LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1619, 27 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Madame Mourey, wrll known m connection with the .«tead case, is dead. Intelligence has lieeu received that tho brigiintinc Seagull .n # ent rtslio'o al Waikawa, Otago, on Sunday. All hands were saved. Tlie vessel is reported to lie breaking up. Admiral Tyron and the party m tin Hiueiuua. riiil not hud .at. Akarqa, but, after a brief .survey comb on to' Lyttel „ ton. He cnlogisos A'Ka'roV as a truh inagnil cent harbor, while his impression of Lyltuliun Harbor is n«t very favorable. After visiting the Graving Dock, the Adtiiiral went by special traiu to Christchurch, where he. will remain theguest of the Governor until his departure for Dunediu. ' Cigar stumps are gathered and sold m Paris for 20. cents ; a pound, to be made over. Mary Gallagher, of Troy avenue, and Dean Street, ;Bruoklyn, had her husband arrested at East N«w York for aflsault, and he was committed to gaol , for twenty-nine days m consequence of hia inability to pay the fine. Mary then stole some money from Henry Hickey and paid the fine and got him out: Now Mary has gone to prison for two months. The case of Studholrne v. the Queen, which has been before the Christchurch Supreme Court for some days, has been decided, wheuithejury gave a verdict, for plaintiff for £400. The -claim was made on the ground that spa-ks from j a railway engine had set fire to plaintiff's run, notwithstanding ihat it was ,proved ; that a spark deflector had b^n m" use m tho engine furnace. 'The jury found thar, the Governmeut.had been guilty, of, negligence, chiefly oh' the ground that brown coal had been used at .the time. Last Friday was the 46th* anniversary of the foundation of the Province. It m difficult] writes ; ,a f-pon tractor . m, V an, exchauge to look "Vroun(i 'tis and realise 1 that we! arc not yet hal.f r arcenti.iry iold. If the next fifty years do as much for us as the last, we shail not have much to complain of. ' Evidenc © of the dulness of the times was afforded ■ this morning (nays an Auckland paper of the 14th;inst,) when for several hours, over 300 people stood along tlie side f>f the wharf and recla ination {. near: the' •watermen's ,BtepB %i watching the, efforts of, some watermeu, to capture a shark. At all .events if the people ;were not '^.lempioyed," they., must have'a^eryielaßtic" kind of opera-" tiou, m jorder to permit the waste of so inuch^tiina. > They, did; not waitjn ,vain,< However, for two large sharlcs were captured about noon. '}:■-. ' V' The Auckland Star points out that Mr Bradlaugh',l although he h'aa itaken 1 ' his oath and his seat m the— House of Commons, . may /not; be /•Spu.t '/of \the; wood " even yet. According itc the Law Journalj "The decision ofthe Court of AppoAl m the Attorney-General v.Brddlaugh', 54 Law Jl'Keb." Q. B. 205) Vent so far as to say that 1 a member of Parliamentj allowedtotake the oath is still' liable to the penalties, if, m fact, he" is' deficient, m religious belief." There are plenty of fanaticsjn: England cap I.able.of (testing 'Mr ßradlaugh's /right to 'si t^on^'the grounds 'maintained iv this ruling, jbiit we hope tliat the absurdity of" such! an appeal to' law, when it' is notorious that many prominerttiinembers sitting m Parliament are avowed;agnostics m religion,,will prevent any further litigation against the chosen of North-'-fttuptoa;. ; , , - ; In ihJB case of Reginjiy. W.T. Ferrar, tried?at|Christchurch last week it was proved that, prisoner, while acting as registrar of dogs : m; Kowai (North Can- : terb'ury) district, had received £10 for the registration