LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 38, 20 March 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Crosse, surgeon dentist, announces elsewhere the datng of his next visit to the Rangitikei and Manawatu districts. j iMr Greenwood is ? to, pay his profes* atonal visit to Palinerstori to«nVorrow. A railway announcement for the Easter Holidays appear elsewhere. Messrs Nelson, Moate & Co's special 'announcement will; appear to-morrow. Mr G. M. Snelson's list of properties for sale will be found m our advertising columns. Several large bush fires were started yesterday, and were sending up vast columns of smoke' favoured- by the dry airand brisk breeze. We have been specially asked to announce m our widely-read local columns that the quarterly summoned meeting, of the Foresters' Court; will be held m £he Court Boom, Foresters Hall, to»night, at 7 p.m. The business includes payment of contributions and"general. ; The Inangahua Times, speaking of Mr EitzGerald, M.H.R. for Hokitika says ; —♦'As apolitican he is a failure. A nominee of a squatocratic government cannot be beneficial to a mining community. The squatocracy of New Zealand, as m the neighbouring colonies, care little, for those who earn their bread by toiling m the earth for minerals. Mr Fitzgerald, whatever may be his pretensions, cannot be a true representative cf the West Ooflst while at ; the same time he gives a consistant and steady support to those whom he himself acknowledges when he asks for bread offer him a stone." On Friday next, G-opd Friday, there will be no issue of the Man^wat^ Stan^bard, of which fact advertisers will please accept this intimation. The new volunteer band promises to be successfully e^tnblisked,,.;already some 12 members having offered' themselves. We hear that their first practice is to be tomight. We wish the neir institution all possible success. • .; .: : Mr J. B. Hamilton is m want of a tidy girl to mind children and assist m housework. We hear on what appears to be good 1 authority that wild rabbits inconsiderable numbers have been seen m the vicinity of the Race Course, if, this is so, measures | for their extermination should be taken at once. The following , paragraph occurs m a .lady-'s letter from Home: — "There is ample room for any amount of New Zea« land mutton. The frozen meat is certajnlya grand success — it is excellent ; and although there is- of course strong prejudice against it, it • must' "make its way." ; ; : The Waipapa lighthouse is being rapidly erected. It is rumoured that two or three Chinamen are suffering from leprosy at Round Hill, a mining township a few miles from Blverton. , The Wellington-Mapawatu Company have culled for tenders for another section of the.,' Wellington»Foxlon Railway of three miles and fifty five chains m exn 1 tent.

. Mr Linton's land sale at Feildintj on Saturday was well attendedand, the bidding for Mr Harcourt's property was brisk, it finally finding a purchaser at £5 per acre;