LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 188, 16 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the first annual meeting of the Palmerston Brewery Company Messrs King and Whibley were re- elected as Directors, and Messrs Keeling and Hoe as Auditors for the ensu.ng year. A third call of 10s per share was resolved to be levied. New Zealand has exported altogether upwards of ten millien ounces of gold. The Dunedin Gaol Inquiry is to continue its sitting m Wellington to-day. Mr John Anderson of Victoria Avenue Wanganui, was the sucoesful tenderer for furnishing Mr Murphy's Woodville Hotel. It is rumoured that Mr Seddon is about to lease the Clareudon Hotel. We are pleased to learn that Mrs Millar, of Oroua, is now enjoying fair health, although considerable deafness has developed itself. We learn that Mr Chas* Bull, of Orangi is at present on a visit to Melbourne m connection with the timber trade, which he hopes to extend further iv that direction. We learn with sorrow of the death of Mrs Port, of Feilding, who has been an invalid for about two years. Her remains were taken down by train on Saturday for interment at Foxton, The bereaved husband has our heartfelt sympathy m bis afliction. " Settlei suggests that it is time the Otama* kapua Block were being opened up for settlement He hints that certain influences are at work to delay auch being done as long as possible. Messrs Jay and Hayns' contract is m full swin«, emyloying some iorly men, and as many more would.be taken on could they be obtained. But really good navvies are not numerous. We are glad to learn that a GleeOlnbis about being .established *t Terwce End under tbp conduotorsbip of Mr Hart ey. The Club will number some very excellent voices, and under Mr Hartley's competent and painstaking leadership some very enjoyable concerts may be looked forward too. We understand the Club will appear m public at no very dißtant dates,

Mr Jno. Anderson of Wantfan- i has secured tha ooiifcraots for furnish ig both the Ulub Hotel im.l also the Otitngaki Hot.l at As-hurst. Ihe making of the furniture will probably be sub-let to local firms. Mr Gordon Fo long has returned from the South to take up his residence at Bulls. A Lithographic picture of the Loan and I Mercantile Co's premises m Wanganui, which is issued inthis week *• Yeoman" is really an excel em representation, and does the artist intiuile credit. Mr U, M. Snelson's sale pn Saturday was well attended, but bidding for the various lines offered, was very slow, the bulk of the goods offered not fotchiug anything like ordinary value.

Inquires are being made for the Scion of a noble house, an erstwhile resident of Palmeraton, who has cleared for other lands. He forgot to leave funds for some cheques he gave before Jeaviug whence the anxious inquiries by his friends. Mr McDonald, the recently elected member for Bruce, m declaring his opinions to the electors, said he would " strive to harmonise with the party m power, and try and get what good things were going." According to a London paper babies are at present decidedly adrug m the market; A short while ago one was advertised for sale for £.'. Is, Again, it came oat m evidence, on a School Board summons, that a childhad been bought for a shilling; and teceniiy the mother of a two-months-old infant pat her baby into a bag of rags which she was about to sell to a rag dealer, with the view, apparently, of at once getting rid of the child, and of making the bag heavier. In ihe American Patent Office Gazette for .February 13th, we^fiud a patent issued to New York parties for a machine whereby the papers are wrapped and addressed as they come from the press, and by an ' electrically-connected switch,' whioh is automatically operated ' by the passage of a metallic stencil band ' sorted according to their Post Office addresses. A poll was taken at Masterton a day or two ugo on the question of levying a special rate for the construction of Westmere Buad, and judging by the result must have exoited an enormous amount of public interest, For ilia proposal the nnmber of votes recorded was 1 ; against, 0. Needless to add, it was Lueretore declared to be carried. What effect the arduous work of taking the pell had upon the returning officer, and whether the district has yet recovered from the excitement is unfortunately not stated. Mr Gordon iorlong ianow attached to the Salvation Army. The proprietors of the Melbonrne Argus» no Si to be outdone by their .Radical contemporary the Age, hare scut Captain W. B. Armit to explore New Guinea.

Five ' violent deaths ' were registered m the four principal boroughs of Nevr Zealand daring the month of Jane, viz., 2' overlain I by mother 'at Dunedm, 1 drowned (Weliiugion), 1 suicide (shot) at Christchurch, bud 1 suicide (puisouedj at Auckland. Mr J. E. Eedmond (snys the Auatralasian) is almost as dangerous as a ftevivalisc preacher, An unfortunate woman at Ulunes nas relapsed into instanity, her particular mauia being an elaborately devised schemetor ihe destruction of the Redmonds by means of dynamite, which, with suicidal and murderous tendencies, rendered her danger* ous, m the opinion ot two meaioal men. She was ordered to be sent to the Kew asylum, In the division on Mr Montgomery's resoi lutioua every member was accounted for. lucludiug the pairs, 42 members supported ihe resolutions, and 52 voted against them. The House consists of 95 mem tiers, and as che Syeaker did not rote, we have the whoie House lepresented on the division. It is a curious fact, says the Wanganui Herald, that 8 years after abolition, 42 members have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the existmg system of Jocal government. Our readers will notice m oar London commercial report that consols hare fallen to par. This is probably a sign that money is lindiog other and more profitable outlets, and that England is being relieved from the general depression tbat has hung over the entire world for so long, aud which will quickly influence affairs m the remotest parts of the world. :