The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1730, 10 June 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Charles Siau, of Woodrille, announces a sale of tanks, boilers, tic* ware, etc., at his auction room on Saturday next. ■ We are iifortned that the following are the principle candidates for the School Committee election, — Messrs • Stewart, J. P. Leary, Kushj Walton, Wjoodroofe, Lintou, Sinclair, Hoskjng, Hawkins, Sneleon, Hirst. Probably a scoie or so of others may be nomioat ed . ■•;.■_■ .• ■- A female; member of the Salvation Army has arrived m WeJHr^on from j Duiiedin to take charge of U© home for fallen women m connection with the Army. '„' Mr Johnston will ask the Government to-doy, If, to further encourage'i.ithe manufacture of, New.,^Zealand .flax into fibre for export, they wilj offer a bonus of £2000, such bonus to be. payable to the parson who shall first, within twelve months from the present time, export, at a oost not exceeding £15 per tou on board ship, fifty tODS of fibre of the value m the open market m London of not less than £30 par tou ? The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's s.s. Doric should reach Wellington about Friday or Saturday. She brings a number of nominated iinniigrante. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next at Awahuri will be held on the J/jMfc° f rpl ' nQn * y igMtrr"Tnhh'nrrnTi]

The (OMOWUI3: new paleo's ntnoig others have been applied for: — An iavealion for improvewe.iis ia sniveyoV ln>d w>e cbaiiimeasu n, (0 be l:iown as <f LiJielofu's na.eafc adjns a'>'e w! e!,.,i(J-eba'o 3 " T>y Wilson L'l'ejolio, 0? Wel !; u'v,od. waich a*.u c'ockranker ; an ioven. on fo r a nurooe ed metal label, w«)ch cap be fi raly and e^''^ affixed to a siugle key or bunch 0" keys waftoai; (he «M of a rm?, to becal'ec) < i>e "Post Office key- egisterj" by Jatne* Bo«kiaa Sieve-is, of Fe'Ul'Ojj, posLmasiei 1 - Mr Pharazyn, M.L.0., has been giving his views on Mr Gladstone's Home Rule proposals ,m a. letter to the London Times. ■ He states- that Mr Gladstone's scheme, if accented by the English people, would disastrously affect the integrity of the, Empire as a whole, and that if disintegration beging m England it will not end there. The Tuapeka Times says that a complete plant for lighting a town like Lawrence — with a population of 1080, with electricity would not cost, more than £1200, the consumers paying the cost of connecting, which would not be more than f.2 10s m each case. During the cross-examination of the prosecutrix m the case of an alleged capital assault, heard m the Water Police Court, Sydney, recently, it transpired that she had asked the father of the accused for £2000, to compromise the matter, and of this amount £1000 was to be divided between the detectives who had charge of the case . Documentary evidence m proof of this was put m, and the Bench held that the applicatisn of the prosecutrix for a sum of money to ..compromise the.m atter had placed her out of Court. It is well-known that it is most difficult,, and often impossible, to induce horses to leave their stable when ths bright flame 1 from a burning building shines m their faces ; but it has been 'conclusively, proven that horses can, under such circumstances, without .difficulty be led out, if but a saddle or harness he laid on them. Unfortunately this simple remedy is not commonly known, vud those who know it often forget it m the excitement of the moment, and yet it is so practical that it deserves to be widely published. Charles Rivers, an old Waterloo verteran, hap just died at Belfast. Deceased was bern at Upton, Glostershire, 1794. He served m the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade throughout the Peninsula war, and had a medal showing the inscriptions Toulouse, Orthes, Pyrenees, Vitoria, arid Salamanca. He.' was orderly-sergeant to the Duke of Wellington at Quatre Braa and Waterloo, where he was wounded m the leg, and served afterwards m America and Ireland. He was pensioned m 1832, on appointment as Ser-geant-Major to the Lancashire Militia. A story is told m the recently published MetnjpifsVpf Phelps of a well-known actor named A'ndVfSon, who waS about to play Hanijet, and having no tights, was furnished with a sovereign by his manager to buy a pair of silk ones. This was at Oldhain, and he had to go to Manchester to procure them. On the way to the coach office, the bibulous comedian fell 'm with some boon companions, who soon melted half the sovereign from him, Anderson, remarking that worsted was quite good enough for the Prince of Denmark. But before the revel had ended the actor had spent his last shilling, went back to the theatre, dressed for the part, and blacked his lees with burnt cork. •'.':••■' The obituary column m the London, Timesoi March 23 has been pronounced to be the most extraordinary one ever published' in one newspaper,, the number of deaths advertised being 81, of which number 44 represented a total bf 3,433 years or an average of 78 years each. Mr Henry Phillips, formerly of Palmerston, has obtained a license for ■hitf family hotel „ m Maetertoiii The house is a very, commodious one, and as the rapid increase of the town business justifies additional hotel accommodation, we are glad to hear of the license being granted. An exejting scens was witnessed at a late football match m Auckland recently. Two young ladies were proceeding: towards the Sold, when an excited hull rushed at them. . The ladies got thei t oacks against the fence,, and as retreat was impossible, they determined to face the foe. Their only hope was m their parasols, which they distended suddenly and simultaneously m the face of the astonished quadruped. The result was electrical. The bull swerved with fright, and m doing so fell exhausted to the ground, the ladies then escaping. In their fright they ran across th» street and scaled a fence, the top of which was protected with spikes. The bull meanwhile had become as stubbornly immovable as be had formerly been actively aggressive, and a horse and cart were hitched on to him to take him out of the way, Whan th« horse bsgau .to pull, the exasperated bull decided to get up. This was, done suddeuly, and he then attempted to upset the cart by pushing his horns through the spokes of the wheels. This was an unfortunate venture, as the wheels were going round, and the spokes quickly broke off | the horns. This settled the matter, and ! the quietened aniiual was led away cap* five. An English correspondent sends an exchange the following yarn, the truth of which he vouches for ;— •' At a Wedaesday evening, service at , ■.— ;Chnrch South Kensington, the curate electrified 1 the congregation when preaching on the subject of Satan fishing for souls, by saying : " And his bait is different for different people. For David it was a pretty^.woman, but sqon he was wriggling on the hook of remorse, and he wriggled as he wrote the 51st psalm." By this time some of the hearers were becoming visibly affected — whether to laughter or tears, or indignation may be imagined." Wednesday 'B Auckland Herald says : — A middie-aged man named John Gibson was arrested yesterday on a charge of lunacy. He is said to have' been only a few weeks m Auckland, and supposed to hftve come from Taranaki or Wanganin, indging from papers found on Mm.' He can give little account of himself, but is under the delusion that he is fenced m with swords and bayonets, and practically impregnable to assault. A police to test him, feigned to draw a knife on him, but he stood unflinchingly, beliavlng that he is armour-plated or constrficted on the., turret principle, or sometniuK of that sort. . The following notice appears m the Waneanui papers :-r-It having come under my notice that several, residents who majde advances or subscriptions .for Illustrated American Monthly Magazines have hat} no return made to them, ihrough ' the default of the so-called agent, intending subscribers are warned against making advances to any; but an authorised agent. < *■../,. ■The Jane Douglas wilt leave Foxton, I for on Saturday, % at 4.80 ! p.m. ■"' ■•,■■' -. ' ' - ..