LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1621, 29 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thelajtestnew.s fsom the wool gale is a;s. follows/ dated'vanuary 27 : — At today's;; s .auctions 11,700 bajea were^offered, the market-'' beih^ iuferior wools are.^d to Id, below last bales.,; anid scoured wools Id "lower,:!, crosabreds, howeVer are firmed i '- 1 "-' '^ :ii i!ltf; ' { It is'expected that another section of .th4.Welliu^ton-Napier Railway will bje opened by the end of March — namely, if rom Mabterton-wtbi Maurice ville, a distance of 16. miles., T,hat will bring thjo railway within forty miles of Wood▼ille; *- ; Iw/:' -■-■/■■ CU- '■ The Minister of Lands will make <a trip through the . Middle Isljnd ., next week, accompanied by the Surveyor* General. II any blocks of land are. foond suitable for special settlements, they will be surreyed and offered m the. usual way. .„. • ; Mr Blair temarked at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board held on Wednesday, that he intended to introduce a series of resolutions dealing, with the relations of masters to pupil fibers. Many of tho masters, he said; had devolved their daiies^in this $esp^ct*on to their first assistants, aud the Board : would havtk fti^tey^ dow ; n definite lines upon winch mnsters would Under the. English system headmasters were required to?' give pupil teachers twio detinite courses every week. ; The "■ Shaftesbury Settlements," so called, were tracts of land purchased m and around London by the late Earl of Shaftsbury, and covered with neat «md low-rented cottages for the benefit of working. people. The little hamlets are provided with public halls, schoolrooms, co-operative; stores,* and other benefits, all the work of t»V (( good earl 11 as the people loved to call him. I . A liberal brewer once built a churoti at his sole - .expense, , but :the stone-en • graver cut the stone which 'was "to immortalise the brewer's name with "Built by-r*f his soul's expense." j In a paper ' read before" th ! e French Academy of Sciences it was mentioned that a man 50 yearn of age sleeps away an aggregate «f 6,000 days, works away „ the same period, eats -away 2 ,000^-days, walks away 800* days, and is ill 50b days.'* "■■'•' v * :■■ * ■ | ,- A. workman .employed m repairing the roof of theiiiail at th r e West London District Sohools, near Stuines, > discovered a man m the' space between the roof and the ceiling. The man stated that he had lived there for several years, lyti^g concealed daring the day arid at' qight prowling about the rooms m search of food, |a quantity of which was found, near him, as well as a dark lantern. The loft w4b m a draadful condition, the man havirig made no effort to keep it clean . A hole bad been made, so that the - : mitn could see what was going on m the dining-hall beneath ; and access to the ; attic w^s gained by an iron ladder fixed to the outside wall. ■■■•<■■< \