LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 January 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Sly is advertising^ for, gppd. bush* men. " The Property Tax will be received, till the Bth of February without the penalty .of 10 per cent being enforced^ . ■ ' A lost horse is elsewhere advertised [for. > The weather broke about 9 p.m last night, protracted heat being succeeded by a steady rainfall, which as we heard many, remark 'will be worth thousands of pounds to Mnnawatu and Rangitikei. The heat on the Rangitikei road yesterday, with the many bush fires, was moat oppressive, the smoke atifliner, and the dust at times blinding. The rain must have been welcomed as a blessing by the settlers. Stock-owners, and dealers are re? minded that Messrs Stevens and Gorton hold their monthly sals at the Denbigh yards Feildinj?, to-morrow, when a large number of stock will be offered. An. unfortunate cow wandering on the railway near Mr McNeil's house, on Saturday evening, was run down by a passing train and killed. We hear that Mr Thomas King has been appointed manager for the Brewery Company. With Mr King's energy and popularity he should succeed m resus- \ oitating the^concern to some extent.

Elsewhere Mr Snelson announces the catalogue for his next Fitzherbert-street sale, which already : includes over 40 head of cattle and over 600 she,ep. Other additions are expected €b-morrow, and subsequently prior to the date of sale. Preparations are bosily m progress for establishing a telephone service m Wel» lington. Workmen have been engaged for several days m stretching wires between the various building to be connected, and on the roof of the Provincial Building quite an imposing array of insulators is being placed m position on a framework of novel end upparently ingenious con« struction. Steps are being taken to form a com. panytoworka marl-bed at Waitotara, with a view to provide tho settlers m the district with a good fertiliser for agricul- ; tural purposes. Writes tho Wanganui Chronicle: — It is questionable however whether it would not be better to make the Harnionic Society a public body.givintr public concerts m the usual way, or else to convert it into a private association giving entertainments for the benefit only of themselves and thair friends, m the same way as the local dramatic society. The hßlfnand-half system does not appear to have worked satisfactorily hitherto, from .a musical or any other point of view. From the Post we learn that it is intended to take steps for the prompt reerection of the Wirikino flax-mill build* inga as soon as the question of insurance has been settled. . The work of freezing a cargo of meat for the shib Lady Jocelyn is proceeding very successfully. Although it is only a week Bince the operations were com* -menced, 1600 carcases of Bheep and 60 quarters of beef have already been prepared, and the entire shipment will be , completed Jn .three weeks from dat». •Mhe machinery: (on board the veßsel is acting m a'satisfactory manner; In a lecture recently delivered at Boston Mr. Parton said ' that. at Eton College the students made m 1880 a fivehorse power steam«engine, which turns the lathesin their workshops. / This is a great change from the almost exclusive Latin verse-making of bygone days, and one which the Etonians highty appreciate. Mj&y of the bigger boys at Eton have their own forges, at which they hammer and mould, and thus profitably employ leisure houis which previously were spent m .schoolboy dissipation. "Oivis," m the Otago Witness, com* menting on the action of a Dunetiin citizen m forwarding £200 to England to* cover freight and charges on the importation of a detachment of the Salvation Army for sarvice m New. Zealand, says-— : "Bringing the Salvationists to New Zealand will be another of our many mistakes m acclimatisation,. It is the thistles, the sparrows, and the rabbits over again. The Army will prove a nuisance as troublesome aa any of these pests, and perhaps as ineradicable." The Ohristchurch Telegraph understands that Mr: Jacobsen, the alleged discorerer of a diamond field, has raceived a communication from the Minister of. Mines to the effect that the samples of supposed diamonds forwarded to the Government for analysis are not valuable gems, but merely quartz crystals. Mr. Jacobsen, however, is not satisfied with this explanation, and intends getting .ex» pertß' opinions on the nature of his discovery. " Yankee Lumberer's " trousers sa, at Terrace End Store. Sheep Shearer's trousers ss, at Terrace End Store. • •- . Juvenile Suits from 6s, at Terrace End Store. Boy's and Youths' Suits from 245, at Terrace End StoreSplendid Stock of Colonial Clothing, at Terrace End Store.