LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 33, 8 January 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The conscienca-nioney received bf the English Chancellor of the Exchequer during tho past financial year represents an unacknowledged income of £317,472 When the Chinese gardeners drore the European gardeners out of the Auckland market m the maker of supplying kitchen ' vegetables, by eupjlving a betfer article at a lower price, materfomilia9 wrre jubihint. It appears that her joy has been shortlived, for "John," baying succeeded m creating .aj tmonopqly, : iipw supplies an inferior article, while he'has' gradually increased his prices to the former scale of hiß;European rivals. Human mature, it seems, rs prpKy much, the same fn -'t he heathen Chinee as m the played-out Caucasian. The general opinion is that Jupiter is a world which is yet m a very early stage of its geological history, and that m the great red spot, and m some other remarkable spotß which have made their appearance on its eurfacp, evidences are seen that the planet either has already a a tolid or a liquid surface, or that the formation of such a surface has begun. Several theories to account for the >»re:»t, red spot which was upwards of 3Q,000 miles long by (iOOO or 8000 miles wide, have been suggested. — Scientific Ameri, 1 !.: pan? .-?♦ The newly-appointed Wellington lawyer Town Clerk appeared m the JtesHent iVlagistmte'a Court, on behalf of the Corporation, to oonduct civil actions for non-payment of rates' Tho following nominations, etc., for the Wellington R, 0, Summer meeting are due on Monday, the 14th inst .• — Flyjug Stakes Handicap, Hurdle Handicap (first day), Steward's Handicap, Railway Stakes Handicap, Hutt Park Stakes Handicap, Hurdle Handicap (second day), Racing Club Handicap, and Wellington Cup (final payment). '

It is worthy of record (-<nys a VV'eilJ,,j,., 'on paper), that, while m several districts there has been an evident "rush" of impecunious debtors tj avail themselves of tho benefit of the old Bankruptcy Act before the more stringent amendments came into operation, yet m this city ;i'id district the number of persons filing during the Inst three months has not ben greater m ordinary periods. It i*'a.,ciirii>us' fact for moralists to take note of, that these recent rushes into bankruptcy have been local rather than general, thereby showing '.bat the immediate oause of bankruptcy m many instances wns, a desire to file at the most convenient time. It may be safely inferred tha>, if th&new.. Act had offered any templing advantage to debtors, there wnul-l- have beon an ! equally marked tendency m localities where commercial mor«litv is particul »rly loose, for many debtors to stave off. bankruptcy intil they could file with increased luxury under an amended Act. Bankruptcy seems to be more a' question of necessity, or these peculia :' rushes" could not happen m particular localities. At the sale of an antiquarian gentle man's effects m Roxbnrgshire, which Sir Walter Scott happened to attend, there was one little article, a Romin pitina, which occasioned a <rood deal, of competition, and was eventually knocked down to the distinguished barontt at a high price. Sir Wnl'er was excessively amused, during the time of bidding-, to observe how much it excited the astonishment of an old women, Who had evidently come there to buy culinary utensih on a more economical pririciple. 'If the paTritch-pan/ she at last burst out^ , if the. psirritch-pan gang 3at that, whut willthe kial-]>afc gang for)'— Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences' " - '"• : A i ail way conduQtojr. was recently, chosen deacon of a 1 church. VS hen it became his duty to take op a collection he surprised the congregation by starting out with the characteristic ejaculation, ' Ticket 3, gentlemen!' The contribution that day was large. A military man laughed at a timid little woman because she was alarmed at the noise of a cannon, when a salute was fired. He subsequently . married that timid worn m, and six months .^afterwards he took of bis boots m the hall when be came m late at night. . . .