LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 195, 25 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have received from Australia a long prospectus of a turf consultation, for in> sertion, payment to be made m tickets. We prefer ooia,* but our local content porary can have the advertisement on aD» plication. Doubtless he will be glad to net it. It is called the Australasian Consul* tation. • '!'";•.;, ■• '> Mr Dewabury has left Palmerston, where he has beea sUyjng for some weeks, en route fer Uhristchurch, where he is going into business with his brother. We wish him success m his new undertaking. Those devil.may-care batchers' boys •till ride round the corners and over footpaths like Jehu the son of Ahab, the son of Nimishi, who was such a famous cnaraoter with horses m his day. They si ould remember that a notice has been given, an bail better beware m time* " Terrace End," writes :-" When is ourJCorporation lamp to be again lit. We fa avt not seen its glimmer for^weeks, and the street is none too good just there. Who is responsible V A garrulous old woman of a journalist, who delights m pimping about trying to make misohief,made it his business to go to Mr Wakelin, who is employed at Mr Leary's office and try to make him be. lieve that aparagraph-in Monday's Standard about a late incompetent machinist m our employ referred to him. We need scarcely say it did nut, and it is a won* der Mr Wakelin did not take his meddlesome visitor by the ear and lift him outs side for his impudence. It would only have served him right if he bad. One of the ferrymen at ihe Lower Perry is very proud ot relating that the ■Standard taught him to read. He did not know a letter m the alphabet till within the last couple of years, bnt un< aided taught himself by means of the Standard. He is not ashamed to own it either. TheJManawatu Hirjiway Board sat 10-day. A report of the meeting will appear tomorrow. We would remind the members of the Loyal Manawatu Lodge of Oddfellows that to»morrow evening is their usual lodge night. The Rev* Jeremiah Murphy is now stableman at an hotel not 20 miles distant from Palmerston, < Mr Hanlrins is greatly improving his property m Stony Oreek, which will soon be the most charming villa residence m that (district. The residents of Woodville ere still agitating for a daily mail. It does seem ridiculous that with a daily coach service, the place should only have a triweekly mail. It is officially announced m the Gazette that the number of Councillors to be elected by each of the ridings of the Manawatu county shall be as follow*. For the Kawakawa Biding, three members : for the Oroua Biding, two members; for the Horowbenua Biding) one member; and for the Awahou Hiding, three mem» bera. It appears that m the case of Hunt v. Gordon, both parties are dissatisfied with ihe result arrived at m the Supreme Court on Friday, and a n«w trial has there* lore been asked for. It is not improbable that the cuae will be removed to the Court of Appeal. Under any circumstances, a onsiderable time muafc elapse before the uitfoit>iiCefl are fiually adjusted. From a Melbourne telegram m the Sydney licho we nee that the Rev. E. J. W«tkin (who was formerly well knowu m VVeiiingion/, has been appointed president of Wesley College, Melbourne, m place of the Rev. Dr. Waugb. t tie body of a woman, about §0 years n age, I) us been found floating m tli•ia b<>r «t Pun Chalmers. She was we i ; leased, but. bail only Unaepeuce iv e> ...cK«t. lture is uu uiue at present as v. her identity. The money orders issued by the New Zealand Post Office m the quarter just expired numbered 42,396 (for £138,972.) and 34)391 were pa* i (for £111,926;, both Dein,< a large increase on the eniue quarter of the preceding year. The New Zealand Postal revenue for the June quarter amounted to £46,062, as against £37,610 for the June quarter of 1882. The increase extends to all the departmental items of income.