The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1727, 7 June 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr A. Jardine, well-known m Wellington and for gome lime attached to the Telegraph. Department, is said to have joined the; Russian man-of-war Vestnik as electrician. This is tbe same young roan, we believe, who recently experimented with '' rough on rats." The Mai ton paper thus commences an article on the " settlement of land," :t— " The best scheme for settling the publio lands is at the root of the prosperity of every civilised community. . The question has beea agitated for more lhan twenty-five centuries aud yetthe problem seems to" be as far from a definite solution as at the outset." Surely our friend n.ust have been dreaming he was again with the volunteers — at " Piiribaka 1" The weather for the last few days has been ■ cold and bleak, and must be very trying to j delicate constitions or invalids. : i The Woodville paper hears that the local Comity rate-collector expects to have nearly 100 cages at the next fi.M, Caurt. Metn-B Nolnn, Tonics aud Co., elsewhere an- [ pounce the catalogue of their next stock tale at the Hawera Sale Yards, which tal.es place on Thursday next, at LBO p.m. W» b* vn ogaiii to request correspondent! to qrowMMr »l»Jn'« n « n* briefly a| thtv am

Further additions are made to the cataluga ! for Messrs Slevens and Gorton's stock sale at Bulls to lake place- to-monow. We ai e 1 eqiiested to intimale through our local colrnns, that theaaimul general meeting of the Pulracsloa Musical and Dramatic Society, will be bed on Wednesday next, at the Club Hole), at 8 o'clock. There will be a commiilee meeting at 7.15 p.m. • ■' An official notice from the Town Clerk to several default iog ratepayers appaars elsewhere We hare been requested, on behalf of Mrs. Buffe and Mis Datnmle--, the widows of the two residents of Stooey Creek, who recently lost their lives by sinking a well, tlfough au escitpe of choke-damp, to publicly tbauk all those who subscribed towards the erection of the tomb-stone over the graves of their deceased hmbaods. The "Clyde which arrived at Foxton from Wellington about a month ago, and . has been lying alongside the wharf loaded for over two weeks, sailed for Lytteltou on Wednesday moroiog, but grounded just below Hartley's Bend, where she remained till Tiiurnday morning, when she was towed out to sea by the Tui. A resident of Stoney Creek inquires if he is legally liable for payment for a paper delivered to him which he never ordered. He says he has told the lad .several times to discontinue leaving it, but it is delivered for all that. He had better send written notice to the proprietor or manager, thr.t he does not wish the paper left at his place, or he may find out by aud bye that lie has rendered himself liable by receiving it, even though be never ordered it. We are glad to hear that Mr Walton's little djmgbter, who has been somewhat seriously ill, . with a pcolouged attack of croup, is considerably better this morning. ■■ Tbere was a sharp shock of earthquake at 1.20 a.m. to-day. -, Mr G,,A.. Jackson, of Bunnythorne, has the prospectus of the projected Public Hall m hand, aud is working energetically to ensure the success of the undertaking. . The fortnightly meeting of the Blue Ribbon s. lVsmperance iJFnion, will be held m Bank Chambers, oti Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m. when a concert will be given m aid of the funds. Admission is fixed at the low rate of sixpence. Additions are made to the catalogue of Messrs Budge and McCutctian'd stock sale at the Wairaate Sale Yards, Mauaia, to take place to-morrow at 1 p.m. It is evident that parties proceeding to the Kimberley gold diggings must count the cost, as regards expenses, ere they start. The Perth Inquirer, of a recent date, states that a party of diggers who hired a dray at Derby to convey provisions to Kiinberley, had to pay £1500 for it. The dray was drawn by three horses. In the early days of the Ballarat diggings, Victoria, when there were no roads ito that part of the colony, the carriage from Melbourne was at the rate of £120 per lon. ' It haa been stated (says the British Trade Journel) that all the varied machinery m Great Britain, now operated by steam power, is capable of perform-' ing more work, and hence of creating more products, than could be performed by the labour of 400 million able bodied man, a number greater than'all the ablebodied men on the earth. An' pstance ot a large yield of milk, combined with extra good quality, has recently come to light, which may be traced to the good work following the existence of a dairy factory carried on upon improved principles. The cow is one of Mr McLeod's herd, calved about three weeks. She milks about five gallons daily, which contains from 18 to 20 per cent of cream, which should yield about 251b5.0f butter per weak. With such cows, dairy farmers would not need to complain of hard work or hard times. There 'is no question' that with care dairying can be made far more profitable than it has hitherto been.— Opunake. correspondent of Hawera Star. Mr Beetham asked the Defence Minister, without notice on Thursday after- . noon, whether he was aware that on Sunday last the battery at Kaiwarra was left without a custodian ? He remarked that the only person m th« battery on SWday afternson was a small boy, who amused himself by turning the guns about. As a Russian man-of-war was m the harbor at the time, he thought it a- strange circumstance that the battery should be left m this manner. Mr Ballanco said he could not give an answer to the question. Hart notice been given he could have obtained the information, v . •■■■■'" I A correspondent of a Napier paper asserts that he was assured that one member for a Southern, constituency was called into the Treasurer's private room, and told he could get anything he liked for : his constituency provider! that he voted for the Government. He replied by slamming the door m the Treasurer's face. . "Hippona" has it on excellent authority that if he is p^ssefl as sound, thastnllion Captivator, got by the English Derby winner Caractacus, will pass into the hands of the New Zealand Stud Company. Mr T. Hawkins Smith, who has a large station on the Clarence River, New South Wales, and who owns ths horse, passed throngh here en route to England a few days back, and a deal was made with him to secure Captivator. but the particulars have not yet transpired,. . A rumor was current on Thursday that the time table tor the Longbarn section of the West Coast railway had been issued, but nothing so far> as we could gather has yet been published. — Foxton paper.