LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 59, 23 July 1879, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Sale ojAStoox. — Mr. Mavsmor's usual monthly, sale of 'stock is announced to be held at the Warwick street sale yards on Tuesday next when a large number, of cattle, sheep, and horaes, - will be. offered to. -public competition. The Q-ovkenment-ReseevsE.— -The recent wet weather has interfered very much with the progress of.the plate laying on thabranch, line from Taonui to the Government' Vaser^*! For mor,e than a week, operations have been at a stand still here, the men. having been withdrawn to Palmerston where .they are .engaged m filling up the. ditch idongsidet.tne 'railway.- ''•- "'' "'-. : ' : " : A Bunnvthobpe School.— The school at North Taonui is rapidly approaching com-:, pfetion. ! The work has be?n greatly delayed owing to the' alihbsfc' incessant raini we hava lately had. A few days now will suffice to complete the building wh«n it will be. taken off the contractors-hands. ', We. have not h?ard. whether a master has been as y#t appointed,; but if not.we,hopeJthere will be no .unnecessary delay m making the appointment A ' Ova Temple op Justice.— JTeilding being oh inland town and not a "Port of Entry" like Eoxton, any simile drawn from vessels might se!em very out of place. Still there is a very homely adage which applies very forcibly to our, Temple of Justice— the Court-house. ' The adage to which we refer inculcates the folly .of" spoiling a »hip for haportli o'tar.'- We have a Gourt-house wbieh is a credit to the town, but its approaches would be a disgrace to a shanty m the wilds of Connemara, where the pigs ahd tjie poultry and, if the family be m. affluent circumstances, the donkey box; share the comforts of .he. domestic hearth m common with the liv.man tenants. The edifice standi m theinidst of a perfect quagmire, and -in the winter months cannot be reached 'withou.fc v vMh?.). through a treacherous morass,

nearly anile deep. The fact that the shrine of the popular goddess cannot be reached except by wayi that are foul must have a very demoralising influence on the minds af her numerous worshippers. Knowing how abhorrent demoralisation of every kind must be to the Department, we venture to suggest that it shonld be at onen arrest the particular kind, and prevent its protegee being brought into contempt, by giving us a decent approach to the Court-house. TH! CiUB AKT> TBMPBRANOB HOTEI,.— '- A meeting of tbe provisional committee of the Feilding Club and. Temperance Hotel Co. (limited) was held m the Corporation office on Monday evening, Mr.^J. C. Thompson m the chair. Mr. Baker as chairman of the sub-committee reported that they had met on Tuesday evening, wh^n the prospectus, which had been drawn up by Mr. - Beattie, was unanimously adopted. The prospectus— having been read clause by clause — was adopted by the committee, after amendments, and ordered to be printed. The Bank of Australasia were appointed the company's bankers, and Mr. Beattis the interim secretary. Police Intellighsnce. — On Monday two cases were heard before D. H. Macarthur, Esq., J.P. James Webb was charged with stealing a piece of greenstone from a Maori woman at Bull's Mill, but there was nothing to connect the prisoner with the charge and he was discharged. Charles Roach was charged with breaking a window m the Denbigh Hotol and refusing to pay for it. As Mr, ltoe thought the breakage was "accidental and not wilful, the case was dismissed, the Magistrate informing Mr. Roe that his remedy !wbuld have to be by civil process m the R.M. Court, Interesting to, Bee-eeepees. — We have seen, m the Old Country, a heavy fall of snow m summer, and have known railway lines m the heart of England to have been blocked up with snowj and tran\c to be delayed thereby m the middle of June ; ; butjUntil the other day we never heard of a swarm of bees m mid-winter. In fact, were any one bold enough to aver that he had seen such, his statement would, not tb put too fine a point on it, be received with smiles of incredulity. So one of our townsmen found the other day, when he afi^rmed that m his afternoon ramble he had seen a swarm of bees (clustered on a flax stalk m a paddock not far from the township. The weather was extremely inclement at the time, and this increased the improbability of his statement. But it seems that he was right after all, for it turned out that one of our settlers had that very day lost the escond of two of this year's swarms, owing to mice, or at apy rate, % mouse, . having entered the hives and disturbed the honey- winners. Whether the hide of the wee intruders be sling-. proof, or their constitution such as to neutralise the venom, we leave naturalists it d elermine. . ■