LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1603, 8 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. H. Smith inserts a notice m this issue to effect that his Grammar School will be opened on the 18th iust. Anight ; school will also 'be carried ori foi* the preparation of civil service candidates I Fellparticularßcan.be obtained on ap plication to the principal, opposite Mr* Whitahead's Main.street. At yesterday : afternoon's sitting of the R. M. Court the case J, fen ton v. P.Shenrin was adjourned. Judgement I was given for plaintiff 30s and costs m I the case N. Berquist and H.oni Ripu. Mr | Hankins appeared for plaintiff and Mr Pirani for defendant. Judgement for plaintiff was also given m the case J, Carroiljv. Wirehaua Huina, £27 5s 6d costs £3 lCs amount to be paid m two weeks Mr Hankias for plaintiff. ! Over 1,100 persons travelled on the Wellington- Manawatu railway on Satur- | day last. A policeman recently found a man evidently under the influence of drink half-reclining against the Bank of Scot- ! land. Approaching the reprobate, the man m blue remarked. "Hollo! what are yedoin' there ?" U Whauiam 1=!?" replied the halfrseas-over. " Yeire leanin' up. against the Bank o'Scotlaud," rejoined the officer. In measured accents and with great gravity, the dazed wag vociferated, " It's the first time that ever the Bank ot Scotlaud supported me m a' my life." A few days ago we wrote a local referring to the broadcast distribution here through the mail, of the " Sydney Jockey Turf Club's" consultation programmes, and suggested that such cir. culars ought not to be delivered. The Sydney Telegraph describes this affair as a " rank swindle," and states that the Victorian Postinaster-Geueral has prohibited the transmission of letters addressed to the club named. — Napier N4IOB. At a recent bankruptcy meeting m Dunedin a creditor proposed that the bankrupt should be allowed £2 10s weekly till the estate was admiuistered. As an amendment another and more sarcastic creditor proposed, (l That the bankrupt be allowed to luxuriate on the interest of what he owes." June 27, 1886, when'the Queen enters upon het fiftieth year of her reign, will be celebrated as the jubil.ee of Her Majesty's accession to the throne ; and the Corporation of London, it is stated, are already contemplating arrangements for celebrating the occasion on a scale befitting its historical interest and importance. A negro, about dying, was told by his minister that he must forgive' a certain darkey against whom he seemed to en- , tertain very bitterfeelings. " Yes, sah," he replied, •' if I dies J forgive dat nigga: but if J gits well, that nigga must take | care { Several settlers m the Wanganui Harbor Board have already had to shift their cattle owing to the scarcity of water. Fortunately they have not far to go as the main streams are all full.