LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1676, 5 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The subject of next-Sunday's Lyceum address is advertised, viz., Nature v. Orthodoxy. A literal error occurred m Mr Hankin's letter which appeared m Saturday's issue which we hasten to ' Correct. The (sentence. " hearing of the presented form", should have read " heading ot the printed form." Some ladies of easy virtue were brought up at Wan can vi 011 charges of occupying houses of ill- fame, and fitted. In the course of; evidence the 'police denied having advised the accusedftogo to Palmerston as a suitable field of operation. We certainly Want no such charackers here. • One of the absurdities of the present railway tariff was brought forcibly under our notice yesterday. A Feilding farmer, Mr Simpson, on Lee's line, arranged the sale of a quantity of grain to be delivered at Fordell station. On making: enquiry at the station aa to the charges; he was informed that the charge to Kordell would be 9s7d per tou, but if he sent it to Wnnganui— l2 miles further on— the charge would be only Ba9d per ton,—Sfeer. r '< The Auckland Star says t^ It may be said without flattery that no New ; Zealand statesman possesses a more unblemished' record, or one clearer, of charges of self -seeking, than Major At- ; kinson." • - • ./ - . I A paper giving. An account of Toulouse, inirlance, skys :—•? It is a large [ town, containing sixty thousandinhabi- , lants built<ntirely of brick I" ; This is • equalled only by a. well-known description of Albany^. which runs thus:—'.'Albaby is a city of eight thousand inhabitants with most of their gable ends to : the street-!"' ' - • ;.!. •••: \ :.: [:] /- :• . : Mr Brown, who' is acting as solicitor; : for Sir William Fox, has obtained an ex- ■ tension of time for filing tho pleadings le the action brought by MrS. S. Dowries of the Pier Hotel. The ordinary time allowed 1 is seven days ; but His Honor, considering the large amount claimed as damages, granted an extension for three! weeks. The case will not, therefore, eorae on for trial at the next Bitting of the Supreme Court. . A Wellington paper has the following:! — r; All Fools' Day" (Thursday last) was not allowed to pass by without several practical jokes. It is said that a well known amateur uatuialißt received an intimation by teleDhono to forward some katipos for the inspection of the Mayor and Councillors, and that he complied by sending a few m a bottle to the Cor- ( poration chamber, much to the surprise of the officers. , The list of J.P's m New, Zealand is getting deininished monthly 'month :— It is notified iv the Gazette that Mr J. Duthie and the Hon Mr Holmes, have, m accordance with section 21 of th« Jus-, ttces of the Peace Act Amendment Bill,; ceased to be Justices of the Peace. The resignations of Mr J. R. Gard, Picton, and Mr John Barlow, Otago, as Justices are also 'accepted. This is a specimen of how one Woirarapa p'aptr "goes for" another : — " It darn not offend ; it dared not speak out; it has no voice ; all it can do is to bellow, and mingle the froth of the tap room with the dry hash of a stale dinnet. It is as dead now as trussed goose awaiting the stuffing. The stuffing is already prepared against the coining election. The electors can smell the flavour. They know tho nasty ingredients; Hot sauce forth* working man's candidate, and tap-room jam for the rich and wealthy. We can excuse the feelings of our contemporary. It is distressing and aggravating that we should dare to offend a little Carterton clique, while he has to scrape, bow, and cringe to the Grey town shopkeeper to buy his rag for butter wrappurß. But we have a soul above the newsboy politioal parasite, that must crawl like a legless bqggnr to get a few stray coppers from} a benevolent and disgusted public." . How this style of journalism m»st delight readers, e»pociaUy tboas oi: refined sausi-,, bilities, j

Sporting men are reminded that nominations for the Wanganui Steeplechase close on the 6th, and for the Derby on the Bth. y TheSydnty Morning TLcrald i« of opinion that Mr Bryce, by his prosecution of fiusden, has earned the thanks of colonists m every part of the Empire. Messrs Walker and Hatrick, Waaganui agents for the Anchor Line, have received W">rd from Nelson to the effect that ilie Charles Edward, which left Wanganui trecently for that port, met with heavy weather m the Straits. She lost her fore-top anfl'maihmast, and" the rigging and sails had to be cut adrift for the sttfetv of the vessel. She is now m Nelson being repaired, and will be there for some time.