The Manawatu Standard. The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1886 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1611, 18 January 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1886 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There wlia a large attendance at' the* •Ly.ceiiUJ, on, Sunday evening;; and at the conclusion of the lecture, it was unanimously decided to reduce the subscription, from five shillings to two shilli.ritts: and, six pence per quarter. The satis factory financial position of the institution fully justifying the adoption of this most desirable change. , Eight, new members were enrolled, and all preß«nt gave m their names as subscribers to the Liberato?', a Scientific and Rationalistic Journal, published m Melbourne, and" edited by Mr Joseph Symes. Messrs Stevens and Gorton held their usualhorso fair at Bulls on Friday. A targe number of horses, including some very goad stamps of hacks and draughts, .were submitted, There .was. a large attendance of buyers; (says ihvAdvodate^) a. number of whom had come from 'as far as 'Woodville. Although the bidding wasonly fairly spirited at the sale, a great deal «f businrss- was Afterwards privately transacted, and the fair proved a much greater success than waß anticipated. Had the season not been so bad, there is no doubt k splendid sale' would have resulted. < '■■'■■^'■•■-<: ■■■ ■•■■ From the Herald we lea,rq that, the (l Tuhua" made a trial trip on Saturday* morning, Havlrfg r bn ? bdara* tntf Hbn^ Mr Baijance and; a number of directors 6f the company, Sfte left the cattle wharf at ■ about 11 o'clock, intending to go as far as Kennedy's.' 1 When passing the town the steamer .seemed to be steaming' and steering aAtl'stactorily. ' Says" the Wellington Post of January 13th :— Eight of the sailors of H.M.ST ; INilson were reported at ; 6^ o'clock this morning as being absent without" leave, and a sergeant at-arras was detatched fpr shore duty with a vija* 3fo appretjenß the. stragglers/ f iitle* difficully *>wa» experienced l ,bjr/ th'^ ..aergeant-^tjarngs \p I coming across the men, who wer« fouad, with the aid of a small body of constables, m various pa'tts of the city amusing themseivee as " Jack-a-shore " onlyjcnows; hwrl'L ahsejifees, ; who . were ve.ry quiet, were , marched to the city lock-up, and later ib the day w^rb : escorted 'aboard' their ship by a corporal's guard, where they will be dealt with by their officers. One of the prisoners, on arriving at ; the .wat9.ll- house, made a bolt of it, but his legs played him false/and he was recaptured just outside the look-up. . . : Not long ago the chief engineer of a. Rangoon steamer ordered one hundred and fifty fire-bars froih a native firm, supplying them with a -wooden., model: to indicate the size and shape required. 1 In due time were returned 150 fire-bars 'perfectly made, exact m size and shape, but of the same material as tho mortel. The intelligent firm«,^rore part owners of the steamer. " On Monday night, the 26th November on a railro.ad m Indiana^all ( the pass.engera on were chloroformed a^ fobbed of their sp are money, the roK bers qnitting the^ train a& Indianopolra with £140: Onefof ttfe pflssengerstwKb was m delicate .health, has since died ifrora the effects 1 qfithe 'chloroform. The truth of tha following story is vouched for by "a clergyman : — A good old lady, speaking m a prayer meeting, and giving expression to the joy and confidence she felt, said, ' I feel as if I was ready this minute to fall into the arms of BeJlzebub.F ' Abraham! You mean Abraham T hastily corrected a brother-sitting near. ' Woll, Abraham, then,' was the response : * it don't make any difference. They're both good men,. 1 We (Star) are informed by.' Mr P. Bartholomew that the engines, belonging to the Riwitaa saw mill, will be brought down from the old site and reerected on that section of land near the railway station, now occupied by'the firm as a timber yard. A start was made on Saturday, and the new . mill will be m tull awing before many weeks are past. : The logs, will be brought down on th« existing tramway, and cat up so that the sawn timber maybe loaded on the railway-trucks off the bench. By. this 'means a considerable expense- will be saved m the matter of handling. Thu mill m full work again will be a great booh to those men who have been,, li.olding on for a start to be mad*. Business people will also find the .advantage of it m several ways, as the wages to be spent will be a very large item. A vertical railway, on which the, cars; will move upward— or m other words';, be hoisted up by the leriation force of' a ba|lopn— is about to be conitructed on the Galsberg, near Salsburg, m order that visftors iiia'y be raised to the top of the mountain* to enjoy. the view. The balloon 18 to have grooved wh«elson one sideof its enr, and will ascend a perpendicular line of ' rails constructed on the'prihciple of a wire.rope railway invonted years ago fop- the Bighi,; :but not carried mil.