LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 1, Issue 111, 10 June 1881, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next English mac via sUn Francisco, will close at Palmerston on Friday,, the 17th June, at 7.45 p.di. 1

Mr James Bull is mentioned as that of % probable candidate for the Manawatu seat.

Mr S. Coleman commenced his two days’ sale to-dsy, there beiag a good at tendance, and the bidding being fairly animated, The sale will be continued to-morrow.

The entertainment last night was well attended, and in all fkpects successful. Mr Willis’ apparatus was capitally manipulated, the effect being all that could be desired.

The Tui and Jane Douglas were to sail from Wellington yesterday for Foxton, »»d the Storm bird is announced to leave for the same port to-morrow afternoon. Writes Spectator in the Wanganui Herald.;—“ Mr W a thins informs me that the money won by Wilkinson, who is now” undergoing a sentence of two years for embezelement, was forwarded a short time ago to hia wife, at Hawera. One bf the authorities in Wanganui, on learning that Wilfiiueou was entitled to reoeive a prize, entered a .verbal protest with tbe sweep promoters against the money being paid away, but Mr Jackson did what, in my opinion, was auite right by settling in tbe way I have mentioned.”

The polling of the Grey Valley eleotion will take'place next Thursday, Mr T. S. Weston is almost certain to be returned.

The real work of Parliament will probably commence about Tuesday next. By that time most of the members should have arrived.

A Melbourne telegram in . the ‘Sydney Morning Herald giree the following particulars of the murder at Jung Jang : “ Information has beea-rfoeired by the police of tbe murder at Jung Jang of Tie mothy Murphy; who was shot by Robert Bowen. Both partiee ere very young, Bowen being only nineteen and the deceased seventeen. They were selectors, and long quarrelled about a question of pasturage on a com moo. On Sunday afteraeon high words passed between the two, and Bowen, who oarried a gun, whin within three yards of Murphy, fired at him, shootiug Murphy through the lungs. Death wae instantaneous. The murderer escaped into the bash, end has not yet been captured.”

There ia one particularly sad feature about Mr Era’s death. He was'Mrriedly summoned to Melbourne to see his mother, who ie reported dying. He instantly left Dunedin by the Tararua, and went to hie death. Next day a cablegram was received that hirtnother was' out of danger and fast reoovorieg. Thus hit life was needlessly sacrificed.

The Philadelphia Hews saya it ie better to have loved add ’o»t that, to be obliged •to get up a? a o’clock a eold winter morning to start the fire*.. .

Tfc- Vl-i'tcn »i<* orovorbiafly * thrifty race. A short time ago the traveller g? a woll-known wkoleaalo house, in London, called on a Glasgow trader for the usual annual account. With muoh apology thia gentleman professed, his inability to pay, but offered a bill at three months in plaee of the ready oash. After some demur thia was accepted and the necessary ducument drawn up and settled. Said the debtor, “ Noo, my ladia, that’s ftsiahed, I’ll discount it for ye, if ye Weel” and the bill was discounted.

Great complaints ware made about Lord Mayor M‘Arthur’s children’s party given at the Mansion Honse, London. Daucing waa strictly prohibited ; and the poor children, who had looked forward eagerly to an evening’s light phantastic, were compelled to sit and lounge about and amuse themselves as best they could with microscopes, living statuary, and magic-lantern representations of the Holy Land. A large portion of the guasta were NoEcoinformist ministers, and it is understood that prayer meetings were held at intervals during the evening. The face of one of the Lord Mayor’s footmen when he helped a clerical guest bn with his overcoat, and received a {tract as a gratuity, can be easier imagined than described.