LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 243, 15 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-. At Mr-Linton?s sale to-day none of the properties offered found purchasers, re* serves not being reached. Mr Snelson had a good audience and a brisk sale at his rooms this afternoon. An Inspection Parade of the Palmerston Volunteers took place last night, when some 30 rank (and file were present. Major: Stapp gave the ": men about two hours hard exercise, after which he congratulated them upon the manner m which they were acquiring efficiency. At the conclusion of the Parade the c'orpß marched 'into the Square ; headed by the band, where they were dismissed. A man named Murtagh Collins has been arrested at Stratford, charged with wounding working bullocks belonging to Mr Mulree, storekeeper. The same bullocks twice came home' wounded, and a conistable was sent for, and secreted himself. the third occasion • shots were fired, the bullocks. being wounded again, when the constable 'sprang out and arrested Collins, who was taken to New Plymouth. It is evidently risky to perpetrate a joke m Switzerland. For simply having a document bearing the words, "Fool's Bank, .doing ..business m Nowhere, promises to pay on presentation a hundred francs, • .Director, Prince Carnival. Note: Whoever forges bank notes will be sent to a watering-place for. .fifteen years," an unhappy practical jcker has, by a Swiss criminal Court j be9n sent to gaol for a •■yeari s'!"- --' you have dinner at the eating station ?' asked the train boy of .the pas* sengecrV 'Tea replied the passenger, arising and following the' boy. «*I j list .. wanted^to know, 7 said the boy, ' so I could telegraph ahead.' Telegraph,' repeated, the tired passenger, whose patience the slowness of the train had exhausted'/ "I thought you wanted me to stroll on ahead and eat by the time the train would get there.' : The wine- producing districts of the Old World haye stock now m hand equal, it is said; t0'109,000,000 bottles, or about the quantity required for five years' consump-tion-all 'over the world. ; In 1 regard to the body of a Maori, found on the Horowhenua beach on Friday last, we learn that an inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr W. H. Simcox^ acting coroner, when an open verdict was' returned. The body has not been iden» tified. The quarantine station at Wellington is now almost deserted by the passengers by the barque Oxford, who have been so long a time kept there.