Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY,) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, APRIL 4,1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 110, 4 April 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY, ) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, APRIL 4,1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In our^tdvertißing columns the agent of the E. & C. Aid Corporation iuv te3 tenders for the purchase' of a number o sections . o| bind fronting or adjacent to the Pohangitia rp d. A. lender for metallin/r 100 chains of ; this ro^ci from the end of the present , metal has been accep c by the Ordua Cuun y C^uiicil^which w-H cover the ffrontatfe of n'ekrlv all the a ctions. Tbiiii should be a rare chance for 83itlera.dfc8irQUS.of purchasing fre holds for then:Belv;fß or tbeir sonal ... Sir William imd Lady Fox arrived m Wellington on Wednesday afternoon by the Rotorua from the South. At a siting of the Supreme Court, m Banco held in ..Wellington, on "^eilnesday,'his ILmour Mr Justice Richmond delivered his decision .m thf» case Sprrrey v. DranSfield, fiivinp judsjineat for, the defendant, for whom M r W. T. L. Travers . I appeared. The question at issue tv.is «s to the liability of the defe ><\ »nt io pay over to the Registrar of Joint Socle C mpanies the amount of a bond be had entered into on behalf of Charles White, ; ex^ecretary of the We'lington Bii'lding Society. For the def-nca it was cor»» . tended thai the committee of the society had altered the rules, and allowed Mr Whita to draw moneys frithout notice bt*injr given to his suecties. V. . ; The K.M. Court was opened yesterday morning m the Clerk's Office, the-Native L»nd Court occupying tbs PubJic^ Court. As an important case was Wing heard the ! R.M, allowed it to proceed without interruption. The Land/ Cou^ finished their busines-i m an hour.) time. The Woodville Examiner say?: — A native is lying ill with typhoid fever i i a whare on,oue of .the.banks of tbo Man^;itainoko Hvef. "^e has been altog. ther deserted, imd owes his life to the kind attention of Mr Carver^ igbp.-'f^tg ;bioi~ frequently, and bestows on him what aid_ lies m bis power. On the opposite bank" ofth.,e f jint^ngi|herTJ'hft ll »j «n old 'prophet is sufferfng from asthma. Be 'lies naked on a mat and is attended to by 1 two men and a nafcivo woman. Over his chest are a number of deep gashes, made, ~ it 13 said, to aid m relieving him ,qf the ,;'• taiftp.f' terrible s?e tlie^bHaitibhs to which this primitive superstition has brought these unfortunate people P , A party of Nelson gentlemen have successfully asceudjjd, iMount Franklyn, the height of whi-h is stated on the maps to be 10,000 feet. ..It was found-, on reHchinp- thp ju^imifc, to theif arterbid'the "height "was 8000 feet only. Two ne if lakes were discovered by "tlie party, one 5000 ft -abov.e the sea, aDd the other 1000 ft bjg^eri j! j l • " Some magnificent pearl oyster shells have .lately . been, received at Adelaide from tbe .Ncrthorh-Temyry. . Thoy include the golden>edge chicken shell, said to be worth £220 per ton, and the black edge shell, were found^at Port ( Darwin, Port EatersonV and v A : risori' Bay.'"' No'iess than half a tm of these shells were picked up m one daj within four miles of Port Darwin., , ( , ;;>l .[- r:t -;;., v.iv ■. ;A uondon paper of the 9th February contains the following paragraph : — 'On his leaving the Bachelors' Ball at Dorking on Wednesday morning, some person m the cruwd threw Hbout a quart of beer at the Duke of Albany. Fortunately only a fnirtll portion fell on his lioyal Highnoss, Sir Edward Moons^n and others receiving the greater portion of the contents of the jug. The author of the out* 'rage was not identified, but the police are confident of discovering him. ■ Wifh : the6bjei# of curbing the adventurous spirit of : officers i'n the, f ritiah Army, H.B.H. the Comfloander-in-Cfeief has just issued a formula whereby officers m army obtaining foreign .leave are required to pledge got to take part m hoatilijties goiflg for» ward m any part of the world.. ~

Mr W. W, Carlili-, President of the W.odvili*. Settlers' Association, Ims received a li-tt- r from Mr Hawkins, Piesident of tlie Wjurarapa, Settlers' Association, asking the Woolville Associarion to co-operato with them m agitating for t!ie improvement -of ihe system of railway win igftnent, and the nbolitioi> of the " free pass " system on the railways. When the Hon. Mitch elson visited Nfipier, a deputation waited on him m regard to matters affecting the dittricf, and among other' questions, they asked him when thaTraitway line would be opened to Taho)«?WT- >- In ■ reply he : informpd them ik would . not be opened till January, whereas he told the Woodpile deputation it would not be opened till October. This (says the Examiner) is far from satisfactory. A Wellington paper states that a Mr R Niedorgesatis intends to take out » phtent for n new meat freezing mid thawing machine. This muohino will i,fm w tho moat, and, at ihe nnnio timr«, k »•»•{> jt dry. .Mr NiedcitfeHasa thinks it, will tnitw tho m>at so that after tlniwiiw it will look bright, clean mil dry— nut, nloppv, dull and ugly, as it too often doe*. ljn is confident that this will solve tho quu4« tion of beef-fre zin«. Should his mucliiriK p?rform wh..t is expected of if, tho K»»n to this colony will be eiiotnion-. Thawing meat is the one thing needed, tho freezing of meat is now easy enough. The Woodville Examiner is informed that the Public Works Depnrtment have now the full complement of men required on the Tnhotfaite railway works, and that the works .will be vigorously pushed on. The Wellington Volunteer Encampment is to commence on Thursday. .. • In a communication to the London Daily Ne«*3, Ur William B. Carpenter suggests that Professor Tyndall's doctriue that cholera germs are bred m the humun intestines,, and from them diffused, does not go frtr enough' m assuming by impli-; cation that the humau intestitiaa are the; only breeding place of ; cholera germ*Y Dr Carpenter gives threp, remarkable "instances as evidence that cholera, , or at least the 'almost equally fatal choleric di»r hoe i,was caused by ofj'enstTe piggeries, , by a retarded drain m marshy ground, and by a compost heap of filth m an unused yard. The outbreak of fatal disease; m each of these ca' c i was directly traced \ to these sources, the effluvium being borne on the wind. In each the disease was! successfully combated, and finally conquered by a removal of the cause. : It is now said that the house of the future will be of glass. The manufacture of that transparent material has reached such perfection, that it is claimed a glass house would be superior m every respect to one of wood, brick, or etone. Glass can be cut m any shape and m blocks of any Bi"Z9. It is o'uite hs bird and durable and would not be uiore costly than granite. It will take tiny colour and be .made to .imitate very perfectly any known precious stone. The proverb about the danger of throwing stones m glass houses ii a mistaken one, for huge cobble stones would not hurt the material under con* sideration. Me3srs Greenwood & Son, Dentists, Waiigmu',. Registered under the Imperial Colonial Acts. Dentistry m all its branches. Next visit \to tVlmerston on Thursday 10th April, (Walkley's Hotel.)— advt.