Manawatu Standard WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 96, 19 March 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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; ♦ ■ — The chairman of the Oroua County Council tVas received a telegmn Fi'biri the Colonial Treasurer, in answer' to l^quiriea ns to n nether any money was forthcoming for the building of the Awnhui biidgp, settinc forth that he regretted there was..; no money for such works owing to the falling off of the land revenue, which wa9 "faV'b'elow the estimate. The windmill at the Palmorstou railway station which drives the pump that fills the tanks is to be removed 'to Xura--kina, »nd a hot-air engine is now beia>r fitted up na a substitute m'otivia power. A meeting of the Canterbury members of Parliament has been convened for Friday next, to consider tuo beat means of staying the new railway tariff. The Chamber of Commerce will alto hold a spucinl meeting on the same subject. Farmers in Victoria are more enter* prising than- their class in this olony. In tbe Donald district-, severnl have combine dto charter »i vessel to eonrey their grain direfct to the London market. p—y A hundred bushels of bailey to the acre hsis been cropped t his season off a paddock tit the Tu.v Marina, Blenheim. Lnst^ywaV the same padc|ock^icldii""the same ratio of wheat. '.'.'. '.'s.. ■ The wife of Mnjor Barker, the head of the Salvation Army in MelbduriyV^re-;, cently presented h»*r husband with a daughter, and the fact is thus chronicled by- : the W|»r Cry : — ' Recent event :On Thursday/ Feb. 7> u bon.nic hallelujah lass was born at 17, Gehrge-9treet,^Fitz-royl; Mrs Barker is happy and comfortable. The baby — well, it is a fino baby, a picture for parents and gramlpannto, uncles, aunts, and coasins. a model Salvation Arusy baby ! Ballelujfth !' ■■ Another tale' of .an adventure' on -a raft. Captain Schutt. wife, children, and five of the crew of the schooner Yarra were wrecked in the Indinn Ocean on the 15th Feb., and made their way on a raft to Browse Island. A daughter was bora to th_e captain eilVotfVe, • and strange to sayV both mother and child are now well and .strong. The New Yoi %1 £ Commercial Advertiser (•ays a gentleman in Philadelphia has off-red mansion nnl n lot of ground, 100 by 175 feet,.for.a haxne. for. indigent - VIason : «", their'^wido^st ajtd^orphans, of J Pennsylvania," and" to ehdow'it with his whole estate after hU death. By cable we learn that a welcomg r>in;, fall has taken place in a portion, oi New^ South Wales. ,;•='/< -4- » > Mr T. : Bent, M.L.A., of Victoria, who ha« : recently paid , a.vi|it to •Indiaj.Btates that from wh'aVhe 'lfcarne^ of theinonv jjoose and its habita in that country, he concluded that in time it would becom« as great a pest i^.tho co^pniesjAS the. rab~ bit..'"' j " 1: : •-•■-'•--• " From Moscow a singular outbreak- is reported in the schools— an epidemic of St. Vitus 1 danca,;. It appeaTjedyfir.at in, the »irls schools' in the Baamannaia quarter, and showed itself — the account says Visinniltaneously,' though on that point evidence may be required —in 18 .different, houses in which school-girls reai'de. • : There will be quite an exodus of Wellington notabilities within the next month. Dr Collins < ha* ; left on a brief trip' to ibe Old Country. The Hon. J. Martin will visit England, leaving, in the Kuapehu, and Mr W. D.ivr.sori i 'b"y the lonic. Mr : Andrew Young also will go Hoaio shortly, and'rumor 3ays that several 'oihe'rs will soon follow. > ; . . The Lancet stoutly opposes tho practice of putting blinkers on horses. It eays : — "It seeiCß to us that they are uselesp, ugly, and to some extent injurious to the eyesight. The moat beautiful fea'■tut*- of the i horse is the eye. If it were ..not hid froip. our gaze, it woujd. serve ,tq. denote sickness, pain, or p'.eisure. Many a time would the driver spare tee whip 'on teeing the animal's imploring dye."

Now that, muv3p;iper reporters' railway piiws may bo Si.iU to be abolished, (r f! - ni'irks au exchaiiffn) wo have every expectation that members of the House, whose ffold token emblca.thein to travel free, will bo tendering ihair services to tho ne.ws[j>iper proprietors of their respective districts, astj^eciil or^eae'Kil reporters. With a few honorable exceptions, «a know none of tha members who *re in the slightest degree qui>iGtid for the position, anil we .warn timPr^PS to be careful in employing man who from want of proper education, combined with a genrral ignorance of the social amenities of life, might tend "to lower the dignity of the Fourth . Esbatet . ' ! The following are fixtures for sittings of the Wanganui District Oourt • — The fourth Wednesday in February, May, August, and November, at Wan-ranui ; and the fourth \Vedn^9d.«y, at P.ilmerstoiii North, in January, April, July, and October. "< < : As showinj; the enormoua coat of rait" way construction in London, w'e may mention that the new link of the District, (under-groundi Railway in London, which will connect the temporary terminus at the Tower with Queen Victoria* street, station, will cost no teß3 than £3,000^000 for the mile of line. This m-vkea j^TewZealand's £6000 per mile lo;>k qnipe microscopic in its comparative smillneis- '' One fatal. jpa3e ''at alcoholism— or ia : other wordi>j a death directly due to excessive drinking — was registered, at Auckr-. laud last month.