The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1641, 22 February 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY. ) The Oldest Daily N ewspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Berut Albert . Ameaon, settler; of Palmerston North, has become naturalised. " • William Henrjr Thompson, bettor known as '• Zulu Tbompß6ij;" v piinorama proprietor, has filed a declaration of insolvency m Wellington. It would! appear thatjgi ving away suites of furniture, silver watches, tea aud coffee services^ &c, £c, does- not pay. ' .-•; '-. Mr D. Crewe has sold the Pahiatua Hotel to Mr W. Stewart, of Tahoraite, the price beiug £2,300. Tho-transa'ction was oonducted through Messri Siau and McGratb. — Examiner. ! i | Out of forty-three persons sunimoned for the recovery of rates-iu Welliiigtdn forty on • paid the atnpunte claimed into Court before the" li^aring of the [cases 1 came on. ' i ..: Over the whole Palmer distribt the' loss of stock by the blacks has been very large (says the Palmer Chronicle^, and is. owing to their only being one dbtachment of native troopers for the whole district. At Strathleven several valuable horses are missing, while cattle: have been scattered m all directions. In one place five bullocks were found dekd, all speared, and m another the hoofs iof fifif teen were seen. In -some instances the bon§s were buried, showing a desire on the part of the slaughterers to hide! their crime. Mr Nicholson informs us he catne across a bull, 15 niiles ..from the homestead, almost mad, as well hejmight be with the awful burden he had to bear.. It was the dead and putrid bodyolababy blaclc, iippajed, on the- horns of the beast. How Jong it had been there is a mystery, but it ultimately dropped off. It is supposed the blacks surrounded the cattle, when the bull charged,- and m breaking away dashed through the threatening circle, 'gbrins: the child, and bearing it away to a horrible death. Under the heading of '^Praying for rain," the Manaia correspondent of the Wangariui Herald writes: — While the Stratford fires were raging, a would-be weather prophet, from Normanby, gave notice of a meeting to 'b& held at the corner of Nolan's , saleyard here m prder to pray for rain. The prophet was there* to time* and a number of e;rown up ]arrjkins, provided 1 Sjfeith /a ! quantity Qf decayed eggs, alsp dh hand. : had the opening sentence been uttered wben the eggs, not tfre rain, f^ilji' and snjote the prophet, and ran down urjpn his beard, and he retired, amid the order of abything but sanctity. In tuture he will probably do. his prayine m private.