LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 86, 25 October 1879, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

_ CRiOKET.-4-At'V ; 'meeting Denbigh Hotel o.n Saturday evening, for the purpoie of taking 'into consideration thereorganisation; of the (Manchester. "Cricket Clpb, Mr. Sherwill m tho chair.it was.retiplved that -the suH'seription he 10s. per annum. Mr. Callanan, was; appointed ' Secretary %nl T^tvisurer ;. ,Mr. '-. 'Sherwill, . Captain ; and ,M essrs. - JBartJiolome w, p. "Rowley, Booth, "iVlacarthur, and TR!ade,.the Match Committee. The opening ipatch of the season was flxei 'to 1 take 4 plabe on; Saturday, stl| November, open to all coiners. The Manohesmb 'Rifles.— Our local Tplunteers seem determined to make them- - selves thoroughly efficient m the shortest. ",'. time possible,. and. to merit the high encomin passed upon them .by the officer commanding the district, M-ijor Noake. The corps havesince their enrolment, attended twc or tlftge drills, a, week.. These are. no mere matters -of- form!* for .ppder the Drill Instructor, Color-Sergeant Blackmpre, and tjhe ■'; Assistant^^ 'Drill-Instructor,* Private Pleasants, the.raerabei-3 of the corps have, a pretty time of it,. tbe last drill occupying more than two hours and a aaifi ' • Pun'S-ral.— - The. mortal- remains pf G-eprge Mitchell,, whose melancholy sudden death /at the Ghpltepjftm' -Hotel we. r"ewrded)ih-our last, were conveyed to the Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon/- many of 'his fellowworkmen joining m paying the last! sad. tribute to h's.wartli! .While. chronicling the e^entj we cannot refrain from noticing with Commendation .the .disinlerdstedi and considerate liberality of Mr. Deii'ds, of Terrace - End, who*jfat incidentally transpirexl, on his own resnpnsibilifcy ' de«pafcched Messrs. Smith and Marsh! undertakers, to make suitable arriuigenlents for thelfuneral of deceased. "We" can but re.-eoho the prayer, of the muxttTieva—Requiescat m page, An EriDEMio.-r-The many children who make Taonui lively are, we are sorry to say, Buffering 'from, 'a kind of influenzal bronchitis, or. bionchital influenza, "''JJhejre is scarcely a house, where, thereare not from three to- nine or fifteen ""down ! " with it.! The epidemic— fp^such Ihe disease appears to be— is highly infectious, as, where it makes it appearance, m, a house, all the jurenile members, of the household are speedily prostrated *by it. There is riot a cloud that has not a silver lining, and if the mosquitoes only take tljft; iofopf io& fond ■parents will not regret the inconvenience to ■which they have been put m attending on ' their offspring.' Auction Sales.— The sales ;ajt Messrs.. -Loudon ahd S^bitile^ ilpre, which w.ere' commenced, on .Sat prday, : apd contipuejl throughout tb.e present -^^, : by Me?ari>. Halcombf and Slier\villy were fairly successful.- In some. tewV in'itauces'thejgoods' did pot realise -half their. -val ( pe, but Most of them, brought fair Selling prices for - i m thpiijgh considerably under the rales

ruling for goods on credit. Of course, ifc would be idle to speculate on the advantages of the ready-money system to both bnyers and sellers, as we are afraid that it will never be brought, into universal practice, -unless, indeed, Mr. Hutchinson's Bill for .abolishing imprisonment for debt; m any case, may have so desirable an effect; We may mention that' the sale will be resumed to-day. -■■■. Stock Sale.—- There was a large -attendance' Of buyers at : Messrs. Stevens and Gorton's sale, of stock" yesterday, and the bidding considerth§Mthe dulness of the times, was brisk. .Prices ruled m favor of the vendors; as compared with other sales,and the following were realised.; — Wellbred three-year-old steers, m low^ condition, £3 to £6 5§. ; ; two*yeftr-old steers, £4 10s. ; yearlings and eighteen months \ old steers, £2 55._t0£3155.; store cows. £3 17s. -63. to £5 ; milch cows, £4 55.. t0 £6 155. ; two-, year-old mixed cattle, £3 15s. 63. to £4 2s. 6d. •, fat wethers, shorn, ss. 3d. to 6s. 6d., m wool. Bs. to Bs. 6d. ; horses— hacks, £5 to £12.. Some valuable draft horses were offered, but there; was no demand. Two hundred of cattle were yar led, three hundred sheep and about twenty horses [were entered. The News prom: Home.