The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1886

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 , 1886

A stamped addressed letter, ' the envelope having been opened and the stamp partially, torn off, haaboen fouud" and can* be obtained at this office, J The envelope: bears the following address "Miss M. Groves, The Close Blandfprd, DoVse't, England." " "* Constable Motley, of WopdviUe, having preferred resignation to removal and Dutch promotion, has now taken n position* at the focal dairy factory. Constable Motley was the Recipient of a presentation when leaving the charge ofVVoodville district.- ... " ! - • The Marton water supply is not ..an unmixed bl easing. A correspondent m the Marton paper writes as follows : — I think, it is time that the Marton Borough Council began to prepare the necfssnry facilities for enabling householders to connect their premises tyith; the.. water mains. It is rather, to bad toa have to pay a heavy rale and uot get the .water." At the Wellington Police .Court -..on. Tuesday, Henry Pmith, alias Tiddle a ink and Benjamin 'Steven," we're "charged with having played the <•? three 'card j trick " -on the Hntt Racecourse ' on ' Saturday last.. They were each fined £10, m default p <c. mouths imprisonment, with hard labour. ' ' '„' ' The S.S. and A. Co.'s steamer Coptic, which loft Lyttleton on the 23rd Decent? . b«r, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday last, after a passage of 46 days. Her frozen meat was m good condition. The present year ish not yet six| weeks old, (says the jfysty yi»t jfbur ;seri«us accidents'. have| been reported on tthe * RSilwSy. * * Tlie following rather suggestive advertisement appears im the Wellington Yost : — " I deny .having enquired as to /the- late: Miss Bushnell!», ilio^fse", and » what is more; Ido not want it ; and if I ) hear any more of the scandal going on' \ between certain young ladies m Wellington.l will take legal proceedings. I am, &c, Mrs. G. H., Wellington, 9th Feb.,. 1886. . : ..,.:.-. The following death announcement is m a contemporary :— " Burgess^— At the residence of her daughter, Mrs H. S. Barret Sunderland, .South . ; Glanorcdy, Bobart, Mary Ann Burgess, aged 87, who was kpown for her readiness to alleviate the snftorings of— others r - and whose reflections through life enabled her to approach the grave as the natural and inevitable goal of mortal existence. " All who live must die, passing from nature to eternity.'? v She was the only daughter of P*ter M'Guirp, and arrived with. her father and his regiment m Now South Wales m 1802. In 1806 they were taken with/fr|e "people and other military pensioners, from Njew ScTqth/Wales to form'the/new settlomenU viz., Van Dietnen's Eandl ® \.?- A painter of the " impressionist " school is now 11^ | lunatic asylum. "To all persons who visit his -studio he says, " Look here ; this is the latest inaster-piece^of my composition." They Jook, and seeing nothing but an expanse of bare canVae, they ask, " What does that represent ?" '• That ? Why that represents the passage of the Jews through the Red Sea." " Beg pardon, but where is the jsea ?" "It has been driven back." "And where are the Jews ?" " They have crossed over." And the .Egyptians ,V\ . " V^ill Be h'eref directly. That's t the iso : rt ! of painting I like ; simple, suggestive, and unpretentious." On Sunday last a man who gave the name ot John Jones alias Toomey, was arrested at Pahautanui by Constable Duncan for making use of obscene language to several persons m the yijliage. He was k«pt m custody until, ilonday morniug, when he was brought before Mr Bradey, Justice, to answer the charge. ; One of the witnesses, Mr Stace sen., a settler, m the district,"*. wot about" 'to give his. evidence, wlfen tHe { prisoner flew at the witness and struck him a ? Bevere Mow on the face. The blood flowed freely on- to the' 1 floor" of V the Court, and the blow, seemed., to stupify Mr 'Stace, who was removed from the Court. Constable Duncan at once collared the prisoner, and placed the handcuffs on him. The man behaved in' a y most determined and hardened ■ manner. ; The Bench sentenced the prisoner to a term of six months! imprisonment for' using obscene, language, and also three, months' for committing 'the assault m; Court, making l a alt / a term of ...nine, inontlis' imprisonment with hard labour. —Post. '. ". ' ■"'," ',' .'',''