Manawatu Daily Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1707, 13 May 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Daily Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' A Wellington paper states that Mr Fletcher Johnatou, who at one time faracticed as a barrister and solicitor m Palmerston North, is now occupying the position of secretary to his father, Mr Justice Johnston, of Christchurcb. A reward is offered for the recover/ of a dark bay saddle horse. The late Australian sporting trip of the Hou W. Robinson is said to have coHt him close on £10,000. A man named Charles Collins, alias M'Mahon, who had been committed to prison m Blenheim for six weeks for having used obscene langnage m a pub. lie place, has been taken to Wellington to serve his time. .The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington to-morrow, at 1 p.m. Nominations under the 11th clause of the *' Regulations of Local Elections Act, 1876," will be received for No 5 sub-division of the Manchester Road Board, and must be delivered at Halcombe and SherwiU's office by noon tomorrow.

Members' of the Palmerston North Volunteer Fire Brigade are requested te attend practice to-morrow, evening at 8 p.m. sharp. It is further notified that all member* having uniforms must attend or send their uniforms for inspection by the Borough Council, which will take an inventory of the plant for the purpose of paying the trustee for the creditors of the late Brigade the amount of the debt owing to the plant. After practice a general meeting of the Brigade will be held at the Borough Office at 8 p.m. Business: To consider resignation of one member of tbe Executive and elect successor. There will also be some business of a general character to transact.

Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence for Mr W. J. Port, Ashurst ; labour and nails only. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the Victoria Saw Mills, Ashurst. Tenders will close on Saturday next. Tenders are invited till Thursday May 20th, for felling 122 acres of bush for Mr W. EL Davis. Specifications can be seen at Bray Bros' Store, Ashurst. At the last meeting of the Bulls Town Board, the treasurer's statement showed a credit balance at the bank of £37 9s 6d, Happy Town Board ! Thrice happy ratepayers! A credit balance at the bank. No loan, no special rate, nb~overdraft, no worry, no bickerinr. What a paradise! Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.R. for Foxton, aocompanied by Mrs Wilson and family, left Bulls yesterday morning, en route for Wellington, Messrs SUvens and Gorton's next stock sale at Awahuri, will be held on May 18th. Tbe entries at present received are published m our advertising columns. Tliey include prime fat cows^ three-year steers, two-and-a-half year steers, quiet steers, well-bred weaners, milch cows, pigs, etc Messrs Snnlson & Co announce an important'sale of landed property, to take place on Saturday, 22nd inst, at 2 p.m. The sale is under the conduot of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. The tender of Mr M. Burgess, of Bulls, has been accepted for the Wanganui prieen contract, the price being £1863, The inspector of nuisances of the Bulls Town Board reported at the last meeting, that the sanitary state of the town was very satisfactory. And yet there hns been a visitation of diphtheria.

Two men were brought tip m Napier for fighting and creating a disturbance •n the eccaaion of a rolunteer parade. Uuo was tiaed £2 with 7s 6d ceits or 14 Hays imprisonment, and the other was fined I*3, and costs 7s 6d, or 14 days' .imprisonment. The New Zealand Shipping Company's B.M.S. Tongariri left (Plymouth for Port Chalmers on the Bth instant. She will call at Madeira and Cape ef Good Hope. The Bank rate of discount at Home is now 3 per cent and the market rate n> The Waipawa Mail has the following : — "A very intelligent individual resides somewhere m the neighborhood of Daoeyirke, and made himself con.vpieuous last evening by repeatedly commenting on the remarks of the sp taker*. At last he was called to order, but be*«certed his right to speak, saying with j*rMe. " Why, I am the representative ot the views of two hundred people !" The chairman replied " Then I pity thaie two hundred people," and poor Dfeooi shrivelled up, while the people! <w T «re laughing, like a piece of parchment m * red-hot safe. [Is this intelligent individual, Dixon, by name, an erstwh Ue resident of Palmerston North.— Ed., M.S.] At the We llington Police Court, a few days ago, Jai. oes Sainsbury charged with unlawfully al wenting himself from the service of his employer, Robert Hannah, pleaded guilty. Mr Treadwell, for the prosecution, app lied that the boy should aerve the amount' of time his employer lad lost by his absence, and an order -was made to thati effect. Mr Hannah •said he simply wi shed the boy to go .bock to work, and the Bench made an

