LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 259, 5 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Pock and Jessop returned from their temporary sojourn m WangaDui last evening. MissJervois, daughter of his Excel, lency, was a passan^er by coach veaterday for Napier from Wellington, via Masterton and Woodville. : The Manawatu Hotel, Foxton, ;is now made the smarting place of of the Wellington coaches, and passengers by train will bo conveyed to the hotel by an express free of charge. Mr Barkefeld has ample accommodation, and being a most courteous and oblipinff host, travellers will find everything necessary to their comfoit. The hostelry has always been a favourite one^with the travelling public The Colonial Treasurer of New; South Wales has promised a railway scheme of a magnitude * never before attempted.' E. H. 0. Plowden, schoolmaster, has been sentenced at Greymouth, to three months' imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences. ; The following birth notice appears m the Post:— Ooveney— On the 2nd October at Bolton Row, Wanganui, the wife of F. P. Coven'ey, of a son. A chip of the old block. We remind our readers that the out* ward English mail via 'Frisco closes this evening. ... ,; A scheme for # supplying flawera with tbe electric light is now before the Borough Council. The Chinese, as is well known, laugh at the claims of Europe to the honor of inventing printing, gunpowder, and the compass ; now someone has discovered a bridge which completely wipes out the great structures at Brooklyn, Menai Straits, and the newer edifices soon to span the Firths of Forth and Tay. Tt is at Lagnnd, over an arm of the China Sea, and is five miles long, 70ft. m height, with a roadway 70ft. wide,, and is built entirely of atone and has 300 arches. The parapet is a balustrade, and each, of the pillars, which are 73ft apart, supports a pedestal on which is placed a lion 25ft. j long, made of one block of marble. ' We are sorry to hear that the eldest daughter of Mr G. Ross at the Gorge Bridgets snffering from indisposition. At a meeting of the WoodvilJe School Committee, held on Monday evening, it was reported that the average attendance of children during the last fortnight ha been over 100. This attendanoe, therefore, justifies the committee m asking for additional teaching power — a pupil teaoher. Opon discussion it was resolved to apply to the Education Board for the appointment of a pupil teaohei. Other matters pertaining to the welfare of the School were also discussed and disposed pf, £r IjPmoß, (3o ffl in,isßjqqer of Telegraphs,parsed through Woodjille qn Monday,' on his way to Wellington. Efe,. has bqen doing a tour of inspectiou'of telegraph offices oa ttie We»t Coast.

The Woodville Brass Band held a practice on Monday evening, which attracted several listeners. It is a pi y the Band lacks good lead, which would pat them on a better footing, and at the same time the Band would become aa acquisition to the town. The Bishop of Waiapu will conduct divine service m Woodville next Sunday m the school hou»e at 11 a.m. file late spring weather here, as well as elsewhere, has materially deteriorated the growth of grass and garden plants. Such a rough, late spring has hardly been known before m the colony. The stabling to the Abercorn Arms Hotel Woodville is fast approach m? completion, and when finished, the propri tor, Mr Mackenzie, will perhap- have the most comfortable stables oa the road, they being spacioas and lofty.