LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1731, 11 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs F. R. Jackson and Go,, held their inaugural sale at Feilding yesterday. There was a large attendance of buyers, and the catalogue was an unusually numerous one. A' notification appears elsewhere m reference 1 1 the disposal of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's bus ness to Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. MrSherwill trill continue, to act as manager and auctioneer m the Feilding district. During May the estates of twelve persons deceased were placed under th« mHnagemeu of the Public Trustee. The value ranged' from £1. up to £5000. By he sweafc.of your ' b -ow you earn your bread. We recognise tka justice of this doom. W. nouldnot eacajio . .« could. But m this doom it i tvi'uiud iitwen the lines that no man's brow shall svve tr. to earn bread for those who do not labor. 'No man shall be taxed to eni,ch his brother. — Hou. S. S. Cos. - >$aj>tain Hold way v the new captain of ihe Salvation Army m Wanganui. arrived from Nelson by the Murray on Wednesday. In thY Upper House on Wednesday, MrMenzies moved, That m the opinion of this ' Counoil every Sqhool Committee should have power tqcausi the Bible to be read m its I school 'd^ily without comment.— After a lively debate, '(he Council divided on the motion, which was carried — ayes, 20' ; noes, 14. 'In the House on Tuesday, on the motion for .the second reading of Mr Wilson's bill to curtail the Wanganui Education District, Mr bryce"as!.ed if it was also intended to exclude Fox lon. He had received a telegram, from the Secretary of the Education Board protesting; against suoh an action. Mr Wilsou admitted that such an action was contemplated, but said that it would be a question for the House :• to consider., .-.;■« \ A special general me'tin? of the Manawatu Club will be held on Saturday next at 8 p.m. In response to a request the Government sent the Hinemoa to Taurauga yesterday afternoon to render what assistance was' possible to' the distressed inhabitants. ; On Monday morning a train will be run for the first' time, to Mauricevijle, about fifteen miles north of Masterton. . -This will be an excursion train,, and no doubt many will take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded* them of seeing the fine plain country north of the.' 1 Waicarapa plains. The.N.Z.S Co'a R.M.S. Aoraogi left Ply- • mouth for Auckland and Wellington on Satorilny last. The Aorangi calls at the Cape' on .hewayout. y " ? * •*' "'"• -^ " The Whitney Cartridge Manufactory m Auckland is now, we believe, delivering 2000 rounds of rifle atuuaunition per day , to. the Defence Department. The /cartridges : are said to be of excellent quality. • Private letters from Home state that our ex-Governor Sir James Fergusson is about to be married, for the third time. A Rangjora tanner applied to his landlord,.3vho is a draper, to reduce his rent, and mat with this reply : — " Oh, Mr So-and-So, I hear you have been working the life out of the land ; I am told that since harvest you have ploughed the land and harrowed it, and after that you put a thing they call a sacniier. through it, and after that harrowed it again. If that isn't working the life out of the land, what is it? and now I shan't be able to let it again." . . . - Anew danger for explorers has been discovered. The South Australian Advertiser, .states that .Lieutenant linmergosen'de (of the German Navy) and; Dr Kqmniel have explored •. North-East . Guinea. They report that they reached a sppli twelve' days' march from the 'coastj-ahd discovered that their compass was. useless, owing to the presence of a tree&whieh possesses the properties of a highly charged electrical battery; Dr^ Euiamel was Knocked down' when lie touched ifc. Analysis showed it to consist^ of; almost pure amorphous carbon>* It' has been- named Elsassia Eleictrica., .-...• . ... According to a Taranaki County Councillor 1 Sir Robert Stout Had a good deal to go through during his stay m New Flymonth. At the 1 Council meeting Dr Smith said : — " Mr Stout came here on a Saturday luVht, and went away on Monday morning, and during that short time he was asked for no less a sum than £80,000. (Langhter.) There was not a man who said ' good day to Mr Stout ' but asked him for a grant of money." The New Zealand Herald's London correspondent says that npthing. further has been heard of the Bryce v Eusden case.. Mr Eusden has been visiting the ...New Zealand Government offices, searching, the files of the New Zealand.Gazette, but, for what ulterior purpose is not known; He looks a good deal broken „downJrpm anxiety and worry, connected ' witlrjiis protracted litigation, . and its untori'thhate results. Me Macandrew did not follow his old colleague and friend, Mr Montgomery, : into the lobby against the Government on Thursday nisrht. Being a believer m early hours, he went home betimes, first pairing m favour of the Government, and then let, us hope enjoying sweet slumbers. Mr Macandrew .has a horror of late hours, and, except under great pressure, refuses to sit after 10 p.m., going off to his lodgings and leaving the night birds to spout away to their heart's content. A section of land at Daneyirke bought a year back for a little over £2 per acre (the section beiug some distance over the railway line,, and m the . midst of standing bush), -has just been sold at auction for £13 15s per acre. For another* section, adjoining, the owner haa. refused £15 per aore. Advance Dane vi rke.— rEicaminer. •''Tn»i population of the North Island by the new census is 247,404, exclusive of Maoris and the Rhippiug population. At thejrtat census it ' was 193,047. The South Island returns are still incomplete. • . At the ft,M. Goart, Marton, on Monday, two well-known sheep-owners were fined for having infected sheep m public yards. In recording their conviction, the R. M., .Mr Ward, said he had noticed that quite a number of settlers m the Rangitikoi district were being brought before the court for this offence, and the repeated cautionings that had be«n given did not appear to have the desired effect, In inflicting that day tho minimum penalty of £1, he would l>e givi»u a final warning, »nd any further caaea vvhioh cajua before