LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1585, 18 December 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sir W. Fox will occupy the pulpit m the Wesleyan Chnrch n«xt Sunday morning and evening. The discourse m the evening will have reference to the Temperance question. Mr F. B. Jackson announces his usual stock sale at St. Hill Street sale yards for next Wednesday. In twenty-four years the Victorian gold-mining industry has produced £208,000,000. The present annual putput is now between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000. The officers of tha Bank of New South WaI«B throughout the Colony received, last week, a bonus at the rate of ten per cent on their regular salaries. Similar bonuses are to be paid by the Bank of New Zealand. An Auckland surburban hotel-keeper advertised for a useful man, and within two hours had been waited on by upwards of forty persons. Cheerfulness of mind is as essential to a good digestion as a good digestion is essential, to cheerfulness of mind. A i state of gentle and pleasurable excitei ment of the mind is highly favourable. v Chatted food," according to the old proverb, " half digested." With the sociability of a mixed dinner company, which a well-regulated household ordinarily supplies, there is just the degree of mutual livolineßß most favourable to the performance of every bodily function and especially digestion. An advertisement from the Railway authorities intimates that an extra train will leave Pahnerston every Thursday at 9. 55 a.m. for Feilding, arriving at 10.45 a.m. Leaving Feildinr on the return journey at 3 p.m., arriving m Palmerston at 3.45 p.m. St Leon's circus is playing m the country towns of Victoria, so it is evident that the circus was divided into two parts, one part leaving New South Wules for Victoria, while the other came on to New Zealand.