LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1747, 30 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The next San Francisco mail closes at the Palmerston Post office od Friday, July 16, at 7.45 p.u». By telegram we learn that Mr S. M' Baker, of Foxtou, has purchased tho thorough bred horse Feve, sire of Victoria, Patrician, Victory, *ud other horses. Feve has been m Waikato for the last few years, and has left a grand lot of stock both m harness and crosscountry horse*. We again remind our readers that new teleg/am forms will be, issued to-morrow. Any persons having any of the old ones m books or loose forms will please them. The sale ou the farm of the late Mr J. P. Hammond, of Bulls, conducted by F. R. Jackson & Co. on Tuesday, next,, promises to be well attended. Snow fell and was lying on the ground for some time m Kiwitea last week. Five inchesof snow fell, at-Wakefield station, near Nelson,' on"; Saturday last. The weather was bitterly cold. Constable Price has now so far raoovered from his recent severe illness that tie has been able to resume his duties at Foxton. From the local paper we learn that the Presbyterian body, m Feilding, have plans prepared for /-a haudsome manse building to be erected near the Church. The recent heavy rains have caused several slips on thesPorewa^ contrac| of the Central railway^ One ;near v .MSunt View will, cost about £50 to*rempve| As showing the extent oflhe' poverty .and distress now existing m the parish of Camberwell, Mr Turney, J.P., reciently m one day adjudicated upon the uhpiedecented number of 6090 summonses',- | which had been •issutd for non pay inent of one quarter's parochial taxes. Truly we livoiu hard times. Soine of pur readers, jyill be interested toJearh thajb^r George Hedges (formerly ofiSandon); is at Resent a prominent member of the Timaru Parliamentary Union. He has introduced a bill dealing : with special settlements. This is a question which his experience m connexion with, the Small Farm Association m the Sandon district 'should- render Mr ; Hedges -well qualified to'disculsf '■•■*» * p"' A man named Charles Humphries, a Campbelltown settler, met with a severe accident while working m the bush recently. A tree m falling struck him so as to render him insehsiVe. He was uncojnsciouß when ; found, ;and remained m that/state;for hfoursv Dr Roekstrow was called iri ; to attend upon the patient, and he is now out of danger and rapidly recovering; A chimney was blown down at Campbelltown, at the house of Mr F. Rich, Nluring the late gale. The chimney broke across within four feet of the ground, and the bricks went crashing ! through the lean- to of the house, almost demolishing it,. v ■• ■'■■ '- : - •-■•i-'u.-.;* . ■ ■ ' The Feilding bakers have increased the price of bread td 7d the > 41l> loaf. Have you heard the latest from America? Enter Ethel to Laura : " You look .radiant," remarks the latter, v Oh, such news," says Ethel./: been bitten by a mad dogj and we'are all,off to Paris. Isn't it delioious ?" A Waimate Plains, settler now m London,| m a private letter to a friend at Hawera, writes as follows te the Colonial and Indian Exhibition :—" I was proud to see that .much the finest samples ot grasses were those coining f ro!m Hiwera diatnc^ 1 1 j|i|end tojake my English friends ro see^specimens* of timothy, cocksfoot, &c, which the world elsewhere cannot produce. The opening was a great success, weather splen» did. The grounds are. visited by thousands daily." ■"""■• - ' •'* ; X Speaking m the House lately, Mr Tarubull said :^We.hear ,a great; deal said as to the possession of land— that a landowner has a right to say, ( * It is mine, I have paid for.it,, aqd< the « State has' no'right m any 'vay^td with it." But let us take an extreme view. ; Supposing , anyone „<w as j rich enough'toi buy the whole ' of the South Island, would he be allowed to say that no inhabitants should live m the whole Island/? An hOii"nißmber^^EiH p -hino;* Mr Turnbull— That would take place m savage life, no doubt ; but we do not want to kill him. We should have to tax him to death. If we' have to kill him wo want to do bo by .pur own,, peculiar method. To say; that any person possessing land hasy an absoluti riilitto do what he likes with ;it, is one, of those assertions which I hope we shall hear very little of m the future. The annual return of railway accidents m Nbvt Zealand has been -completed. It appears that during v tnV past year not a single passenger was killed or injured from " causes beyond his owncontrol," but four were killed, and nine injured through their, own misconduct or carelessness. Two railway, servants were killed and 53 wera itijured from causes beyond" their own control;' but none were; killed, and. only. 14 were injured through their own misconduct or oarelessn()B3. One person was killed ■ and five were injured on level crossings. Two trespassers were killed and as many "itiiured. In;, the workshops 31 were killed; and iiuder the heading 11 mfscellaneous," one death and , one case of injury are recorded. Total 10 killed and 115. injured. . The ..Sydney; Morning Herald thus sup^'up the result of its special commissioner's inquiries , into, the depression m Sbu th Australia. Last'year^births 'exceeeded the. deaths m number^ by 8000, and 12,229 people arrived in -the colony. But there were no fewer than 18,800 emigrants.: The colony did not retain an increase equal to the proportion of the natural increase retained by even an old country Jike Great Britian, and exodus continues oo ah increasing scale. Trade has fallen off 25pereent.