LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 237, 8 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We were to-day shewn a very excellent sample of basil turned out of the local tannery and fellmongery. The article was of first-rate quality, and was very creditable to the manufacturers. Mr Seddon, M. H.R., arrived m Palm* erston last evening; The favourite steamer Stormbird, probably the oldest screw steamer m New Zealand waters, is being lengthened by the addition of 28 feet, and otherwise irnnroved at a cost, of between £4000 or £5000. remember seeing the little steamer three and twenty years ago m Auckland, when she brought up the Southern members to the meeting of Parliament. New Zealand steamers could then be counted on the fingers of one hand, so to spaak. Materials for the Dairy Factory about being established near Wanganui are about being placed on the gronnd. One item is 40,000 bricks, there will also be lime, felt, iron, timber, &c. We (Herald), understand there was a pretty row on the railway at Karamea on Thursday evening. When the train was coming down some 40 natives (most of them intoxicated to a certain degree) got 1 into one of the eempartments, andcarried on high jinks, refusing to allow the guard to come into the compartment, and playing up generally to an unbearable extent. Mr Rotherham was on the train, and it is stated that he intends patting the matter into the hands of the police. The Parliamentary Session lasted exactly 12 weeks. The two Appropriation Bills were passed through both Houses, making a total appropriation for the year of £4,338,679, about equally divided between Immigration and Publio Works and public services. Mr Stuart O'Brien, the comedian, whose death was recently reported, died of cancer m the tongue. He was unconscious .for several days before his death. Preparations are being made by the railway authorities for taking out the dangerous curves between Pokeno and Taukau on the Waikato Line. The work it is estimated will cost about £6000, but the saving m wear and tear and engine* power, to say nothing of the avoidance of danger, will amply compensate for this seemingly large expenditure. Among the ships which put back during the recent gale at Home is, according to Router's telegrams, the Lady Jocelyn, bound for Wellington,

Mrs (ieor<e Dixou, of Wellington, is carrying on the management of the cor- j dial business of her late husband. Her business, announcement will be found tkewhere. With a view io simplifying the working of the Industrial Schools Act, 1882, the Minister for Education has appointed the senior sergeant or constable at each police station m the colony to be a person to make application, as occasion may require, to a Resident Magistrate under section 31 35, 36, and 37 of the said Act. The Olerks of all Resident Magistrate's Courts are also appointed to receive all moneys payable under tho Act. A terrible fire broke out recently m the Swedish fortress of Carlskrona. Two naval officers were killed, and two officers and two men seriously injured. Marlborough House was crowded with buyers on Saturday the opening day of the sale, tlastomers expressed surprise at the wonderful bargains offered by Ben tley Bros, and large sales were the order of the day.' Intending purchasers are reminded of the feet that tho sale will last for one month only, and lb would be well to pay an early visit to i this the most genuine of sales. As a guide for t c public we have erected a large sign, | with the word sale m white letters on a red ground. Bentley Bros., The Square, next o Stewart and Co., City Butchery.— Jadvt J