LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1617, 25 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo remind our readers that Messrs G. # M. Srielso'iv^.ajbd] Co ? s .stock sale} ,at; Karero will take place on Wednesday' next at 1 p.m, A considerable number of stock ate'already catalog tied. ' ' ''' ' ' The body of a man named Charles Blackett was' examined at'Mastertou /m connection with' the seveied hand case. The body was. however,, found intact. At the Supreme Court a- writ has .been issued against James McDowell by his brother Frank McDowell for nialicious prosecution; The case arose from a charge agairmt the last named, which was heard at the R.M. Court recently, and £500 damages are claimed. : The Parliament of Tonga was opened with due ceremony the other day. A fell report .of the proceedings is given m the i Auckland Weekly News, whose correspondent, writes :— " A novel feature of jthe Parliament was that all the speeches and debates made were taken down m shorthand by Native lads trained' m the Government College. His Majesty expressed iv his speech at the prorogatiouitlie pleasiire which it .had afforded liim m being thus able to read next morning au exact account of what had, taken place at the Parliament during the previous ? day, and he was olsd gratified foUearri that-'Jhdf Govern,-' ment had determined to appoint Native ( shorthand writers to the ' various Courts of Law of Tonga* ;/ ? <; The steamer Wakatipu which left Wellington for Sydney Ja at night, had od board 74 horses, 6 head of cattle,,, and - ; 7UO, tons, of cargo, chiefly consisting of produce shipped at Southern ports. A Dunedin telegram states that the two girls, who stood highest .for the tjbnior spholarship t are ; twiQß, andif born a day later would have been' disqualified.' , - _. ' „ . „ The London Dock Companies have re- y duced the charge on frozen mutton to decimal 22 of a penny pec lb .over .all, including six weeks' storage.' The Dunedin University' Board has formally appointed, Professor Salmpnd, to the vacant Mental Science- chair, at J-600 a year, with fees. He haß a three years' engagement; The'Synod'objects to the limitation. . - : ; . ■...•> s A The special ; cases iin Dunedin this week had to be, adjourned ijn consequence, of the sheriff failing to serve th» jurors three clear days betore the trial. Two days' sitting have thus boeri lost. ; l " At the meeting of the Tunaru .fiarbor Board on Wednesday, the chairman stated that there had been an increase : m tonnage of 1000 during the last year. It was ; resolved to appoint a resident engineer at £250. The recent consulting engineer's salary is to be reduced to i? 150, bat all his travelling expenses are; to: be paid. The tender of Messrs Pajlliser and Jones has been accepted by the Board for the new contract for the extension of the breakwater '2soft. The -amount is £7873 135. . ■ - ; JA. deputation of loyal Irishmen waited up'onthci' Marquis or Salisbury "a 'few' days ago with reference to tt'e Irish question. The deputation urgod;' upou the Premier the necessity el enforcing 'the existing laws, and deprecated the granting- of;,an Irish Parliament as tending to dismember the Empire. Lord .SaTisDuay, m reply, assured the deputa - tion that the Government were mindful oi the responsibility i placed m! dealijije vritb! tlie difficulty and ivoul d not be "untrue ..thereto. ~'i~ ; r J ' ; ■ iTBe Pahiatuai.Puketbi Special' Satfc ement Association -has drawji lots for sections. The bfock of land selected by th^e; Association is situated jaccross the Tiraumea Kiverj ; osposite the! )?ah iatua Tirauraea Road. The block* consists of township, surbarban, v and. rural.sections. The township has been named Kaitawa. ;A Dunedin contemporory accounts for depression? thusly:— •' There, has been of recent years' a diminished butput of gold, and there has been an < eVer-increasing amountof commodities $q be 'moved by the currency. The obvious result, has been a decline m prices.": ..:.; . ,•, ! The' writer of a society column invth'eSydney Mail says that recently seventyeight advertisements appeared m. the Morning Herald- for geueral servants, and that there was only one feniale individual who put m an appearance m. Tespodse, and she had a child with her. I Wellington appears to have a grand', vfater supply now. By a recent visit of official inspection, it was ascertained that altogether there is as much water running to waste as-is at present used 'for theci^yyß sppply. -In fact,iViß,,eßtu mated that there, is sufficient' water' to supply two towns as ; large as Wellington. i A leader on Mr Ballance's speech m theAshbukon Mail is concluded with^ the following words :— By the bye it; is a somewhat remarkable fact that Wanganui seems almost to monopolise the administrative talent of New Ziealand m regard to Native affairs* \ . certain it is that "shehaS given to the Councils Jtwo of the best Native Ministers we eve* had 1 — -Mcjssrs Ballanceiand ;:I3ryoe. .., ; ,i c i Photographs of the' foup ; ; person;s accused 1 6i conspiracy . : in' ' connection With the disappaacdnce ot Howard,; are selling m Dunedin as fast aa, they can. be printed. ;. Among those who r travellod by" the Wellington-Manawatu line on Anniversary Day where 557 children and 50 teachers of St . John's Presbyterian Church, who proceeded to Crofton aud spent tueday t in a mqst pleasant .manner. (At(the Bame,place a } picdic) .was held l by 15U children of flic Uhufch^-of Dhrist, attended by 15 teachers, md one by 195 children 'of the Baptist Church, with seven teachers. Several other smaller excursions also took place yy the same line. / J£ man r li%cfied''W|lHain Sherwin off ihe'train on the Hiift Jine i bn Friday 4 bight, and had both collar-bones and left shouideiHbhfdb|bj'slteu.l*fi.e also rejpeived severe scalp wounds, and fracWanganui iiospitßl returns for the week/ show that, only, one .patieqtj was admitted during the week, D Lamb, Palraerstqn, North. Tvfo Were dis-f icliarged. - ■- • x