LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 28 February 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

Further additions have been made to Messrs Stevens & Gorton's sale at Spring Grove, Sandon, next Friday. 1 Mr A'. D. Thomson's appointment to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court -at Feilding, and Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Kiwitea, Manchester, Qroua, Kawakawa, and Feilding, rice A. R. T. Haultain, is gazetted. His appointment dates from Thursday. The practices of tne brass band nre enjoyable, no doubt, but we mis'sthe big drum. Now whete, or where, is- that big drum P Is it condemned, hired out,- lost, mislaid, stolsn, or strayed ; or what has become of it at all, at all ? - ..Mrs/ Snelson returned tp^Palmflrston last evening, after an "absence extending over several weeks, having been m Wellington to Booth c the dying hours of her departed sistorsin-law, .who lately passed away after a painful illness. - - It is notified m the Gazette " that the name of of the Rev. Frederick George Britan has been removed from the list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act, 1880, belonging to the Church of the Province of New Zealand,.' commonly called the Church of England, at the request of the Most Reverend the Primate." The Rev, Samuel Chapman, a Victorian clergyman, remarks that under the shadows of the Melbourne churches are neighbourhoods whose dwellings would be a disgrace to Ashantee, and whose morals approximate to those of Sodom and Gomorrah. He thinks that Melbourne back Blums are, even worse than those of Lon» don, Liverpool, 01 m proportion to population. The Milennium must be approaching. According to a correspondent of the Ha wera Star, the local brewer dr©ve the Good Templars of the place- to a picnic, and one of the local publicans drove them home again. Strange to say, the con« vevanoe was not upset either !

A very ndmimbjo Jott'-r lias recently appeared m the Wanganui Herald, from the pen of the Rev. Mr Towgood, advocating more holidays for the railway em« ployes. A resident of Main-street complains that the nightman does not discharge his duty properly, his neglect or incom« petence leaving a disgusting nuisance behind. These complaints are becoming alike wearisome and monotonous. At the District Court yesterday before District J udge Hardcaatle, the case of W s H. Young vF. B. Larkworthy. claim L 47 Bs, came on for hearing, Mr Hawkins, junr. appearing for plaintiff and Mr Esam for defendant. The whole case hinged upon the construction of certain terms of an agreement with regard to some fencing. Judgment was given for defendant. I A fine specimen. of copper ore has been picked up m the streets at Hawera, and m quality it is said to equal that from England or from Bum. Burra. It is conjectured that the speciman was brought into town with the road metal. An extraordinary general meeting of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (Limited), was to have been held to*day to confirm the resolutions at the, last meeting. The national debt of Great Britan now amounts to £763>000,000. an actual reduction m 25,year3 of 76,000,000. A country editor suggests that persons sending m big eggs will please accompany them by several ordinary sized ones, not for publication, bat as a guarantee of good faith. .:., : A ship named the Torrens had a narrow escape from sharing the fate of the Austral, at Adelaide lately. Whilst being loaded she suddenly lurched over, bursting the ties that held her to the quay, and i but for a steamer that was alongside her must invitably have capsized. The Otago Daily Times states that his Excellency i* declining all invitations to balls on . the South crn tour . \From our Southern files we hear that it was! not a girl who dropped dead m the school at Temuka, but the lady who kept the echool, 8 Miss Mary Ann Simpson. The rumour, that the purpose for which the Salvation Army was abouc to be sent out to the Colonies for, was to try and securelawyera and newspaper people, must be untrue as far as the latter are concerns cd. There isjplenty oi room for lawyers m theiSalvation Army but, none for newspaper people. The Wanganui Herald is informed by an officer of the steamer Wallace that on their last trip they found the sea strewn with logs of timber and sheaves of grain for a distance of 40 miles out, as a result of the late floods. Mr Symona' professional notice appears elsewhere. His long experience secures for him a jjood connection \s here ever he goes. ' . For seventeen single women who ar*> rived m Sydney from an emigrant ship, there were over 100 applicants, and the wages offered averaged 9a 6d per week. A letter was read at a meeting of the legal profession at Auckland from Judge Gilliea justifying his recent action m Gudgeon's case. A resolution was passed to the effect that the Society saw no reason to alter the decision of the recent meet* ing. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the growth of the steamship^ traffic, the production of sailing ships m England shows little diminution. One vessel per week was turned out from the Clyde last year. There were four sailing vessels launched recently, each of which was m turn the largest that had been produced. The work at other shipbuilding places has been equally remarkably large m sailing tonnage.