— The intelligence received from the* Home Country by .-.the'- last San Francisco mail, a9 to the very serious def"ciency m the crops, bears out the remarks we made some five months ago, and fully justifies the advice we tendered to our farmers, while there was yet time to act upon it— that they should put m every acre they possibly! could with wheat. . The deficiency m, the wheat orop of Great. Bri-, tain alone is estimated at £25,00(5,000, and we find it -stated tliat England will have, to 1 'import , l6,ooo,ooo Vacres of wheat;. This wiH representa sum of £50,000,000 for this one cereal alone. Other countries are siuTering from the same cause to a greater or less degree, and . it is very evident that the price of wheat must go. up an exceptionally" high price, and those farmers who acted^ upon ouir advice will have ho reason to re^gret having done so. - Interesting Case.-^Miv Evans,! of the, Rangitikei Hotels was charged, at the ResiMagistrate's. Court, Bulls, on, Tuesday last, ..to.. ..which day the hearing had been adjourned, with permitting card-playing "for money or moneys worth " m his licensed house. The information was laid by Inspector Goodall, who -conducted his own case, and Mr. Maclean appeared for the de-, "fence. While the police were . examining one of tho witnesses, Mr. Maclean said heappeared'for them., and should watchthe evidence gvien, sq that they might not •criminate themselves... The Inspector objected, contending th^t Mr. Maclean could not appear for the witnesses. This view was upheld by the Bench, and the case proceeded. The "case was proved, and a similar one admitted, defendant being fined £1. aiid costs on each charge. Counsel^in asking for merely nominal damages, stated that the objec,t"in view had been obtained, for he did not believe that a pack of cards could be found ipapy pub*jc-hou3e I m Bulls The Manners and * Habits off the./ Colonists.— We do not often have anything worth recording to relieve the humdrum n^onotony of everyrday life m Feild- , ing; so whenever a good joke, a wretched pun, a sparkling bo* mot, or amusing incident, is achieved or takes place, it is speed ily, •disseminated throqgh the township. Thefollowing came to oqr ears the other day, • and as it. tends to show the self-reliant spirit of the colonists, which erstwhile used to be apo'stfophised m the Home, and as it, is illustrative of our manners and habits m 1879, wo tjhink.it wortli-nscording, During one of the sales it Me33rs, Loudon, Hay? bittle, and Co.'s store, this week, a-, prominent citizeness was actively engaged bidding . most spiritedly for any amount of infantile habiliments, remarkipg to another, but lessprominent^ citizeness that she was making ■provision for "a rainy day,!' obviously hot : v .^ r jr remote. Having satiated her thirst for ''bargains," th is < prominent citizeness hied he into ope; of our Licensed Victual-, lers, ap*» confided to his rather unwilling ear all that she. had done m the " wee " drapery line, concluding with a modest re-, quest for the negotiation of a loan of £5,1 the amount invested. Our Boniface,' - though by no nieans a bad-hearted fellow, is troubled at times with a certaiii ohliqqity of vision which .d,am-ive3 him of the power ! of seeing things m their proper light; so it happened on this occasion, and so.it fell 'out, that .the prominent citizeness, had ! to retire without having accomplished the Abject -of her mission. >W-hat became, of the " wee v articles of clothing we. are. not ma: position to divulge. ,-' '':■:■' ■■■. .: