LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 62, 2 August 1879, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Cokcbm.— The Pending Choj«l Society's concert last night .passed off Tery successfully. Owing to the Uteness of thohovr at which it tei-minated, we must postpone our notice of it until our next publication. The 3pobtl:h» :Sbabow.^ls -far : a» thia district is concoTned.lhe" shooting season " closed on Thursday. With one or two exception the bags have been * remaikablj light, although "game," suoh as it is, has been abundant. . ; . . .. (V . Politioaii Caitabd.— The news of the dissolution having been granted had not been m Feilding a couple of hours when rumours. as to the probable. caddidaias for Manawatu were as "plentiful as bkok: berries." Tl.-eir absuvmtj, m several instances, did not apparently militate, against their credibil'ty. It is not improbable, however/ that, one, jf. not two, mora eandi-, dates than those at pzesant m the field will vobntest the election. Time will show. y / > Tm DissoiTJTiOK.-T-The news -of the dissolution met with anything buf a cordial reception here. It was regarded as: an unneeeswry prolonging- of the xagony. The pre*ent*moaetary v depression hwi made its -presbnre felt eren m Feildlag, and the people would much rather haye heard of the Loan BjU baring passed, than of a diusoliition having been granted. .^WV can only hope that the Loan Bill will have been passed before the members have been sent back to their constituencies, as i it is looked upen; as: the^ only;. remedy applicable to the p!ment state of things. [Since the above written, we hare received a telegram seating that the .Opposition had agreed to thej passing ' . of the loan, and; »lso to, grant supplies fo/r the carrying-on of the business of the country .until the assembUng of the new Pei-I'.ament.] :<;.■>,• V-.-f-.-. -.■-.■..- .-' A. Howmnq NvisiHCß.—There is at any rate one; nuisance" existing at present m .feildtng which the ' authorities seem powerless either to abate or suppress. We allude to the number " of useless mongrel curs wbioh, seemingly are kept no other purpose than barking at the heehi of every horse, fighting, worrying children, or disturbing the ciiazens by making the night hideous with theup howling. It is* ! pity the Dog Nuisance Act does not provide fov •' prockimed" districts or townships, subjecting the owners m such districts to a I double or treble dog-tax. We can see no other remedy. The registjar here looks weU after his wards, and yet we h%re never seen a township, even on the diggings, where such a quantity o^ useless ours: exist.; Good WosLr-The .police have had an j unusually lively time of it during the peit week. In additien to the arrest of Darreß I already qoticed, Constable JPrice efeoted a very clever oapture on Tuesday afternoon, i A young fellow named Hutchison, who had been doipg an extensive business m value* leas cheques, was M wanted/ Constable j Price started off m quest of the gentleman, and got upon his trajl aY Marton, cleverly tracked him to his lair on the bank of the Bangitikei river, above the road hridge, .and i^fely brought him into town. He was hreught up before D. H. Macarthur, Esq., J.P., next morning, and remanded to Palmerston. Though young m year* he is an expeiienced hind' m inventing temponury substitutes for honest Iftbor, as the evidence frill doubtless bring but.