LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1618, 26 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Attention is directed to a special advertisement from the Commissioner of Grown Lands which appears elsewhere. By latest advices the wool market remains weak. | A number of Wanganui policyholders lin the Government . Life Insurance Association are arranging for a meeting of their confreres early this week, with a. view to expressing their disapproval of the Driver appointment. The agitation appears to be gaining ground daily. Another instance of the comfortable coudition of the New Zealand masses was very apparent m thb comparitively j immense sum of money that passed through -the totalisator at the recent races at Auckland. Five and thirty thousand pounds sterling was the figure mentioned, and, it must be ad- '' mitteci, it was a tidy one. Even allow* ing for rotation of iuvestmeut. not much 'less than from seven to ten thousand pounds could have been floated about the racecourse. < The people had it, and it is quite possible that somebody had the people. It is also, very evident that the colony fa ' not y«t bankrupt.*— " Astnpdeus " m New Zealand Mail. During tlie hearing of a case at Otaki to recover the ralue of a pig shot, and before any decision was? given.,, the Magistrate went to the defendant's premises, to examine the fence , as to whether it was good within the meaning of the Act. Judgment was given tor plaintiff for £3 10s and costs. A Brisbane telegram states' that a collision occurred 'on ; Friday .between, the Australian Steam Navigation Company's s.s. Cintra and the Queensland Sh)pping Compapy'tji s.s* 'Archer^ The latter vessel has' sustained damage to a considerable extent. ' A sale of a novel character tor Wellington was to have been held yesterday by the New, ' Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. They were to offer no fewer than 60 stoatß and 220 weasels, which have arrived safely from Home. As a rule weasels stand-con-finement badly, aud there have been several vain attemptsito , bring' them , to Zealand*' mi v:u!- i. • ,. ;: , ■;;>'> > Arthur Hormann, aged- 12 years, son otaxßftttler.;nßaf r lpyerpa,rgilJ,"*eceiTOd:a sunstroke three weeks ago. He 'was placed under medical treatment, but five :daiyß ago b' eoainb' unconscious '.-'and ■ died ' to day. '„,•., , . . |We clip the following suggestive paragraph from the Advocate's account of the late race meeting held m Marion on Boxing. Day.:— '^"tqtalisator was worked by Mr D.Meweti;, who'succeeded m putting 56460 through it during the day. After the running of the open Handicap, Mr Mewett was called before the Stewards for, an < irregularity ;■ m wbrking :,the,j machine. Iminacl'iatoly upon the race starting the secretary took itlie number of tickets on the machine. On the 1 conclusion ot the' race hn found tnat the total had' boan increased by 'one. A' more particular scrutiny of the machine showed <hat while the '.'total" registered 1,28, the ; different numbers on, each horse when addud up amounted to 131.?' '.'"../ ■ " ! ;' • - ■■' : ; ; A Wellington paper remarks that the practice of furious riding along public thoroughfares appears to be on the increase. It is to be hoped. the authorities will endeavour to put a stop to such a dangerous .practice. Mr Wardell has on several occasions signified his intention of inflicting heavy penalties m all a'uch cases. ' j I The libel action brought by MrGrnbb, late. Chief , : Postmaster at Napier, againsfthe Hawkes Bay Evening News for £-1000 damages for alleged libel, vvas, settled on Saturday. The owners pf the paper agreed to a verdict for £200 being entered up, each Bide to pay the costs incurred/ and an apology to be inserted m the Hawkes J Bay ijßeralct and Daily Telegraph.^ Both parties agreed that the apology should be drawn up' by Mr Carlile, solicitor, Napier, as, he was not '.engaged , by, bit jier the,' plaintiff or the defendants. ; ' I Inspector Browne stated Jn the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court ou [Saturday that a man ' named John Sheehan, who was .charged with atjtempting to commit suicide, said, when rescued, that it would have been a bad thing for the revenue it he had been idrowned. — j ' THe libel action, Sinclair v. Hbrnbyj | w>s finished on Saturday 'evening, wheu I the jury returned a verdict of a farthing ! damages 1 for the plaintiff . : . Mr , Conolly, j wh<? appeared for the, plaintiff a, applied | for costs, but h.is Honor,, ruled that ; each party must pay his own costs. In t summing, up, the 'Chief' Justice said there was no doubt that the words m the leading article which forraod. the Bubject.of tlje (action were defamatpry, but it was for the jury to decide whether they^wereafair aud reasonable, critic,The Wafrarapa Daily w informed that rabbits ar? spreading; over . portions ' of 'the Wh'areama District at' ah'- 1 enormous fate, andi some of the settlers ; are of opinion that it is time that the departuient made arrangements to cope with tiie difficulty. They, are also said 1 to' have left the district to 1 take care of itself far a 'considerable s 'time. The rapid increase is no doubt, due to the dry season, which is all m f ayor of the pest. v The*Bjshpp of Wellington; left Wellington by tb«, s.B. Ringarooraa on Saturday for Auckland tp atiend the triennial session of the General Synod. The Most Rev. the Primate 1 of New Zealand also' passed thi-oagh m- the same steanler on his way from Chrigtchujch to Auckland for the same purpose. The venerable Primate, who is now m his 84thryearj looked wonderfully well, hale and hearty ,in spite of his great age. A meeting of the Auckland policyholders m the Government Insurance Association was to be held last night to consider Mr Driver's appointment,- and other insurance matters.. ,H, \^' k^j ; Another remedy has come forward' for lung worm m sheep, , v The receipt given below has been published by the, South Australian Government : — Nitre, 12oz ; sulphur, SQ ; water, lOg ; dissolve the nitre m the , water, then f add the sulphur! tjfrhe mixture miistl .be^,*cQn-: atantly stirred while administeriqg it,' as sulphur is not, soiuble m water^ I The dbd'e" irone ounce, Tfiebest thing' for dosing sheep is a small bullock's horn. ' Doae four times at ; tun-days' intervals; Supply the sheep with a mixture of salt with ten per, cent of sulphate of iron for them to lick, A grass fire at T^akapau Hawkes Bay on Sunday week' destroyed 2000 aorei of grass on Mr Grant's run, and injnred , portions of Mr Herbert l^ and Mr Bridge's properties.