LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 252, 26 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

The furnishing of the Club Hotel was completed to-day by Mr Jno. Anderson, of Wanganui, who has. fulfilled his contract m a most' -praiseworthy..'- manner. The furnishing is of the best description; every article beine excellent.' oi its, kind, and the whole work reflects'most creditably on Mr Anderson's establishment. The hotel is now piobably the most elaborately furnished «nd fitted dut of any on the West- Cdast. , Many of our readers will ramembpr Mr Howard Jackaon 'a fine greyhound ( Vril\. By a late issue of the Waikato limes we see that Mr Jackson has lost his favourite, and is offering a considerable reward for his recovery. -„.,.. ! Mr Hhailer has on view very faithful pictures of Malcolm the levanter and Miss WilliamSi thelatter being anice look ing lady-like girl, attractive appearance and pleasing expression. We r j»arq._tha-tl}v' Caro ? of Napier, intends paying periodical professional visits to Woodville, m which district the medical faculty is not largely represented. We regret to learn .that the health of Mr Edward Collins is By no means robust, and is causing his family some little anxiety."""*"'""" The Resident Engineer of the Waipawa County arrived m Woodville by coach on Monday. ' Wandering cattle are damaging the Stotiey ' Creak road i to a considerable extent, m many cases making the surface quite round, We learn that Mr A. Levy has .been appointed to inspect the , various branches of tho Rechabite order with a view to those, bodies taking advantages of the Ijjßcial clauses relating to Government Life -Insurance at reduced rates. Mr Levy's remuneration is to be £100 and travelling. expeses paid, and of course he will take advantage of the opportunity afforded of canvassing on behalf of the Government scheme at the same time. • THe^e was a very small attendance of the late Palmerston North Choral Society on Monday evening to consider the financial pooition.of tbe Society. After some discussion it was gepidpd to ask each member to contribute six and sixpence towards defraying fihe liabilities of the Society, due it is alleged to defective management. It is intended to keep the books and other properties of the Society m trust till a favourable opportunity arrives of 'resuscitating the Society. VS c lef.rn that several* of tbp members are very dissatisfied with the manner m which the Society's business has been transacted, and refuse to subscribe a penny towards its liabilities. The style m which Cobb & Co.'s horses are turned out at the Woodville change is most creditable to the groom. Eyery animal appears to have much pare and attention devoted tp it. There jis to be a'inee'ting of the Wood.ville Racing Club at the Tamaki ffptel, on Saturday next, to arrange a pro* gramme. ,

The last entertainment at Woodville m t aid of the fund for the liquidation of the debt of the Woodville Methodist Church took place m the schoolhouse on Friday, and was m all respects successful. The attendance must have been quite 120, and the programme consisting of songs, recita : tions, glees, solos, dialogues, &c, was capitally gone through, and gave entire satisfaction. Ifc is expected that another of the series will take place m about a fortnight. ' < \ { Satisfactory indications of tbe proximity of auriferous deposits have been discovered when driving a pipe tor a well m the yard of the Abercorn Arms Hotel, Woodville. The experienced affirm that the "colour " ib undeniable. The Mercury Bay correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes : — About four miles of a steam tram "road are nearly completed by the firm of Shapp and -Ansenne. They. are sparing no expense to complete the work. The line is for the purpose'of bringing their logs out of the ; bush to the mill; This is probabiy where the engines lately m use on tbe Welling* ton tramway have been sent. Advices were received at the local offices of the New Zealand Shipping Company on Saturday, from London, announcing the fa ?t that the s.s. Catalonia arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 20th instant, where she reported her cargo of frozen meat to be m excellent condition. The trip to Rio de Janeiro occupied precisely the same period as that of the s.s. lonic, viz.. 26 days. Mr Richard Pioctor makes a very curi.. ous suggestion m a recent number of his paper, to the effect that .the spreading of so large a quantity of iron upon the 'surface of the earth, as modern science^ is doing, is likely, m the future, to exercise a very decided influence of its own ; upon electric currents and magnetic storms, and m this way, to exercise a very material meteorological influence. Mr T. B. Smithies died at Wood green on July 20., aged 68. Dece'a ed was projector and editor of the British Workman^ the Band -of Hope Review, and many .other works of ja character. He was a zealous worker m the cause of tem«< perance and other philanthropic movements. The card game of euchre has been declared, on appeal to the Supreme Court, to be not an offence under the Licensing Act. .-.. ; ■