LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1600, 5 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are glad to learn that the Mftyi>r fl recognisius the great danger, of tW v spread of fire through the high dry grass m many of our streets, hag given m stvuetions for mowing to be aturted m those places where the greatest risk ap- ) pears to be througii contiguity of close fences or buildings. His Worship will refer to the matter more specifically at to-ihorrow's meeting of the Council, when possibly the question of protection may again be discussed. 1 The following extraordinary stater ment Appears m the chapter m Hard ings 1886 Almanac devoted to a description oi tho total eclipse of 1885. " Far more noticeable than the darkness was the extraordinary degree of cold. That this was not merely imaginary was proved by those who took precise observations, and by the fact that at Woodville a bucket of wate.- m the opeu air toas frozen over during the eclipse" We aro requested to inform ladies sod gentlemen wishing to become members of the Choral Society that they should attend a quarter of an hour earlier on Wednesday evening m order to have their names passed through the Committee, or they might communicate with committee members beforehand. TheS.S,& A, Co's steamer Tainui, from London, Via South, arrived at Wellington on Friday afternoon. > • Mr James Derby/ formerly editor of ■ the South Canterbury Times, has been appointed sub-editor of the Lytttlton Times vice Mr W. H. Atack, who takes the management of th« Press Association at Wellington. We are glad that i some competent person is about to take the management, as really its conduct has been very Unsatisfactory of late. The New Zealand Herald says that a case of alcoholic poisoning occurred m Auckland last week. The victim, after imbibing some three,' or at the most four, glasses, was found lying speechless, on the Jervois Road, Ponsonby,. Dr Knight was called m, and regarded the case as so serious that' he ordered the mana removal to the Hospital. He was taken thither and the stomach pump applied. One does not need the Atlantic Ocean or even a river, to get the benefit of a bath. A wash bnuin, a broad, f}at pan to ntand m, and two cans or jugs of water, hot and cold will answer every purpose. The effect of the hot water tol lowed by cold is very curious. A lady found it so good for 'her own -ailments that Bhe tried it on her plants. A fading tern revived at once to vigorous life. Try it for rhuematjsm and neuralgia. Try it for any malady, you may have. It is good for a local ap plication ; but general treatment is best m all cases if you can compass it. '■ It makes the whole body tnore alive, and. eyery parf wil) feel the bpriefjit— besides life flows whefe it is most needed. A gopd invigorating l>ath removes local congestion*, an(i distrjbiitqs as well a6 increases, the force of health. In Wellington m December, 1884. the^ rainfall exceeded 12 inolies, whereas during the December jusf: elapsed it barely exceeded oue inch, and at Petone it wap even leus than one inch.