LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1684, 14 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Thomas Walker, of ■ Wanganiii, announces an immense sale of hoots for a fortnight. Fuller particulars will be found m advertisement. We remind our reader of Messrs Snel son and Co.'b stock sale at Fitzherberfcatreet Bale yards to-morrow. Mrs J. Synies, Wanganui, advertises that she receives a limited number of young lady boarderj, to whom will be given a thorough English education. It is notified that tresspassers on the Hokowhitu Native Reserve will be prosecuted. It is notified that the defaulters' list and Burgess .list for the Borough are now open for inspection during omce hours. Amongst those who were aboard the ill-fated steamer Taiaroa. were three old shipmates of Mr E. Jewell, proprietor of Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, and immediately upon the sad news becoming known the flag at the hotel was hoisted to half mast. Here is a caution to lawn tennis players :— Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, M.H.R., met with an awkward accident on Saturday last. Mr Fitzherbert was playing at lawn tonnis when by seme means he twisted his ankle, which was nastily sprained. He will have to keep his room for some days. Currency has been given to a report that Mr Wardell, the Wellington R.M., will retire from active duties at an early date, on a pension. Mr Wardell emphatically contradicts this report, and states that he has no present intention of retiring, and he hopes shortly to bo able to resmae his oflioial duties, { '

It is notified that a general meeting of members of the Caledonian Society will be held m tho Council Chambers on Tuasday evening, 20th instant at 8 o'clock . The Committee will be glad to receive the nam?B of intending members. The rate of subscription has been fixed at 5s per annum, ticket to admit member aud lady to all gatherings of the Society. Messrs Nolan Tonics and Co's stock sale at their Hawera sale yards takes place to-morrow* The catalogue appears elsewhere. During the hearing of a civil case m j the Wellington Supreme Court, Mr Jel licoe asked a male witness whether he was the wife of a woman who had just given evidence. " No," replied the wit* ness; "I'm her husband." "Ah," shid his Hoaor Judge Richmond, " it is not always easy to tell, you know, m these days of women's rights." The Herald learns that Mnior Noake is to be, or has been, asked to take charge of the cavalry regiment at tho Easter encampment. I There is every prospect at present of the Okoia Dairy Factory continuing with the present supply of milk right up to the cud of May. A good demand still continues for the cheese, and m all probability the stock on hand will be small during the winter. — Herald. Meetings of honseholdors will be held At the various school houses on Wednesday tho 28th of April, at 8 p.m.-,"fior the purpose of receiving annual reports and electing new committees for the ensuing year. The Taupo Native Land Court, which has beau sitting continuously for three months, and has during that time ascartained the title or over one million acres, came to a close. late on Saturday night, and adjourned uutil 30th Septem- 1 ber next, when the further subdivision of some of the blocks will be gone into. Auothcr court, for the purpose of exising the Government interest m some of tho blocks already papsed, will be -held on the 6th of May next. The Wellington Evening Press says it is worthy of note that up to 2.45 o'clock on Monday afternoon it had not received a single line of news with regard to the Taiaroa disaster from the Press Association. We regret to hear that his Honor the Chief Justice is at present confined to his bed by severe attacks of neuralgia and rheumatism. Two men named James ShoebriHge and Alfred Olliver, while digging a drain at the back of an unoccupied house at Pipitea point, Wellington, a few days ago, unearthed the skeleton of a full-sized human being. The men informed Detective Chrystal, who went with them and examined the remains, which were burricd about two and a half feet beneath the surface. Tho adjacent ground is composed of sand and shingle, and it is possible that the skeleton is that of some person who may have been drowned m the early days, or tho body may have liecn properly buried. Judging by the decomposed state of the bones it seems probable that the skeleton was m the ground about 40 years. The Coroner was communicated with, aud ordered the bones to be conveyed to the cemetery and properly interred." It is not considered necessary to hold an inquest. — Wellington paper. The Post has the following :— The Justices of the Peace m the Manawatu district have exercised their duty of revising the jury list m a very practical but decidedly novel direction by striking all their own names off the list of those liable to jury service. We need hardly say that the Commission of tho Peaco does not carry with it any such exemption or privilege. The attention of the Minister of Justice should be directed to this utterly (illegal emasculation of the jury list. At the Auckland Supreme Court on Sunday, m the case of the five Maoris charged with libelling Mr Fraser, Native interpreter, m a telegram sent to the Chairman of Committees, iv the House of Representatives, thn Judge held the telegram partook of the nature of a petition to Parliament, aud was priviledged. After hearing the expression of opinion the prosecution did not offer evidence, and the jury, by direction of the Judge, found a verdict of Not Guilty.