LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1696, 30 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Napier Telegraph has the folr lowing : — •' The Manawatc Standard I has been enlarged, a substantial proof of the progress of Palmerston, and the desire of our contemporary to keep pace with the district." ' We have received from Mr Colej of the Book Arcade, Melbourne, the " Fun Doctor " a selection of aniusing and humorons atories, tales aHH titbits. The book, which is published.' at eightoenpence, is the third edition of 10,000 copies which has been called for m less than five months. ( V: The regular fortnightly meeting of the Blue Ribbon Teinperauce Union will be held m the Kechabite Hall this evening at 7.30. There will be vocal music, readings, recitations &c. All are invited. At the last meeting of the Education Board a committee wb» had visited the Bunny thorpe school over a "storm m the tea-pot " re a local Post Office trouble reported that m " ttors had been settled.— Chronicle. . A Wanganui prisoner who was sentencad to three days' imprisonment for obscene exposure, found the new Act rather inconvenient for him. Ho said he would prefer being fined, but the Bench replied they had no option, offences of that sort were punished only by imprisonment. A vory interesting letter from Pastor Gaustad on the treatment of diptheria will appear m to-morrow's iasua. The Waipawa Mail will m f utnre be published m the evening instead of the morning. "Puff" writes as follows m the Evening Press :— Comical incident at the Pahautanm Police Court ! Man hauled up for telling the Constable to go to— — " Did you tell the constable to go to ?'• said the Beak. "No," said the prisoner, " I didn't tell the Constable Thomas Jones to go there officially, but I told my old friend Tom Jones to go there m a friendly sori of a way !" . The Beak couldn't sea the distinction ! An influential deputation from : the Wairarapa district waited on the Minister of Justice, a few days ago, with a petition Bigned by 708 residents praying for the release of John Freebody, recently committed and sentenced to two years' hard labour for cattle stealing. They stated that Freebody was innocent ofj the crime for which he was sent to gaol, and that m anything he did he was altogether the dupo of another person. The Minister said the object of the deputation was very commendable and he would make the fullest inquiry into the statements placed before him. The date of the departure of the a. a. Rimutnka from Wellington for London, via Anckland. has been postponed till Saturday. Messrs Rausomes, Sirnn, and Jeffrieß, Limited, of the Orwell Works, Ipswich, England, have written to an exchange announcing the death of Mr R. C. Runsome of that celebrated manufacturing firm. Mr Ransorae's death took place at Ipswich on the sth ult. MrF. Brady, J.P., Pahautanui, sentenced a woman named Mary Anne Mason to a month's imprisonment for using obscene language at Paremata on Saturday list. In Zululand a wife can be bought for ten good cows, but the market is rising and quotations aro few. A poor quality of wife can be beughtfor three heifers and a bull calf. According to the Wnirarapa Star, a new paper, to be called the Pahiatna Advertiser, is about to be starter] at Paliiatua, an enterprising journalist from Napier, haying, it is stated, been promised a guarantee of 8 per cent on his outlay io starting tue new tiedg-