LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1691, 22 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr George Richardson informs us that a yield of 18 t,ons of potatoes to the aero has t>oen obtained off a piece of ground flt Karere, tho grower Deing Mr CoHti,

Mr W. A. McDowell, maifager of the local branch of the N. Z. Clothing Factory, has become the purchaser of Mr 3 Dungau's property iv Main-stroet. We hear Mr McDowell has got an exceptionally good bargain. : Mr Carroll notifies that trespassers with dogs or guns on his property m Kairanga will be prosecuted, as already much damage has .been done through tlio fauces being destroyed. We are sorry to hear that Sir James* Frendergast is still confined to his room by illness. All the banking institutions m town -will be closed from this aftoruoqn Jill Tuesday morning for the Easter holidays. Wanganui has now 74 subscribers to th« telephone exchange. The Wellington Woollen factory has now received all its plant iv good order and- the manager expects to be' able to lay before the shareholders at the general meeting m June,; blankets, tweeds, and flannels ot the Company's make. Mr.J. Macara, coach-driver, has in' trodubed a new kind of blinker for his coach horses travelling on the Masterton Road. The novelty cousists m the blinker, being rounded outwards, from the eye instead of the flat blinker generally used. We are glad to hear of the good progress of the Endeavour Inlet Antimony mine works. ' In a letter, dated the Isth inst., the manager* Mr Wearne r . informs & Wellington paper that tie' lia'd' 'just Sfot the machinery started, aud that everything worked well; According to the Marlborough Times : — Sir Julius . Vpgel is the best Post-master-General the colony has ever had. He seems to have the working of the Post and Telegraph Departments at his fingers ends, and whilst he is constantly inaugurating, new systems for the convenience of public communication, he manages to finance the Departments, so that they are a source of revenue. A cheese factory is to, be started at Norse wood. As soon as 1000 shares aro guaranteed the company : will be. incorporated. ■•-•''■•■•; We are glad to learn from a Wellington paper that the Salvation Army there are about to take up the- question of establishing a Female Rescue Home on the same lines as the institutions they have started m Dunedin and CurUtchurcb. . _ ; ' :■: ;. ■•' j j ;-■ v L , A passenger; to .Wellington by the Coptic displayed his love of country m a vjery practical >yay. Determined not to forget tho " ovid sod "of his native country, he brought a substantial portion of it with him, among his .effects being a' crate containing a large block of real Irish bo» turf. ■ ; Thomas Gibson, recently cle/k of the Petono Town Board, has been committed for trial ou two charges of; forging; receipts for moneys, due by. that, body, , •A draper m Wellington for violently abusing the city surveyor, whoorder'ed him to take some packages inside which ■ were obstructing the thoroughfare,: ;:was. fined £2 and costs, the Magistrate severely censuring his -conduct and commending t'tie forbearance of the official. '■■•■ . ; •' ' : : -- ' • •■" : "- -" : -_ ■:" : In the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday, thp transactions of a, defunct firm id the liquor trade were allad«d ito, and Mr Devine mentioned that the cele.brated Porirua whisky was included jin the goods sold by them, one ;of the partners having been of opiniou that the local manufacture would be very suitable for admixture with the imported article. '„■•,' '■■ ■■ The ; Woodville Theatifi will l open ion Monday night next, with a dramatic performance by the Napier amateurs. After the performance a ball will jbe held. As the Ekcaminei' remarks, The event marks the progress of Woodville, and we have no doubt that there will be a crowded house. v ■; i A sawmill h>s bsen opened at Eketaliuna. Thore is aoma'talk'of a second one being opened there also by Mr Bacon of Masteiion. t , The amount of work:done by tho. deferred payment settlers m tlio Kopuaranga district last season has been very, great, and the change m the district shows a vigorous, condition of .settlements — Examiner. ' : According to tHe Woodville Examiner Pahiatua continues to e-o ahead, .buildings >6ing-uji : in ftll directions. : . :-! ■ '" ' • We have been farnishedbjr Mr Deighton, the enumerator, with the unofficial results of tb,e Census taken for. the /Cpunty of Eangitikei, including the Borough of Marton, and Town Districts .#f Bulls and Lethbridge. It is as fpllowsij — County of Bangitikei-^Males, d,791 ; females, I,lß2— total, 2,973. 'Borough' of Marton-r-Males, 487 ; females, 423— total, 910. Tpwn District of Bulls -r-Males, 296/, females, 319— total, 615. Town Districfof Lethbridge — Males, 127; ijkinajea, 132--total, 259. The to^al increase \n the County of.Rangitikei is--791, including an increase in'the Borough of? Morton ot 248.^ — Marton nansr. .-> i