LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 68, 13 February 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow is the anniversary known as St. ' Valentine's Day, on which the delivery of love miasiVes tax the resources of the post office department. Official notice of the meeting of the Assessment [Court for the Borough o* Puiraeraton North is elsewhere given. Tenders for the new hotel at Woodville olose toemorrow. . -. .' , 1 Oomplaintsihave reached us of whole* sale impounding of settlers' cattle by the 1 who was doubtless urged on by a ' rece.njb paragraph in the.JVlanawatu Times, i It is alleged that the cattle when im» pounded- do not receive the attention in the, way of food and water which they ought. tVhy is there nbt a pound for the • County, apart from the Borough % There was a considerable fresh in the Manawatu at tha Lower Gdrger on Saturday afternoon, ,the water rising 3 or 4 feet, somewhat suddenly, indicating the prevalence of. rains inland. y&s Peath, of Marton, has* purchased roperty at Nukumaru, at £14 per acre. Archibald r jE'orbea,iß to visit Wanganui next week, < Mr Lin ton notifies that Mr £. Marsh is authorized to 'receive settlements, and givs yrecei^ta ; for all accounts in his assigned, «atats.; ... „ . Weh'ear tHat£soo has been offered aud refused for the' goodwill of the lease of the Lower ; Go?ge Ferry; And yet the late chairman of the County Council con* aidered £150 a fair amount to offer 1 By the bye for whom was the ferry " wanted " on th at i Occasion :1 i . ; ;" - ; . A- considerable portion of k the Victoria Sawmill (Ashnraf) tramway i| as destroyed during; the leoentibush fires., but it. has been're-laid in a most ■ substantial manner. . , . An advertiser on Saturday paid for five insertions in the. iSoxndabp of, an adyer'tisement for a couple of horses and a dray. One insertion got his want supplied. A Bunny thorpe aqbacripler,. ; advertised \ for men to log up. "He got more than he wanted before the advertisement had ap* peared a\s|ecdns time. A Rangitikei'Line settiei' J attveYtised' that stray cattle were on his place. One insertion found the

owner, resident near Awapuni. • These aro facts that speak more strongly of the* efficacy of advertising, Jandthfe valae of ; 'VjiVr" 1 ) 0 , 1 ,^?, f .medium., than columns - We aref ebictantly obliged; t£ • abbreviate .vetrjiconaide^rably the reports of the two important public meetings held last night, in order to find room for other matter of special or general public interest.' ' Vendora of "shoddy'? are, again making their way up the Coast, and may be expected to vi«it Paltnerston in due course. Too confiding purchasers should be on their guard. ! Dr is shortly expected to pay a professional visit to Wanganui.. >It is now known that the application of water to the compound which produc»s blue fire, when 10^ state of agnitio'n,/ cauaes an exceedingly/powerf ul detonating' «plo3ion*bf: much/ 1 greater- potency than dyn&miteJ I IrTthe r ecent crioket match between N S. W and Victoria, owing to the unavoid*able absence of Bannerman, New; South Wales played with ten men only.v *•■•' s f^ !■ The meeting of the Wellington aid Manaw^atH . RaU way^Co na pany^ -called by advertisement^ to be held at the ,Ghatnber pf Commerce yesterday wgia a ,portant one. We belieTeit&rameading, of the Articles of Association ia to further ;the carrying out of eer^aia^proposed^noue* jtary arrangements to^Be Ventx&sted' 5 to an jagent, who has been appointed to -actIn London. . j