LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1738, 19 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Signor Rebuild, ithe Renowned jpecialut, will' pay a professional visit to Pahnerston on Thursdaynext. Elsewhere will be found the catalogue of Messrs BndttfV'fc MaCuichan 1 * stock tale at Oeo Sale Yurcs, to take place on Tuesday next at fp.mf ■■ ■'■■' Elsewhere will be fonnd the catalogue, to far as entries have been tefleived, for Messrs Free, man ,R. . Jackson and Co.'s stock sale at Waverler Sale Jardi, to take place on Friday next it i.3Gp.m.> .- ■■'■ Additional entries will be fonnd to the catalogue of Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co.'s next stock sale at St Hill-street Sale Yards, to take place on 'Wednesday next at noon. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s next' stock sale at the S^;Hiil-s^et 3 ,yMd%, JWan^ui, will be held dn Jone 23. The entries at present received are published m our advertising columns. ■•■(" : A gentleman m Christchurch (aav* the Times) has rocoived by the last Australian mail some letters from his son, who for two years past was on a station m Western Australia,,. about foar degrees south of the Kimberley' district, but who has determined to fro to^hfe" new geldfields. One gentleman of \ his .acquaintance made v bet that there would be 20,000 people on the field ia the course of six month* The climate, he describes m a former letter, kbWmg gohotlhutto live there would be as jgoodtijpprentic^thj'p to dwelling m Haded. No work 'can be dcibe by Europeans between 11 m the morning and 4 m the after* noon. ■ Miss Ada Campbell is announced to lecture /o-morrow (Sunday) evening at the Lyceum Ha]], Bank Chambers, on M Freethonght versus Christatiity, which has done, the most good for the human race?" Miss Campbell offers the sum. of £5 to the Palmerston North Benevolent Fund if any one will come forward and refute the statements made m the ! lecture ■'? i j '■? -""-^ | '< ;.' t I It ''is rumoured that a well-known citizen of Palmerston North will oppose Miss Ada Campbell to-morrow (Sunday) evening, so that A lively controversy may be expected after the lecture. A township is now being laid off at Mokau, ob die northern bank f of the river. ? It is on Crortrnment Jand., * .<s■ f■■ '•,:"%s'. & i Bjr order ah council, ihe ar«'a 'of the" peasant faxma " h&9 bsen increased to fifty acres. The change is m the right direction* Chaff is hardly obtainable m the Sydney market, £7 per ton being given for good Equality..: . : • I -•':'"/ / ••'= I • - The Wattsra Freezing Company.: have decided to vend a trial shipment of twenty quarters of beef to Sydney by the Wakatipu. . At the Wellington City. Council meeting a •letter was read from Mr J. Dransfield, an, ex- , Mayor of the city, offering to add his portrait ; to tlic number of counterfeit presentments of past Mayors hanging m the Council Chamber. In seconding tbe motion for its', acceptance, Councillor McKenzio suggested that the ■custom adopted m Christchurch should be folJowed m Wellington of each Mayor on coinpletioi^of hirterm of office presenting Xlihk of ..* gold chain, suitably inscribed, to be wora by his successor. Councillor Richardson, refer* , ring tt*; the portraits^ said inhey were to have a gallttry there 'shouia- be 'some standard of size filed, so as to make the pictures as uniform iis possible. He did not think;: thajt the size should beleft to the partienjar^.ttstjß of eachCfeuncillor. 'The matter then drponed. Mr William Noble delivered his farewell address; on intemperaued and its evils, to a crowdeid audience m "Wellington a few mights ago. . Me F.H.Fraseroecnpied the chair. The ldcture -wiis listened to with .great intorest by the large tmdience assembled, who frequently showed, their appreciation of his remarks by bear til j applauding 'him. Noble will' leave' by the TJiriion steamer Wakatipu on Sunday, for Sydney to fill his engagement* - in' that city. , After fulfilting-b^misavin m that city, Mr Noble proceeds to Melbounie, and from them he returns to England byway of Auckland and America. . V, M»ssr» pßeckett, Hammond, and Dick's • stock sale at Marton, y«stordnj f was on thevrhole -very successful. Mrs Parnell, mother of the "uncrowned Sing of Ireland, 11 is lying serioualy ill m New, York. Bat little hop* is expressed of her recovery. A Wooolville correspoadent suppliei the following f|aTa/?raph\ m a- letter to the Hawke'g B'jfy \&eraW;— The owner of theOroaa Downs station, near Foxton, I hear, lOsxfor his last shipment ef wethers. 'In future BOt a ahoep f reml that station 1b » to ibe told locally ; all dire to he seat Home. After all the House has declined to include Torton m the Wellington Educational District, Poor Mr Tbynnej' disappointecl again \. / " Mr Honore,. of Foxton, ; says that cqmmod celery iaj a sure cure for neuralgia. Take a small .^bunch of the green leayei) as much as 4 a «up of water, will cover m a small saucepan, boil it ; for 15 or 20 minutea, drink the water; instead of tea, andjeiat th^ leitves with a little rait and "bread and _bnt*ter eVery morning for Breakfast: TJry this for iboht* three months. „