LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 281, 31 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

f Mr A Filmer's offer to buy jjtr J, Gibb'a estate for a dividend of Is m the £ has been accepted by the creditors, j . j Sirarious} half-sovereigns are being calculated "m Wellington. ! The Freethought leoturer (( Ivo': delivered his first lecture last night m the /Foresters' /Hall to «» very thin audience. He dealt with his subject, ' Is the Bibli. cal account of the fall of man oonspnant with human reason,' m an able manner. To-night his subject .will be 'Jesus and the Prophets,' and he will comment on the work of the British and Foreign 'Bible Soeiety. t , „ ;2 . Messrs Ros» & Co., of the Bon Marghe, t have opened a branch establishment at' : Woodville, m which no doubt they will be well supported by the public, A .drunken father and mother caused the deaf;h of their child m D. anedin, either by overlaying it, or m some other way.. A verdict of manslaughter has been re* against the mother. . Mr 18. M, Brewer, of Wanpanui, is to aot as Government Land Purohase Agent m oopneotion with the Tahoraite lection of railway in! the Seventy Mile Bach. It. is probable the Governor may pay Wan- • ganui a visit before lon£» The man Sohultce, who escaped from the Lunatic Asylum, was captured on Monday night at Pfclmerston by Constable Gillespie, and forwarded to 'Wonganui by train last evening.; >, The Marten Fire Briifade is to bedis* banded for want of support, but a publio ■meeting has been called to endoa,vourto re-organise it. _ : New South Wales has, 'by order m Council, prohibited the import-atiou of al! dogs into that colony save from the other Australian colonies, and from Tasmania' and New Zealand, '? m consequence of the prevalence of the disease known as rabies, or bydrophobia f in Great Britan and other countries. '' This prohibition is published m the New Zealand Gagette of the 18th inst . for' general ' information. Victoria does '.net prohibit importation, but imposes stringent quarantine regulations, whioh are also gazetted. ' Water»providin(? m; London seems to pay, A select corawitte* of the House of Comm«nshaa found that although tfie water companies ' had spent altogether only £12,000,000 m supplying London with water, they refused t© sell under £32,000,000; * Farming is deolining m Tasmania, one of the alleged roasbnr being the superior attractions of mining pursuit!, to which 1 greater attention' is being paid .■ there. Live stock hrtjdso: JUmtaished, for while the consumption for .rood pjirposes has ( increa«ed, importation has fallen offhand theiaajkuraj, inoreasa. of the 'flocks and 1 " herds has not maaVgood the 1 loss. A considerable item of export on this Coast (says the Patea Mail) v f ungui; upon the sale of which lomt one must

make a big profit. The price paid to the gatherer ii about fourpence . per lb. It is exported to China, where the nvtives of the Flowery Land regard it (is a special delicacy; and^ we are iriformed^readii^ purchase it at from fire to six shilling ' per lb. It would b* interesting to knojir the returns of the Wellington merchants, Iwho are the-grincipal shippers; - Vf ', The eslabliaKment of a Victorian Grand Lodge of Freemasons ii strongly cond emned by the London Freemason as unpecewarr aud nnconstitutional. It | al«o says;— " Hardly a month passes but -what-the-Board of-Benevolence iniondon, makes grants, and large gran's, to enable, those m reduced circumstances to return to the Antipodes, and if our good brethren m Victoria will take ; ooir kindly adrice 'they will gire not lietd to nigh falatm* : lor erieTance-monpers, but their motto jwill b*j you were.' " ' .' ii. .v X v ') Count de Lesseps must possess th» elixir of youth. At the sg» of 77 he-has asrain the privilege of being presented by his charming wife with a son. Witch burning— a .fine old ; English pastime— still survives m Africa. In" 1 the ; Sherbo rough district, fifty, persons ' have ' recently been burnt alive/ -*I?he Government is powerless to restrain the force of conservative public opinidn, which is m favor of tot old ways. . No French general it allowed to remain m active* service beyond the sgeof 65, ;