LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 223, 23 August 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manawatu river was m high iood yesterday evening. Additional instruments for the Yolun* teer have been ordered by Mr James Carrol. The return football match, Wanganui v Manchester, haß been arranged to tike place al Palmeraton on Saturday week. The recent hot and cold weather has proved most disastrous to the lambing l season, Some farmers at Karere and Fitzherbert are heavy losers. We hear that the loss of lambs among Mr J. Sly a flock has been exceptionally heavy. At a public meeting held at Picton re frozen meat, resolutions were passed favourable to supporting the local refrigerating company, and also requesting the Government to provide additional wharf accommodation, as the Picton Freezing Company is now fairly established, and | the settlers are preparing a shipment per Lady Jocelyn from Wellington next trip. The People says ;— The last joke m re* lation to the coronation of the Czar is somewhat grim. A canvasser of a gre&t Life Assurance Company secured an m« traduction to one of the members of the French mission, and states that his com* pany, m view of the gentleman being the father of a family, and coßsidering the eventualities of the coronation, thought it well to remind him of the prudence of insuring his life before he started. There are still no fewer than 73 Bills on the Parliamentary Order Paper m, various stages of progress. How many of these will reach the Statute Book? ft has been stated to the Poßt, that the floating of the proposed Wellington Woollen Company is making good progress. 5000 shares having been applied for, and that an early meeting of the Provisional Directors will be held, with a view to deciding whether operations shall be commenced at once. An Auckland paper say« that the mean* est man of modern times reaides not a hundred miles from Kaipara. He was married recently, and. after the ceremony he gave the clergyman hia fee, neatly wrapped up m tissue paper. Of course the parson did'nt open the little parcel there and then, a« he guessed from the bulk that it contained five, sovereigns. His intense delight can be imagined when he stopped under the nearest lamp- post on bis way home, unwrapped iris treasure, and found five shillings! His language was not of that orthodox Biblical order when he made his crowning discovery, Mr Clapperton, of Greenock, who sustained serious injuries m the Pennilee col* lieioa on the Caledonian railway m Sepi tember, 1880, has been awarded £8450 damages as well as all expenses. The case has been referred to arbitration. This is believed to be the largest sum that has ever been awarded m Scotland m a case of this description* liuuiuns are widely circulated m all the large towns m England that the Queen is insane, aud that the story of an injured knee is an invention to conceal the truth. It is said that Her Majesty has developed insanity owing to the death of John Brown, a profound melancholy having taken possession of her which the best medical science is unable to alleviate. Some of the rumors make the Queen to be quite imbecile. The Weslevan Choir will meet for practice this evening at 7 30. The Parliamentary correspondent of th e Otago Daily Times states that the HonWalter Jonnston goes Home m Murch> and will nut seek re-election for Manawatu.^