LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1728, 8 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Attention is directed to an advertisement inserted by .Mr Jordan m this issue. Mr Jordan has taken over the hajrculting and tobacconist business adjaining the Royal Hotel, where we trust he will receive a fair share of public patronage. The artesinn well m New Orleans has been bored over 1000 feet and no pnre water has been found. A prostrate forest was found 960 feet down. More signs of the depression : — The business manager of S» Leon's Circus writing to the Dunedin Star says: — "It Invercargill we played' the biggest circus season on record, our six night and two mid-day performances being attended by crowds of' people. Probably a more explicit idea of what business we did with these eight exhibitions will be gained 1 when I tell you tbat we neited £1543; We played four nights at Oaniaru during the Encampment, our receipts averaging £340 nightly. There must have been heavy weather m Welliugton on Saturday last. The heavy sea rolling m the harbor effected another breach m the railway embankment of the Government line about a mile north of Ngahaunings. The ballast was washed away for some distance, but • m a short time traffic was resumed. Some idea of the height attained by the sea may be conceived from the fact that a wave struck one of the first-class carriages of the 8 o'clock i train from the Halt, and deposited a quantity of water inside the car through an open window . ! The tenders were as follows for alterations and additions to Baddeley's Hotel, Danevirke, exclusive of painting, papering, and the sup- j plying of timber: — Craven, llimmer and Co., £464 (accepted.) A Warsop £830, Charles Wiley £753, B. V. Dixon £695 10s, Hood and Walker £529 10s 6d, Smith and Marsh £512. Mr E. Larcomb of Fahnerston was the appointed architect. We are glad to hear that the Wellington Young Men's Christian Association is doing all itcantD extend its usefulness. In addition to religious duties, the Association has undertaken others ,of a most important and useful description. Mr W. Noble is now conducting a Gospel Temperance Mission m Wellington. The s.b. Tui which left Foxton on Friday evening, had through stress of weather to put into Pukerua next morning. The Manawatu Railway Company's manager on haarint; of the circumstances sent a special engine and carriage from Plimmerton to bring the passenders into town. : . . .The. Auckland . correspondent of an exchange writes: — Racing gambling' is eating into the very heart of tho commuuity and affectiog every class. There is scarcely a meeting at which some reputation is not blasted and some clerk m difficulty with his accounts, or some employe who docs not do " the Pacific slope." . Every twopenny-halfpenny township around Aacklaud is kiting up its race meeting, the alpha and omega of which' is simply the tbtalisator. There is reason to believe that one leading member of the Legislative Council from the Auckland district, is so deeply impressed with the nuisance and evil of 'totalisator race meetings,' that he intends to bring iv a measure ior their regulation, if not total sup* pression. Mr Light, of Wellington, has taken over the Denbigh Hotel, Fe'ilding,' from Mr W. T. Watte. ..';■■■• The barque Carnarvon Castle, has been laid on for the Kimberley goldfields, to sail from Wellington on or about the 14th instant should sufficient inducement offer. . Building operations m Auckland are very quiet at present. The timber companies .are suffering iv consequence, and the number of hauda engaged m these establishments has lately been greatly reduced. Some ;rery funny items always crop up when a census is taken, and the Greymouth Star bears of one man not a hundred miles from Greymouth who entered his sex as l( not known," and m the occupation column he put down "married." • • The Otago Daily Times considers that Sir Robert Stout is never likely to bocome to the people of New Zealand what Mr Stout used to be. ■ - It is said that some member of the English Court has betrayed to Mr Labouchere the family secrets which are the basis of thoee cutting paragraphs of his.in Londou Truth. A detective is on the track of tho spy, and a scandal is expected