LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1737, 18 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., publith elsewhere the catalogue of their next »tock /sale at the St Hill' Street yards, Wanganui, to t«ie|place oo Wednesday, 23rd inst.' ; . The adjonrned general meeting of the mem* hers ; of the. Caledonian Society .takes place this ..::-v ••■• r .'L\^l. *-'k L'J.i::-A. .. paper has got hold of the fol.' • lowing item of news :-4rjz^ " Palmewtafc \North is agitating for- a bonded warehoaie m 'that township;": We think it is dose otti fiv| years since' Palmenton North began to agitate ' for a bonded warehouse. ■ Kook Nan, the Chinaman who inflicted .serious injrnies with a slasher on Joseph Wright : at the Tahnraite hotel some months ago, has , been sentenced to three yean' hard labor. .: Tne Australasian sayis ; —We are convinced that the world's production of wool per htad is not; appreciably greater than twenty years liago,-. -.- '"":.■::•■.. Tho'K'raberley gold fever has taken a firm hold of a number of Wairarapa •j B tt|eri. lir J^rtVdj, the Greytown blaoksttritK,' has told his buiiness, and starts shortly with horses, .dray, -and necessary arrangements for the "new 'El Dorado. Another settler has-sold bis farm on the Taratahi for £550 and. is 'off to the " diggings," and others are following the ex* ample set them. It is jut as well for people to know that large vessels hare fa anchor put five miles from Derby and that horses will have to be lightered to that townships - Our readers are reminded of the sale of fruit s trees to^be held at Meiirs F. ft. Jackson and Co.'s auction rooms, , Kiinbolton-road, tomorrow. The trees are from Mr Benefield's ■■ Aramoho Nursery, and are of the best descrip* tions. :' ' ••-'■■■ " ; " :'"' : " ;; .' ■'< i We heat that tenders for the erection of stock sale yards iv Palmerstpn, for Messrs F R.' Jaiftson and Co., will be invited by Messrs Atkins and Clere, architects, within a few days. ( : ;Tbe local paper state that' a resident' bf' Feildiugr tried bard to discover that the water 'beiog pumped from bis well w«s 'warm enongh; ; to. indicate the near approach of a volcanic j^erMtion/ He even suggested a ' slightly iiulphnroui odour, but the bystanders could not . detect it.- .;.. : . . / ; -..':