LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1685, 15 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Siau & McGrath advertise a special sale for Saturday next, to take place at their mart m Woodville. It will be seen that the catalogue for Messrs Budge & McCutchen's horse fair at the Waimate aaleyards, Manaia, vow consists of do less than 100 entries, besides special entries. It promises to be a very successful sale. A double-column advertisement from Sir 0. Henry, saddler, of Feilding, will appear m to-mono w'& issue. We. may state that m the, at present, very crowded state of our advertising columns, we. cannot - always undertake to iusert double-column advertisements on thr day desired by advertisers, as room has to be made for them. We regret that of late, m our efforts to provide a large amount of reading matter, we have been obliged to hold over advertisements from day to day. We hope before long to have extra space at our disposal, which indeed has been an imperative necessity tor some months past. Wellington must be advancing by "leaps and bounds." Two more pawnbrokers' licenses have been applied for and granted, giving additional encouragement to vicious propensities, and adding to the misery, poverty, and of wretchedness many. Messrs Beckett, Hammond, & Dick's next stock sale at the Oiub Sale Yards, Marton, will take place to-morrow. A large number of additional entries me to-day advertised, and the sale promises to be au exceptionally important . and successful one. A lady byname, Miss Malcolm, is now conducting religious services m the Free Methodist Church m Woodville. Last night again we made- room for nearly three column? of descriptive details of the i'aiaroa disaster, having received urgent requests through bur agents and runners, from many subscribers all over the district, to give as full accounts as could possibly be obtained. The pressure of matter on this account kept us late for publication, a«jd necessitated some advertisements . boing held over and others boing left out. The hurdle horse, Waitangi, was last week purchased by Mr D. Scott, who intends to send him for some of the big hurdle races m the district- next season. The Rangitikei river has of late*been making such encroachment on the land some distance from the bridge at Bulls, that it has been found necessary to protect the bank. This has been done by floating large logs, fixed to the bank by chains m the river, m a slanting positiou — otherwise called: log-dams. It has been arranged that the case of Syme v Rookstrow should be adjourned till the June sittings of the Supreme Court, /his delay has been caused owing to the fact that the application of the plaintiff for a change of venue from Watiganui to Wellington being granted entitled the defendant to twenty-one days' notice, hence the cause for the adjournment. A gentleman who was present at -the meeting which took place at Papawai between Mr Ballance and the Wairarapa Natives states that the most interesting question put to the Native Minister was by an old chief, who cynically asked, ; "Is another election about to take place ?" The old chief's lace was quite a, psychological study as lie put the question through the interpreter. A monument of Aberdeen granite will be unveiled at Manaia, a town m the Waimate Plains, nine miles north of Hawera, on Easter Monday, by Mr Ballance, and a large gathering of settlers . will doubtless be present. The monu- ! raeut is intended to perpetuate . the memory of the men who foil m the war nt 1869, when Tito Kowaru acid his followers drove most of the settlers into Wanganui. Some extraordinary reaaous are occasionally put forward by propertyowners to induce the Boards of Reviewers to reduce the assessment ; but according to a contemporary, a farmer m the Byreton district actually brought with him to Kaiapoi, m a paper bag, a sample of the soil from the land ia question. This he emptied out. on th« table m front of the assessors with a triumphant air, remarking, "There gentlemen, do you think such land as this worth the valuation? because if you do, I don't." The Pahautanui correspondent of a Wellington paper says : — As a proof of the salubrity of the climate of NewZealand, and more especially of this particular district, may be quoted the fact that at the present time there are staying at the house of one of.ouroldost settlers three old ladies, whose ages make an aggregate *bf 251 years. The eldest lady, 85 years of age*, ia a resident of this place, and the other two, 84 and 82 respectively, are visitors ffoin a short distance. '■■'. . "