LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1672, 31 March 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ ; ' iiertri Wiolleruian arid Hutcheson are' advirti'sing "Ine^amples of 'chick wheat '■fdrifleiv .•••!;; .: • •»;■».?, >: J4^.- ,•*;-.; „j v The ManaWatu Bbad Board are m viting tenders for- the construction [of two bridges, also for metalling cantracts. It has now transpired that there was riafouhaitiontfor tiiVjregoTrit that t'he French Government had resolved upon sending 1000 recidivistei to New CJaledbni»;. fi i f }n^^ ' A. proposal been made that the system already m force with regar^i ito Canada of sending out English industrial school children as emigrants should 'be extended ? to ;the] A)ijstralian Colonies. vTjhe 7 Colonial Office" has, prpiHised ! to 1 consult ihe Govflrrimentsjb£lhe/ .various Austmlian colonies on, the subject with a view of ascertaining whether any objectibn^is ente.rta,ined;«gtinf t jthe proposal. , ;,,. , : ... iI .* i!f '"".* i ;, i : .. 1 New estimates ha^e ieen,prepar|d as to the cost, of buying the ■ estates of Irish Itndldrds m acoordnnoe with Mr" i Gladstone's laud purchase scheme. It i is now calculated that the expenditure ;,iri .connection with . ■(he vschome Dot exceed instead { of £150,000,000^8 preTiouoly etated. n ; In reply to • deputation frpicn the' Diinedin Amalgamated Carpenters, the Hon. Mr Stout said Government would on.no account encourage the immigration of aftiznas as cabled]; only farmeis ' with means would be assisted.

Gisborne Njßtiye h'ts file^his schedule. .'His debts amount^ to »352, Janata assets to' £7{ < " jp jj^^ s ;_.;«a^ A Gisborne telegram statMg tbat'M^ G^. TuHon, i Jawjre|i was foun|l IM^ fit;e>i soiiflSj Vraite grpand earjy ; on Mo'ndar tnorhing^ipd -sent to th« v Hoipitalc great trouble to control Him. \> The Railway Hotel, Hawgra, wai v dhi fc "' cotvered to be, on^fire a ,fe.vt^niornin« ■ago. " The fire -i)rlK»ated: id 4§i* f bftr. TtfrWtgin i#;%fff^pMfe. sup:" pressed before much damage had beea J /Thb building grant received by the s jWanganui Education Board this year v a'm;6tittts^b^32s9^wliic^-^i^ir^bT additional special grant., , ...-- --f iiEfiets&fen ptpsiCJils>t^B^bTfo ! winTK-J —For some years a sheep on Mr M'DonaldVfud at HoroWheatfa has always kept about « large s«ramp, and made, could never be caught. Last | J'^ek-a^arty went out deUnnined, £o T aTe^the sheep or its' fleece, and a^fter some considerable ''trouble 1 the anintal #as captured. Th« i sheep, Which turned oiit -to 'be a cross bred Lincdlnpao'd merino ofrmediunv .sizeji was. v quickly, shorn, when the fleece, which was of a surprisingly, rich, clean' colour, f rrt f rom dirE) WdVVrong ' lnWlßpje, taVnftd Hhe scale at 301 bs ! A couple of samples of the, fleece, one washed and the qthe^-jn iti oVigi n^l ; state, -have* be*ri ' forwarded to the office, aud can bo inspected by ahybWfe^iing''ti^

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