LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1682, 12 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Budge and McCutchan, auctioneers, Manaia, announce their next stock sale at Waimate sale yards, Manaia, take place to-morrow, and their horse fair, for which there are Already 80 entries, for Saturday. We are glad to learn to-day that Mr F. Palmer is considerably easier, and is able to take some nourishment, It will be some time before he is himself again. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Court Manawatu A.O F. will be held m the Court-room to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. We again remind our readers that a meeting of all persons interested m the formation of a Caledonian Society for Palmereton, will be held m the Council Chambers this erening at 8 o'clock. His Worship the Mayor has kindly consented to take the chair. , We have been requested by Mr J. W. Franklin; the Secretaiy of the Feilding Jockey Club, to state that entries for the Maideu Race will close this evening at 9 o'clock. A cnriotis correspondence arose between Mr Pitt and Mr Walton. When the latter applied to Pitt for the loan of a horse v the length of Highgate," Pitt wrote hack to say that ho was afraid he , had not a horse m liis possession quite so long as Mr Dundas had mentioned, but he had peat the longest he had — Exchange. Archor, the celebrated English jockey, has, according to our latest English sporting files,' made an unsuccessful appeal against his incotno tax assessment of £10,000, whilst Charles Wood's estimate is pat down at £7000. ,

Zulu Thompson, of rjanerania fame, has assumed office as Mine Host of the Albion Hotel, Wellington. At Wellington race meetings a box to receive contributions to the hospital is now placed m a conspicuous position on the course. People who live m glass houses, especially m journalistic fflass houses, should not indulge m the dangerous practico of-stuue-throwing. It is a very bad sign indeed, when the constitution of anything, whether an animal or a business, requires the frequent exhibition ol strong stimulants to Keep it going. A sign of. a genwral breakup is thereby revealed. I allude firstly to the bad habit some journals have- of picking boles m other journals' coats, and secondly to " smart. writing, "Asmo"deus" m New Zealand Mail. Further details m regard to Mr Gladstone's Irish statement shew, the description of ihe propefeed Irish legislature as consisting of a House of Lords, and House of Commons, as inaccurate. The proposal is that ,the Parliament shall consist of two orders, sitting together, but voting separately if required. The projected sEairliament is to be incapable,to..eßtaiUislV^nj^fonn' of State religion, tfr^eal fr'ttfr&e IfHperla'l army, navy, or foreign aW colonial of Engj|?(fATlijs'iVioerey tete'hoid 6f-». tiee frirf altefcn of o»Hlye^bOllw;<Ri(>yal.. Irish Constabulary remains under the control of ,^h&jlniporial authorities^ _and Mlhrid- sharf *°*m*%W%M& m \%s the cha.rge.B otxHe firawft' ; " There is now | only ofne hfi'arsft befe^: Wmsim «#,#ar«< KJj?sp°«th.-. The local jduWaJ, m hdticing; the fact;' obserei :— Though we - c'anhot; : as an American journajlist once did m a Birnilafr casay fcxpress) afhopVihatih©; heara» wpuld be well p»t*o»isetl,.; we may •at least say that itjis;a^vn£ce£aav# . iCpnveniehce for \« distr^t.so.. .far advanced as this-is.-. , * ! [ "■' V 1 " 1 " "• - ■■' ■ ' The General Post-offica, Sydney, is infested with rats. Experiments have been made with a mongoose, ferretn,in.a cats to abate the nuisance. / Messrs Beckett, Hammond, aud Dick's next stock sale at Marton will be held on the 16th insfc. A very fair number of entries have already been received. They are published iv bur advertising columns. Mr Charles Bull i will leave, for Sydney en route "for England on Wednesday -next. ■ _ /: ■ • ■•:. "■•■ • ' Tlre'^r aays that m five years the Khyitea district will be tunning sheep. ' ; : > . : „• ,» • Word has been received that m consequence of the illness*df the Judge, the Wariganni Supreme Court Sittings . will have to be adjourned till TUursday. Mr Justice Gillies is, we understand, to 'lit. -^Herald. i ..There is no doubt that the body ! found m the Harbor last Sunday was that of 'J. P. Me Vane mclio was employed as acanvasaer for th« Wairarapa Observer. The telegram: found iv the pocket has been recognised by Mr Bee kett, proprietor of the paper, as one sent by him to McVane. Mr Beckett "also recognises some papers found m the coat washed^ ashore' as having been given by himself to the unfortunate man. • ...... ; . Dnring the hearing, of a case at the Wellington Resident-Magistrate's Court Mr W. McLean, secretary of the Wellington Loan Company, stated that tho rate of interest on a cheque which had been discounted for a firm, which had afterwards to seek the protection of'' the Bankruptcy Court, was 40 per cent per annum. ''No wonder your directors get sleek and fat," remarked a spectator to the secretary. "But we fail to get principal as well as interest sometimes," was the' reply.