LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 156, 30 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs McDowell Bros, advertise a notice m reference to paddocks to let for grazing. C. M. Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, annouuce tlio arrival of their second shipment of millinery, and also a second shipment of their guinea blankets. From what we gather it is not likely (says the Marton paper) that the Fusillier will ever be floated again. She is broadside on to the breakers, with a! heavy lurch on her. A.H movable articles are being taken out of her, after which it is understood she will b(i left to her fate. Inspector Goldie has been thirteen years m the employ of the Auckland City Council.' The Star says he is expected to wage incessant warfare against collarless dogs, keep his olfactory organs ou the alert to discover all the bad smells from Constitution Hill to Cox's Creek, to keep cabdrivers from falling into ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, to test kerosene and petroleum, to see that it won't go oft' pop at k-ss than 130 degrees, io boss three subordinates, and to look nice and respectable, and all for £200 per annum. The new inspector of the Taranaki educational district reports the schools generally to be m a most digraceful condition. The standards have not been adnered to, and altogether things are said to be m a stato of confusion which is altogether incomprehensible. It is to be hoped that further enquiry will show that the censure is too severe and too indiscriminate. The following, taken from a correspondent's letter to the Lyttelton Times, speaks for itself : — A rather rough commentary ou the rates charged for grain carriage ou the Methven line is the fact that Air Thomas Dowli rig m conreying his grain to the main line m waggons drawn over the road by a traction engine, and already about 4000 bushels have bcon so sent a distance of 18 miles. U. it will pny Mr Dowling to do this, there must be something rotten m the state of Denmark. The steeplechasers Parnell and Black Doctor were offered for s&lo at Mr F. K. Jackson's sale yard Wanganui on Wednesday, but were passed m, the former being withdrawn at a bid of 87 and the latter at,£3s. Detective Benjamin arrested a man named Frederick Hadfield an Wednesday evening at Wanganui, on a charge of passing a valueless cheque m Wellington. HaJfielil is said to be well connected m Christchurch. Mr Bovvron is again on a visit to the district, having come specially (says the Woodville Examiner) for the purpose of seeing that the plans for the Dairy Factory builds are correct m their particulars, much trouble having already ensued to companies through the plans not being properly approved by an experienced man before the contracts have been entered on. Wo (Examiner) understand Sir W. j Fox has been invited to give a parting address m Woodville before leaving for England. Messrs McDowell Bros.' adhered advertisement over the leader announces the arrival of their second shipment of winter clothing and novelties. The Wellington morning paper contains two columns from a country contributor with reference to allege! spiritual manifestations m the Wairarapa. Between the years 1871, and 1882, 35,6(50 seamen and 3062 passengers lost their lives ou British ships. Great numbers of soa fowl are now killed by Hying against the telegraph wires along t.ho British Coasts during stormy weather. The society for the preservation of wild birds, has the subjoct under consideration and Parliament will probably be petitioned to have the wires removed or niado innocuous by pudding.

It is confidently asserted (says the Fuilding Star) that Mr lloohfort is actually coining to commence the exploration of the Oroua Valley railway route, and that a party of his men are m town to-day. Some time ago (says the Marton paper) the experiment of laying down straw m the cuttings through the sandhills m the Carnarvon district, for the purpose of hardening the road was tried, ! and it is gratifying to record that success ias attended the scheme. Where straw .ms been laid down the road is now tolerably hard, and vehicles can pass along with some degree of comfort to the drivers. A London magistrate has lately decided that a perarabulater is a " cart or carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow," and, as such, must be wheeled on the rond, and not upon the footway. This decision, however, has since been overruled incidentally by Mr Justice Lash, who, m a case with reference to a Turnpike Act. instanced a perambulator as not included m the word carriage. Commenting upon the magistrate's decision, a London journal says, thnt even if it were right, it clearly could not be enforced. " The police will do most things," says our contemporary, " but we may saf\:iy predict that they will decline to wage a general war on the nursery maids of London." Little more than a hundred years ago women were publicly whipped at the whipping post by the stocks, or at ar.y cart's tail. The fierce statue of Henry VIII's and Elizabeth's reign made no distinction of sex, and their ferocious provisions to the effect that "offenders should b j stsi^pod naked from the middle upwards, and whipped till the body should be bloody," long continued m force. Men with their wives and children were flogged publicly, and sometimes by order of the clergymen of the the parish, Girls of twelve and thirteen, aged women of sixty, all suffered alike. Women distracted— that is, out of their minds — were arrested and lashed ; so were those who had the small-pox, and all who walked about the country and begged.—" The Chronicles of Newgate," by Arthur Griffiths. Cure for Indigestion. — Baxter's Co.tipound Quinine Pills, used according to the directions, have proved a certain and speedy cure for indigestion, bilious and liver complaints, wind m the stomach and bowels, nervous debilitv, &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 chemists and storekeepers m boxes, Is l|d and 2s 9d each, or po3t free on receipt of 19 or 44 stamps. — J. Baxter, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 21, Victoria-street, Christchurch.