The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Nowspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1681, 10 April 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Nowspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, APRIL 10 , 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Sunday eveuing at the Lyceum there will be a lecture delivered on " Nature v. Orthodoxy," for further particulars see advertiseiaeut. : The Ashburton Guardian has rtceived notico of an action for damages, on account of an article appearing m its columns on the subject of a recent suicide at Methvou. The damages, claimed are of a substantial amount. An application was made m Chambers m Wellington on Wednesday m the case of Symei v. Dr Rockstrow, of Foxton, for. an order changing the place of trial from Wanganui to Wellington. Mr Gully appeared for the defendant. The actiou is brought to recover £500 damages for alleged professional negligence and malpractice. Mr Justice Richmond granted the application. The case will be tried at the approaching civil sittings to be heard m Wellington. . For a case of indecent assault heard against a young fellow At the Supreme Court sittings m Christchurcti this week Judge Johnston sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for six months, with hard labor ; and within a week to be privately whipped with a rod, receiving 25 strokes, and again tha same amount of whipping within three days ot his discharge. His Honor took the opportunity ,to comment on the abused liberty given to the young of both sexes m he colony. Nemesis has soon overtaken Mr Jesse Oollings, th» mover of the araeudmeut to the Address-in-Reply which turned out the Salisbury Government. According to a late telegram, he has been unseated for Ipswich, on petition. Thus the Conservative Ministry was ousted frdm office on the motiou of one, ' who was not even a member of Parliament at all. This (says a Wellington paper) is a most remarkablt occurrenoe, if not wholly unpredecented, which we believe to be the case. A few days.ago at Wanganui, while two gentlemen wern conversing through tho medium of the telephone, two others were aUo heard employed m a like man* ner. One of the former pair, recognising the voice of one of the latter, immediately commenced an animated conversation with him to the amusement of the other two. It appears, therefore, to bt possible for lour persons at dtflVent termjuatiom to ulk to one another, *U tjWtfJ HttMiraotly o<ffll»iptt(} ft* ty| Ttjf pbg B | Echini,,

While driving at night m a foe, and the carriage or buggy lamps will not show the road, the light cau be made to penetrate the fog by simply spreading a coramou red silk handkerchief over the glass of the lamps. I A few months ago there was something like a scare among Australian wool- producers at the prospeot. of a keen competition from South America. Now, according to the Farmer, the Caucasus is becoming a great wool-producing . country, and likely to prova a competitor that is not to be despised. The departure of the Wellington passengers for the Aorangi from the wharf on Thursday afternoon excited a great deal of interest, and drew a large crowd of their friends and other spectators. The scene, (says a Wellington paper,) was more like those which are frequent at Greenoek or Graveßend than what is generally to be seen at the departure of passengers from a New Zealand port, There was this difference, however, that there wer • no signs of poverty everyoue apparently being m comfortable circumstances. About 4 o'clock the crowd on the pier was greatest, and the Gordon went off with a large number of the passengers. At a quarter pMbt raven she fired a farewell gun, and took her departure. W. H. M. Price, of Wellington, the man whoso family received relief from the Benevolent Institution the other day, was arrested at Wellington on Thursday, on a charge of wife desertion. It was supposed that be had left for Fiji, and his case Lad excited some interest lately, especially as he is tielievod to havo been the author of an ingenious and successful scheme for raising money on tho promiao of a moat wonderful rate of interest for each sura of £20 lent to him.— Wellington paper Some local naturalist may be able to tell us whore a new species of flies come from. We have noticed a b»autiful little fly, about the size of a house fly, of the color known as "peacock blue," m large numbers here during the past woek. We cannot near that they have over been seen m New Zealand before. Some will be sent to Mr Drew, of Wanganui, for bis examination. — Feildiug Star. The following story reaches us A little baby was not expected to live, and the Presbyterian clergyman of the country district w«> c He 1 m to baptise it. On reaching the house, and being informed of what was required of him, he dec-lined to do so on tbe ground that the father had not Deen of late a regular attendant at the Church. Comment is superfluous.but is it not this sort of thing that lisa led to civil marriages by the Registrar, and to the feeling that the registration of a birth meets the baptismal ritt? —Exchange. f . r i During divine service at the Welling-? ton Wesleyan Church, a aeariy mw " bell topper,' 1 which had been left i.i the porch by one of the congregation, mysteriously disaopeared. Diligent search was made for it, but to no purpose, and ultimately the unfortunate owne/ had to go home minus his headpiece. On the waterside of Vera Cruz stands a stone image, whose bruised countenance tells a queer tale or feminine credulity. From time immemorial it has been believed that if a marriageable woman shall hit this image squarely m the face with a stone she will immediately obtain a husband and an advantageous settlement m life.