The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Druvant ta verite. FRIDAy, JUNE 15, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 163, 15 June 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) D ruvant ta verite. FRIDAy, JUNE 15, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Foster is supplying some very superior furniture to the order of Mr SValkley, of the Commercial Hotel, for the furnishing of a portion o£ the new addition. '... ..-.'■■ • . Mr FrHser, baker, catered for thr guestg'at the Fancy Dresa Ball last night, and had made moßt ample provision, the providing giving complete satisfaction. . .. ! . ' Freethought ' appears to be gaining | ground both m Wellington and Wanganui," the membership being on the increaae m both places. It should be borne m mind that the 'Frisco mail closes at the Palmerston Post Office to-night. The Taranriki Herald gifes an instance of the low and scurrillity" to which Sir William Fox can descend with i facility. In a controversy with a Mr Coad, Sir Win. describes his opponent as a Toad, the alliteration being meant as wit. He also delicately advisee his op j ponent to eschew printing ink and stick to his beer ! Shades of St Michael and St George ! Robert Signal, who was remanded from Hawera on a charge of damaging property * at Halcombe, belonging to the Manchester Corporation, was brought up at Feilding, and remanded, to enable the Corporation to prove the ownership of the property. The eclipse of the sun, on the 6th May, m the Pacific. " ' According to advices received m Londot • from the Cape of Good Hope, great ex* f citement and indie nation .has been caused at Somerset East by the atrocious murdei of his wife by an attorney named Lippan. The unfortunate woman was flogged tc death with a whip, her body bei»galmosl cut to pieces. A ' Wellington paper states that t. country contemporary gives the following unfavourable account ot Wnneanui :— Wanganui is noted for lunatics, infamous whiskey, illicit distillation, abominable offences rgainst women and children, i *rson, lawyers of : ahoddy reputation, fraudulent bankrupts, larrikiniam of thf ) worst' type, hard drinking, and general I demoralisation. . The. town of Blenheim is now illuminated by jras, which is said to give great satisfaction. Palmerston is satisfied with half a dozen kerbsine lamps! The Dunedin Land Board has called upon four purchasers to show cause on the 28th inst. why their licenses shall not be forfeited for " dummyism," A colony of Franciscan monks and nuns is about to settle m• Cleyedbri', m England. The largest hotel m the place has been bought for the "new monastery, and a » ilia with extensive grounds has been secured for the nunnery. Lord Lytton sytaks of the change now going on m India as •' the greatest and most momentous revolution, at once . Bocial, moral, religious, and political, which perhaps the world has ever wit* nepsed." ' i . In the Grand Puohy of Baden, where a compulsory education law is vigorously enforced, crime has been reduced m the last seven years 50 per cent and pauperism 25 p^r cent. A War Office circular has been wsued which says ; — A gratuity will be issued to the European troops engaged m the re» cent operations m Egypt. Every officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, private who landed m Egypt between 16th July and 14th September, 1882 (both days inclusive), will be entitled to participate m the grant. The general is 1 to receive £1000 ; chief of the staff, £500 ; lieutenant-general, £304 ; major-general, £152 ; and other officers and men lessor amounts, descending to £2 each to priI vates. - -.: - . ■ ■••• -.• ■ •. - ■ 1 [H,Mra Harvey's day-school broke up for a fortnight mid- winter vacation this afternoon. It must be h a . source of much satisfaction to Mrs Harvey to know that the parents of the children attending are very well pleased with the progress made underjher careful and experienced tuition. Many, of her pupils had- been attending' the Government'Schooi, and for months had been making no headway, whereas now the rapid progress made is all tbe more {.'ratifying by ' comparison. Mrs Harvey's pupils are being educated after a method that will do their painstaking instructress infinite credit m the future. B. F. Fielding, m an article m the London Standard on long terms of service tells of a man servant who was employed continuously on an English farm by the same family for over eighty years.