LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1717, 26 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

t Mr Robinson informs' us that .the sailing of the Tui has been postponed from 2 p.m. Wednesday to Thursday: at the same hour. Messrs Gardner Bros., Ashurst, advertise for a driyer, who must be also able to milk. Resident Magistrates are getting stricter m the enforcement of the law on judgment summonses, alias imprisonment for debt. It is now the rule for them to require the plaintiff to tender to the defendant a Bufficent '.'sum . for, travelling expenses,- so that he may be present,, before they will hear such -an application at all. T.he Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington on Friday, at 3 p.m. On. the 29th hist Messrs Beckett, Hammond and Dick will auction at their rooms, Mar ton, fruit and forest trees from Mr Alexander Laird's far-famed Fairficlil nursery. Particulars are published iv bur "advertising columns. Attention's directed to a notice from Mr G. A. Bergersen appearing elsewhere, , The derelict Star of tho iVlersey went ashore at the end of Long Reef, off the town of New Plymouth, landi then broken jupj'bVailriug of. b^dbeing .left /but ttfu; peel. Sho was an oJd vesael, : having, ibeen built at Sunderland 23 years ago. We understand that Mr Rusden's solicitors have lodged the sum of £1000 m toe hands of trustees approved by Mr Bryce's solicitors, and. hay», aLso givon security for tin cost of the jaetion. The question: has now to be argued as between £.1005 and £5000 damages.—Wellington papeV. v • ;: ■' '. ■'/•...• Ona recent- pao'iic holiday . m ;New York, 12,000 trains passed through the Grand Central Dbp6t iw that city. Trains .came and went a« fast, as they could be handled. '_, ' •-••■•■ MrLabouchere saya in 2rutk: "One day Talleyrand said to my grandfather, •' I always thought you were obaaiissed with « certain aniuunt of sense, but I see that I was m «ri!or.".« l Why r ". asked my grandfather. , < l Because," he "' replied, ' •' 1 ob.aerved m a newspaper this moruing that you had contradictod a statement about yourself." As a rule, anyone who replies-to a nexyspaper on poraonal matters is an ass. If I saw m a m.ws paper a stat«nient that I had committed a murder, I douot whether I should J der»y it;" .; ; The Agent of the New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Book Society io at present m Palmerston, (in ; the shop next the Ready Money Store), with a large collection of Bvaugelical Literature, Church arid Sunday School Material &c, and will remain until Saturday, May 29th. Early inspection of the large and varied stock is mvitud. [Advt.l 'The Wairarapa star sayg ferrets have proved a f nuisahce-in the Wairarapa, and •have utterly failed to make any impresx siou on the rabbi t». On . Monday: Her Most Gracious Majesty .Victoria, .Qiieeh of Gredt Bri - tain and Ireland, E-npress of India,compl«teJ,|?ei:.67th *year, having beenborn on the 24tli of May, 1819. In reference to , the proceedings for : libieil which we Jstatud* a- f«w d.ays ago "'. were likely .; to be iristitijted^ agains Mas'gra. Cayerhill and Speedy, nt the instance of Mr Ridhardd, mastev of the Lower Hutt Schooli we (Post) are informed that Messrs Cavorhill and Speedy have instrudtid Mr W. T. L. Trnvers to accept service of any writ on their be-, jialf m. anj' such proceedings, and are rprejja^edjtp^flfendljia, auction. This is the case m wliich the 'scHooimiis'ter was charged 'by the parents' named with . imi)ioper conduct towards their girls. > Mi' James, McColl hns written to the Chairman of the Library Committee asking permission to present a ralualile '" family Bible, to cose two guinea [,-for the use of the public reading-rootn, on the condition that; it is placed m a conepiuuous place m the room, and can be read without objection or hindrance,' and ;that the five papers lately withdrawn are placed on the tablie as heretofore.