LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A notice to jurors appears elsewhere. The date of elections of the Mancheater Road Board is announced m our advsrtising columns. The Standard will not be published on Monday next ( Easter Monday). Special attention is directed to the new advertisement from Messrs Cummins, Sharp* and Co., of Waugauui, wholesale and retail grocers, produce, and provision merchants, which will be found well worth perusal. Very cheap excursion fares are advertised on the railway on E»ster Monday, from Palinereton to Wanganui and back 8/6 first class, 6/- second class. There will be a special train for the Feilding races at 9.5 a.m. An action for £1000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by malicious prosecution is to be commenced m the Supreme Court shortly. The defendant is a sheep-farmer at Waikanae. The Wairarapa, which arrived af Auckland on Thursday, brought an English mail, via Brindisi. She should reach Wellington on Sunday. On several occasions during the Wairarnpa's recent passage to Auckland from Sydney, sudden and unexpected risings of the sea were experienced, leading to the conclusion that they were the result of some volcanic action m the direction of Tonga. A terrible action occurred on the 10th February at Boulogua-sor Seine, from the use of a portable coke stove. Five young men, employed at a grocery establishment, occupiod a bedroom m which the stove was kept byrning night and day. In the morning they were found wholly or panially suffocated m their beds. Two ot them wero dead, but ihe other tlnw, after energetic efforts were w.a :scitatod, aud there is hope of their recovery. It wan not at all a bad idea when a candidate for parliamentary honors decided to take an engagement 88 travelling agent for an insurance company. The two tilings might be worked together splendidly, acid we should not be surprised to hear that under these circumstances n man might win a seat in^Parliament, and make money out of the contest, which we believe it not tlw jjtner»l wnwjenoeof. candidate,

Owing to the threatening^. con titio'n. 0? the boot operatives on strike iti Auckl.uv.l, five men who reiiirried to thsir work at Given & Go.'s had to be escorted from the factory to tlieir lioirias by the police. Tho Taranaki papers are quit gleeful at findin? that Wanganui has made no mU-jrial progress daring ths last five year-?, Tmo Wfros sivs:— "Tin Wanganui editor* arc m sackcloth aid ashes. The cansus papars have proved too many for thorn, and now they reluctantly admit that Wanganui ha 3 baen at a standstill for five years. The admission was unnecessary." In the Blenheim Literary Society Mr Winter has given notice to move at some future date :— •• That m the opinion of this House the only permanent remedy for the unamployed difficulty is to be found m Socialism." The Ashburton Woollen Factory is now illuminated with the Electric light, the Gulcher electric system of lighting being the one adopted. That was a sensible clergyman m Chester County on a recent Sundaj who was disturbed by the male members of the congregation putting on their over coats while the Doxology vas being aung, and said : " Now that you have your overcoats on, we will sing the Doxology over again." The most important sale of racehorses ever held m America took place on Feb. 27, when Mr Pierre Lorillards's famous Kancocas Stud was submitted to the hammer. The majority of those put up were sired by that renowned horse Mortimer, who is the sire of the Middlepark stallion Aprement. Twenty seveu lots m all were sold, and realisod the enormous sum of 147,050 dols., or over £31,000, an average of each. A Napier paper says :— We learn that a breach^ of promise case will shortly occupy theattention of our local Court. A lndy resident of Napior who has been engaged to a young gent for a considerable tim», . has been " jilted " by him. She sought magisterial advice, and was to put the matter into the hands of a lawyer, if the yonnx man did not compensate her for her injured feelings, or else marry her. A breach of promise case is a novelty m Napier, and great interest will be taken m the trial — esp»ct ally by the fair sex— if the young man lets the matter go so far. The Zenana and Medical Mission School of India is reported to htve been very successful, sixty-one worn n| have already graduated and aided m tke prosecution of their work of healing the sick and teaching Christianity to the neglected women and children of the East. Minister (fashionable church wedding) — " Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. Let us unite m prayer." Bride (kneeling whispering) — " Remember George, we are to pass down the right aisle, and do try and not bo awkward. You mortify me to doathuometirais." ■ . The result of tho Maori census m the Wangauui district shows a total ot 1253, as against 1968 m 1881. The difference is not altogether due to deaths, as a number of Natives are absent m Taupo and Parihaka, but, counting those a considerable decrease has occurred.