LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1724, 3 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at the Borough Sale Yards took place this afternoon. Messrs F. R. Jackson ai>,d Co., announce special entries for the St Hill-street Sale Yards sale on Saturday next, comprising 4 superior draught horsey guranteed staunch, and one second hand spriug cart. Mr John McLenaan, of Oroua Downs, advertises to let from 600 to 700 acres of turnip land for one crop, as a whole or m lota. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co,, hare started business m Feilding, and the announcements of the first sales are published m our advertising columns. Ou the sth. inst. they will hold a sale of miscellaneous goods, without reiirve, m the new premises erected by Mr Heading, Manchester-street, Feilding, and on the 7th inst. they will auction at the residence or' Mr E. Jackuiau, wbo is leaving for the " Golden West." his stock, farm implements, and the goodwill of a lease m the "Kapa Kapa" Native reserve. Further particulars may be obtained from the advertisement. Ttte tivui's fir.-it stock file at Feildiug will be held ou June loth. The list of entries at present received is jmblished m oar advertising columns. Special attention is directed to Mr Chamberlain's altered advertisement, m which it is anuouueed that oat crudhiug is done tor the trade, and that crushed oats are supplied at the mill, Kimboiton-road, Feilding. During the Bryce banquet at Wellington the Hon. Colonel Brett predicted that the time was not far distant when there will be a revolution m Great Britain and Ireland, and he believed it would not be long before the services of the army and navy would be required. He hoped the*; New Zealand men would be ready for the occasion. His prediction was received with derisive laughter. Messrs Notman and Filmer have been elected auditors for the borough of Wanganui. The meeting of those wishing to proceed to Kimberley, which was held at Bellve's Hotel, Feilding, on Monday, was very largely attended. Not much businesss was done, but about half-a-dozen gave m their names as wiiliug to proceed by the Hero. Regarding the body found at Foxton, Constable Carr reports that a man was said to be missing from the Paiaka sawmills some two years ago, who has not since been heard of. The only means of indeutification at present Ye the boots, which will be sent round to Tarious bootmakers iv hopes of securing a clue. "Develop your minerals," is the Califomian style of asking a person to pay his debt. Our ancestors, the monkeys, conld'nt have been so ignorant after all. Tuay were all educated m the high branches. A Chicago merchant is going to have his name on 50,000,000 toothpicks. He seems quite desirous to hare Ins name m everybody's mouth. Learned men tell us that m Latin the word editor means "to eat." In the United States,aays an American exchange it means to scratch around like blazes to get something to eat. We hear that a writ tor libel has been served at the iustance of the National Mutual Life Insuranoe Company, on Air Frank Loudon, travelling ageut for the New Zealand Government Life Insurance department, claiming £2000. — Herald. At the Wanganui Police Court on Saturday a boy named Anderson, aged about 12 years, was charged with stonethrowing. Constable Gray proved the offence, having caught the delinquent m the, act of throwing at a telegraph post. The ,boy acknowledged that he had thrown a stone. A boy named Secombe said that he could throw straighter than defendant and they both aimed at a telegraph post. . The father who was present had nothing to say on his behalf. His Worship iv fining the lad "ss said that m future he would inflict a much heavier penalty. The North Otago Times states that at the present time there is a larg« run up the Waitaki on which nearly 120 men are engaged m rabbiting. ! An exchange says : — The census is furnishing the papers with the usual : batch of good stones. The Masterton man, however, who. wrote under •• thrashing loaohines" " ray wife," is certaiuly at the. top of the poll for «| n CfiOtM ftngvwi, lip ts d&te,