LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To mak« ; room for an extra number of adrertiaements/ adtne of which.have been standing for some timt, we have been obligtd to-day to abbreviate reading matter. . ! A few ioads of gravel are wanted to ba delivered at the Standard Office, and at Mr A. McMiun's residence, Cuba St. Edinburgh House baa been doing a big business since the great clearing ! sale commenced, yesterday the crush of people being quite impreoedented. The publio appear satisfied that when Mr Walton announces a olearing salo he means it. An altered advertisement from the New Zealand Clothing Factory will appear to-morrow. Tenders are invited by the Education Board for the tmruifacture and supnly of sohoo'-deiki and other furniture. We reoiitid our read ft ra of Messrs Snehpn and Co.V. stock vale to take place aft he tfitzherfoert-Btree't Sale Yards to-morrow. "A Urge number of eutries <hive'ljeen already catalogued, ' A horaw was sold a f«w days aero fn the Pahnerafon .Borough Pound for "a colonial Robert." Mr Hnyris wielded the hammer an the occasion^ but all hia eloquence failed to elicit a higher bid. The Awaburi Bridge being down must have considerably affected Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Awahuri yesterday, as buyers would find a difficulty m getting across. The suspension of communication is a gre&t drawback to parts of the tdjactnt district. . It is stated that Mr W. T. L. Travers has promised a donation of £2 2s to* wards the cost of remounting the: Wairau. cannon should it be decided to remove it to BloMhuim Markvt Place, as proposed. This is tho famous gun for which Captain Blenkinsbp purchased the Whole of the Wairau, and which indirectly led up to the Wairau massacre , The., boat ot burying a dead sheep came tip at the last meeting of tho Foxtqn Town Board, wh«n the Inapbotor of Nusances made a claim fort2s 6d, for disposing of a carcase left on the river bankf the city Fathers downed a little too stiff , and would- 'not allow more that one shilling, at which price one Commissioner naid he would like to bury as many as could be found* . >~ : ; ■ A^rhe v la^t tmetlag of the Foxton Town "Board; the following resolution was passed !•—" That the Town Board desires, ,to convey to Mrs PurwiU the reßpeotful condolence of the Com mm • •ioneiw m the loss she has sustnined m the death of her husband, the Chairman dfotfc Board." ; \ The Education Board has communicated with Mr A. Stewart, chairman of the Palmeraton School Oommittue, re« questing that any remarks m oonuectiou with tha Rev A. M. Wright's appeal might, be forwarded to the Board m time ;f or the next meeting which will be held on the 25th instant, A special meeting of the Committee is called for Friday evening next to consider fche matter,^ . ...-:■'. ■.:. - r . ■•=:,■ Messrs Bockett, Hammond, & Dick •re. about to erect extensive sale yards at fiiwterville. Evidently this enterprising firm have made up their miijdu to keep abreast of the tithes. The. new pale yards will certainly be » great convenience Co the'people m the Paraeka* retu arid adjoining districts. At a sitting of the Divorce ,pourt;,,Mr, JuHtloe Burt fined seventeen nba-attend*' ing jurymen. They were most highly rt«i>«atat»!e mtn, but their wives had refiuad to permit them visiting such a questionable place of entertainment.— Pun. • The Gore papers said that Sir Julius Vngel, on hearing of the Go. vernor's mishap at Onehunga, wired to His Excelleuoy :— " You lacked enter prise and confidence. You should have t progressed by leaps and bounds to the side of the vessel. If you're m danger of cold, borrow a suit from the captain, Borrowing will cure anything," ... The Jana Douglas will leave Foxtoo ,for ; Wellington, on Friday, at 10 p.m. The recent unpleasant proceedings m connection with the Wanganui steam dhip.Tuhua culminated m a lively scone attho secretary's offioß on Saturday. . The pea;^ .cliapter of the «' strange .eventful history M will be narrated m the U.MvOotirt. ' ix-.t .«

.. For the information jof the curious, whpajre bearing all sorts of rumors re the ; ,rea,l promoters, of the Fahiatua hewdpaper, we are m a position to state that the proprietor of the new Journal is ;Mr Haggen of the Woodville .Eaiajiiirief, and that Mr BlackiPf Palmerstori, is engaged for the managemerit of the former, while Mr Haggea remains at Wbodville». Tjiere « a wide Chasm m the approach to the Awahuri Bridge on tlie North sWe£ Which it will take *>oine labor 1 , time attd money to till up. There seems some fatality ■attaching to this bridge. Perhaps the realsecret lies m the fact that the bridge should not havir been built where jt is. We againremind our reader! that the nooiindtions for the Caledonian Sbdiety's handicaps close this evening. ' •: Between Paimerston and Woodville, a distance of 'l7, miles.three ooaohes have riow to be employed, viz., one to the Lower Ferry, another half way through the Gorges where an extensive slip has temporarily intopped all communication, , and anoihervirom there on to W«od villk Tb» ferry itielfisin a bad .state, and it: wt^l be some time before it is as it usedto be." The road through the Gorge is also: somethinsr to be remembered, and . on the whole coaching is neither pleasant to travellers nor profitable to the proprietors. The sooner it gives place to the iron horse the better for the district. The public of Foxton have responded liberally oil behalf of Mrs Dunn whuse ; husband was i ccontly drowned. From the local papor we learn that the pro* coeds of the concert were £19 Us, and the subscriptions amounted tp £40 11s, making a total of £60 2s, and the bal- ; ance of £50, after Mrs Dunn had received £2 9s 6H, ban been lodged m the Bank m the joint najnei of M«i*rs W. G. Robinson and Ei. S. Thyntie. .'•■ Within the last few dayii 'fmmepse ■ ▼olurnes of iteam hnve been Bethissuiag frtijn the summit of Ruapehu, hitherto btlieved to be an extinct volcano. .