LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1720, 29 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■■■ ; A rhnner is wanted immediately for the Stoney Creek Aslmrst lines. Apply at Daily Standard office. , ,:'"."^t the meeting re erection of Opera Jlouse, the Gbairniaa remarked that the .-jtjme had certainly arrived wheu the people of Palinereton Bhould have a demit pTaee to meet, the present Hall (Theatre Royal) being a disgrace to the : to.wn. v •■• ■ : ' The entries for Messrs Barns & Higgie'a n< ; xt stock sale at Canipbelltown (Wanganui), will be found ia oar advertising columns. . The entries for Messrs Freeman R. Jackson & Co's next stock sale at ..Waverley will be found elsewhere. • ■ It is reported that an English man.of. war from Holiart will be m Wellington m a day or two. There is a rumsr current that a breach of promise action will be tried at the Inext sittings ot the Wanganui Supreme Court, when an engagement of sotna years standing will be investigated. Messrs Stevens & Gorton's next stock sale at Palmerston will be held on Jarie 3rd, The entries at present received f are published m our advertising columns, They include fat. bullocks, .forward b°al- : locks, three- yaar-old bullocks, milch co we, mixed cattle, quiet yearling heifers, good ewes m lamb, nwesiti lamb, Boraney ewes m lamb to Rotnney rams, and good yretnerfc ;• The followmg.in£ow»ation will be of great value to owners of sporting dogs liable to pick up poisoned meat when m the pursuit of game :— MY B. Hepburn, one of the pioneers of Ballarat, makes known the following antidote to strychnine. The re:nedy is salad oil, In three cases of his own stud erey bounds , he has proved its efficacy, even although convulsions had already commenced. He gives a small bottleful of salad oil at one dose, and m about an hour's time a large qose of castor oil. What is popularly known m America as '• The yellow agony" threatens to attack New Zealaud. It is understood that the syndicate wiio have undertaken the construction of the East and West Coast and Nelson Railway have made up their minds to do the work to a large «xtent by the help of Chinese labour, and that on this calculation the profits of the scheme are mainly bated. One of the bills now before the lowa Legislature provides that before a marriage license shall be issued each party to the proposed matrimonial contract •• sbftll give satisfactory evidence to the clnrk that they are able to maintain and support each other with all* necessaries of life, and also to take, oare of their : cKildren, if they hava any. At Zosohen, a village m Saxony, February 24th, a piece of land 20 aores m area, on which were several houses, suddenly subsided, leaving a large lake., Tnree men were drowned, Most of the dwellers m the houses were absent at time.

The Some News says that last winter was probably the worst experienced m England for more than a quarter of a century. Husband (mildly) : You must remember, my dear, that the most patient being that ever lived waa a man. Wife (impatiently) ! 0, don't talk to me about the patience of Job. Think of Mrs Job I the patience that poor woman roust have had .to put up with such a man I i. * Colonel" A. S. Cllbborn, ot the Salvation Army, writeß as follows to the English War Cry of March 6 :— "The Federal Tribunal, the highest judicial , authority m Switzerland, has after a four hoars' debate upon our appeal, quashed the decree of the Zurich Council of State-f«r.bidding our meetings. Thnn v bar-right to- hold meetings, throughout the Canton is re-eßtabljl'h»-.d, and all the other persecuting Cantons must feel the effect of this judgment. Staff-captain Schaaff writes that the Zurich halls are crammed to overflowing, and many souls are being saved." f. The Manawatu County Council are • going m for retrenchment. A resolution was passed at their last meeting to' the following effect :—" That the travelling rallowance of members, be reduced to 10s .per day, for attendance at the meetings;" : The usual allowance was j£l per day. ; The census of Auckland is now estimated at 60,000. Melbourne, Sydney, .and Adelaide are the only cities m the southern hemisphere that beat Auckland m population, and it is .possible. that the : returns of the present year may place Auckland third instead of fourth. , r The Welline'ton correspondent of the Djjnedin Evening {Star informs that journal that the costs of the recent libel cft'se of Stewart y. 'Wakefield and RoydhQuse amounted to £1700, those of the pontiff alone .reaching £1050. oA little girl, very much excited, rushed •ins> the parlour, wh'ich :: was\fuli of com: pimy, 'and exclatmed : 'Mamma, just %i?ic of it.' • Think of what, • darline- ?' :■'! Q,ur cat has got a whole lot of twinsj apd I didn't even know she was married.' 'ff you want to please a man just slap h|m on the back after he has delivered himself of some commonplace observa tion and say, •• What a cynic you are !" Unless he is very much unlike the rest of mankind, you can borrow £5 from him right off with impunity.— Somerville Journal. At the First Ohuroh, Dunodin, on Sunday last, Pastor Gibb, m a sermon, made reference to the sage of Chelsea, . m « terms wiich roused, the indignation of a lady worshipper, and on th« clergyman hinting at lunacy, she flourished an umbrella and bounced out of churoh. .':_'•■■• Vln the Lunatic Asylums of the colony there "are five persons who are under treatment for having gone insane through "love affairs,' 1 three of whom are females ajad two, males.

Savs-the Dunedin. »tof!— labile Mr ;J. ■ a M.H.R., yr'& stressing hii cqh?tituerifeß at- Lawrence the other night a cat had the honpur of occupying the stage alongside him. It was einsrularly appropriate that while thehon, gentleman Was .tpuobing'upon the depression, and advising the desirability of •• whipping the cat, 11 the animal mewed most disconsolately,

The following application tor patoqti havfl.bejo received h-G, A, Bergsipn, of Ffl]m«r«ton, Xmty, ado 1 J, tfemon pf