LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1629, 8 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A found axle cap is advertised for. A notice appears m this issue calling attention to the necessity of dog owners paying the registration fee, 7 : v ? The direct steamers Kailcoura, Tongariro, and Doric were,, all expected to bjs "m Wellingtorfßarbour yesterday. ""* ,„ .Bishop Barry, the Erimate of 4ji|tra» ' lia, was'to have' pfeacVed *it St. Paul's Church Wellington, last evening. Mr Isaac Selby was announced to lee- : tare m the ,. Wellington Lyceum last night, under the auspices ot the Wellington Secular Society, the subject announced was, "What think ye of Christ ? " A few y«arg ago who would have thought of seeing the great fighting chief Titokowaru m th« humiliating position of having his property seized for non-payment of debt.' A thrashing machine belonging to him was to have been sold by the bailiff at Hawera last Friday, unless debt and costs were previously paid. .■••...•;',;!.' , Large quantities of tea are being removed from bond m Sydney m expectation of increased duty. :;,,'■■■'■.:. The Napier Telegraph received no less than three identical telegrams concerning the suicide at Woodville. We received two. But then it is not every day such, a tragic incident brings .."WoodyiUe so prominently before the outside public. The death is announced at Melbourne of Alfred Silvester,'welliknow'n;ibrough--out the colonies as the Fakir of, Oolu. He was the first m this part of the world to 'introduce the trick ot the suspended lady. Several Maoris have contributed towards the relief of ithe burnt-out bush set-' ■ tiers.' • ..:..' •■■..,.•,.'•■ It is said there are now 80,000*000 sheep on the River Plate, and stiU increasing, . > •,.,-•'. town of Nelson . boasts of haying: ■ had only 28 wet days m the past 3(55. It is estimated by a competent authority,that at least £300,000 will be laid out m Wellington on buildings m. tlie year 1886. ■■■■•> Lake Rotorna has never been known to be as low as it is at present. ,