LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1697, 1 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow evening at the Lyceum Mr. Titos. P. Beattie will deliver a lectnre on •' Byron and his verse." For further particulars sco advertisement. Messrs Stevens & Gorton's next stock sale at Palmerston will be held on May 6th. The entries at present received are published m pur advertising columns. Ttiey include good steers, heifers, young ! mixed cattle, cows and calves, yearlings and 18-month steers, weaner steers, good milch cows, fat ewes, ewes m lamb, horses, etc. By advertisement m the Mart on paper Mr A. Dalziell notifies his intention of applying for a license for a hotel at Hunterville. Two gratifying items of intelligence I about the mineral deposits of South | Africa are just to hand. One is the ex* poits of gold from Natal last year were ot the value of £100,000, and the other that the trials made of Natal coal on the local railway hove ended satisfactorily. ,i The Post has th« following : — " Another new paper is about to be started. This time Pahiatua is the scene of the enterprise, and the promoter is said to be a resident of Palmerston : North." j At« legram. recently conveyed the intelligence that the net cost of the recent Industrial Exhibition was £8500. This, of course, means that the expenditure exceeded the receipts by the amount named. The steamers Jane Douglas.from Foxton, and Waverley, from Patea, which arrived m Welliagton on Thursday afternoon, reported very heavy weather on I their way down. | It is stated that the Wairaiapa Lakes were opened on Wednesday. Ihere were a number, of natives and Europeans present assisting m the work, and the waters soon subsided, although it was stated that the late flood was the largest that has opcurred for some years. Mr H. D. Munro, who has for somo time been connected with the Bank of Australasia at Foxton, has been rernored to the branch of the same bank at Palmerston, and his place at Foxton is to he occupied by Mr Evans, who hails from Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu. We very much regret to learn that diphtheria shows no signs of abatement ie Bulls. Another doatli has occurred, Mr J. Stevenson having lost, on Thursday morning, another of his young tliildren, a little boy. The Marton paper understands that when an epidemic of diphtheria was prevalent m Taranaki somo time ago, an extract from the leaves of the eucalyptus or gum tree was found a very effective remedy. It is also stated that a mixture of sulphur and glycerine is a potont antidote against the ravages of this terrible disease. [We may say that both the above remedies were tried m this district, and entirely without avail. In one case homeopathic remedies were prescribed when the patient was almost at his last gasp, and were followed by immediate relief and ultimate recovery. —Ed M.S.J Messrs Stevens and Gorton held a very good sale of stock at Feilding .on Thursday. There were between three and four hundred head of cattle yarded which were sold, at satisfactory prices. The auctioneers were disappointed , m the number of sheep coining forward. — Marton paper. The Bulls Committee have passed the following resolution :— " That the school he kept closed till such time as DrFrood is able to give a certificate that diptheria is at an end m Bulls." The latest sensation m America is that the " late " Lord Aylesford is not really dead. The supporters of this theory say that the news of his death reached a New York morning paper m a telegram from a correspondent at Big Springs, Texas, who was absolutely unknown, and that a week later Lord Aylenfio-d's secretary arrived at New fork with a coffin, and sailed the next day with it for England. " Was that coffin ever opened ?" ■During the sixty days m which the stringent, regulations concerning dogs w«re m forco m London, about seventeen thousand dogs were suffocated at the Dogs Home, Battersea.