LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1683, 13 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

u The Cat out of the Bag," is the subject of a lecture at the Lyceum for Sunday next ; we also vail attention to the altered advertisement m another column.

A number of additions are made to Messrs Beckett Hammond and Dick's catalogue for tbair stock Bale at the Club Salo Yards, Marton, to take place next Friday. We regret that a large number of applications to-day for copies of . the Standard of Saturday and Mooday,containing a full report of the inaugural meeting or the Temperance Union could not bo supplied, there bei >g none of either issuo left. Those applying spoke m high terms of the fullness, and accuracy of tho Standard's report of the meeting. Some of our most distant country subscribers must have got their papers rather late last evening- Our desire was to publish the very latest news of the* Tai.aroa disaster, and with that object m view, we kept back publication till a later hour than usual. We knew that all our r tilers would desire to have the intelligence concerning tha sad occurrence, and as the telegrams kept coming to hand all through the after noon we decided to make a late issue of the paper and publish all that conld be obtained. A summary of each telegram as it came to hand was posted m our office window, which was surrounded throughout the afternoon by people anxious to learn the latest news of th» casualty which caused a painful feeling of anxiety, sorrow and suspense to be generally manifested. A writer iv an exchange, alluding to the recent sentences passed on the Commercial Bank manarer and accountant, observes :—W hat a change from being, boss of the " sweating room" to No 44. hard labour, 8 years 1" Verily, the game isn't worth the candle." - An irascible old gentleman was' taken with sneezing m a railway carriage. Attor sneezing m the most spasmodic manner eight times, he arrested the paroxyistn for a moment, and extricating his handkerchief, he thus addressed his nasal organ, indignantly saying :— " Oh, go on — go on— you'll blow your brains out presently." It was rumored on Friday— and it is probable, from all that we can gather, that the rumors may hare some foundation m fact — that Mrs Smith, wife of MrJ.J. Smith, late of the Post Office Hotel, had made an arrangement with the creditors which they deemed satisfactory. It was fuither rumored that a warrant had been taken out for . MrSmith's appreheusion m London ; that a' guarantee for the necessary expenses had been given to the Government, and that, it was intended to send Home' Do-, tectivo Chrystal by the Ri-nutaka. But; just as all the arrangements were about' to be completed,^ Mrs Smith made a substantial offer, tho guarantee was withdrawn, and the proceedings fell through. In tho absence of information from official sources, wo can only publish these rumors, as such, but we believe they will be found to be pretty correct. — Wellington paper.