The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verste. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 221, 21 August 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Survant la verste. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-«»~ . A special telegram to the Standard giving a report of the interview by Messrs Wilson, Stevens, and Seddon, with the Minister for Public Works reached us to ™5r I a P^ earm the Pap^ but will be published as an extra this evening. I |We are £lad to hear that Mr Beck is E? w y ™ co ™ rin £ strength, and will soon be able to attend to business again -'. Mr E. Marsn is somewhat' easier, but ,« still very >eak, and the symtoms cannotsaid to hayeiimproved m any de- ; gree. Court, which will take place on the 28th ; inst., there is one criminal case, Regina y. Matire, a native from Otaki, for per. jury, and one civil suit. We hear that a juryio being empannelled on behalf of the defendant m the latter. Mr Hard X ™V lso > ye t0 deal with a nui ber of bankruptcy cases. In the : House on Friday the Committee appointed to inquire into the Tl, leged dummywm m Otago brought f,n he,r report. They find the char7 es o? alleged dummyiem on Messrs Gellib rand and Uo/s stations to be fully proved L and that the. purchases were not b ona fide Ihey recommend that they be cancelled; laud th e possession of the land be I*l me?d d t b h y at tJloor °^ T^ also recom mend that increased power shonM i_ given to Waste Lands BoardsTnde ft lin2 with such matters, and that a Ro?al Oom? mission ehould be appointed to forthmvesugate other charges of alleged^ f M* Greenwood has played the whole of his games m the Wanganui chess tournament, coming out with the magni a game*' ***' CoUntiag for alf tht m ° rd i Dg , t0 the PostmaaterGeneral, the New South Wales postoffice is worked at a loss of £73,000 a year. The Sydney magistrates have fined four barbers tor Sunday snaving, under that old Act of Charles 11. Charles wore his hair long.

There probably will be a smaller area sown with grain within Hawera county this season than last. The net result of last year's harvest, owing to the damage done to the grain before threshing, was gene* rally considered unsatisfactory.

Tuo b;lanc • <>r ymAm inddwtediieis to I the biinks m New Zealand has been re» I duced by £739,000 siuce 30th December last. Circulation and deposits have in* I I creased by nearly £600,000, and advances have been reduced by £148,000 within the half year. In an English school recently, the following definitions of "customs duties" were given ; — v< 'Customs are ways, duties are things that we have to do, and wn ought to do them' (from a girl. 'Ou3« tomers' duties are to go m the places and buy what they want, not stopping about, but go out when they are done' (from a boy)." 1 ?7"e notice that one of the lady saloon I. passengers by the Catalonia, which arrived m Wellington on 30th July, has settled down m Hawera as the wife of one of the settlers here. «« Happy the wooing that's not long a doing." IThe Chicago Inter-ocean has published intelligence from Logging Camp, Michigan, according to which a lumberman at that place having decapitated one of his fellow-workers witn an axe, the other lumberuieu seized and hanged the murderer. Subsequently, however, a neigh bouring party, who were friends Of the murderer, made an attack upon the lumbermen who had lynched him, and a general fight ensued, m which seven men were killed. A prohibition order has been granted m Wanganui, against supplying liquor to Dr Phillip Muesen, of Brunswick, the order having been made by Mr Ward, R.M., ou the application of Mr H. S. Miissen. It extend* to all hotels m Wanganui, Aramoho, Oambeltown, Kennedy's, Kai Iwi, Maxwelltown, and Waitotora. !■ ?.?.??..„°^ m "i?- whilw flnn "fr*- renovating one ot the rooms at Maxwell s Hawera hotel [recenty, came, across a quantity of jewellery and money between toe. partitions. The find consisted of a fold ring and pin, a half soverign, and .several silver coins. The articles appeared to have been lost for some time. In a letter to the Otago Daily Times iv reference to the hulf yearly report of the Brok of New Zealand the writer fears, if we knew the whole truth, that the directors and some of their special friends owe /he .Bank more than half the entire amount due to the Bank by its clients. Mr Bowles, formerly stationmaster at Fordell. is to take the place of Mr Gould, at Halcombe. We shall miss Mr Gould, but learn that his successor is courteous, efficient, and experienced. Messrs Browne and Boisen have pur« chased Jordan's Horse Bazaar. Both being experienced men with horses, a large businesavconnection should soon be secured. We learned to«day with much annoyance that our Foxton Line runner did hot deliver his papers oh Saturday night, nor did he ever inform us of his omission till we discovered it accidentally to-day,other-wisa the parcel would have been sent down early on Monday morning. We doubt if the mail reaches here this evening. The coach was an v hour late m leaving Otaki, and it is doubtful if it could make it up, with high tides and a heavy beach. If it arrives, delivery at the window will take place from 7 to 7. 30 p.m# — Xne Palmerston Volunteer Brass Band are engaged to play at the football match, Wanganui v. Manchester, to be played shortly.