LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1649, 4 March 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

:; , : . ■ ■ ■ ..,.♦■ —.- • ' "\ ;. For the Otaki Licensing Gom'mittee Messrs Cootos, Taipua, Simcox, Small and Kebbell has beifti returned. Taipua is a Native chief of excellent repute. It is now looked upon as a certainty that the Etster encarapraent of tl»e Volunteers will be held at Oarnaru, t *c tents having arrived. : A father and son brought befoie the Magistrate at Christchurch, charged with riftting trout m the Selwyn, were fined £25 and £5 respectively. Pretty dear fish. During the two days' racing at Dunedin £22,979 was put through the tbtalisators. Of course a good proportiou of the flame ; money goes , through -the machint* several times. We learn that Mr C. B. Izard has definitely decided to contest the • election for the Foxton S9at once more. The Evening Press denies the state* raent that the Miss Cameron whose 1 death was mentioned m our previous issue had been pkcod iv charge of a female lunatic who had attempted suicide. .'..:..'.•■.. The Wanganui Herald approves of Sir Macarthur's scheme of Local Government. ■ The Tost considers there is little doubt Ministers will ask the Governor to permit au immediate appeal to the country. A meeting of the Cabinet wjli be held this week. We (Advocate) hear that Mr Manson has get a lease of that portion of the Kawakawa reserve, Feilding, lately m the occupation of Mr James Whisker. The lease is for two years, with a purchase clause at ten guineas per acre. We understand that it is- Mr Manson's intention to break up the whole of the land at once. .