LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1693, 27 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

\Voodville is about erecting a lirebrigade station. The general impression m political circles is that the session will be of average duration, and that the Government will carry through „ All admit that it would be madness to cease borrowing, and that steady borrowing until the principal centres are connected by railway; and the main trunk lines finished, as proposed by the Government, is absolutely necessary. So says a Southern writer. Mr Hinder, theTumberdinba (N.S.W) ' bank manager, who, on New Tear's Ere , shot a man who had been creating a disturbance, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment. A divorce case, which is certain to create some sensation owing to the high ■ icial position which the parties held, will (says the Dunadin Star) probably be heard m Dunedin before Mr Justice Williams next month. The petitioner is a well-kuown journalist m Wellington, and the respondent was a bank manager m South Canterbury when the alleged improprieties took place. "We observe from the Feildiog Star, that Mr Hastit, of the Feilding hotel; is determined to keep pace with the times. New and commodious stables are now being erected which ha'vo been made absolutely necessary by the large and increasing business of this popular hqstelry. To realise the advance that hat been made m ordinary printing of newspapers by machinery, we have only to read of the astonishment manifested when, m 1814, the new press of that period was able to produce 1100 copies per hour, and to know that at the present time,by the use of the press such as used by the New York Herald, with its revolving impression cylinders, arranged so as to print both sides at once of a continuous roll of paper, the nnmber of sheets pro duced per hour is 12,000, and the sheets leave the machine cut, folded and counted. Strangest of all to the uninitiated is the fact that two attendants are sufficient to serve the machine' Working at this race of speed. ; Two young men went out shooting on Sunday morning last, on the hills behind the old reservoir m Wellington. In thu afternoon it came on exceedingly foggy with heavy rain, and they lost themselves among scrub and half burnt bush. They had matches with them, but everything was so wet that they could not make a fire, and they were out all night drenched to the skin. Next morning tiny steered a course by the wind, and after a good deal of waiting, found themselves at Terawhiti, within about a mile and a half of which they must have spent the night. Three brothers named Prosser were lost for three days and nights near the same place some eight years ago.— Wellington paper. It has been ascertained that among the passengers by the Taiaroa on ..her last trip, there was v gentleman named Wigley, who obtained his ticket on board immediately before the vessel sailed. The South Australian Govern, ineni have cabled to the Premier, enquiring whether the deceased geutleuian was identical with a member of the House of Representatives for that 1 colony. No information as to his identity is yet available. According to an exchange the building trade m Campbelltown is at present m a brisk state. The first peal of bells m any Anglican Church m any ene of the Australian coloaies was hung m Hathurst m 1855. They were rung out for the first time id November 1855, on the receipt of the news of the capture of Sevastopol. The Odessa Mescenger reports a singular accident on the morning of the 28th ultimo nt the small port of Taganrog. Some thousand fishermen, with their horses and carts, were carried out to sea on the ice, which suddenly became detached from the shore. Although many of these unfortunate persons were saved the next day, it is still feared a great many perished. A cure for colic m horses is said to be the palm of the hand full of turpentine rubbed against the upper gnms and the inside of the upper lip of the horse, ancf the breast bathed with the lime, {q oue hour repeat tho «pp}jg«t!oQ t

Wo understand that the petition m favor ot tha Pahiatifa District being a sopite riding has been hucc jssful.— Examiner. The Liverpool Weekly Courier, of November 2l«t, says :— " Four missionaries anil 5200 gallons of rum left on the same sliip to interview tho native African. We don't see how he can get away from both." Sportsman beware 1 Tho following unique and awe-inspiring notice appears on a board attached to the fence of a bush farm somewhere between Foilding and Palmtrston : — " All peraoua trespassing on tliis land will be shot without further notice."— Star. There are 1300 Justices of tho Peace* m New Zealand. A Napier paper points out a case of what it calls even-handed justice. Recently a cab driver, for leaving his horse unattended, was fined £1 and costs by the Resident Magistrate ot Napier, while on a subsequent date two cabdrivers for a sirailiar offence were brought before two J. P.'a and fined 5s and coats. Truth is v«ry severe on the New South Wales papers and people for the grovelling sycophancy " of their attitude towards Lord Carington. Such ludicrous and abject adulation Mr Labouchere has never come across before. Both Lord and Lidy Oarington are, he says, pested to death by the attention of Wealthy Sydney snobs.