LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1599, 4 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It will; be noticed by our advertising columns that Mrs Edith O'Gomian,, the " Escaped Nun " will visit Palmerston on a lecturing tour. The dates and' hour fixed are elsewhere set forth , m. detail. ! "_ '/ ' ; ' ... ' ' ""^ \ We hare received Messrs Stevens and Gorton's calendar of stocTE sales tor 1886. : ■•'■■ The. School Committee will meet this evening . at the School House' at 7.30 o'clock , . No IeBB than 41 convictions have been recorded .against a woman named Mary Ann White, who was recently fived 1 10s at the Wellington Residont'Magistrate's Court for her forty-second offeuce since 1882. " ! ,-...:: ' : . The Mayor of New S?Iy mouth gave a donation 'of '£25 towards the New Plymouth,,. jßaod, and an equal amount towards thej erection ,qt a band stand m the Recreation ground. The postal-note system is now m, operation. The notes will be issued, at a small i charge for sums from one shilling to twenty shillings. They will be sold or cashed at all money order offices. '• The offer of the Wairaea Plains Railway Company to sell to the Government for a price sufficient to return to shareholders'their capital without interest or 'profit will reiunin open for .a mouth. The Southland Times states that m . the meantime it is not likely that the Com puny will take measures to enforce the 'payment of the obnoxious rate — at least pending the reply from the Government. 'Mr Joseph Renal!, of Gladstone, re ports to the Wairarapa Star that he has caught a strange animal which the Maoris of his district recognise as the much-dreaded Taniwha. It is about six feet m Ungth and of the lizard species, and it deems , v t6 be amphibious. Mr Renall intercepted it between the .banks of the RumahimgX rivei/ and Rafter, a strugglej m which he had his arms well bruised, heuiatfa'ged to ihaiibr^it and secure itjalive. It has been residing for the; last week m a horse trough', dining pn^gras^, and.. apparently it is agreeing, - very well with its; confinement. -', '- 1 1 ; The consecration ceremony of the Foxton jKilwiuniugYtjb'dg^ ihasj^lieen -fixed to take place on Ihe 26th January during [the afternoon, -commencing shortly after the , arrival of < the,-trajn, : The cennotiy will be performed by ■officials from Auckland.' A bauquet will be Held m. the r eveuing, aud a large attendance i iai 'expected.' '[''" ' ' " iy >■■■•■■■ The Hon John Ballance is announced to address his constituents at the' Pnuoess Theatre Wah^anui, 1 on the evatiiog of tl|B'l3th 'iiistant; V , .;; 1 It wiuld appear that the stormy perils of the Rimutaka by rail still' continues to be occasionally experienced by travellers. , A recent,, Wellington , paper has the; fpliowing:— The, early .trajiu from the Waifarapa to-day arrived m Wellington nearly nn honr Behind time owing to a delay which ! was caused through I the strong head wind encountered m the Lower Valley. The train was brought taa dead sfejp-on the incline between Pigeon Bush and Cross's, Creek, and it' was found necessary' do" detatch Ithe goods waggons from the passenger carriages; ' The goods were takjen to the Summit first} and the engine then returned and hauled up the passengers. The wind blew with terrific force while the train was crossing the Rimutaka, and several of the more timid passengers were afraid that some of the carriages would be blown clean off th» rails. s. . , ■ Telegrams hsv« been received m Melbourne announcing the discovery of the bodies of three men at Clifton Hill, Thyrsus. It has been ascertained that the party which set out consisted .of nine men, and an active search has been instituted for the missing "six. The bod i t>B discovered show that death has •resulted 'from thirst. ■■■ . The , South Australian. Government has eive'n notice that that colony withdraws from the New Guinea guarantee, and that, the ; South Australian quota will be discdn'tiiiiied.' ' ' ' l : '" * A Chinese boy gained five prizes m the Grey mouth State School— being all for which he could compete. Whenj the Duke of Argyle arrived at 'Newcastle, she was said. to have, cholera on Board. She was ordered to Sydney, but after being cleaned and fumigated, she was granted pratique.. The word " Hell " comes from an old English or Teutonic word Man, to cover; and io the ancient use of it it signified any covered place. In our early Pnglish literature it is used for any obscure dungeon or covered spot : even of the dark hole vi to which & tailor threw his shreds and clippings ;, or the disciples of Caxton their broken types ; nay, even ot the retired and bosky shade to which the lads aud lasses, caught m a game called Barley-break were led to pay the forfeit of • kiss. — I Exchange.