LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 273, 22 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

y Weunderstand that the services of .thj? Volunteer Band have been secured for the Manawatu Racing Club for Boxing Day: ' j Mr Monrad -leaves Manawatu this week for Auckland to join the 'Frisco mail r 'steamer. Mr Monrad has expected to" receive by the last American mail boat ' machinery to erect m Auckland but un* /prtunately it has noli yet arrived. j ( \ -Says the' Taranaki New i^—The; nativj»s' complain bitterly this year of the destruo, tiveness of the small birds — many acres of wheat sown this season bythe natives halving been almost entirely destroyed. . One native, who Spoke feelingly on the subject, exclaimed : " D—^»^ the^.Goyerament ; they fine us for. keeping dogsj^but' we should fine the Government ■ for bringing , the. birds here to eat apoorawps. y; The Waikato Cheese Factory started; operations last week when 153 gallons of milk were received, and on the following day the amount was increased to 170 gallons. Mr Thomas Hunciman is mana»" ger, at a salary of £200 a-year and free house, while Captain Ranciman superih* tends as managing director. ; Mr Bowron passed through Palmerston on his way to Wellington on Saturday. We regret to learn that his health does not continue to improve, and that his medical adviser have positively forbid him from lecturing for the present, .The Government has seceded to hia request to permit him visiting the Home Country and {securing the services of competent Cheesemakera for New Zealand. Clause 80 of the new Bankruptcy. Act, which comes m to, operation on the Ist January, contains the following important provision, which altera entirely the law with regard to bills of sale: — Every bill of sale shall be null and void as against the assignee of a bankrupt's estate if it,, has been executed within six months prior to the order of adjudication being made, except as to money actu**lly ; ad. .vanced or paidi or the actual value of goods or obattels sold or supplied by the grantee of the bill of of sale- to the gran" ior contemporaneously with the. execution thereof. The Other day, the Dunedin Oity Opun« oil advertised for an assistant clerk) and inspector of meters m the gas department. The salary offered was £'3 a week,! and there were 130 applicants. ,'

The question of instrumental music m the services of the Free Church has again come to tbe front m Scotland. An association has been formed to resist the introduction of the ' kist o' whustles,' and the late Dr Baßfl* was elected President. The correspondent of the ' Daily Times.' writes :— < Thus is sounded the first note of a battle which is certain to be long, and bitter. And all about a trumpsry ques»; tion of organs !' Tbe 18th of this month was rather a menorable day for Napier. The Daily Tele* graph of the above date says :— ••"On this day, October 16, 114 years ago. Captain Cook "sallied along the Cbasr by where Napier now stands to the cape at tbe soutbera extremity of- this bay. It was, there the native boy was stolen and the Maoris shot, and the cape was named the Kidnappers. ' ""'""' At the Sligo assizes sentence has jast been passed on four young men named Tanzey.Rog geraoa, Eelley, end Naughton, who were found guilty of blowing Up a--, portion of j Weston House, the residence of Mr Mahon. agent to Bir William Maher, on March 26, 1882, with dynamite. It appeared that they Iwere to have had £500 if they destroyed the honse and inmates, bat only £200 or 300 if no jlife was taken, William Tanzey, the leader, |was sentenced to fourieen years' penal servitude; Patrick ßogerson to twelve years'; •Patrick JN'aughton to eight years 1 : and James Kelley to two years 'imprisonment. jThe latter prisoner thanked his lordship, but •the'dthers feebly cried out • God save Ireland,* and thanked their counsel and solicitors. Thistles, says an agriculturist, are not a dead loss. Their tap roots are so long that they derive their strength from a stratum of 'soU- ; fertility nptreached by the oirdinary crops of the farm. 'They tberefore,are noVco'mpetitors •of tbe wheat or the hay, but rather inde* 1 pendent neighbours., In. the autumn, too, when they lie down, their decaying stems and their leaves fertilise the crop, nourishing the surface-soil.