LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1634, 13 February 1886, Page 2

LOC AL AN D GENE RAL.

I The Jane Douglas will, lea v$ for Weljlington to-iiigli't-^t midnight. ( • v j , Special attentiop.Js directed to Mr jJjanVes^iMilier 8 advertisement; before" the leSair/a'nnßuncin^iiiß starjtihgin "Hiisi-! neßS'asa'getfferarilotekee^er. ' ; > "■ ' .At the, Lyceum to-jnprrpw.,.eyening, X sMiss^asy BrCHs^a^'.tlfe eioqdenr jan'd a'dbbinp'l i^hed 'young' recturess.'wilV 1 jdeliver her final lecturel-siißjecti " : The l iVirgin Mary, or The Immaculate Lily |of Isra^l.'^ (tybljxi open ; at 7.30 p'ljn. I The secretary of the Wanganui Acclipatisation Society is. endeavouring to •get the Hawera, Mariawatu, Napier, nnd Wellington Societies to combine m order to haye 1 the <snopsih.g Sbaspnft extenHed lover, the 'same pdfiod m al^disfcriotfs^bßlieving that it would be to the interest p£ all true sportsmen. , . ;.■ . ' The honor of oem? the first European lady to penetrate into the heart of the long sealed-up King Country belongs jCsavs Uie ? Waxkato ,%imes) to .Mrs v C,amleroV^Ve'wffe of Mr'V . M^Cnmero'n,' |ABBißtant Engineer, Public Works Department. She > .accompanied 4 . her husand and party eighty miles into the interior, crossing the big tunnel hill, and going- ten ihile's beyond; 1 : }&i tnp native 'settlement of Maramataha she was accorded a most hearty receptiod by the nativeß, to whom . the face of a, white, woman is a sight &l once rare ans (delightful. \ „ X I A colored man ance applied at one of tke New Yo ; rk sarings banks where hehad a deposit, and whence he wished to draw a dollar. The. polite clerk informed him that the i.rpn rulo of the in?' stitution forbade, the withdrawal of a less sum than three dollars. Sambo meditated for a few minutes, and then said, *' JSar, Til take the free" dollars!" The three dollars were paid to him, j tarhen he atimce added, " NoW, ! oaf, if ■' please, Bar. I'll 'posit twp dollars m de\ | instit titidri." The amount was : duly re| i c^iTed and credited to, hia, account, when^ j with his one dollar ..in „ hiis pocket, jj.». 1 j. avelhe clerk a sly wink, and walkei \ fiway whistling, " Qatch, a weae»l asleep '