LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1735, 16 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To make room for farther details of the Tarawera disturbance, now of -sach eugiossing pahlic intere»r, we are obliged to hold over leader, correspondence' reports ; &c, &c, and to übbrcviate other manor cmgiderably. The Soul Itlaud Times is very rotts|h ; on the Ministry. It says that the Jnout-Vogel cornbiimtiuu, which was literally conceived in,iniquity, «nd which has the raarki of original sin stroijgly upun it, has proved ..»r niiser^ble failure. The Ora^o Daily Times"; iiays, there hat rarely been, a Goveru raeot whose statements were co untrustworthy as the present. They/ have to be watched at every step for equvivocations, false pretenaioDs, special pleadings, and shams of one kind or another. The first meeting of Mr Jewell's creditors has beau called for Satnrdaj next. : The editor of a newspaper thus appeals to hit delinquent subscriber!* : — '• To all those who are m arrears one year or more, if- they will come forward aud pay up arrears and for one year m advance, we will give ft Artl-rate pbitnarjr notice gratis m case it kilj* them," There h»i beea a rttrp rise m (be price of tallow it Horot, «nd a further advance js JooLed for, Tbi» is good nivr« foy |toofe niMH

The rails reached Oiaki s tion oa Monday and will be laid across the bridge as soon as possible, to enable ballasting operations being commenced at that end. As the ballast train carries 150 tons each load, the Otaki bridge will be put to a strong test. The Ohau bridge carried a similar weight all right. The Wanganui Chronicle speaking of the United Press Association using the objectionable term " abject" m reference to the apology made by Sir W. Fox to Mr S. S. Downes, of the Pier Hotel, Wellington, observes :— " We say objectionable, because the apology m no sense warranted it, and the agmt of the Press Association who tent it should be brought sharply to book for his evident malice and clear breach of the ruin of the association. 1 ' Messrs Beckett, Hammond, and .Dick's next utock sale at Marton, will be held on Friday. The entries at preseut received are published m oar advertising columns. Last uight's Wangunui Herald has the following :— " It has been stated m the Palnierston North papers that an. attempt is to be made to upset the late election, but up to the present Mr A.' A. Browne, secretary to the Board, has received no intimation of aiy thing oftheaort. If the election is npset, there cannot be another, the Board having the power, then to take the matter m its own hands and settle it by appointing whom it cheoses to act as commissioners." The extension of the Wellington and Masterton line to Maurice ville was opened on Monday morning, when a special excureion train was laid on from Wellington to Maurice ville, performing the journey m a little over five hours, and returning to town m the evening. Several members of both Houses; of the Legislature, the Mayor of Wellington, and a fair sprinkling of the general public, paid a visit to Mauriceville by the special train, and were hospitably entertained. In _ future one train each way will be run daily between Wellington and Mauriceville. The Paris News says that at the baby show iv that city is an infant three and a half years old, born near Dieppe, which weighs eighty six pounds, and is threo feet ten inches m height. The agitation throughout Germany for the suppression of the gambling hells at Monaco is spreading, and a proposal that France should buy up independent Monaco, and then put an end to the gaming is meeting with approval. After four years' imprisonment at Cracow, a Jew, named Kilter and his wife, who had been three times convicted for the alleged murder of a Christian girl, have been acquitted by the Supreme Court. i