LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 95, 18 March 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦ '; It would appear (says a Wellington -paper) that the Government intend push»lTig .'-thß>. Mnstertoo - Wood ville rail tva y line along m earnest. Forty men have betenen^aed for this section of the woik, anijirsthiiy; wiR leave Wellington by thp .first" ttgin oiii.Monday. They. are tore* ct-ive 1 v^kt i|f pears a' ' verj^ gooNf wage' m > •■. /tiioes when" the cry of the unemployed is inlsard itu the — oue shilling pet' hoar.. . -'..^ ~^y The spirit of business m England sometimes causes ..strange results. As an ex» ample of its extremes, a North Country -Shipowner cis »cHed wboasoltl his .-ailing v isse s to his sons and then competed wiih|heor withßteame/rs. i It is not generally known that four, ' ,Jsye, and even six mails are now received month from London. Three Eng* .liah mails -ha vfl been delivered within the ' past tliree _ weetfs. T'wV mbre 1 ? and pro.X bably a third, may arrive bj the end of t : btjj'.tpqn^h.*|Thiß ia m marked contrast ■ to-flitt VXperfeiica of a few years back, when it »vas the rule to receive English ieai'is but once m three months. In the 1 opinion of many, .wehav^too aiivny^mftils uow-a-days. One never knows with . certainty when English letters may be looked for, or by what route received. : The Regialrar»Gdneral estimates the , pqpiilationrof (Wellington at the end of ; last month' 'at 22JSl3 J . ThßtOwii'ls gwtf. ijng very fust j ?caroely any houses tra ; empty, and any new ones readily find ~tennnt*. The big steamers bring a very Urge pdjrala*ioni: < if , The Fire Brigade will meet for practice H «\. jhe^shed at 6.30 o'clock to r -morrow eye-« ii/j^lfryi iti i be he'fd ttt~tEe**C6mraercuTl ! Eto'TOlTlt 81 -p-.m. „ m the railway tariff as x^gatds j tiimpr [fjOm th'ej V/airarapa has ngitatea v ftie{ mintfV Of- io4ny. The nit ration, however, (says a Wellington paper), < amounts to little .other than a rise of " ; freiinla 6i ld^pif aCjgfft &ol«tjßj|ii>ji«JaJ tin i increase cannot effect the traffic, forij bad-'a'tf irada is, things are not cut so finj> '' that an increase of one penny per lOu feet 'will atop it; The'^WsiraraV^ and .■Majnawati^aav? mills will work aa merrily t as ever. ' : ' Fahiatua, , m the. Seventy7m.ile JBusn, , si tuated on ' t he ' * W oodVille'-jiiaSfe^tdn* road, js (sftys a Wellington piperj rising ' to eminence." A township is laid off,' "With the usual reserves for churches, achooW, &<)?'^Ajgbafrfchany settleram thenear neighborhood are clearing land,' fencing, and building homes. It will be ■'thgwicentre for a very large district. .•■■Wbt^n the railway reaches it and money "hiuiibeen spent on roads intersecting thje~ environing couotrjjjt will be an important township. At present the great wants ttre ; roajds, andf the railway, .Twenty years] hence what; 'a population there Will ba on I "the Masterton-VVoodVilleiine ! i '•- ■■!'' '■-•: ■ '■ ■ ; • i_l'>' I Thp island of Java and the islands pf. the 'Eas'tern'A'rchipelago are declared ijo ; r 'be'Jnfected ports, under the Act, cholera ; "hliving maae its appenrance nt those !pl]i<ies./ Tjhe Mauritius, m which smallpox is prevalent, is also proclaimed an infeiWd poit'.T X.Lr% : v l / A r .fy