LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to latest cable advices, New Zealand frozen mutton remains at sid to 5£ per lb. , The subject of the next lecture at the Lyceum by Mt T. JR. Walton will be found advertised m another column. The estimated cost of breakwater at Opunake, say 1360 feet long, and including road-iftakiag, block-yard, and necessary machinery and plant, £150,000. A Wellington telegram states that the Taiaroa's cargo was sold yesterday afternoon to Watson and Mackenzie for £30. Last week a horse, belonging to Mr Carter, of Bulls, was found dead m a paddock near the township, shot through the heart. The doath of the horse is not supposed to have been maliciously caused, but is probably the work of some erring sportsman, who has been out shooting m the dusk of the evening. The following is from the Patea Mail, ibutwhat is the interpretation thereof we wonder. We hear Mr E. Morse, of the Bank of Australasia, i« to be moved to Hnwera next week. When you care her,, all is lost. An exchange notifies its readers that any shortcomings must be overlooked, as the editor is suffering from some infantile disorders. . The present population of Wanganui is 4,900, namely— male*, 2,482, and females, 2,418. The sexes are pretty evenly balanced. In 1881 the population was 4,644, so that the increase has been decidedly small during the qui-ennial period. However the town is evidently not going back as some of its enemies assert. On Friday last a young man named Samuel Harris, a resident of Wanganui, met with a nasty accident on the Porewa contract, by which his foot was crushed to pieces. He waa brought m by train on Saturday, and next day Dr Earle, Hospital Surgeon, assisted by Drs Tripe atid Connolly took off the foot. Them is every indication that the operation will prove very successful. A four-roomed house, wa« burned to •the ground a few mornings ago at Pahautapui. Nothing was saved except two 'sewing iifacliines, the occupants having barely time to gee out, and then only through a window. The building was insured m the National Insurance Company for £100, but the contents were not insured. The oauso ib supposed to be through a oat, which had a : habit of sleeping on the fireplace, *<!<} ; which, it is supposed, caused some, i embers to fall put oa th& floor, I

Tlie Pramier at New Plymouth spoV thus :— " When the hnrbor was finished New Plymouth was destiuod to lie a place of thirty or forty thousand inhabitants." The Wainawa Mall records the death ot Mrs Harding, lato wife of John Harding, E3q., of Mount Vcrnon. Tin* deceased lady attuiucd the mature age of sixty-five years, forty-four of which has been spent m tho colony of New Zealand. She arrived m Wellington m 1842. Between the latter dato and October 1855, the (roubles and anxieties incidental to tha early days of colonists were shared by Mr John Harding smi his faithful partner. In 1855 MiHarding settled on the fine estate nt Mount Vernon. Another uame is now added to tha list of those whose lives have passed quietly by, unnoticed by the busy world, but patterns of the sterling qualities of wife and mother — bright examples for younger wives and mothers to emulate. The late Mrs Harding was the mother of fourteen children. . No Norwegian girl is allowed to hare a beau until she can bake bread and knit stockings, and it would do your heart good to taste the' bread and wear tha stockings that fifteen -y«ar old Norwegian girls can make.