LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1622, 30 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. » I As Miss Tessy B. Chapman is to lecture' in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening ; the Lyceum will not be open, that members &c, may have an opportunity to attend. \ The Kaitangatt Relief, . Fund jnow ' represents something like '£ls,ooo, i ana its disposal will probably form \ the subject of legislation before long. | The total cost of the Marion .waterworks was about £6,250. ' ' " ' ' ! Tho Marton Borough Council pays an annual subsidy, to the local Fire Brigade of £25; -' --'"'■ < We learn that a large native ljneeting ia to take place at Otaki on thd j>th proximo. ._ \ ' ■ ■•'•' , The Marine;. Beparlment has give"n notice thai after the ! Ist ' of February there will be no signalman stationed at v the Bingitik'ei ißiver.v I«)l^ture, , pfoi yided notice ;is given at Poxtop, an officer will be aeritifi-an^ that station to guide vessels iato the river. ; According to M. Muntz, a celebrated French ohetnisr, who hasße'^n^ualysing the various kinds ;of w^afer, t the river, sea, rain, and, bhoW water all con Jtain more or less' alcohol. Only- pure ipring .water is free from 'it.' '• j ; A stationer residing' in Glasgow has been sentenced to fourteen days' 'impriajnment for sellinc: a' pajier called Tfie Freethinker. .■> \ ::,; „ . / . , ; ' The Maoris, who predicted the severe md unprecedented .drought from Which ;he Colony is 'now suffering, now • dejlare, from certain natural indications, hat there will be no rain until March. iVe fancy the Maoris are a little bit out q their predictions this time.