LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1650, 5 March 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, Several exchangs referring/ to^ the annular eclipse of the sud; which" took place this, morning used, the; v, term: annual. The word annular meafts pertaining to or having the form of a ringj branded or marked with circles dots, &c. But the event is not of yearly occurrence. :. The thermometer m Woodville, according to the Examiner a few days ago ran up to 125 m the sun, and 90 m the shade; What kind of a glass was it? " ; We remind the ratepayers of No 2 Ward of the meeting convened-by Cr West this evening at 8 p.m.. at the Borough office to discuss matters m con nection with private streets. A suburban! swell m Sydney was going out m his carriage to make some calls with his wife, the other day, when h? discovered that he had left the visit ing cards behind. He ordered his foptmjan, recently came intb) his service, to go to the mantelpiece m his sitting-room and bring the cards be would see there. The fellow did as.he was directed,- and subsequently left ; a ;Card wherever \o<* •not at home' occurred.. A«i thfS9 were very numerous, (he „wasi shortly asked, ' How many cards have you left? 1 « Well, sir.' said the footman innocently, 'there's the king of spaces' the six of hearts, and the ace of clubs.' 1 The deuce 1' exclaimed his master. ' That's gone, sir,' said John. Said a magistrate to an actress : •Your: Profession, mademoiselle ?' •Artiste.' «Your age? 1 ' 'Twenty-two.' 1 Usher, you can now swear the lady to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, — so help your " On a. bailiff named Thornhill making' his appearance at Caheragh, Skibbereen, county .Cork, horns were immediately sounded and ~a large crowd soon collected. The bailiff was stoned and ■ kidked and he would hare received iatal injury but for the timely arrival of the police. There was an annular •eJipse of the sun, viable to the greater, portion of New Zealand as a partial .eclipse, this morning. On August 29th' at 11.30, there will be a total eclipse; of' the sun but it will not be visible m New Zealand. : In connection with putting an • export i duty on timber, a contemporary says :— Victoria did, the same thing with red gum some years ago, putting an export duty on the timber, the result was the lose of the export trade to India and elsewhere, the killing of the industry, and financial ruin to Echuca, a town of about the same size as Napier.