LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 122, 30 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The oatalogue is elsewhere announced for Messrs' Stevens & Gorton's next Borough sale, which takes place on Tues" day week, the Bth inst. Jowett, for indecent assault on a child, was sentenced to 'seven years' penal servitude with 25 lashes. A letter addressed to " A. B." is lyifig at this officp. t The catalogue for Mr G. M. Snelson's next sale at the Fitzherbert yards ia pub> lishad .elsewhere. A committee meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club will be held at the Comment cial Hotel, to-morrow evenins? at 8. 30 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving nominations for the District Produce Knee. It is probable that the Wellington Building Society will be shortly wound up. Mr Snelson had a very good sale of horses on Saturday at Jordan's Horse Bazaar. Of the large number of entries a great many were sold at satisfactory prices. The Agent-General telegraphs, under date of London, April 16 tb, tbat the Oxford has sailed for Wellington with 325 emigrants. . To be a good Bwimmer the mouth should always bo kept shut. Women, are seldom, good swimmers.

A. man named Edward JDore, of Wei-. Irngton, has been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money by means of a valueless cheque on the "Onion Bank of Australia, Palmerston Worth. He ap« pears to have drawn a cheque for £12, which he managed to get cashed, and afterwards tried to get out of his i scrape by telegraphing for the money to his wife, a highly respectable woman how residing m palmerston, a request which was very properly refused. Mr Dewsbury, lately a minister of the Wesleyan body, occupied the" pulpit m their church lust night, and delivered a very able and eloquent discourse. The Rev. Mr Griffith was absent through indis* position. A respectably-attired woman was fined 5s and costs at the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court for the offence of ■drunkenness, and was also ordered to pay 10s 6d, being the amount of medical fees incurred on her behalf. Sergeant-Ander-son explained that when brought to the station she was m a comatose state, and it was deemed advisable to procure the attendance of a doctor. There can now be no doubt that the Thames- Tauranga mail lad, Downey, aged 15 or 16, a son of the driver of the coach between Tauranga and Ohinemutu, is lost. Sergeant-Major Kiely has received a tele" Kram from Constable Law, at Paeroa, to the effect that be and eight natives dragged the Waihi river, and about two and a half miles down from the crossing found the horses and pole attached, but no boy or carriage could be found. A considerable amount of housebuilding is going on m Auckland, notwithstanding the advance of the season and by degrees the vacant lots m the city are getting filled up. . Mr Thos. Knight notifies that he intends applying for a slaughtering license on section 447, Rangitikei Line. We understand it is expected the leading Wellington tenor will take part m the service at the opening of the New Wesleyan Church, next Sunday. Mr Larcomb ia inrifcing tenders for the new building for Messrs Hallenstein, to be erected between the Exchange Buildings and the adjacent shop, the plan of which has a very handsome front eleva* tion, and will be a decided ornament to the Square. During the month of March the stock shipped from Waitara was as follows :— Sheep, 2,497 ; horses, 108 ; cattle, 390. Mr Bell, who made £200,000 out of the telephone, is now. going to try and lose it m a newspaper. We understand that tenders are shortly to be called for the erection of new building for the Bank of New Zealand at Woodville, at which "place things are looking ut> very satisfactorily. We are m receipt of Mr James Laird's catalogue of plants and shrubs, which may be observed at his well known Egmoat Nursery, near St John's railway platform. The catalogue is a most elaborate pro* duction, the number of seeds, plants, shrubs, and fruit and forest trees being far too numerous to mention. It is well printed and compiled, and is certainly a very creditable production. A perusal of its contents cannot fail to ensure a sale, and we trust Mr Laird will be well recouped for his enterprise. Clothing. —lf an extensive Stock and great variety of choice.combined with extensively low quotations, is any inducement to purchasers, we would imagine Mr J. B. Hamilon will come m for a fair Share of the Winter's Trade, We question if m any inland town m New Zealand one could find a better display of really firaticlass Drapery, Boots, Clothing, &c, than to be seen at present m his Wellknown Old Established house, situate at the Corner of Main and George&streets. A specially Cheap Price List will be found m another column well worth the perusal of our numerous readers. — [Advt.] According to a Wellington paper, the tides continue to be a subject for comment among seafaring men. The only change that appears to have taken place since we commented upon the slight rise and fall at the full moon, r is that the water falls :to nearly the ordinary low«water level, and does not rise above high»tide. The rise and fall yesterday is said to have been hot more than 18in. Perhaps Professor Wiggins can accouut for the cause. The Post understands that the Govern-* ment have received a despatch from Sydney confirming the information already given by Reuter as to the decision of the New South Wales Parliament m regard to the 'Frisco mail service. The Auck-; land agent of the Pacific Mail Company has telegraphed to the head office to know if the company would renew the contract on the terms proposed, and the New Zealand Government are awaiting the reply before taking any further action. ,