LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 293, 14 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Doctors who accept the position of honorary aurgeon to volunteer corps will do well to study the new regulations carefully, otherwise, they may ihadvertentlj render themselves subject to such a disagreeable notification as that gazetted, against the name of Dr Button, late of the G Buttery-pf Artillery. Mr Bryce, as Minister of JDefe cc, formally notjfiea, under date the 7th instant, that 'bis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancal the commisioa of honorary surgeon florae* Gooch Button, of the G Battery of Artillery, for absence from the colony without leave.' Mr Gladman, the principal of the Training College .for teachers at Melbourne,haß, at the request of the Hon. Mr Dick, Minister for Education, consented to conduct the examination* of New Zealand teachers m achool management at the annutfl e^amintaione for certificates m January next. Mr Gladuaau, who is the author of a work on school manage- , ment, is recognised , as a good authority on teaching both ac Home and also m the coloniea. >- It is stated (says the Taranaki News) on excellent authority that Te Whiti and Tohu have retired from the prom ineat position they have hitherto occuDied m the past as leaders of, and preachers to, their people, and that Titoko VS aru is now installed as prophet m chief. < Large, numbbrs of natives from all parts of the coast are about to visit and do him horn* A younar woman of twenty, a native of India, is m Paris, where she passes for the most learned woman m the World, having an accurate knowledge of a dozen languages, and a brain.well' : "sU>red with information m mathematics, astronomy, and history. Sho is studying medicine and will go to India, to practice, where, she gaye, thousand of ( her country-women die every year because they would not consult male physicians, „ / ■ At a, temperance meeting held m South* hampton,. the Earl of Liohfield' stated that having been a total abstainer for twelve months he would now join the Blue Ribbon Army, and was there and than decorated with the ' wee bit of blue' by Canon Wilberforce. The. Duchess; of Sutherland, Lad? -Mount .Teaapley~Oountesß Brownlow, Countess EHesmere, and an ever-increasing number df^the aristocracy also have donned the blue. . ; , Further supplies of Goods have been received at; the. ..Bon Marche. during the; week, which aw now ready: for selection m the various departments. Purchasers of drapery and clothing are invited by ad« yertiseraent elsewhere to inspect the goods.' — fADW.3