The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 204, 25 July 1884, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On dit that a certain medico had some very plain truths told him by Signor Hug. ! This may account for said medico's hostility towards tho clever clairvoyant, whose powers are beyond question. We were not previously aware that we had a medical man m this district called Henry Wilkin, which was the name given prior to the consultation. The deception was, however, exposed, and theu the medico got " beans" from the clair-' voyant, and was told off m proper style-, and ordered out of the room. We remind our readers of Mr Snelson's sales to-morrow, as set forth m advertisement, to take place at certain specified . times. " Pedestrian" wishes to know is it. >right to leave timber on the footway m front of buildings m course of alteration or erection ? He says he " barked his shin" last night m stumbling over some scantling which was carelessly left on the footpath m front of Dawiok's old accommodation house. He thinks the contractors should not be allowed to be so careless m this respect. The Marlborough Express gives the following as having been heard on the i ail way : — " Yer see, 'Any, I don't believe m these here triangular Parliaments with the members a votin' themselves so many harmoniums on the manhood sufferings ticket." "No more does I, Bill, I b'lieves m the regeneration of* the unborn increment, as Sir GeorgeGrey says." A meeting of the directors of the Gear Company was held on Wednesday, at which the balance-sheet for the half-year was passed. The result appears to be most satipfactory, the directors having resolved to declare an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. CM. Ross and Co. of tlie ßon March 6 announce several lines of drapery and clothing which it is their intention to dispose of during the next few days. Their new advertisement on the 3rd page will be found of interest to intending purchasers. ' , Stock has taken a sudden rise on the West Coast, inconsequence of the heavy demand arid high prices now ruling m Auckland, to which town the West Coast, exports largely. A Woodville farmer who attended a sale at Bulls the other day informs us (Examiner) that beef cannot now be bought at less than 20s per lOQlbs on the West Coast. This looks well for returning prosperity to ttye farmers and graziers. ..'■"■• Krupp, the great gun make* 'has, produced a new kind of powder, called" tty'e brown powder, which is. very likely fro supersede the ordinary black powder, 11 is stronger than the black powdeF, explodes only m a tightly-closed space, burns slowly m the open air, and itß" smoke is much thinner than that p£ black powder. Here is another proof taken from' the Napier Telegraph, of the necessity for the appointment of a non-politi-cal Railway Board. Several gentlemen residing m Napier, and having votes m the Waipawa district, were put to great inconvenience on Friday through the intense absurdity of the Government refusing a special train. The consequence apaf? that coeches had to be put m requisition, and many electors who voted at Te Aute and Pukehou did not get back to town till close upon midnight. The rediculous stupidity of the Government m refusing a special train did not prevent people from voting, it simply decreased the railway returns,

Wiiliam and Mary College, Virgin;?!, the oldest m Anit-rica mxt to Ilavard, lias closed its doors, liiiviu,^ l>"t ono student at the beginning of this sclioolyear. It was founded m 1693, and amongst its most eminent alumni wero Washington, Marshall, Randolph, Tyler, Breckenridgu and General Scott. The Elderslio, an iron screw steamer of 3700 tona, built especially .for the New Zealand frozen meat trade, was launched at Yarrow-on-Tyne the other dny. Her dimensions are 300 ft long and 40ft by 20 m depth. She will be | fitted with four powerful refrigerating engines by Haslam, and with chambers capable of carrying 800 tons of frozen sheep. Among the disparaging queries asked ! by advertisement m a Napier paper, respecting a candidate, are the following: — "Who buried the man with his boots on ? What else has ho dono ?" At the last general elections (writes the Napier Telegraph) public meetings uped to.be invariably wound, up with three cheers for Sir George Grey. At the present election here m Napier meetings close with three groans for the papers. , Well, we do not know that Sir George :has done more for the people than the newspapers have, but we do know that when the people want anything, a charity advocated or a wrong redressed' they come to the papers. The Question of the suitability of New Zealand; white pine when creosoted for railway? sleepers was discussed at the meetiug of the Philosophical Society, held lasjfc evening, and the specimen presetited &> the Museum . by Mr Harding, of Mount Vernon, and mentioned by us j yesterday, was exhibited. Mr W. T. L. Travdrs; stated that he had frequently pointed this out to the Government as a means of utilising our waste timber, but i apparently without effect. Speaking of the recent election, the Post observes : — " That Mr Ballance has replaced Mr Watt is one 'of : the niost satisfactory results of the whole election. Regarding the local ; elections m this district we certainly have no fault to find with the results arrived at, save m the. .case of South Wairarapa, and m a slight degree Bangitikei. Mr Bruce may prove a better man than Mr Stevens, but, from watching the election closely, we have a suspicion that Mr Bruce has been returned rather out of revenge on Mr Stevens ; for having at the last electioiitdefeated Sir W. Fox by one vote, than on his intrinsic merits." This is precisely the position. Coincidently with the arrival of the Marquis Of Normanby when he assumed, some years ago, says JEgles, the Governorship of New? Zealand, there was a transit of Venus. Somehpw or other, down aborit the wharves the events got mixed m the nautical mind. So, when someone asked a leading man amongst the waterman why all the bunting was flying, he was quite ready with his answer — " Why, don't ye know that the Markis o' Wenus is going to arrive toThe war against the " small-bird nuisance " is (says a Southern paper) being vigorously prosecuted throughout Otago and Canterbury. During the past season the Temuka Road Board paid for 10,394 dozen eggs and young birds, and the Geraldine Board for 5492£ dozen. The Levels Board paid for something like 10,000 dozen, so that over 300,000 sparrows, or possible sparrows, were destroyed m the Geraldine county, besides large numbers killed by poison and. not accounted for. A great fire occurred on May 17 at Bei, Bazaar, m the province of Angora. Owing to the strong wind prevailing at the time it was impossible to stay the progress of the conflagration, which destroyed 950 houses, 544 warehouses and shops, 11 mosques, 15 schools, 9 khans and 146 other buildings. Eleven persons perished m the flames. From the Farringdon Advertiser of 24th May we learn of the death of a once' well-known resident of Wellington Captain Pigott Needham Cole. Captain Cole arrived m Wellington m i 1840 as a subordinate officer on board the Bolton, and two years later he revisted the port as chief officer of the Clifton. He subsequently settled m ' Wellington, and was many years an offioer of H.M. Customs m Wellington, j He retired some years ago, and went to j England, where he continued to reside xrutil his decease at Lechlode on 21st May last, at the age of 80. A woman has been fined £5 and costs by the Wellington R.M. for having deposited night soil on a public thoroughfare. Giffen, the Adelaide cricketer, while on the voyage Home, saw a piece of orange poel on the deck of the vessel . Approaching was an old lady, who would certainly have tripped on it and fallen, with the result of breaking her bones. .With one arm he held her back ffom the danger, then stooping down he picked up the obnoxious orange peel, and with his open pajip threw it overboard, with the result that the peel was followed by two valuable diamond rings one a cricket prize, and the other a gift by his brother. '