of a pack of hounds, andhad failed to account for the money to'his employers, the local Road Board. His: .conset contended that he was not a ; servantj under ;the Act ;• and the Crown Prosecutor [having called attention to the, fact that byiqlause 99pfthe;Road Bpards) Act any mpney4yirig m the handsof a person to ihe' v c.:eo!jt of a road bpari must . be codsjdered.aa'avdebt, Mr Justice Joh ; n-V aton stopped the case and direct'eolvdn/ac^ quittal.! '" , It frequently happens that every m- i tricate | and^ . peculiar questions .of. Jaw,arise for ;whibh r the^ is n6. preiedent,' but a Bu'ssi'ari" paper gives 'an account of' the cirqumstanees which, .had^ Jed^to a most uiique law siiijfc ' lA** ncfi ilacsi. at her deajth placed her v "pet dog Gypsy m tSe harids of a friend, with the' request to -provide, for .herewith the annual interest o% l,oop roubles set aside, for that purpose m her testament. The other day Gypsy died, and the f lady jwho had charge, of her took it for'granted that,, the noioney was nowher ;bwn. "Another 1 lady' however appeaied on the scene,' who' owned a son, of Gypsy^ and> who claimed that was heir fto the'; income of the. 4,000-rpubles, since nothing./was; said in> the testament regarding the disposal of! this money afte?'"tire' ; - death ''of Gypsy r : The result of the! trial 'will be awaited with interest. •■ .:;' : ;.••.-. .•.■■.'(■ ; A seaman bn a^Dutch; steam&r 'fell overboard the other day m- a rough sea, v a-bu.pjsri w*as sthro wn,» ' ithei i engines; Weife' Bt6p'ped,'and a boat j: iQworedj . bu.t the uwncofuld not be found,. . When they ■ga^e^iip the,aea,rchrit was found, that the fourth'; officer 1 , H : - yo'ijng 'En^lighmaii'' named •Howa^d,^b.a3i pulled-- off his coat: and plunged m lo save the sailor, and for four hdurs the>searc,b, „fo r. f , ;the,-.twp,w ; asr continued, men. nor , buoy , was found. J The loss of the gallant yqurig r officer jwas most accUtely 'feit^unaei* ih? oircvjm^tanoes. ----- '^Sbnfeasions befpVai hi arrive are heist \ tnpy silve a great many diffieultk-s ple.v B^jtjy. i J!or:,ins r tancej ra -yomfg vman. said toj h|s .intenp^e^, .v— " 1 . . am ajnio.sti afraid jtp^tfjry'o.u; pf ; something, , M^njc. 1 ' * v What is f. it, ; ; George ?" the y.oijmg :'.' womafl '''ayked^ ' anxiously. <<v t 'atn ' a" soranahi^uTisti^'her^pi^dr^'Oh.'js^n'at all?" she 1 \v'ith a 'a siVh-bf relief. ! " Of course, when we are 'madeone I shall attend your church." An i.nteresfiingjetter 'appeared jin 'the Horning Post lately, describing the completion oE the Canadian-Pacific railway. The writer says that 4rie' of the streams which -is passed by the line is named Kickitfg Horse .JRtver; /ThAaia'TieJ arose- , t,his way. xVj H&ciot AQ^heaOfHh'e^ 'ieblog^cal survey of New Zealand and a CM Gj was sent to examine the, pass through which the stream runs and report upon it for a railway. Dr Hector 1 got inljo trouble with his horse m the river, and waß badly kicked ; hence the name of the river anjl the .pasa; / X t .i , j^ijc; wheat stacks were destroyed on the fa cm of Mr .^mith, at Mangare m the Aijcklaud prdvinfeial : dist'rict.^ r «'Phe* loss was £600, and was uninsured. The qrigin, ,w,as .a; smoker' throwing r down flighted, match. ; - ; ; Onejof the larg* English vessels — the Resistance, is to be coated with indiarubberto vconsidbrable thickness to" see i now that material will repeJl projectiles. • ' ■ The; Wellington paper from which we quoted m our previous issue has the fpllawjing : — The doubtful telegram to w^ieh.we alluded to. yesterday, does got refer to' ihe Principal of iJrasehose. Though Dr Craddock has been ill, there >is no uews of his death. j