LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 12 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Marlborough papers complain" of the relics of the Wairau massacre being allowed, to fall into decay. . ■ Mr J. D. Ormond and Captain Russell, M.H.R.'s, were on a visit to Woodville last week. We publish with to-day's;, issue ah eight-column supplement, chiefly .consisting of advertisements for which there is not room m our daily iqsue. „ The Wellington police have taken proceedings against the proprietor of the hotel by whom the man King was serye.d with a bottle of ruin on the night preceeding his death. The Wellington Mayoral chair will probably be contested by three or four candidates at the next election.. The irrepressible William Hutchison will be among the number. Gum arabic comes almost exclusively from the Soudan, aud owing to the operations of £1 Mahdi, there have been ; ho receipts of any consequence for a year past. The Woodville people have held a , most successful" woiking bee" m order to put their school grounds m order. The result was most satisfactory. j The Annali di Medisina says that the consumption of beer m Italy is growing to enormous proportions, while that of wine islessening every year." ' It may be interesting to note that exactly thirty y eaVs a&6 ' this* iribntti small-pox was prevalent m London, it having followed at the heels of (cholera. Dunedin railway employes are tteing dismissed from" Government employment. The exhaustion of Government funds is asserted to be the reason' for these dismissals. . According to a Wellington paper the recent demand for wedding cakes is . certainly a most healthy sign of the . times, as it is admitted by all social economists that whenever marriages are on the increase the prosperity of a country ii m the same ratio. By latest accounts by, cable the total quantity of wheat for the United Kitigdom is, 1,770,000 quarters, an increase of 210,000 quarters during the week. Prime New Zealand mutton is unchanged atfid per lb, '■ ■'■■• Mr Terry who died very suddenly at Wellington on Saturday was a very old settler, and his sudden death will bring grief to many a family. He has. lived m the Wairarapa for more than '-.thirty years, and, we are informed, assisted to cut the first track over the Rimutaka. He was about 66 years of age, We were shown yesterday a very inferior, and we believe unwholesome sample of fresh butter, as the * produce of one of the local dairies m thisj.district. A journalist from an adjacent town, who happened to be present, said the odour afar off was enough for him. It woultl seem that there is someone m Dunedin powardly enough to send tnreateniug letters anonymously, A re; ward of £50is offered for such inf ormatioji as will lead to the detection of the person who sent a letter signed " Assassinator." The Woodville Examiner- complains that the way m which the Acclimatisation Societies ma'.mge the arrangement*! of the shooting season is disgraceful. For instance, during April sportsmen could shoot oq the left bank of t|}e Manawatu, but not on the right, so that m Woodville the season has only lasted three months instead of four an should be the eaße. It is to be hoped the local Society Will have some say m the matter next time. . It is said the dtiriking-glasses of the middle ages, made at Venice,' possessod the peculiar property of breaking into Bhivers if poison were put into them. If these glasses (says IjqhQVjl were introduced into this country, 'New Zealand bar-rooms would soon be littered v with broken glass/ Three fingers of chemical lightning would shiver one of these . Venetian glasses into ten thousand frag? menis. The rate for the carriage of milk by rail to dairy faptories h,as beep, reduced from |.l to £d per gallon for distances of 15 miles and under, and £d per gallon for each additional 10 miles or fraction thereof. The minimum charge will be 6d and empties returned free. The Directors of the" Wauganui Dairy Factory consider that this rate is still too high, and will makfe further representations to the authorities on the subject. We (f3tofcfe} und,er.sfand, that Mr BaU lanoe, 'iVI.H.R.,' willbe asked to interview the Miufcterof the IPubls Works on the matter. iThe Russian Government are now having a telescopa constructed for the ' observatory at Moscow, which will be forty- five feet m length, with a 'dia* meter of glass of thirty inches. It will be the largest instrument m the world. The present " champions"- aye tho^e at Washington ajid, pjjarlolfesvijle, ' \yflich respectively measme tbirty^three f pet m length, We cut the following paragraph from the Marlborough Expreaa, as illustrative of the extent of the rabbit pest m • th^t district : — A dray load of rabbit-skins was brought m from Dumgree (a station) yesterday for shipment to Eugland by the Lyttfeltou. The dray contained 34,600 skins, made up m bales of 3,000 each," , ; .} Indigestion and, Ljyer. Oqmplaints.-*---■For these "compjaiuia Baxter's Compound Quinine fills'.Haye prov-'ed a specific, acting powerfully on "the liver and mildly on the stomach. Sold everywhere, or post free from J. Baxter, Christchurch, for 19 or 44 stamps. Agonising j^eupalgic Rains.,— rßaxter-'s AntiTNeuralgic ifills have ' Wen named by the public '* Magio Pills " on aooonnt of their inarvellduß 'action m curing Neuralgic, Toothache, Sciatica, Lumbago, and other Neuralgic pains.— To be had of all chemists and storekeepers, or post free on receipt'of 19 or 44 postage stamp s, — J. Baxter, Chemist, Victoria* street, ChvistQhurcli,