LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 25 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i Mrs Bloin. who died so suddenly on _] Friday evening, was buried on 'Sunday i afternoon, a considerable number of persons attending the funeral, } ' Mr and Mrs Hicks left P:\lmcrston by train on Saturday night, en route for the vSoutln There was a large assemblage of relatives anil friends ou the platform to bid them farewell. Tinre was a tea meeting at the Salvation Army barracks last ovening, which was largly attended; The after proceedings wore of an interesting nature. Both a., Japanese and Russian war vessel are now lying m Wellington harbour. H M.S. Opal is also expected .before long. We are sorry to hear of the somewhat serious indisposition of Mr James Miller, of the Beehive Store, who is temporarily- laid aside with rather severe illness. We trust soon to hear of his recovery, or m any case substantial irn> pioyement; "• "' ' ■ •'■ '•'' ■ We are obliged to hold over our report of the meeting on Saturday evening, inconnection with, the formation of a Special Settlement Association for this district. The meeting was a most successful and unanimous one. A newly married couple had a ain'gulnr experience on .Saturday evening. The bride, a widow with four children, whose first husband recently was' found dead, having worked on Wilkie's railway contract, decided to again enter the bonds of matrimony. After marriage the couple decided to spend the honeymoon at Wanganni, aud the husband waß deDuted to purchase two tickets for that place. The lady thought that first-olass tickets had been procured, and went into a first-class oarriage. As & matter of fact, the husband being frugally disposed, had obtained two second-class tickets, but when searching for his bride, the train got into motion, and he was prevented from entering the carriage. The wife, missing her husband, jumped out, and the couple wore left on the platform lamenting the loss of their fare and no > trip after all.

Tenders ard invited by Mr .Larcorhb' for alterations and additions to a hotel . -at.Dnnovirke. ; ;Tenderß clog« at riopn on Thursday, cTid of June. Plans can be seea at Mr Larcomb's office or at tho -hotel. . . !. \ }i Several additions have heen made to ' Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Faildingsale on.Tharsday next. Among other Items we notice 16 steers and 100 ewes m lamb to pure bred Lincoln rams, also a litter of six weaner pigs br*d from a pure bred China boar and a Berkshire sow. A queer story 1 It must have been very awkward for a well known J. P. to find his right hand neighbour at the Bryce banquet board to be a man whom only a few weeks ago, he had " sent^up" for 48 hours. without the option, of a fine for using obscene language! ! Fact, I assure you.—:" Laurioe, " m Wanganui Herald. To-morrow, Mr J. G. Wilson, M.HR for Foxtbn, will move m Parliament. any papers or telegrams relating to the purchase or sale of the WellingtonManciwatu Railway debentures m Loa- ' .don be laid, before the House." The 'Bruce' Herald sayp tl/at, m con- .. nection '.[■ with '■•'• the school tlection at Waiholarth© courts will be .invited to . define wfhat. conßtitutes a? .;,.: At * meeting of the polioy.holderd'. of the Government Life insurance Asapoin-:. tion held in.Napier, fifty-nine wens pre.aojjt^^repreßenting insured. JAifter. listening to.anaddre«i trom Mr Shannon, rosolutioqa wore p.asied afflrming the deeirability of oarrying out thß.prQgrimnw which he., ai a o»ndidate lp?Ji9.lßii«r|R«ißow^|i Puuieg ftp

The dreail of typhoid fever is stirring np the Auckland authorities, and some shocking cases of filth hnvo recently been disclosed m the police court. Typhoid fever is one of the preventive diseases, and by imposing substantial fines the Auckland bench is showing people that cleauliness is the best policy. On the walla of churches m Holland and parts of Belgium notices are posted up forbidding dogs and bad characters to enter. The doors also are locked dur|ng the^ sermon, so that nobody can interrupt by going m and out. The Tarauaki Daily News relates how a settler got to windward of the railway department by putting a calf m a sack, taking care just to leave its -head out, and by this means it was forwarded as ordinary goods to Inglewood for Is6d, wheroas had the calf betn sent as a calf, and not a parcel, the charge would have been 3a. At Oels, m Silsea, when thirty-seven women were preparing flax m., a .drying house, a fire broke out, and all the women except two were either bnrnt to death or severely injured. An English paper states that about 12 months ago a gentleman residing at Kent, purchased a plot of land m Melbourne,. Australia, for .£Bl per- foot frontage. A few days since he resold it, thelprice realised being £180 per foot. A rumour was current m Marton rececently that a number of owners of the Waimarino Block had intimated their intention of shooting anybody who went tliere to obtain signatures for the purchase of the block by the Government. Mr Johu Stevens, Mr Butler, and Mr W. M4rs.hain.ef f.iWangaqui by the Tuhua on Wednesday for the. pypose of obtaining signatures. Up to the present 250 out of a total of IJIOO signatures have been obtained.' Constable Price,; who has for some years been stationed ait Bulls, is about to be rcinoved to Foxton. Hia place is to .be filled by Constable Me Annuity,' of the "latter place, jivho, it will be remembered, . preceded Constable Price m the charge oiE.ihe Bulls station.