LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1699, 4 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the Manawatu Road District will be held at the office of the Board to-mor-row, at neon. Tenders for work on Newberry Road and ether works iv connection with the jßoad Board, close at 9 a.m. to-mor-row. The Palmerston North Licensing Committee will hold its aunual . meeting on the 4th of June. There are now 80 subscribers to tl* telephone exchange m Wanganui. Messrs W. J. Butler and J. Stevens, who are acting for the Government m the matter of purchasing the Waimarino Block, have left for the up-river districts. They expect to be absent about a month. The Maoris have started a football club atFarihaka, with Te Whiti, junior as captain, and are open to receive a challenge from any of the district or town teams. The average for the South Australian loan should be £99 6s, not £102 12s 6d as previously telegraphed. Mr, Lawler, assistant clerk at" the Wanganui R. M. . Court, has been transferred to Christchurch; his successor will be a son of Mr Ward, R. M. Mr Ballance returned to Wellington on Saturday uight from Wanganui, travelling on the Wellington and Manawatu Railway by special train. He arrived m Wellington at 10.25 p.m., or about 9 hours from Palmersron, including a coaching journey of some 25 miles. The Tui will ■.(s»▼• Foxton for Wellington on Wednesday, at 10 p.m. The Jane Douglas leave Foxton for Wellington oq^Friday, at 10 p.m. I Owing to. -I^^ifficulty between the Masterton-Mafigahao Special Settlement and their surveyor, the surv«y of the block is not yet taken over by the Association. The Lyceum altered advertisement will oe found m another column, and on Sunday evening next, a lecture will be delivered on •' The Wandering Jew "and his relations 1 ' by Mr Tnos. R. Walton. On Friday laat Hcrr Norberg liad a lather awkward experience, serious results from which, however, he was happily extricated by the energetic and prompt action of Miss Nor berg. Herr Norberg and his daughter had left Palmerston by the early train,, and were pioceeding to Waverley to perform at a large military ball taking place there that evening, and m the hurry of departure the prof assor's instrument and music were forgotten until the train was well on its way to Feilding. . Miss Norberg, on arrival at Feilding, left the train, procured a conveyance, and drove to Pilmerston where she engaged another trap, and having got the music, etc., started for Wanganui. She arrived at Bulls at 12.30, having left Palmerston at 10-15. At bulls thehorses were changed, and a fresh start made at 1.30, Wanganui was reached just 5 minutes before the tarain started. There are very few young ladieß, or young men either, who are possessed of the pushing energy and business tact displayed to such advantage by Miss Norberg, whose father should be proud to have such a. daughter. A curious circumstance is related m connection with the death of the man Abel Fletcher, who recently mot his death by falling over a precipice m Ivaiwarra, Wellington. Ou the previous Monday evening he stood ap on the platform of tho Salvation Army Barracks and said :— " Friends,— l feel compelled to tell you of a vision I had last night. Methought I was travelling aloog a ridge, on the one side was a deep gully, ftnd on the other a frightful precipice. • BehiiMLrae was a rock, and directly before me a dim light. I realised that if T stepped on to the right-side or the left I should fall and be dashed to pieces, and I was doing my best to cling to the rock, when the vision passed away." Strange to say, the spot from which he is supposed to have fallen at Kaiwarra agrees with the description of the place related by him as seen m hiß vision.