute is furnished with a key of the alarm box, each key being numbered and registered against the name of its duly appointed custodian. The mere insertion of a key into the key-hole of any one such box, by its completion of an electrical circuit, instantly causes an alarm of " fire " to be transmitted to the head office. As the keys cannot be released f rout the boxes, except by an officer of the department, no false warning can be made without its detection being a matter of absolute certainty.