The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1625, 3 February 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland lodged i-8000 m the Munster Bank a few days bef 01 eit failed. The Christchurch bootmakers strike is over. The scarcity of tortoishell tom-cats is evidently no mere popular error. A show of cats was opened lately at the Albert Palace, London, and, although nearly every other feline variety was represented, the only one tortoishell toni promised for exhibition was conspicuous by his absence. The other day at Stavelly, England, a man -killed a rat with his teeth and then ate it, skin and all, for a wager of a quart of beer. ... The races oi the Takapuna (Auckland) Jockey Club were held on Saturday. Hurdle Race— Tip, I ; Tim, 2. Anni: versary Handicap— Mydtery, 1 ; Mitrailleuse, 2. Takapuna Cup— Victoria, 1 ; Mystery, 2 ; Victory, 3. SteeplechaseMiss Griffiths, 1 ; Quill, 2 ; Alaric, 3. Mr T. W. Glover, the temperance lecturer, arrived m Wellington by the s.s. Tongariro, to fulfil a three years 1 engagement with the Temperance Alliance of New Zealand. Sir William Fox and Mr A. Levy, secretary of the local branch of the alliance, went on .board and welcomed Mr Glover and family to New Zealand, and agreed that Mr Glover should go on by the Tongariro to Auckland, to assist the temperance party m the forthcoming licensing elections. . - People who hold official positions should be caiejul how they flash cham pague about at public demonstrations, unles they are prepared to pay the I piper. There is a little account travel r ling round just now,' at which everybody looks askance, and the responsi bilitv for which it is feared will yet have to fixed by Mr Robert Ward.— Chronicle. In Invercargill water, owing to the lung drought, is retting scarce, and several mills have stopped for want of it for the boilers. The lessee of the stone quarries at Greenhills, five miles from the Bluff, applied for the freight from the Bluff waterworks for water. The quotation for the five miles was 19s per four tons, the freight of the quarried stone over the same distance being 7s 6d for five tons. The bishop of Winchester has lately explained to the inhabitants of Farnhain that if all the property of the church were taken away, it would only give one farthing and a half per week per head of the population. . This would give a labourer with a wife and six children threepence per '"'week or thirteen shillings per annum. The Auckland temperance party, who scored such a decisive victory m the licensing elections m 1884, and whose candidates were, allowed to walk over last year, are to have strenuous opposition this time. The publicans, brewers, and wine and spirit merchants have at last rallied, and are detennftied to make a fight of it, while the temperance party have already announced their platform of " no compromise," and are putting their candidates quickly into the field. There is an Asylum m .Berlin for overworked and disabled horses, under the managenientjof a veterinary surgeon, a cavalry officer, and a fanner. The grounds have an excellent pasture land, clay and moor patches, water and bathing facilities, &c. . A singular occurrence is reported from Napier, Holland. A haud on board the Union Company's steamer Boojum, is lying m a critical condition m the hospital. He is suffering from severe burns, the appearances indicating that they are oil burns. He cannot tell how he came by his injuries, and some strange reports about the affair are car* rent. . The Napier Herald states, on the authority of a Christchurch correspondent, with reference to the " severed hand mystery," that the hand was identified soon after it was found as the hand of a Bhoemaker who had died at a Volunteer review a few days before. The authorities were informed of the circumstance, bat apparently no steps have been taken to verify the information. Mr Albert Barns, of Wang-anui, m conjunction with Messrs Hogan and Co., have determined to institute periodical wool auctions, and hides and produce sales, m Wanganui. The inaugural sale is announced for the 12th instant The sales will be held at Messrs Hogan and Co.'s wool stores, Taupo Quay.