The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated in the Marton paper that the Emigrant 'arid Colonist's' Aid Corporation have just sold 6,6004cres of land ' at the Waituna end of the Manchester Block to Mr John Man son, of Palmerston, at a satisfactory price. Father Kirk, of Wanganui, acted as master of ceremonies at the reception given to Cardinal Moran in Wellington. ' With respect to trout in the Wariganni Biver.Mr J. G. Wilson states 'that the Natives recently caught a trout, nine inches loug, in the river near Bulls. According to the latest official statement'published .by the authorities of /Russia, there nre in. that country not less'than 14,000 square miles .of oilproducing lands. !: One thousand four hundred chickens Were killed in a hailstorm on a poultry farm, uear Brisbane. It is understood to be the Queen's pleasure that the jubilee of her reign should not be celebrated until the com* pletion of fifty years from her accession. That period will be accomplished on 20th -June, 1887. It is reported (says Truth) \ that the Duke of Edinburgh has resolved to play no more eolos in public, sypd that he* has been brought to this .resolution by the: criticisms passed upon his" violin-play-ing by the press. , The Official Assignee is carrying on the diorama of the Zulu war in the insolvent estate of the late proprietor,. A second dividend of 4d in the <g" has been declared in the estate of W. Waring Taylpr. The steamer Hanroto, which left Wellington on Saturday nighf; for Sydney, had 123 hordes, 47 head pf cattle, 10 pigs, and 650 tons of cargo on board, shipped from the South. She also took in a quantity of produce at' Wellington. The pain and injury from bee stings is quickly cured by onion juice. Cut an onion in two and apply one-half over the part as soon as you can after being stung. . Mr Charles Mclver, the founder of the famous Cunard Line of Atlantic steamers, died at Malta on Deo, 30, ,at the age of seventy-four. / We learn from the Wellington papers that Messrs Johnston and Co., agents for the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company are prepared to issue return jtickets from Wellington to London, available for nine months, first class £105, second class £55. Passengers taking second class tickets receive cabin passages to Melbourne by the Union (Company's steamers, and the psssengers have the option of going to Sydney via Auckland or to Melbourne via Bluff. , At the inquest on the late Dr T. G. ,Carr, the Dhrenologist, the evidence showed that he admitted taking the drug, and expressed an opinion that he would be dead in a few hours. Mr M'Kee stated that .the deceased ' pur chased ten grains of morphia at his shop. The jury decided thai death resulted from the effects of morphia, but they were unable to say whether the deceased contemplated sjiioidey or nwely took ty« drug to alfoyiaie piiq,