LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 270, 11 October 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders are invited for metalling Spur a»d Taonui roads. Surgeon Woodward, one of the late President Garfield's physicians, committed suicide m Philadelphia. According to the local paper Waipawa is worse off for water than any place we ever knew, and should si fire break out, nothing can bft done but saving as much of the moveable property as possible; putting out the fire could not even be attempted. Bad florins have reached Waipiwa, and" it will be well for everyone to look out. Thoy are electro-plated on lead, the milling beiug perfect, and are dated ■ «188 i; M

The Pacific mail ateamer Australia l.mught 2500 cases of fruit for New Zealand—tho largest shipment of American fruit y^t made. A terrible tragedy occurred at Tennessee on August lOtli, whevi a of masked men set upon and murdered four Mormon elders while thoy were conduct-" . iii# a meeting, besides others who attempted to defend them. ' Under the heading of "A New Crime," a. Southern paper says : — At Ashburton on Friday last, Mr Baddoly being Jhe K.M., a lad named Patrick Langham was sent to g.iol for seven days for burning an effigy of Mr Grigg, M~tt.R ;^on ~a vacant section within the borough. It was not stated under what statute this apparently severe penalty was iuflicted. In Wanganui a similar offence was punished will) a penalty of 40s. There is considerable disparity .here, .. - : '^ ; As bearing oh the question 'of 'drairiage Mr Remington, chairman of the Bulls Towh Board, has informed anux cl-auge that the little bit of drainage done m Bulls cost £800. and the stench arising from the drain there is abominable, owing to the want of water to flush the drain. * .- . r : More than 100 tons of human hairare annually bought aud sold. Four ounces is aii average clipping from a human head, so that 100 tons represent tho.product of from 800,000 to i; 000,000 heads. In. Europe the heads of female criminals are shorn, and they supply a largo market, hut the greater part is bought by travelling pedlars. JBetweeu the ages of fifteen and forty a woman can grow about seven crops of hair. Another case of "lambing dpwn" is reported m Auckland by the local Telephone. A man from the country, with 77 sovereigns m his pocket, entered one of the hotels on Monday uijht of last week, aud on the following envening he had 1 only 13 sovereigns left, but he had a black eye as compensation for the 64 sovereigns parted with. As this rustic had not been m the hotel more than twenty hours, he consequently "parted" at the rate of about 3 sovereigns per hour. - Great dissatisfaction prevailed among business men this week owing tt>> the extraordinary arrangements of the Napier Hail way inanager,who stopped all goods traffic on three days because a few people thought fit to hold a race meeting. If the line and rolling, stock could not bear the trifling' strain 1 of such a small con-; cern as this without disarranging all trade and traffic, ; it! is high time (observes the Waipawa Mail) the manager procured a little of that snrplns stock and material that Major Atkinson tol 1 us had been provided against the future; requirements of our lines. # Mr Patten of Palmerston delivered, a very successful lecture m Foxton on Thursday evening, on the sub-> ject of "Alcohol and its properties." At the conclusion e£ the leoture a cordial; vote of llianks was accorded to Mr Put- ; ten, for his kindness m visiting Fox-; ton.; ■'■'/' ' ■ ''-. ' : ■■»-.., : The steame? Houroto, which arrived ■ at Wellington from the South on Thursday, had on board 101 horses for Sydney and 572 tons general produce. She took from. Wellington 26 head of cattle and a large quantity of general produce. ; The Post says :— rThe Palmerston North people want a sitting of the Supreme Court to bo . held periodically m. tihat, township,, as they, complain, of thVcosV o£ Sringmg all witnesses m Manawatu cases to Wanganui." Considering that Supreme Court cases are few and far between; ; we fail to see the necessity for a sitting of the; Supreme Court. Why ther« are scarcely ever cases even for. the District Court. . From the Post we learn that ; the English embezzler Anderson appears, to be anxious to get back to Great-Britain and on being put' upon his trial m Liverpool, it is thought that he will make 1 no at- ' tempt to clear himself of the charge of : peculation which has boen laid against him. The first tunnel bri.,Mr S* Brown's section of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway was successfully 'pierced at the end of last week. It is situated 22 miles > from town, and is eight chains through. ; The work has been performed throughout without any accident or mishap, Mr C. M'Kirdy being the sub-contractor. Mr 8. Brown was the first person! to. go through the tunnel. ' It is believed that all the tunnels on ; this section will be pierced.before Christmas. :-•: ;■ ! A>_yery large quantity of scraps of paper^ covered with a solution ofMiitrate of silver, collected from day to day tin theiphotographic branch of the Land Department (says, the Argus), was recently sent to the Mint for extraction of the silver it contained. It. was treated! at the es^ tabliflhment, and the department, has received, as the result, an ingot of almost pure silver, weighing 650z. The product will be disposed of by tender. A sitting of the Divorce Court is: to take place as soon as possible after <the present criminal sessions of .-the '.Wejlwgton Supreme Court^are concluded. . The following suits are laid down for hearing :— Grey v. Grey, Monkton v. Monktori j and Wallace v. Wallace. The parties m the last mentioned case 1 reside- m the Manawatu district. Those m the other two belong to Wellington. TheWaipaiwa Mail is gladto hear that a party is being formed to resist the gross jobbery involved m the District Railways Leasing 'and' Purchasing Bill, Westport Harbour Bill and others of a similar character. More power to them.' Messrs Macaindrew and Trimble with others are trying to resist the indecent haste of those who are trying to close the session before the work is done. A man named J. P. Olponnor was tried at the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Monday last for forging a cheque while passing through to Wellington? He only arrived m the colony from Melbourne on the 30th ult., therefore m less than a. week he passed through the hands of tho Magistrate and the Judge, who rewarded his sharpness with nine months work and lodgings. Land to the extent of one rood, being section 40 m township of Woodyillc, has beenltetriporarily reserved as a site for a Library and Mechanics Institute. • Messrs Nelson Bros, of Hastings, have received a telegram from "their London house, saying : — " The Bombay, Coptic, and Northumberland have , discharged their meat m excellent condition. Report stocks moderate "and prices fijmer." Mr Bradshaw's motion that a medical practitioner while m the. active practice of his profession should not hold the offic« of a coroner m New Zealand, was supported by the Government, who promisrd to give effect to it, and it was carried by 33 to 6. Mr William Wakefield, of Kentucky, a well-known writer on short-horns, I makes the following remarks m reference to the red-polled cattle :— " The red^ polls, and they only, of all milk breeds, ore prime feeders and butchers' beasts also; they, and only they, of all beef breeds, and prime dairy cattle. The excellencies of all present no tendency to unite, except m the red-polled." The Victoria Racing Club have been called on to investigate a prirm facie shady case from Adelaide. A sport m the latter city wired to a bookmaker m Sydney to back Hurricane for the Hawkesbury Handicap, and was told that 500 to 100 had been taken for him. It now transpires that the telegram was not received at Hawkesbnry until one hour and a-hnlf after Hastings had won '