LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1710, 17 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a heavy and continuous downDOur of rain oa Saturday night. a»d all day yesterday, Hie effect of which cannot fail to greatly increase the volume of water m the Mauawatu . river| ihe roar of which-: was distinctlyaudible m Palmerston this morning. Attention ia directed to Messrs Wollerman and Hntcheson's altered advertisement appearing elsewhere, m which a great cash clearing sale is announced, owing to. the firm being about to relinquish business. A Native woman was very demonstrative m her attentions to Mr Johnston, fruiterer, on Saturday evening. She took possession of the shop for the time being,"'"and made things particularly livaly m the vicinity. ..The proprietor deemad it advisable to abdicate m her favour. Her. English invective was powerful and to the point, if not exactly jsolite. . • We are sony to hear that the NewZealand Watchman has been compelled )o suspend publication, temporarily at ■tleast, through lack of support. The Feilding paper has the. following : — -Mr Ellis, the sporting barber, left Feildmg shortly after, his defeat, by Bob Belfit. He omitted to call at the i Star ' office before he, went. -.•■.•• Dr Speer, the distinguished specialist, is at present m Wellington. He Will visit this district very shortly;. Our readers are requested to note the address*, at foot of advertisement. The detailed advertisement of the sale of the property m the estate of James Thurston, by Messrs Beckett, Hammond and Dick will appear to-mor-row. * Mossrs Beckett, Hammond and Dick's next itoc'< sale at Marton will be held on May 21. The entries at present received are published m our advertising colonies. Messrs Boros and Higgie will hold their usual fortnightly sale at the Campbelltown sale yards, Wanganui, on Wednesday next, the 19th instant, when they will offer for sale fat cows, two-and-a-half and three-year-old hi Hocks, good store cows, good ewes m linib^—fa^jiiAjiiiir^^wftyifir^^ftt^ojjjo^^

Wanganui has now 82 subsciibers to the telephone exchange. From th« Examiner we learn that Henry King, a Pnhiatnt surveyor, has been ordered to pay two pounds damages, for -revolting cruelty to a horse which he hired m January last fnm Hood and Shaw's livery stables, and re turned it blind of an eye, covered wilh wounds about the head, sid«s, *od. flanks, lame and swollen, with blood dripping from it. The Bench expressed regret that the police did not prosecute King proniptly for cruelty. . Tne Wai pa wa correspondent pf the Telegraph says :— Mr Oarlile got rery exqited while replying to the County Chairman on Friday m Council, and m made a Ivpsus linguae which will linger m all our memories for many a long day. Alluding to the subsides to local bodies he said :— 4% What they should all bear m mind was that all this money was supplied by theniselres. It was not as if God Almighty bad put his hand m his pocket and said, " H«re]s some money, go aud make roads." It is needless to say that this brought down the house, aud the chairman said something which I understood was ft hint that the reporters need uot report every word they hear, but'veally.i.t wonld have been a pity if this witty remark, rested simply on tradition. . . The Hawke's Bay Herald has been converted by its proprietors into a. limited liability company with a capital of £12,000, m 240 chares of £50. each. Of these shards IS3 have been ; registered aa having been taken up by 'seven geotlemeu, Messrs Dinwiddie, H. 5. Tiffen, and R T... WalkePVafcidgJ.the largest proportion. • ' * ,'-.fn . u ,;; An American wrote when Queensland attempted to annex New Guinea :~ : "England has stolen • another: .island. The place is very inaccessible that England would not try to steal.., §he, would annex perdition itself h'aa^U*^m>t al- : ready acauireda right- to it by> pplonisation." ' ' ■•■.,.,;•; I:,-.-/-., ?".-... Writes •' Fianeur" m -the Wauganui Eerald .:— The New Zealand. Grand National Steeplechase will be run at Christchurch ©n the 22rid July next, the added money being 325'sovs. After the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase oE 500 soys, this is hardly worthy of a Grand National Club. A New Plymouth paper thus, refers to a gentleman well known m Rangitikci : — Mr Borroclcß, a connection of the calico manufacturing firm of that name at Preston, Lancashire, has, wo hear, taken up 1,250 acres of land m Taranaki upon perpetual lease, and intends to make this part of the world his home m future. . Over 200 signatures have been attached to the petition asking for the formation •of Eastings into a borough. ! It is estimated by competeufc authority (says tke Tarapaki Herald) that there are fully 4000 kegs of butter at. present stored m Taranaki awaiting favourable opportunities for disposal m Sydney or elsewhere. This produce would be worth about £19^000. One largo buyer m the country nas 800 kegs m store, and we know of two m town, one with 500 kegs and the other with 350. If it were desirable, the whole of that butter could be shipped off at once; but the effect of such a tremendous supply m Sydney would be very marked upon the prices. From these considerations possibly it is kept back, and only sent over as the market suits.