LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1723, 2 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two important sale 9by Messrs Freeman It. Jackson and Co., at Feilding, will be fouDd ia our advertising columns, to which special attention is directed. The owner of a lost bridle can learn tidings of same on applicatiou at Standard office. Boron Rothschild has surprised Londoners by pinniug or: the blue ribbou of total abstinence. The Victorian Minister for Education says that the pupil school teachers m Victoria are better paid than those m any other country ia the world. The Oamaru Mail, referring to the statement of Mr Stout about the adjustment of representation, says : — " The country looks for souaethiug more than tiie mere patching up of the Representation Act to make it fit with the altered distribution of population." We understand that a Napier lady, m putting down her occupation m the census paper, gare " Home Ruler." The Post has the following >hiut : — People still continue to Bend us letters without enclosing their names. It is quite useless doing so, as such letters simply go into the wastepaper basket. The gold fever has seized a section of the Wdliugton pnblic, aud it is proposed to hold a meeting Best week to consider the desirableness of forming a party to proceed to Kimberley. The state of South Australia may be inferred from the publication of a series of articles m the South Australian Register under 1 hi', title, " How are we going to live through the coming winter ?'' A chai t ' organisation, has been formed to temporarily help all deserviug persons who apply for assistance. Freebreakfasts are to be given m Adelaide every week. Mr Foray th, the schoolmaster at Foxton, over whom there was so much squabbling, has received a lucrative appointment ia the South Inland. A petition is being circulated among the sporting men of the colony to get the freight for the carriage of racehorses reduced to the same oa b waters, viz, the return jjurney at single fares. On Sunday three mobs of sheep —one thousand m each — and a mob of eighty bullocks were crossed at the Gorge ferry, en route for the Manawatu. The Evening Press says it is not yet a year since St Patrick's College, Wellington, was opened for the reception of pupils, and now there are 70 boarders, and 46 day boys, making a total altogether of 116 students. The staff of professors has u'ow been increased to seven. There are now two spans of the new bridge over the Manawatu at AshhnrM. nearly completed. Mr W. 1) Nicholas is ia charge, and is pushing on the work with all possible speed. The Gruy River Argus calls Mr Maxwell, Gjr.cral Manager of Railways, ''an official puppy." To-morrow Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold an extensive stock sale at their Borough sale yard'), Palmerston. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at Bulls will be held on June 8. The entries at present receivad are published m our advertising columns. They include — 2 to 3 year old steers, mixed yearlings, 3-year steers and heifers, weavers, forward cows, Lincoln ewes m lamb, fat wethers, 1 Berkshire hoar, 6 breeding sows, lambs m wool (1,500), horses potatoes, etc. The following is a recipe for the cure of. shale or scab m sheep: — 4£ ozs. of horse turpentine, £lb of quicksilver, and 81bs of lard. First melt the lard on a slow fire, then put the horse turps m and boil slowly, then pour the quicksilver m and boil for half an-hour. It is only for hand, dressing. The wool is Rhed ■ down the neck and back to the tail, then down behind the shoulders and flanks, and it should be spread quite thin when cool. I have never known it to fail at Home, and it would be. of great value to owners of small flocks. — ahephcrd. A Wairarapa paper perpetrates the following " bull" :— Owing to the coach from Napier being: stuck up on Monday by a slip at the Saddle, near Mauriceville, Mr Darfjaville, M.H.8., bad to make " a rough ride partly on saddle and partly on foot to the Camp where another coach was waiting. The Kimberley goldfields are exciting a great deal of interest just now, and vessels are being put on from all ports of this colony. The rush has created quite a stir among the Auckland shipping. The Herald says;— The Orpsus and Lizzie are at present loading for Kimberley, bud the former will be delayed another few days, a portion, if not all, of her cargo of houses m frame will have to bo unshipped, owing, it is stated, to the bad manner m which it has been stowed. It is ■ exnqcted, however, that it will be reshipped m time to allow of the vessel sailing on Tuesday next. The brigantine Linda Weber is to follow these two vessels, 'and the barque Notero is also to go on tho berth from this port, and most likely the three master! schooner Handa Isle will also go from here. There is a vacancy m the Poxton Town Board, and three times havenominations been invited, bnt without any response. The local papor thus pathetically appeals : — We trust that next time some patriotic townsman will como forward and place his services at the disposal of the ratepayers. On Sunday last, Mrs Douglas, wife of a resident at Oampbelltown, preached at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Foxton, having: large audiences on each ocens--Bion. The lady at times preaches at different chapels m the district, sometimes going as far as Woodville, and is greatly appreciated by those who have had the pleasure of hearing her. The Foxton Town Board is going m for a vigorous assault ou defaulting ratepayers. A. McGregor, wbo was onn of those drowned by the sinking of the Ly-ee-moon> is Rtated; to be the sou of a hotelkeeper at Dtiriedin. The excitement over the Kimberley goldfields has extended to Bulls, whnro an attompt is being ninde to foru a party to proceed to tiie diggings. Already seven or eiprlit, including four station hands, ou Otakapo, have expressed there intention of going, A meeting of citizens was recently held at Brißhano to consider the morality of members of Parliament. The Mayor presided, and Ministers of all deaominations were present. Resolutions were passed urging that any proofs of adultery or other scnndalous offence against morality should ronder vacant the seat of any member offending while m Parliament,