LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1715, 22 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As next Monday will be a public holiday — the Queen's birthday m th& jubilee year,— the Stanoard will not be pub?, jisfied on that day. Advertisers will please accept this intimation. The honorable member for Manawatu has -giran notioe to ask Ministers whether they propose to introduce a Representation Bill during the current cession, We trust that Mr Macarthur will insist upon a distinot reply to his question. Messrs F. R.. Jackson & Go's next Stock sale at the St. Hill Street yards will behnld, on May '26th. The entries at present received are published m our' advertising columns. They include fat cattle, fat «wes, wethers, and eweJß m lamWi _ „'" ,^ W« hare receivad another number of the Australasian Oddfellow and Frimdlg Societies Record. ' ' The i" Parliamentary Building had <a •Borrow escape from destruction ■ on Saturday evening last. It appears that Sir Maurice O'Rorke wan leaving his appartment early m the evening when heinotic-d a. small of- burning wood m his sitting room. Ho at once obtainod assistance . from Mr Otterson and the clerk 8 and messengers, who cut away the raantlepie'c* and found that the W.6od behind it was all smouldering and ■ charred., Water wai available; and m • a few miiiutea all danger was averted. *lt appears that the smell J>£ -fiW had ; beeh*notioed earlier m the day, but the exact locality of the fire was -not to be found. — Wellington papar. " Patrick " said the priest, " the widow Moloney tells me that you have stolen one of her finest pigs. Is that so ?"-^- --"Yes, yer honor. '— " What have you done with, it? 1 "-" Killed it land ate it, '.your honor."— " Oh, Patrick, when you are brought face to face with the widow and her pier on the judgment-day, , what accounf will yqivbe able tor give of y6ur-. sejf wheif.the widow. accuses you of .tbVthteft ?***-#• Bi4- you: ciy "the - p jg Would-' be there, yer rivirance ?" — " To be sure I did."— " Well, then, yer rivirance, I'll sajr, 'Mrs Moloney, there's your pig.* " are still m circulation of Cabinet dissensions. Indeed, it ia cur. rently asserted m the lobbies that a very serious dispute recently ocourred m the Cabinet, the subject being the impending Budget and, that a total breach wai narrowly averted. Of couwa this m»y b« i»ere lobby gtisip, but it m qn giptrtUjr WMMi^WiUfoflm Timn,

Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co are taking stops for very largely extending the ramifications of their auctioneering business. In addition to their Wellington brauch at Johnsonville, they have just taken over the business of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill at Feilding. Mr Sherwill, who is otio of the most highly respected and popular knights of the hammer on the coast, will, we are glad to hear, still retain his license, and act as resident manager for F. R. Jackson and Co. at Fuildmg ; m addition to which, however, he will add the duties of a travelling auctioneer to the firm, officiating at Wanganui, Johoso'iville, and elsewhere, .as occasion may require. That the wide extent of country, over which the business of the firm now' ranges may -prove correspondingly profitable to gentlemen possessed of so much energy and enterprise, is a wish to winch, everybody will heartily unite. ' — Chfo'nicU.' " . Few persons, perhaps, have any idea, of the labor involved m attending to 10-* comotives. As soon as the day's work is dyer the engine is taken into. the shed and the cleaner's work begins. The fire having all been drawn, the furnace-bars have to be scraped to remove the slag from, the coal, which, has adhered $o them; : The 1 engine has then to be thoroughly cleaned of all the dnat and dirt accumulated during the day, the whole operation taking from four to five hours according to circumstances. The fire has then to be lit to/ get up steam for the next run, and it is generally another four hours before 'that it accomplished ; so that the one man told off to each engine iskept pretty well occupied all-night.— Exchange- ■. ■ The Evening Post appeared in -to' ertlarged form on Wednesday, and is now the largest daily penny newspaper m the Colony. We congratulate our.contemporary on the position it now holds. With the Post of Wednesday was issued a facsimile ot the second issue of that journal, on Thursday, Fefeurjary 9, 1^65, when it wasjjisfr-fche i fourth of its. present .siae.-' "This proves m a, remarkable, manner the wonderful progress of Wellington m the iast 20 years. An individual distinction. — "Qh, dear," exclaimed Fanny Smith, "I wish somebody would break into our house' some night 1" " Why, what a wish, Fanny !" said her mother, " what m the world put that idea into your head? I.1 '. " Those horrid Robinsons had a burglary at their house last night, and the papers tell ail about the fine jewellery and splendid silk dress that the thieves got. Strange that nothing of the kind ever happens to us. The Robiusous will hold their heads up higher than ever now,the. hateful things." * A postman returning to his' home at; the ; Prince Consort 'a Cottages, Windsor, ; England, found a hamper. The. basket, contained a baby girl with fair hair,, some iJineu, a sponge, and a copy of a newspaper. ' There was also, a letter statiugthat the infant, whose father was a soldier m the 4th Hnzzara, was born on January lOtb, and had not been christened, and that the mother was about to embark for New South Wales. The parents of the foundling have not been discovered. An exchange narrates the following : — Two little girls, children belonging to Mr J. Davey, were playing near their parents' house o.n Sunday, when one of them, m etonping to soak a biscuit, fell into a water- hole 6ft deep. - The young est of the children— a girl under three years ot age, .not only screamed for. assistance but laid- down on the grass, stretched her arm over the water hole, and catching hold of her sister by the hair of her head, held her up till helparrived. Such preßenco of mind ia'a child so young is remarkable. >: --'" •Itv-ifii" rumored that Js* Attorney - General will introduce a^'new Divorce Bill during the copiiffg session, arid that its effect- will^«^o'place a wife on the sdine footib^Bß the husband fh suing-' for a divorce. That is to say a wife willibe enabled, to.petition for a div6rce on, the ground of adultery alone, unattended by cruelty or desertion. „ It is. said} further^ that the Bill will' sanction, dissolution of marriage -ya. case of. the hopeless lunacy ef one of the parties, of iii the eveut of .con viction for .felony and sentence to a lengthened . term of , imprfsouihent. rJ "desertion also being ih- ]• eluded as a ground of divorce. Some of 1 these provisions are certain to be strenuously resisted, as tending to weaken the sanctity of the marriage lie, also as operating dangerously and. oppressively m the case of a person .unjustly convicted nnd gnbsuqiiently released ; furthujas holding out a premium to .designing persons to undo repugnant matrimQnial bonds. The unanimity of the Cabinet even on this point is doubted, and.it is thought to be not improbable that- we may see Ministers voting m different lobbies when the division is taken on the Bill. — Wellington paper. The- will of Commander Hiywardy U.S.N., who died receorty m Egypt, provides for the cremation of his body, and adds : — " I desint that my ashes be' placed m a suitable urn of copper m her (his wife's) grave at her feet. If it were possible, I should insist that they may be placed inside her coffin, m which case I should not wish them to Ibe enclosed, biit strewn over whatever •may remain of her precious bodyj'