LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 299, 20 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ll if "x fixL ir*v7 — An active member of the Salvation Army, named A. J. Ellis, has just been jjrrested m ...Melbourne___jon _a charged bigamy. It is alleged that, having left his first wife and family at Ballarat, he Melbourne and married her sister^anbther member of the band. The having discovered the guilt, lMd^^A4oiJorraation against him, npjon iwh^nhe^as apprehended. A a Mr Perry, who lab6w' h^ljjucination that the borough « in>sr^et7#o|^ty belongs to hira, c«me v intd^he^chamber and demanded his rights m the name of the King of Kings. |\ i[A patenrt h^as been applied for for a | ffew axle for^ailway Arriagea, which enables to be adapted On anferent guages. The invention is highly spoken of. - r' ; ' /• '' '- •' •' •'■ '.fj t» . i In connection Epiacopalianism: m Dunedin, says the correspondent of the Cromwell Argu?, rather an uneasy feeling is springing up by the services of ihe Rev Al Iff Eejkhami( pfj gtygyn. These are of the Ritualistic order, accompanied by candles and crucifixes, etc., and it is now {aasertfed t&ty prayer for departed souls; is "indulged mby the rev, gentleman. { A" At the R. M. Court, Inveroargill, Gjeprge- Wrr^jbt waa v charged, on .the Information of William " Wacphers'bnV witE* ..^having on the Ist inst obtained the siioi of £2 2s from the said W. Macphersbn on false pretences, to wit by representing* an American and Australian Directory ttp ; LKX.b > 2 > On being called the informant failed \H ; appear, and the case was struck outf Inspector Buckley said it was a shame that the defendant should be let go' so easily, and' d enounced his transactions m connection with the sale of his book m jLnveroargill m the strongest' possible £*f?s 14 A W iRE -^ After paying all expenses of tbe Governor's visit to New Plymouth, there* was a balance of £13, which was divided VetWeahj'Jihe jfTpw'n -ABand, Benevolent Society',' imd -BotaMioal Garden Boarctfc Well don j Taranaki ! . ] fThe Tablet of r the 9th November say./ " Th 6 Oathohoh-df Ne#iZe_aW pro>.j vide., at their own sole expense, an jex* baifomreduoation for their own children, -Yet such is tbj» sense of justice and policy thi New Zealand' Legislature, that it compels these Catholics, after hating manfully' provided for their own child* ren, to contribute largely towards i the 'free'- and r go"dles»: eduottlion ;.of; other pec pie's children. This is tyranny, oppression, and plunder." The Taranaki Herald states — with, t apr parent a'uthority^-ihat the vacant portfolio was offered to Mr Hurst before Mr ' Mitouelaoa was asked to,ioin the Cabinet. ■* " Flaneur," the sporting contributor the Wanganui Chronicle, tipped Alartim«Henry for, f the Melbourne Cup,' audi Tasnfad for thb 'Canterbury Cup. . It is claimed that 8,000 deaths from it arvatron ka>» fc'uken plsoe m Oeylo'n|dur^ , ■ ing %\i& past six months.. '•■■■'< i General Mtlvor, m writing to; the i £re,sg ; respecting his expedition to [New jGuinea, states that if Lord Derby interferes m his departure he will hoist the < < J^oreign flag. He has offered to tAkeia —isaiohary with him; \7dic Pi/ The. .purchase of a block of land, lopr. ; 40'^00 acres in 'extent, and situated olqie 1 : Taupo, has been completed by ' -MVOrmon4 on_bph al f fi? a geutleuian lately from England and himself. J