LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1661, 18 March 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Beckett, Hammond, & Dick'i stock sale at the Club saleyards, Marton, will take place to-morrow, commencing at ope o'clock . • ■ . Tlie usual weekly rehearsal of the Choral Society will be held this evening. ; /• - . .; •; .:...;", ; : {'I ; ' A summoned metting of Court Man aj wattr, A.O.F. No 5655, will bo held m the Court- room, oh Tuesday, March 30th, at 7.30. Business : — Payment of contributions ; payment for two quarters: |to BenevoUnt Fund ; and general. „• are made to the catalogue of Messrs Beckett, Hammond, & Dick's stock sale at the Club Yards, Marlon, to take place to-morrow. < _. " ' Messrs Beckett, Hammond,. & pick, advertise for sale a first-class agricultural and crazing farm, w containing about 110 acres, and situated about 'if miles from Marton. -> s SVJe remind; the tVoluntoerg. that the following District Orders have been issued;: — Rangltikei Mounted Rifles, Rangitikei Riflss, Manchester Rifles, and Palirierstpn North; Rifla Volunteers will parade for inspection by,_Hon-. Colonel Sir G. S. Whiunore, K.G.M-G, Inspector of Volunteer Force, ou Saturday, the 20th: March, at 11 a.m, m "Review Oo•Or'der" (Mounted Rifles to be fully equipped. Members are particularly directed to paragraphs 191 and 102 Volunteer regulations. ' . '' At a meeting on Monday evening, the Bulls School Committee decided to vote for Messrs. Ross, Fry, and Audrey at the election for Beats on the Board of Education. . ; The plain, common sqnse, talked by the member for Manawatu m, his ; address at Paimeraton, has attracted much favorable comiQerit. - The latest that we have seen is m the Auckland Herald. ': The FeUding, School Comihittne have decided to vbtii for Messrs Carson, Ross, and ' Fry, for the three vacancies on the Education Board, The ratepayers of Feilding having failed to elect a Licensing Committee for the Borough of Feildiug the following gentlemen havo been appointed. by .-ike.poyeroor': — Messrs J. H. Higgin, George Kirton, D. H. Macarthur, H. Rutherford, and H.L. Shenvill. \ye hear from WelHngtbhy from au authentic source, that Ministers did not ask His Excellency straight out for, a dissolution, but that they made enquiry as to what answer they^would receive if ; they did jask fbr the House ttf be f dis'-s/ solved. ' The result was that they did not apply 10 the Governor, because fif they had done so and were refused, their resignations must have followed a8 a; matter course.— Napier Telegraph.Writes a diptrict correspondent of the, Waipawa Mail :-^Thr«e out of the four' young men accused: of stealing fruit out of an orchard .were brought before Captain Preecej on his last visit (Wednesday), the other lad having lelt the disttjict; they were fiued £2 each. A: shocking discovery was made m. Birmingham on December 23. A baker, whojhadjeft his shop because of the pressure of his creditors, had locked up several birds, a horse and other animals m the premises, and on tho place being entered it wastpuo'd that the birds were dead, *he hofso was reduced to a skeleton, and the other animals were m a shocking condition, having had no food for nearly a week. ;•

: The fifth; annual meeting of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company will be held' at lha 'Chamber 1 of .XJomrne.rce <, pn .the SlsCinstaut.-jTyrQ diroctorS— Messrs G. V. Shannon an<P j? Plimmer— retire, and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. P; ;. •/ A respectable-looking man named James Lawrence was arrested at Otaki on Tuesday on a charge of swindling. He put an advertisement m the Lyttleton •' Times oftoring to sell sewing machines for 2s 6d. The machines on delivery turned out to be common sewing needles. He has been doing a large business.

Fifty-three of the Christchurch unemployed were on board the steamer Pellijam, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesdayevening. from the South arid sailed at midnight for Greymouth. The men are to be employed m the construction of tho Greymouth and Hokitika Railway. A Wellington paper hears the passen-ger-fares earned by the Tougariro on her last Homeward trip exceeded £7000 ; and the Aorangi,^ which leaves i^ext month, has long had all her berthg preengaged ; while the Rimutaka, on her l&st patward tripi alojoe; ; 'made ; no less than- s in J passa'ge-insne'y," exclusiye of all freights, &c. .The steamer Hauroto, which left -Wellington for Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, had on board 99 horses, 60 ..head of cattle, and 1120 tons cargo, shipped at Southern ports. She took m , about 90' tons of^ cargo at ' Wellington, chiefly consisting of produce. A passenger" by«shV train sayf 1 tlirle M smart" gentlemen fleece two noobres of £6 between Napier and Hastings. An interesting game called the "three card trick" was the cauie of the money being circulated. The passenger pointed out the sharpers to th« polioe ;' they had three friends making six m all, but as he did not wish to give evidence, they wero not arrested. In these days of civilisation it is simply astounding that young men should allow themselves to De inveipled into playing at cards with ■crangers m railway carriages. — Waipawa Mail.