LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1687, 17 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Albert Barns will hold his next ■took ealejat Campbelltowu Yards (Watiganui,) on Wednasday next. Th« catalogue appears elaewkere. On Sunday evening at the Lyceum, there will be a lecture delivered ontitlcd " The Cat out of the Bag ;" for further particulars see advertisement m another column. To-morrow at the Gospel Hall: Mr C. flinman will give an address on the mlvjeot, " Does the Bible contradict itself." All are earnestly invited to (itttnd aqd are re^ueetfl4 %Q brjpg faif bifel«| wHb thtW»

The Poverty Bay Herald says thn however clever the conception of \\ . L. Rees' schemes, they always prove gigaiitic failures. Even the butchery m Auckland has closed. The Wangfiuuf Chronicle states that the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided to confer upon the Rev 13. W. Harvey of Wanganui, the degree of D. D. Captain H. B. Francis whose name is well-known here and m New Zealand has committed suicide m Melbourne. Captain Francis m former years was well-known m connection with the steamers Wellington and Tarauaki m the. Now Zealand coasting trade. At the Supreme Court, Wanganni, G. Leyland was sentenced to a month's hard labour for larceny. William Rex I Rose was convicted of forgery and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Tar» Peirift charged with horse stealing gotthree' years' penal servitude. A very serious accident happened to Mr Harris, one of the foremen on the Porewa coutract of the Central Railway, yesterday morning. It appears that at the gravel pit beyond Nitchske's corner, there waß a truck laden with ballast. Mr Han is attempted to put his foot on the brake, and, iv doing so, he slipped and fell, the wheel of the truck passing over one of his feet and completely crushing it. The poor fellow was sent to the Wauganui hospital by last evening's train. Last night was very farotable fer observations of the passage of the moon over Jupiter. It was very interesting to watch the gradual approach of the moon, and disappearance of the planet. The Post says, that when an occulation of Jupiter was observed with a telescope some. 20 years ago, 50 saconde passed before the planet was fully biddem The disc of Jupiter was then ao magnified as to appear as large as the moon appears to the naked eye. At the Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday, J. Mcßreardy for obtaining goods and money under false pretences from W. H. Flyger pleaded guilty. He also entered the same plea m a charge cf obtaining goods and money from Walter Hill. There were several convictions'against the accused for false pretence*, and one for escape front prison His Honor m sentencing the accused, said that these were the deliberate acts of a man, who was not under the influence of drink, and as there were several convictions against him, he could not give him less than three years penal Bervitnde m each case, sentences to run concurrently. No bill was found against Thomas Pepperell, for sheepstealing, and accused was discharged, We remind our Ashurst subscribers that our collector will pay his usual Quarterly visit to Ashurst on Tuesday, next, when a prompt settlement of subscription accounts due to March 31st will oblige. The Wellington Tress has the' following; — We are indebted to the Otago Daily Times for the courtesy of publish- , ing m full, m its columns, without comtnsnt, our recent article on the libel , action Stewart versus the Evening Press, iv which we replied somewhat tenchanlly to an article on the same subject which had appeared some days before m th« Otatfo Daily Times. It is amen;- -; ilics of this sort that soften the aspen- . ties of journalistic strife, and tend to remind all of us that we are engaged m the performance of a common duty to public, m relation to the magnitude and 1 loftiness of which, our own petty differences sink into insignificance.