LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 139, 19 May 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- ~A tea and public meeting is tobß held m the Foresters' Hall, on Wednesday, May 23rd. Tea will be on the tables at ] 6 o'clock. There will be songs and readings by members and friends, and ad« dresses by the Hon. W. Fox, and Rev. Mr Griffith. A pleasant gathering may be^ looked forward to. A child has lately been born m New Jersey with twojonguts, and, horrible to relate, it is:a :pirl. W-hat a fearfql tiiae some poor fellow is destined to have of it. At a recent meeting of the Hawke's Bay Education Board a petition was received from certain residents .at Woodville with respect to the removal of the present master. In connection wihh this matter a letter was read from the secretary to the School Committee stating thatthemajority of the committee were m favor of the re-« tention of the present naster. A. telegram to the same effect from the chairman to the committee was also received. We. learn that the ©rated water factory known as Deard's has changed hands, Mr Beck, well and favourably known m this district, being the purchaser. The price has not transpired, but we learn it is somewhere about £300, at which price it should be remunerative to the purchaser, whom wa carx confidently recconamend as an expert m his business. We remind shareholders m the Pal* meraton Brewery -Company of the meet* ir q to take place next Tuesday, at 2 p.m. at.the Company^ office. , _... , . . Mr Greenwood- will; pay his next professional visit to jPalmerston next Wed* nesday, his Feilding day being the 6th of June, . Tenders are invited elsewhere for the lease of the Scotch " Kirk reserve, any farther 'particulars'-'' of which can be obtained on application -to Mr James Lin? tori. . ■-■ We he.nrajiumber; of the residents are about moving m the matter of the erection of a theatre for Palraerston, on the joint-stock 1 principle.' We ',^ill refer to this matter at greater • leugthih ah early issue. There can be no doubt huch an I undertaking wonld prove very.'remunera* tive to the shareholders, and be a great ad vantage, to the place; . ; , ~\ The Kaikoura Star cays: — " It is now hardly going too far to say, that practically this year's potato crop m Kaikoura is almost ruined. Judging from what we saw and could gather yesterday, the anticipated finest yield, the district had ever produced is speedl^ becmtiingia mass of corruption. In the most favorable situations on lowlying lands the' water stoo.d several inches deep over th~e drills. '"' Whtro the subsoil is stiff.clay the crop is sure. to,, be ruined. The only chance for 'the tuber m other places is to be thoroughly dry the potatoes before bagging or pitting 1 then* . The loss to Kaikoura this season in 'spoiled' gralin and the damagedone to the patato amounts to thousand of pounds sterling. On the Ist March Mr i Richard Suter, father of the Bishop, of Nelson,, died at i Maidenhoad, England, aged 84 years. 1 So powerful is ithe, odour of ; mußk ; that I one.grain is capable of perfuming for i several years a ( chamber „1.2 feet square, without sustaining any sendible'diminutiun jof its value or its weight. ""' ! ■>■>'■'-- J "The Christchurch Education Board have granted a clasa»room for religious teaching at certain times during the day,. ; Complaints are being made by theeettlers on theTPJains of the damage to their stock on jtbe railway; It'isurged that the line should be fenced, as the^ " Government butcher," &s the eneine is termed, is .slaughtering almost every-day. - ■ v jn. many gardens", says i'a Nelsbn J piper, strawberries and some other spring frnits, which will no doubt be nipped by frosts before they ripen, are now to be found, but we. learn that Mr Tyree, of Hope, has not only been, recently picking his third crop" of strawberries during the season, hut has also gathered within the past week some gallons of raspberries. In "several gardens fruit trees which were blossoming some months ago have fruit now upon them. "The Vagabond" is wiselin his generation. Before the newspapers of New Zealand said Anything of him, he said of them:—" In news, literary matter* and the courage of their opinions, they were far ahead of the newspapers m New South Wales." " General* Booth .states that during the past year 609 Salvationists hive been brutally knocked down or otherwise assalted, 225 of whom were women, and 23 children under fifteen. Fifty-six of their buildings have been attacked, m :many cases considerable datr age re lilting. The Picton Press states that a discovery of coal, apparently of good,- quality, has . been madejh the Waitohi Valley. A correspondent of the Timaru Herald states that, after the late fioods m that district, some young California^ salmon were found amongst the debris brought down by the river Opihi. This further, confirms the success of the experiment of introducing this fish. ■ A clergyman was recently annoyed by people talking and gijrgling. '[He paused,: a and looking aVthe disturbers, said," "I am always afraid to expose those who misbe-J have for this reason : Some years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat before me was constantly laughing, talkin?, and making' uncouth grimaces. I paused and administered fr severe rebuke. After the close of the service a gentleman 1 Baid>to me, • Sir, you have made a greßt mistake.- That young -man whomyou-re- ; proved is an idiot.' Since then I have 'always been afraid to reprove those who; misbehave themselves m church, lest I "should repeat the mistake and reprove; another ifiiqt." Dumig ; ;the rest of the;i service* at4east there was'g'ood order. ! Ministers held a very lengthy Cabinet! Council ou Thursday, and a meeting of the'{ Executive Council also , took place, ( the Premier : pr6sidin&: i : c; iisi ~ x -'—^^- jj Good accounts continue to comein from; all the native districts. The progress of; setHement < "on the West Coast is, we b°«] lieve, most favourably, reported on ,by tho! Royal CbmmisVibtierV Sir' William 1 'Fox,, who is now m Wellington. [ Yesterday morning at the Wanganui; R. M. Court, Mr Ward took occasion to| : 'ref er to the affidavit' mnde J by~ the'BHiliff; (Mr Graff) at. Palmereton, to the effeot; that iie^had served a summons on Mrs; iievy, the defendant m a civil rase heard, this imornirig. i His^ Worship said that he .bad madeenquiries, and it appeared to him; that the Bailiff bad mistaken himmstruc-j dona, and served both summonses on Mr Levy personally. Mr Ward further stated ••'tHa't^h* was satiofied, with Mr Graff's ex- ; planaHon;'alid J 'he J di'd not think there bad "been anything improper m his conduct. ! ■> sThe'Yankees arid British manufacturer^ are not the, only people who practice aduli ;terti i tion may be known from the statement of Mr Medhuret, a British official m China] who recently wrote that fifty-three thousand pounds of willow leave 9 were being made ready to be mixed with teas at one port alone.. j The Wanganui Chronicle is m error, m stating that FatherjMorean will not goj to tb,e. Retreat m Wellington. He ac-j .'i&japVnies the other clergymen, and will be absent ten days or perhaps a fortnight.',.