LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 126, 4 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Jenssen is m want of a good general servant. . The next meeting of the Borough Council will be on Tuesday evening at 7.pm. MrGuthrie. late teacher of Kar»re, leaves for his new home at Halcombe to-morrow. We wish him all possible success m his future sphere of labour. We learn that Mr Snelson's sale of Mr Guthrie's furniture aad stock yesterday was quite a success though the weather wag threatening. Bidding was brisk, and good prices were realized . The Beady Money Store is again to the front with a special announcement over the leader , and which it will be found j to the interest of town and country resi- j dents to carefully ; peruse. Tha Thames Advertiser reports that the Rev. David Bruce and Mr William WilkinsoD, of the the Te Aroha Mail, have taken up the proprietorship of the Auckland Observer as partners. Sarelj not ! How achockin \ ! A former ex* ponent of the Gospel to edit a Society paper! 0 -temporal 0 mores! A young man named Charles M'Leod has been arrested m Melbourne for having tried to poison a family of selectors at Manoo,»nenr St. Arnaud. Mrs M'Leod, the pilsoner's mother, made some bread and flour porridge from a bag of flour kept m the outhouse. The porridge proved so bitter as to be uneatable.and it was thrown away. A pig and dog ate some of it and died instantaneously. The flour being examined was found to contain strychnine. The prisoner who ia on bad terms with his family, bough], an ounce of that poison at Stawell lately* The Ballarat Courier records that a young man, an attender of the Salvation Army services, a few nights ago had so far forgotten himself as to indulge m a whiff of the f ragaant weed m the porch while the meeting was proceeding. A soldier of the Army, noticing with horror the irrever* ence of the young offender, walked hastily up kfthtf spot, dashed the pipe from his 'teeth, smashing it m pieces on the floor. The smoker, as he gazed on the broken remains of his favorite meurschaurc, rolled up .his cuffs, but wiser counsels prevailing, he walked into the church, sought consolation, and got it. We remind our readers of Mr Snelson's sales to-morrow, all of which are of special importance. There are the stock sale at noon, the mortgage sales at 2 p.m., and l he bankrupt Block of jewellery at 2.30 ( p.m.; altogether a busy Afternoon for the • auctioneer, .

The " Grey River Argus "of the 10th inst. aays : — As there was a good deal of talk yesterday as to the number of fingers lipped off by the five-ton crane which capsized yesterday, we present the following list furnished by one familiar with the doings of the crane m that particular line since it was set to wcrk here ; — Mr Fitzi gerald, 2 fingers ; Thomas Kearney, 1 finger ; Wm. Beresford, 2 fingers ; John Smith, 1 finger ;Mr Schofield, 2 fingers ; ai/d two other men a finger each. The Wanjranui Herald .understands that the amount of loan required by the directors of the Wellingtons Manawatu Railway Company has bejn negotiated m the London market. A singular adventure ( says the Melbourne Argus ) has happened to a young man named Couseri, aged twenty-one years, a resident of Taibot^ who for two days and nights had been lost m the bush. Cousen, who was a sober, steady young man, lett Avoca on horseback on Satur» day morning, and only reached here this (Monday) evening, when he arrived on foot in]a semi-imbecile condition and greatly exhausted. He presents no ex« ternal marks of violence, but is totally unable to give an account of his ex« periences. He was examined on his arrival hers by Dr Cunningham, who ! states that his condition could not have been produced by over-indulgence, and the young man is known as a total ab« stainer. He cannot account for losing the horse he is known to have been riding when he left Avoca, and is unable to explain any incident connected with his wanderings. His condition induces the belief that m some manner he has sus« tamed a severe mental shock. The gold-diggers m Australia will no doubt have had their attention attracted "to the extraordinary richness of the gold quartz found m the Transvaal." Some of the lumps of quartz and rotten reef stuff are said to bejso rich that there "is actually more gold than stone m the lumps." The New Zealand Agricultural. .Gom* pany's settlers on the Waiinea Plains have now m stack, says the Mataura Ensign, and including what has already been threshed, 300 stacks of wheat, containing 140,000 bsuhels; 270 sacks of oats, conturning 180,000 bushels and 2000 bushels barley; over 200 bushels linseed and about 6000 bushels of grass seed. Thus fully 8000 tons of trrain have been grown by these farmers, and when we add the amount grown by the deferred -payment settlers m the same district (of whom there are about one hundred) the total number of tons miißtbe very large. A valuable thoroughbred horae, Palmbearer, who ran Becond m the Derby three yearn ago, was consigned by the Halcione, to Messrs. Clifford and Weld, of Flax* bourne. Unfortunately, however, the animal died during the voyage. The Wanganui Chronicle learns that arrangements are m progress for the conversion of York and Cornfoot's establishment iuto a -joint-etock company, the bulk of the shares to be held by the Manawatu and Bangitikei saw millers, the present members of the firm, and the principal local contractors. A notice to town subscribers will be found elsewhere. A couple of loads of straw for stabling purposes are required at the Standabd office. Tenders for Msesrs Russell Bros.'bushfelling contract close on Tuesday the 15th inst. Mr Perkins is advertising money to lend on freehold security at moderate rates of inteiest. A bankruptcy notice is elsewhere announced. " Several additions is made to the catalogue of Mssrs Stevens and Gortons stock sale at the Borough yards. We direct attention to the advertises ment announcing special Wesleyan services on Sunday next m connection with Ihe new church. It is porbacle the services will be very numersouly attan* ded.