LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 192, 11 July 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Aorangi left Wellington on May 29, so that she must have made the passage m forty day 8. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of fruit and forest trees to-morrow. Mi Snelson intends holding weekly auction sales of timber, particulars of which will bej duly announced m the Standard. It will be seen by advertisement m another column that the first polling place gazetted at Awahuri being outside of Manawatu constituency no voting can take place at Awahuri, and electors will have to go to Feilding to record their votes. Mr John Stevens will open bis political campaign at Marton on Monday, July 14. The full list of dates and places of his addesses to the electors will be found m our advertising columns. During the cross-examination at the Wellington'Suprerao Court, Phillip Kingcorabe, a prisoner undergoing sentence for forgery, admitted that before his arrest some of his friends urged him to flee by the s.s. Bombay, but he said he did not want to do so. Ho said he had abundant chances of escaping if lie had been inclined to evade justice. According to the Post, Watty looks very much altered. A Wairarapa paper states that the hands employed by Government on the Masterton - Ekatahuna railway works haye not been paid for six weeks. A cable message received by the New Zealand Shipping Company reports the arrival of the British King at London on the 7th, and the Aorangi at Plymouth on the :Bth, instant. The ship Opawa, from Lyttelton, with frozen meat, is m the Channel. Latest intelligence from the London market states that the wool market is firm. Arrivals to dates for next series of auctions now amount to 260,000 bales The accounts to hand from the English hop districts are now more satisfactory, recent showers having proved beneficial, i

Messrs Carlquist and Co. olsewhero announce having started a tannery and fellmongery m Fitzherbert-street, Terrace End, and that they are buyers of wool, hides, and calf, pig, and sheepskins. They undertake to scour wool on commission. A specialty m their business is the staining of wool-mats, iv which line of work th«y have achieved »;reat success. We wish the enterprising firm every success. The British King is expected to sail from Wellington for Lyttelton on Suni day next, and leaves that port for London direct about the 16th hist. Messrs Robertson uud Co. of Wellington are the successful teuderers for the supply of forty iron girder spans for the ' Various streams ou the Wellington and | Manawatu railway. These spans are de- | signed by Mr Higginsou, the engineer j of the company, and may be characterl iued as beiug a vast improvement ou the olil, unsightly and cumbersome wooden bridges whicu prevail ou the Government railway lines. I The two new steamers now being [ built for the New Zealand Shipping I Company will probably be amoug the fastest vessels trading to the Auatralasiau colonies. According to latest advices they are intended to steam something like 15 knots ou the voyage, aud will make the passage m 35 days. Their gross tonnage is 5000, and the engines will be of 1000 horse-power nominal — twice that of the lonic or Doric. . We ara asked whether there will be another election m December or not. There will not be another general election for three years from the present time, unless caused by a dissolution. By the Triennial Act, it is provided that each Parliament shall last for three years , ( af ter its election. . The .8.8. Ruapehu arrived at Hobart on Wednesday, her steaming; time from Plymouth being 37 days 16 hours. She reports haviug prsscd the Shaw, Savill, aud Albion Company's chartered steamer Coptic off Cape Connella, about 30 miles from Hobart, although she left 3 days later than the other steamer. Messrs J. Kitchen and Sons, of Wellingtou, have formed their business into a limited liability company, and will be known as the J. Kitchen and Sou Manufacturing Company (Limited). All the late partners remain m the business, and Mr Joseph Kitchen will act as managing director.