LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 64, 14 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Falmei'ston School Committee will take place on Mon^ day next,\in the School-house, at V p.m. By cable we learn th*t Charles Bradlaugb, junr., member for Northampton, has resigned his seat m tha House of Cnmmonß and has announced his intention of presenting himself for re-elec* tion. There will be offered at the Awah.uri stock sale to-morrow, besides the advertised catalogue 12 head of beef. We remind our readers of Me3ar Stevens and Gorton's sale tit the Awahuri stock yards to take place to.morroWj commencing at 1 p.m. To-morrow is the day of Dr Curl's usual weekly visit to Palmerston, and he cm be consulted at Remington's Medical Hall, during the afternoon, A novel speculation is about to be en<tered into by a resident of Wellington. He intends to have a ton of conversation lozenges manufactured, to be disposed of ainonir the Maoris of tlie district. About three dozen raottos m the native language have been prepared by. a competent interpreter, and will be printed on the lozenges. The old Noah'a Ark buildings m Wellington are about being removed, and some pieces of totara timber have been disinterred and which have luin far over 30 years embedded m mud and water, ,hi?e proved to be as sound as the day '. lliey were put down, whereas most other kinds of timber were extensively decayad. This speaks well for the durability of our New Zealand totara. Mr Charle3 T. Smith, writes to the Post :— * I m common with many others have suffered from this barbad wire nuisance : one of my children has had its hands badly lacerated by it j and m ooai« ing home from church, when walking along Vivian«Btreet, my wife has had a new silk dress torn right through m con" sequence of its catching m the barbsNow I want to know can I recover dam« ages from the owner P I cannot afford to buy my wife another new dress. Can I compel him to do it?' A serious accident occurred to Mr Ed« mund Kelly, the eldest son of Mr John E. Kelly, of Nymjan, New South Wiiles, on January 2. He was driving some brood mares from his own to his father's paddock, when within night of thelatter'a stockyard, the blood stallion Woodlawn, which was with the mares, rushed suddenly at young Kelly, seized him by the knee, dragged him off the horse he was riding, aud literally worried him like a dog. The flesh was terribly torn above the knee joint. The Gear Meat Qompany will send away from Wellington during tlie remaining portion of the current month, upwards of 18,000 carcases of frozen mutton, besides a considerable quantity of beef. The Bombay has been sp*ci4Uy chartered by the compauy, and will carry at least. 8000 sheep. She leaves for London direct on Saturday. The ship kady Jocelyn is also under charter to the company, and will take a similar quantity, while about 2000 more will be shipped by the Doric, When the Prince of Wales was making his American tour a remarkable taciturnity distinguished him. At a magnificent banquet given him at New York some of the reporters of the leading New York papers dressed themselves as waiters^ and stood behind the Prinoo'e ahoir, m order to hear and report his conversation during dinner, When they came to compare notes afterwards they found that the only Eentence which had fallen from the lips of the Heir Apparent to the Empire on which the sun never Bets was, "By Jove, theee are deuced fine ovstars 1"