The Hawke's Bay Herald informed its readers the other day that the proprietors had erected a " two-feeder " Wharfedale machine on which to print their paper. The machine prints at the rats of 4000 an hour. The Evening News sarcastically observes, " We are glad of this. It will only take a quarter of an hour now for the Herald to ' slap off' their issue. Nothing like enterprise!" Perhaps it might be expected that the Herald would make some rejoinder to this attack. We don't think, since the News started, the Herald has ever even mentioned the name of the paper, except, m the course of judicial proceedings re recent libel cases. It ignores it entirely, and no doubt finds that the wisest course to pursue. It often happens that there are newspapers, which, by their unseemly attacks on their contemporaries, incessant snarling, and offensive personalities, leave no other courso open than to refrain from recognising them as belonging to the respectable element of the newspaper press.

At a statutory meeting of the Dunedin City Council a few days ago dissatisfaction was expressed with the balancesheet, especially with the Gas Department, which showed no profit. The overdraft is beyond the legal limit, but it was decided not to raise a loan to reduce it, but economise m every department. While entering? the Dunedin harbour the Wareatea was struck by a heavy sea, which broke on board and smashed m the skylight of the saloon and flooded the cabin. „ ■ A novel diversion with Wanganui lads is to lay a train wilh fuse, squibs, crackers, &c, and when a conveyance driven by a lady comes along, to light the fuse, retire and enjoy the " fun" of the horse plunging and the terrified passengers. Several letters from correspondents are unavoidably held over. Mr G. S. Grahamjis again a candidate for a seat iv the Board of directors of the N.Z. Government Life Insurance Association. We shall have some remarks to make on his add teas to the policyholders m an early issue. With reterence to the carrying away of the telegraph wires by the steamer Lyttelton on Friday, last, Mr Jonson, who was acting as pilot on the yessel, informs the Foxton paper that he con •

aiders he was quite justified m taking the steamer where he believed there was the deepest water, and he is fully able to prove the vessel did not touch the bottom. We are informed the scene when the wires were caught by the masthead was rather an exciting one, as the wires being steel, on account of the long stretch across the river, were found . to be very ton^h. On the northern side of the river the wires were carried to a post fastened on the top of another post, which m turn was fixed to one m the ground. The two upper opes were torn off by the tension, and it was not until after some trouble, not unattended with danger, that the vessel ultimately got clear, It may not be generally known that a couple of fiisherinen are now following their avocation on the Island of Eapiti, and are meeting with good success. T. Augustine Flood, a teacher of youth, nt Karere, has published a rather savoury communication attacking the Manawatu Daily Standard. The style of the production is very similar to the letter previously written by same individual, making a gross accusa-

tion against the Chairman of his School Committee. How true the old saying m reference to the impossibility of making silk purses out of a certain raw material. Our readen and the parents of children attending the school under i\ Augustine Flood's care, may form some idea of the kind of letter Rent to us by that gentleman, when the writer himself pencils m the margin, " Thic paragraph not for publication." It has been said that a service rendered occasionally makes either a friend or foe tor life. Not so very long ago the persca who is now so .virulently assailed by T. Augustine Flood, tared him from summary personal castigation m a railway carriage, and shortly after on the same day was instrumental m saving his life, ! Have the . circumstances escaped T. Augustino Flood's recollection, or would he prefer they were buried m oblivion ? It is an apt illustration of the aphorism that one .good tarn deserves another. At the Bulls R.M. Court on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr McNeil, J.P, James Bromley was charged, on the information of the Sheep Inspector, Mr R. Simson, with having sheep infected with' lice m public yards, Messrs Stevens & Gorton's saleyards, on April 13th last. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and costs £2 7s. Another similar case is pending against a sheepowner, and will be heard at the sitting of the Court next month. -•