LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1638, 18 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The third antiualstibw of the Wood ville HorticuHuraT and Industrial Society 'is to be held at ■ the Wood villa ■ school' house on Saturday. . ■ .■ ■> i At- thef Wellington R; M.Gourta fe> days ago twa small boy a . were charged with Bte a |i n g oq Q ue e n 'g .wharf 7 poaches, valued at, Is, the property, 6t the Harbor Board. The accused pleaded. '^^guilty^i 'Thfd :'..- o&a9 wa^ brought into Court withi the object ; that the putushment inflicted on the ypung--Btera, might detor other .boys, ,the robbery of fruit on the wharves being a common occurrence. Mr Wardel.l at first ordered the boys to receive 12' strokes each 1 with' a bircb' rod, but altered this subsequently to the ootitn of •X;lo<rfine. tThe father^ of one' bl th ! e Ms, was present, and elected to pay this, but" the other lad °waß detained in .custody till his father could be comthuriicated with. "'"'■»■' • - / MrE.tf. JelHcoe, solicitor, of Wellington, is offerihg 'jeifotf rew'ard for'evidence^vhich will convict the authors of false and defamatory repoptsx whjch He alleges haye bjeen circulating against .his reputation and character. <• ■ j :• Nelson papers state that there: will : be from that district. .1500 -Wales, : ofr hops forexpoit this seasou after supply itig local requirements. .. . ''.["'[ ;.' ',•-'• r Aftenthe hearing of the totalizator case in Wellington, [this, ljttlevnureery rhyme was tound on the floor of the Court f-r ,«. , ' ..- --' i Daniel Dark "' - Went to the Park To make a pot of money, But when he got thar, • . Harry. Lyon said" Bah ! - i Not if J. lenows It^sonny 1") 'Dart is the name of the plafntltf, and Lyon is secretary of the Racing Club. Mr Glover cansed contidorable amusement in the course of hit lecture in Wellington, wjjen mentioning some experiences of his in "tfye Qld' Cquntcy. He was [at Bnghton iphjen things were'rither bad tor the working man, and he saw there a gang of .men parading the Btreets: singing: as: they^eut the doleful ditiy, " We've got not work to do-o-o !" A charitpbly dispoaed friend ot his<ga've these men soin 1 ) moijey, and thence, the lecturer, watched . them. They went straight to a tobacconist «hop, where* he afterwards ascertained they bought a pound of tobacco and shared it amongst themselves, they then went straight to a pubile house, from which they nevercame out till every penny was expended. They then continued their march along the streets to the tune of " We've got no work to do-o-o-o I" and, it might be, added, they didn't want any. On" another occasion this friend of his offered these men two days' work ia his garden and their food while working, but I they refused tho offer, saying that was I uot the kind of work they (wanted ; iye't 1 they paraded the streets advertising that'they could get no work to do; ' '^