The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1679, 8 April 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Additional special entries are mode m the cataloguo for Messrs F. R. Jackso.r and Go's Saturday sale at the St H rn Street Sale Yards. The Inaugural Meeting of the Blue Ribbon Temperance Union, will be held m ' the Foresters' Hall to-morrow, when addresses will be given by Messrs Gilbert Carson, of Wanganui, G. J. Bruce, and other gentlemen. The chair will be occupied by his Worship, A. j Ferguson Esq., at half-past seven. There will be no charge for admission. We remind our readers that Messrs Beckett, Hammond and Diik will hold their . annual horse fair to-morrow at York Farm, by kind permission of R. Hammond Esq. The entries comprise broken aud unbroken light and heavy draught horses, and broken and unbroken hacks and harness horses. Sale at 11 o'clock. All horses must be m the yards at York Farm before 9.30 a.m. Prince Napoleon recently made a curious statement with respect to the high value which the people of Corsica place upon the franchise. " Every time I have gone there," he says, " the Cor sicans have addressed me thus, " We are ready to giv« you everything we possess, Mohseigneur ; but you must not ask' us for our. votes. They are the only things by which we caa make a little money." Meetings of house-holders m the various school districts m the Wanganui Education District will be,, held on the 28th instant, at 6 p.m., m the respective schoolhouses, to receive the annual reports of the out-gbing committees, < and to elect new committees. . The municipal authorities of Paris have ordered that the name " Deity " be expunged from children's books issued *by the Metropolitan School Committee. A meeting of those interested m the formation of a football club m Feilding will be held at the Denbigh Hotel on Saturday eveni ig next at seven o'clock. The Wanganui" Telephone Exchange has now the 6Q paying subscribers . required before "an extension of hours to 8 o'clock can be obtained. An additioanl hand will now be required to work the Exchange. 80 subscribers will be required bvfore a further extension of hours can be obtained, but ai tho present rate of increase this should not be long to attain. — Herald. A Cljristchurch telegram state* that at the inquest oa the body of Charles John Harry Murray, who was found dead m his bed, the jury returned a verdict " that deceased committed suicide by taking chlorodyne while m a state of temporary insanity." He left a written paper blaming his wife as the cause of the aot. He had been drinking a little, and was out ot employment. The coroner called attention to the fact that chlorodyne, which was evidently a most dangerous drug, was not included m the list of poisons of which a chemist was obliged to keep a record of sale. - The Maori census just taken m tho Wairarapa and West Caost shows an increase of the Maori population. This is contrary to expectation, and proves that the lace is not dying out so rapidly after all. The Clerk of the Wanganui Court, having notified Mr W. F. Russell that he had not ttonded at the Court m accordance with the requirements of the rota, has received a reply from the gentleman named to the effect that he had resigned from the commission of ; the peace some titno ago. His resignation has not, as yet, been officially notififdj

How milking is done m the island of Jersy is thus described : —Tall buckets, narrow near the top, with widened mouths, are used- A linen cloth is tied over the top, than a smooth seashell is pushed down into the depression to receive the milk. W"hon the milking is dove the straining is also completed. By the N,Z.S. Co's steamer Aorangi which leaves Wellington for London to-day the Gear Meat Company are sending Hoiu-! 6000 carcases mutton. The number of estates m Canterbury whoso proprietors cannot pay the interast on their mortgages is said to be at least 1000, and that the estates will have to be brought into the market. It looks as though some of the d«fective axles over which there was so much row, had got into active service, as an engine ou the Bangiora (Cauterbury) line, broke one of its axles last week and delayed traffic considerably r Among the passengers for England by the lonic are Major George, the owner of Nelson, and Mr G. H. Clifford the owne of Stonyhurst. Major George who is accompanied by Mrs George, expects to be back m time to see the Ntw Zealand Cup run next November.