LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 81, 4 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

: • Harvest operations m Marlboroinjh are now nlmost completed, and it is expected by the end of next w°ek the whole of the crops will be gathered. From all Accounts the hardest will be satisfactory to all. Wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes are m splendid condition, the b.ttley especially being better grown and of good color.Information has been laid with the police that the Maltese cook of the Post Offtpe JJotel, named' ftlaltee Antonio, has been rujstipgr since Saturday morninp. He left the hotel at »b^ut 10 o'clock, without informing pnyone of his intention. Antonio was formerly cook on board the Tafarna, and wh«?n that ill-fated steamer was wrecked, he was four hours m the

water swimming ashore"; It ta said that his mind has not betsii q" ill to aoiind at times ever since that thrilling experience. Amongst other changes (say*; a Wellington paper) which will probably take pluce m the big • workshop ' as tfio result of reform m the Civil Service, are the following i— The Native Depart men?, af ter undergoing still further shrinkage, will become a branch of the Colonial Secfretary's office. As a consequence of fusion between Goldfields and Lands, it improbable that the TJnder-nSecretaipj^ Mr Wakefiald, will be dieeatablished/jhut pr.o>( bably some othor poafc wjU be found' for-" one who has served the State so faithfully. Lands, Survey, and Goldfields are to be? Again united. These changes will take place almost immediately. .._ The .Wairarapa. Daily has- the follow ( ing :— " We referred yesterday to a pass -; between Palnierston and Pahiatua which . is likely to be surveyed as a more practicable route than the Gorge for connect* ;ing the East and West Coast districts. 1 | We learn subsequently that Mr T. Rill of Maaterton travelled through Athis routed ; by a native track twenty four years ago--1 T he P ft , tb - la y through, a magnificent coun- | tty/arid the gradients were so easy .that. ■he had not at any point of the route' to ■ dismount from his horse." ; Shearing (says the Mount Ida Chronicle) . may now be considered as finally over for^ , year 1 . : •On the whole, the wool clip^;though lightj* has been fairly.satis" factory, quality making up for quantity. About the beat yield which has come under our notice was that of rhe Mania* toto Farming Company, whicb, from A mixed flock of 2022 sheep, obtained 7£ tons".;of wool, or, an average fleece of opb. ■ A. tender has been accepted for the Auckland new Baptist Tabernacle, m brick, to cost £8237. A Maeterton contemporary says that Messrs Bryce and Rolleston have been coaxing artd threatening the Ohinemutu natives, The natives positively refuse to grant land for railway purposes, and Bryce says they will snffnr for their decision. Is the great Rangatira of Panhaka beginning to lose his ioana 1 In- the .Court -of Qu&en's Bench, MrJustice Field held that ; marriage with. a deceased wife's niece came within the prohibited degrees of kindred, and that the offspring of such a marriage wtro illegitimate. The N. Z. Shipping Company's chaptered steamer Doric, which left' Lyttelton for London on Saturday, took 41 saloon, 20 second cabin, iand 45 steerage passengers 1 She bad a full cargo k Mr Greenwood, dentist, will vi?it Pal* merston on Thursday, 13tb March. Pain-'. less extrnction under Nitrous Oxide gasi 5 Walkley's Hotel, ..private jintrancja.^ Advt.) Cure for Indigestion — Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills, used according to the direction", hare pro red a certain and speedy cure for indigestion, bilious and liver complaint*, wind m the stomach and bowels, nervous debility, &c. Their object is the removal of debility and derangement by assisting nature, and imparting tone and power to the system.— To be had of all chemist* and storekeepers, m boxes, Is l|d and 2a 9d each; or post free on receipt of 19 or 44 stamps.— J. Baxter Pharmaceutical Chemist, 21, Victoriastreet, Christchurch. , ;