The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verite. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 80, 10 March 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verite. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1883. LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

Owing to a press of other matter, we <are obli^cUp.. holdover leader. 6 ThelfoilOwingsoSaewhat peculiar advertisement appears m a Wellington < paper ;— "Wanted, bjM * &ady j ##g iwithin!five^m ! uW walkWiPo^O^ei, two Gentlemen Boarders to share same bedroom ; bath, use of first-class piano, „aed.ftll/the comfort of a home. Apply for address^ &c, &c." This is somewhat allegorical, and might be read different waya byjdiffeHt people^ ? \ r | " Aiadame Lotti Wilmot is now lecturing successfully m, the' South Island. A Mr Bacon writes to the " Western i Star" that a strong solution of common washing, soda is a. Perfect cure for burns arid scalds. He !l s«j* i~" I nave* tried se v« al experiments with soda ; one by dipping my bare, arm m bpiling .jWa.teri.ißpd; afterwards iimmersing it;in.a /basin ,of washing soda in solution.! : The hot iwateribad! no more effect upon- the arm rthattaJ blister "would upon a wooden leg." ; Detectiyh Chrysttrt iairestecl ';&' man m Wellington ; named'- James' Hjjyle, on s from Timara charging^ him : witl .committing an indecent assault on a little girl three,year9 01., age ,: Whjm^airested; Mnyje ; ; denied , [that, he „was the; igan, but, subsequently .admitted, that h6 ; jvas the man referred to m the warrant, bui still denied having;conimitted the offence. When he left Timaru he wore long whiskers, but now he isdeari\flfiaved. The ! railway station master at Puke* hohe. Auckland.has been burnt m effigy. __ To»day was the date of the predicted greatstorm .m A ; ußtra]ia. j j ' Mr John Stevens was to occapy the irostriino m M^rF- R.Jackson's sale yards tohday, when a very extensive horse sale ..^•f.tojajke.pjace^^^^^ ....., J .^ w^,.. r4CjSßUl „ pearly £7,000, was put through the totalizator during the two days raceß al Wanganui. A Waitotara settler intends sending •home^for ;Bjack«tha^ch4ng[ which 7 does its working . A correspondent of a Wellington paper denies that Mr Whitelaw, lately of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, who ac« rhievpd euoh* notorietrrin connection with that institution, to arivinar a two -horse bus m Melbourne, but instead " that h« oc cupias a highly responsible position m that city m a public company.'' Bat is not driving ,a, two-horse bus a highly responsible portion for Mr Whitelaw 1 Tenders are invited elsewhere for the supply of certain fencing material for an advertiser resident near Foxton. The articles required should be readily pro.grSlei^lng^o^aa W3K ; South Australia will have 120,000 tons of wheat for export. The Wanganui Herald thus speaks, of a .performance given pa race .night i — '^Miach Jnferruptiion ably the feeling existing as to the mislead" ing character of the performance, and sit^r pn() r gipntTed|a^ Tia^ been pretty Well hooted off' the stage, the curtain fell on a scene ef uproar and confusion such as hag seldom been witnessed m Wanganui. '