The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 7, 6 December 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1883. LOCAL AN D GENERAL.

Ellis James was fined £5 and costs at the Police Court to-day for cruelty to a horse which resulted m the animal's death. He Baid he was unable to pay tbe fine, Mr John Stevens M.H.R. was m Palmerston last evening en route for the Napier direction, where he has an extenlive aheap run. We .learn that another newspaper will probably be established afier New Year m a district not 100 miles from Palmerston, the neceßsary plant for which is to' bo obtained from Sydney, We are sorry to learn that Bfr Murdoch McKenzie, hotel -keeper of Woodville, has been compelled to file his shedule. Mr McKenzie will have general sympathy m his misfortune. The Woodville Examiner announces the establishment of thed^ly mail service, which was one of the objects that news* paj>er set itself strenuously to achieve, and has left no stone unturned to secure. For not scamping a receipted account with a penny duty stamp, Henry Flockton, furniture dealer of Wellington, was fined 20a and coats. A notice on the Wellington papers intimates that a first and final dividend; in : the assigned estate of Thomas Stoker Dixon, of Palmerston North, will be paid on the 29th instant to Ml creditors who provious to. that date will have signed the trust deed. A public meeting held m vVootlrillo on Saturday evening, resolved m favor of the Separation of the Woody ill© Hiding from tbe Waipawa County, and the formation of the former into a separate county, which procedure the meeting affirmed would' be to the best interests of the district. The cultivation of the wattle, particu« iarly the black and silver kind, m New Zeahmd (says the Canterbury Timee) is being'entered upon by many land owners, and will, boubtless, attract still more attention, as for those who can afford to invest a little money and await three, four, or five years for a return, it is a hfghly remunerative undertaking. Under the Fonsfc Trees Planting Encouragment Act, persong planting a few «ores with wattl«s obtain yranta of.the Crown lands m proportion to the acreage they plant, fhiaia of itself a large return, but besides Ib there is the .value of the timber and of the bark, and last, but not least, the seed, l'he collection of this is a very easy luatter. At the Sydney Quarter Sessions three larrikins were sentenced to three years' mprisonment with bard labour for a jowardl v assault on a citizen. The J udge mid that be was determined to do all m lis power to put down tbe evil of arrikinism. Under the Branding Act, 1880, section }, any person defining or effacing any jrand, or distinguishing mark without he authority of the owner m writinsr, is table to a penalty not exceeding £100. Under section 17 any person wilfully ihortening the ear of any cattle, horse, or iheep belonging to any other person will >c liable to a penalty of £20 for each )eaat so treated.