LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ferrets are proving very destructive to poultry m Maaterton The Tui has been thoroughly repaired and painted, and now presouts a very neat appearance. An order of discharge has been granted 10 Mr Michael Keen, shoemaker, of Feilding, by the Wellington Court, on the application of Mr Brandon, jun. A horse-tamer, iiamuil Darey ilylaml, is giviug some wonderful exhibitions of his equestrian skill iv Wellington. The Rev. Father M'Manus made hiß usual monthly visit to Foxton on Sunday last, and* held the usual services at the Catholic Church. The Dunedin firm of Reid and Gray, agricultural implement makers, employ 200.hands, and pay m wages -£20;00fr j per "annum. Notice is given m the Wairarapa papers of a meeting at Mastorton to form a Farmers' Glub. The three men awaiting their trial on the charge of cattle stealing at Horowhenua were bailed out on Thursday last at Wanganui. The necessary bonds were entered into by Wirihana Hunia, Hoani Meihana, and Major Kemp. There arc some fine totara trees on the land recently sold near Mokatoku. The Waipawa Mail hears of ouo that is 42ft iv girth, and others 35ft and upwards. An impressive sermon on the death of the late Mr David Kinniburgh was delivered m the Taranaki-atreet Wesleyan Church last Sunday night by the Rev. W. Baumber. The Mayor of Wellington is recovering from the illness which has confined him to his bed for the past ten days. . The iuembers of the Horowhenua Licensing Committee have received legal notice that a mandamus is to be applied for to compel them to rehear the applica-? tion for a license f or ; the Manawatu Hotel. The committee intend to show causej and the case will be heard m the Supreme Court here on the 25th instant. From the Waipawa Mail we learn Messrs Wells and Smalley are starting a brick and tile-making factory at Woodville, having machinery on the way from England. They purpose also making the old-fashioned roofing tiles, with the view of siiperceding the use of shingles. Mr H. Williams, of Napier, is also going to erect an ironmongery store at the same place. • The Post has evidently been misinformed m the following paragraph :— " A clever arrest was effected m the Wanganui district last week, Constable Quinn, of Queensland, appreheuding a man named Arthur Curry on a charge of forgery alleged to have been committed m that colony some time ago." Constable Quinn did not arrest the accused, but was sent down from Queensland to bring him back after his arrest had been effected. ' . • ■••..-. It is said that when there were four licensed hotels m the Seventy-mile Bush, the sale of liquor wos at all events confined to that number of houses, but that now there are at least a dozen places whore drinks can be had by purchasing biscuits. The tramway engine which was brought by the Jane Douglas from' Wellington, was carried firmly secured across the hatchway, close to the bridge. Fortunately the weather was fine . for . the trip. The Hon. R. Campbell was a passenger by the .Jane Douglas yesterday. Shortly after arriving,' he proceeded to the Oroua Downs Station m company with Mr J. M'Lennan. The tender of Mr Sykes was accepted for the supply of timber to the order of Mr R. Partridge. The contract price is 22s per 100 feet. The Feilding Star urges the appointment of a local railway official at Makino at which station the traffic. is increasing very couiderably. '; ; A number of persons woro out shooting pigeons on Sunday last (says the Star). There may be a kind of-' delirious pleasure m breaking both the law and the Sabbath, but it is .none the less foolish and sinful. Says a Wellington paper : — We are given to unrfei stand that very shortly several changes will vbe ,made in* the police force now stationed at Wellington. So far as wo can learn, it is intended to change inspectors and firstclass sergeants periodically j as if is considered the force would be worked more efficiently if heads of departments were more frequently shifted than is at present the case. This evening a general meeting of the members of the Wanganni Progress and Industrial Association will bo held. Mr Gerse is to finish his" paper on " Starch," Mr Brightwell will give a practical paper on " Bees," and the secretary will read an interesting paper received from Dr Curl on " Beetroot Culture.". The Marton paper understands that Mr Izard intends to proceed with the election petition m regard to the recent Foxton election. , He has, wer .believe, filed the petition, and sent Mr 'S. G. Wilson notice to that effect. One of the grounds on which he hopes, to upset the election is, we' hear; m connection with' 1 the Awahnri returns. The deputy returning officer at that place run out of printed voting paper, and \ used instead pieces of paper with the names of the candidates only written upon them, this occurred m nine cases, and Mr Izard intends to profit by it if he can. It is said that the nine votes were for Mr Wilson. The Schdol Inspector has reported very favorably on the " aided school " at the Oroua Bridge, which is under the management of Mrs Bissi " Mr Bindon says the discipline is good, and the general work most creditable. ■ This is a more flattering report than some of the schools will receive. Dr Tripe sends the Post the following communication :— ( ! During the epidemic of small-pox m England m" 1884 I was called m to see two m a family of six unracciriatcd children dying from smallpox. I immediately vaccinated the other four. The disease and vaccination ran concurrently, but vaccination so modified the disease that it ran a very mild course of the seven day form, very few pustules only being fqund m each case." • - • • - Rumours of "gold " are still m the Masterton atmosphere, says a Wairarapa Exchange of Saturday. For some weeks past_two men have been camped iw the i ranges limiting for reefs, and subsisting on a meagro'diet,' m; Which the main ingredient has been the sdcoulent heart of the mountain cabbage tree. One t of them came into town yesterday, arid intimated that they had " struck oil," and that next week they would divulge the good news of an auriferous discovery. The Napier Heralds parliamentary correspondent says : — Mr Walter Johnston, the late minister of Public Works, intends leaving for England next month. He intends being absent from the colony for two or three years. The many friends of Mr Bickerton, now of Woodville, will bo glad to hear (says the Waipawa Mail) that he is .prospering so well there m business, that he has made and contemplates making numerous improvements.

After a lengthy correspondence and considerable obiection on the part of the Government permission has at length been given for the county authorities to connect the Foxton-Saudon train- [ way with the railway lino at the former place. A large steam hammer has just been manufactured at the Te Aro Foundry by Messrs Luke, Sons, and Williums, and is, we (Post) are infoimcd, the first turned out m any part of the. colony. It weitfhd seven or eight tons, and is capable of striking a blow having an impact force of over throo tons. There is an interesting document m the possession of a Maori, now m Wellington, which is well worthy of being photo-lithographed. It is a letter from the Earl of Aberdeen, addressed to the native chief, Tikiore, thanking him for the assistance he rendered to Captain ,Sadler, of the Buffalo, which was sent oat to Now Zealand for a cargo of kauri spars, and is m reply to a friendly communication addressed to him by Tikiore. The letter is dated March, 1835, and is consequently nearly 50 years old. Considering that it has been m Maori custody ever since, it is m a remarkably good state of preservation. Mr Napier Broome, the Governor of Western Australia, who was lately travelling m the interior of that Colony, at one of the sawmills he visited, found it employed on an extensive order for railway sleepers given by ' the New Zealand Government. And yet : employment at times has been scarce here; The Waipawa Mail has heard some capital stories m connection with the. late general election, but the palm is due to a Liberal , gentleman who collected and paid all the liquor-bills of a '> Tory Member, who had" been elected a week or two before, and locked them up m his cash-box.