The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILT.) Suicant la verite. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1883. LOCALAND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 129, 8 May 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILT.) Suicant la verite. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Town subscribers will be waited on by oar collector for their subscription during to-morrow, and Thursday, and the residents of Stoney Creek and Ashurst on Friday. The bankruptoy of Edward Malcolm, of Feilding is elsewhere gazetted. Tenders are invited for additions nnd alterations to the Otangaki Hotel. Cardinal Manning, the head of the .Roman Catholic Church m England, wears tbe temperance blue ribbon. Two Bengalee girls from the Bethune school have secured the Bachelor of Arts degree at the Calcutta University at the first attempt. Tenders are invited by tbe Borough Council, for. kerbing imd metalling a length of footpath m Rangitikei-street. It is officially notified elsewhere by the County Council, that the Awahuri bridge will be closed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next, whilst repairs are being effected. In another column will be fouud a notification frmn the County Council respecting bye-law No. 4 of tbe Counties Act, and dealing with pigs or goats found wandering at large. Messrs Lough & Bastie have applied for a brewer's license, for Bridge's brewery, Foxton Lice, which property they have leased, nnd where they intend carrying on business. It is said that the Pope will shortly issue another Encyclical Letter against secret political societies, urging upon the Bishops and priests throughout the Catholic world not to admit anyone to their Easter Communion without obtaining a solemn statement that the communicant, does not belong to any association of ihe kind referred to. This Encyclical (adds the Home News) will be especially directed to the case of the Church m Ireland. We learn from a Wairarapa paper that Mr Kempton, senior, a pioneer Greytown settler, left Wellington m March, 3853, to settle m the Wairarapa. He and his party were accompanied by four bullocks, carrying; their goods and chattels, and the? managed to make Greytown after a three days' journey. There! was comfortable accommodation as fur as the Pukuratahi, where Hodder's Golden Fleece Hotel marked the limits of civilisn* tion. Tbe path over the Rimutaka was a bridle track. At Featherston Burling kept an accommodation h»us(>, aud the road to Greytown was a track across a stoney plain, andbeyond it flax, scrub, and swamp. There is now no doubt (suys the Patea Mail) that William Dale has left the Colony. At the Supreme Court he failed to answer when culled on, and His Honour ordered the recognisances of his sureties, CaptaiD Odgers and Mr Mace. During the past year, that white elephant the Great Eastern, has cost her proprietors no leas than £4000, while her total earnings are represented by the miserable sum of £13, which had been received as visitors' fees. Publicans are again inquiring (says a Wellington paper) whether the latest licensing umendinent does or dees not require them to advertise their intenion *or applying for renewals at the annual sittings of Licensing Committees. It is certain thattheholders of transfer licenses Hie reauired to advertise their intention of applying for licenses m due course, As to those who seek renewal of existing licenses, we need not attempt to interpret fox them a doubtful point of law. ' The Post understands that tbe initiatory steps have been taken m an action for divorce involving tbe names of several persons well-known m that city, «nd furnishing abundant material for gossip. The citation is about to be served, and if nothing interrupts the legnl machinery the case will come on for hearing at the next sitting of the Divorce Court. Mr David Gray, wood and coal merchant, of Napier, (-ays the Telegraph) had the misfortune a short time since to have his left thumb cut off by the circular saw used at his yard for sawing firewood. We are sorry to hear tetanus has set m, and that Mr Gray is now m a critical condition. During the last ten years, according to the carefully kept statistics of tbe Chief ' Constable, m Glasgow, notone public-house is reported as open on Sunday. A short time ago, it is stated, the daughter of an English gentleman m Paris I wrote a letter to the Czar, expressing her j sympathy with him. and telling him that sbe nightly prayed that he might not meet the fate of his father. She addressed her letter, "Tbe Emperor of Russia," and put it m the post. Sometime afters wards the Grand Duke Nicholas called to ccc tbe young lady, and brought her various presents from the Emperor, and took hei' out iorja drive. j