The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1678, 7 April 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The N.Z.S. Co's barque Morecambe. Bay, arrived m Wellington on Sunday. • Grapeß are now selling m Wanganui at 6d a pound. Jurors for the Palmeraton sitting- of the District Court will be drawn; at Wanganui at noon to-morrow, '■■ Willian Henry Chitliam, commonly known at " the sporting barbar," has " filed hii shovel." 1 r - - Lind has been sold m the suburbs of ) Feilding at 20 an acre. The Kimbol ton- road school was examined for the first time by Mr Bindon, on March 25. The result was vary satisfactory., ■■ The novel spectacle of a swagsman reading a New Testament to lighten his weary journey, was seen on the Awahuri road on Saturday. — Star. ....... Tiie present system of sendingdelayed telegrams has proved so satisfactory that the Government intend permanently to adopt it. The meeting of the Manchester Road Board called for Saturday laar, lapsed for want of a quoi'tiiu, and was adjourned till Saturday next. : '-'i .';., Owing to their ordinary sale day falU ing on Good Friday, Messrs BeckettHammond, & Dick li^ decided to hold their uext sa|e: at thn t)iub Yards, Marton, on Friday, 16th instant. Already a good number of entries have been received. Further entries are solicited. The Palmersjton Musical and Dramatic Society have engaged the, Feilding Public Hall, for the evening o£ Easter Mou,dky. The programme will be published sliortly. Our readen will remeiiiber what a briliant success this taleibted company achieved here a few months ago. — Star. .. • The following political items reclipped from Auckland exchanges :— lt is probable that Sir Julius Yogel will shortly address a Wellington meeting. A requisition is being signed asking him to do so heiore .the . session. It is said that Sir William Fox intends to stand for a Nelson seat at the general election. Mr Wakefield has been morn than once spoken of as likely to present himself to the electors of Gladstone to succeed Captain Sutter. . Sir Julius Vo?el intends to establish- a system of return post cards, by which answers can be sent back on the same card without additional cost. The Property Tax valuation for the City of Wellington, exclusive of Government and Coßf/oration property, amounts to •£•3,697,864, and Government aud Corporation property to £1,123,964. '. A number of native chiefs, who have not been ,m Auckland since the war m 1863, have been subpoencd as defendants and witness m the criminal libel case raised by Mr Fraser. Special attention is directed to ah altered advertisement inserted m this issue by Mr J. D. Fraser. The Palmerston Bakery is we are glad to notice I coming to the front by keeping a stock of only the very best articles and selling them at reasonable prices. Thp variety ot novelties imported lately by Mr Fraser is something wonderful and really well worth inspection, almost everything conceivable is turned out m chocolate creams, and fruits of all kinds are to be had m crystal ized form tastily made up m fancy boxes and suitable for the decoration of any table. The manufacture of goods BDecialtv ordered still receivos the personal supervision of the proprietor whose name is now pretty well known ai representing a first-class tradesman.

M. de Lessepß is as " pleased as Punch" at the birth of his little twelfth. He declares that the new corner is the finest child of any to which his wife has yet given birth, and that its weight was quite phenomenal. A good deal of laughter was caused by the announcement of the birth. On the Bourse it caused Panama to rise 5 francs at a bound. The idea there was that Mdc Lesseps is going to live to a hundred; as lie said he would on his last birthday; At the R.M. Courtj Waitnata, the other day, a larrikin named Swan, 19 i years of ago, was fined £2, with the | option of seven days' imprisonment, for having created a disturbance at a public entertainment. The arresting constable said that when the accused was taken " he began to cry and plead for mercy " on account of his mother. What becomes of the ballot papers atter an election ? In England, on being counted, they are sealed up m packets by the returning officer, and sent to a Government office m London. There, m their sealed packets, they are kept locked up for twelve months, and then burnt by the clerk of Court of Ohancery. Without the counterfoil ballot book and the register of voters none can tell who marked a particular ballot paper ; and, <as these are not produced at the counting of the votes,' the secrecy of the ballot is absolute. Should, however, a petition be presented against any return, m which* the petitioner claims the seat, then the ballot papers may be ordered to be examined during the year before being burnt, but m that extreme case alone is an examination possible. Thomas Gibson, formerly Town Clerk' at Pctone, was brought up to Welling-' ion on Sunday m charge, of Constable Doyle, of Dunedin, on two charges of. forgery m 1884. He was remanded from Balclutha to Wellington. A man named Alfred Jardirie, who was formerly employed at the Wellington Museuni, and afterward m the Torpedo Corps, was found m a shed at the | back of the frewtown Eldtel, Wellington on Sunday, with a bottlo of " Rough on Rats" m his hand, and some of the powder on his moustache. Constable Stewart who was sent for, took Jardine to the Hospital. |Dr Hassall advised that he should be taken to the lockup, and a medical man sent for -m case vomiting set m. Jardine, who appeared to be sufiering very much from the effects of drink, showed no symptons ot poisoning after being removed to the lockup;

C. M. Boss & C 0. ,, The Bon Marche, announce the Arrival and Opening of their New Goods for Autumn and Winter and solicit early Inspection thereof. Orders for the Dressmaking and Millinery Departments should he placed early. C. M.-BOSS & Co., The Bon Marche.