LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1645, 26 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The time for receiving tenders for formation m Burke-street has been extended to.Thursday next. Specißcatibns can be seen at Standabd office. 'The lowest or any tender will not necessar : ily be accepted. ... - ~ - The date of Mr Green wood V next vißit to Palmerston, is fixed' for Thursday, March 11. 'Wo- make room elsewhere for a con- ! nected narrative of the Dilke-Oawford case m which many of our readers have felt considerable interest.. . It is taken from the Napier Evening News, The Gisborne factory cheele is finding a market m Napier, large contracts for March, April, and May haying been accepted to deliver to a Napier firm during those months. ].'■■{ •A Kai-Iwi correspondent of the Wanganui jHergld says'the Canadian,4hTstle' has got -its foot-in his district; i This?ii said to be one of the worstof the thorns and thistles that Adam got the ground cursed wit!'. , ; : In going from Hastings to Havelock . the other day I could not help remarking, en passant,- that the! houses (shanties, I menu) that are being erected oh the land lately sold by Mr Tanner, will be anything but a credit to the town. It wpuld seem that J;he purchasers had sunk all their money m tlje land, and baye none left fco'buijd a decenj; house with, Froii> the Havelpck road the view is anything but pleasing. 4 casual observer would imagine that the back parts of the bouses are built first, and the front parts are m the prospective, -j-Correspondent of Napier Telegraph, v- -; The following cage ;*as heard at Queanbeyan before his Honor Judge M'Fariand j-«'(ialev f Haptor t^-Plaiq-tiff claimed £1 7s 6d., subscription to the Queanbeyan Age, and stated that he brought the action to test whether a subscriber could stop bis paper without paying all arrears. Defendant' bad given notice to discontinue the paper prior to the end of the quarter, ; but lie had failed to pay his subscription to that period? j ■-. He did, howeytr, p4y early. Jin the ensuing quarter, when he began to send his paper back through post and otherwise. Defendant's contention was that the plaintiff ought to have 'sent him his account before the end of the quarter, when he would have paid what was due. His Honor held that it was the defendant's place t}o have gone to the I plaintiff's office and ascertained and paid what was due, and not haying dove this, he was clearly liable for the amount claimed. He gave a verdict for the full amount." The Westport Times understands a company is about to be floated m that town for the manufacture of leather, boots, shoes, candles, soap and glue. It . is Anticipated that a capital of about £5000 will be necessary; and that ' the company will, when m full 'swing} employ between 60 and 70 boys as well as a large number of adults. ' The, Lyttelto^i Times says r^r-The already almost übiquitous humble bee ap-pears-to' Be", fulfilling the" mission for which he was imported to these shores 4-to wit, the fertilisation of clover. Yesterday morning Mr W. Blake, of the Avonheaxj farm, called on Mr Fair, Secretary of the AfloWpjafcis^tiQ^ Society, and informed him that a field ,of red clover, m which lie has m previous yeWrs been able to find but a small quantity ot see,d, a few m each head, is this season a perfect mass' of seed," each head^being completely full. Mr . Blake attributed this result to the humble 1 beesfwMb'n^ lie;- -. stated, have been seen m large numbers it) his paddocks. This fact it is considered, places the quest jqn of the utility of the hutiible bee beyond a doubt. -A? . proof of the extent to which this ihseot ■] is spreading himself over the land, it , may be mentioned that several specimens have been seen recently at Pleasant Point, and at Mr Enys' station at Cragieburne, eighty-six miles on the West Coast Road.