LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 128, 10 November 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In order to afford our employes the benefit of the holiday, the Stahdabd is published early to-day. The time for receiving tenders for purchase of stock m trade &c. m ] the estate of J. R. Harper, of Bulls,' has been extended to Wednesday week, the 19th iustant. We remind the public that Mr Snelson's inaugural sale at the Karere Sale Yards will take place on Friday next at Ip.m. ; We are requested to remind* creditors m the estate of George Marsh, of Ashurst, that the first meeting of creditors takes place m the Court House this afternoon at 2 p.m. , - The Telegraph hears that two more chemists are about to commence business, m Napier. One-is from Auckland who will open m Hastings-street, < and the other* is from Wanganui, who: has taken premises m Enaereon-street. The latter is probably Mr A. E. Remington, lately m business m Pahnerston Nbrth. The Hon Mr Nurse was. found early on Friday by the House messengers lying on tHe floor of one of : the Legis-; lative Couucil room's partially insensible, Dt Grace was at .once sent for, and Mr Nurse. ,was removed to the.. Hospital, where he now lies m a somewhat -precarious condition. v . '-'" ' , Advices have Deeh received of the departure of the New ZeaTatid Shipping Company's new steamer Kaikoura, from Madeira. The cable message was dated Loudon, Ist Nov., %nd mentioned that she . wou Id cal J at the Cape, Hobart, , Wellington and Lyttelton. . ' j The 8.8. Hineraoa was under orders to proceed to Auckland with. the Northern members ou Saturday nighty afteij the i jrising of the House. It was not certain ' however, whether the prorogation would take place on Saturday. ■. : The. Woodville Examiner, has 1 the following :— " A petition was - taken round m Feilding for signature, tp present to Parliament, requesting that the junction of the Woodville-Napier: line be made at Bunny thorpe. The Fielding* Jtes got wind that a petition was being taken around m Palmerston requesting that the junction be made there." Our contemporary is m error: No petition .was taken round iv Palraerston until after the Feilding , petition, had .boen sent away. It-was kept .very quiet id Feilding for obvious reasons, V Vulcan's ", next consultation and Other new advertisements Vill appear m our next issue; . ■ .'-•.... In the House on Friday the Sheep Act 1878 Amendment Bill, Wellington j College Reserves Confirmation Bill, and Special Po were and Contracts Bill were passed. ' Woodville is about going m for a Town Board. This is a step m advance, on : whiohfwe, congratulate the rising township across the Ranges. Mr A, B. Haggen, of the Woodville Examiner, has been nominated for the representation of the Woodville district on the Land Board, Hawke's Bay. Mr Haggen should make an excellent representative. '■ " ■ ; The New Zealand Shipping Company have been advised by cablegram that their steamer Ruapehu arrived at Hpbart on Thursday all well, and left again same afternoon lor Port Chalmers, where she will be due on Tuesday , morning. The 9. 30 down train from the Hutt on Friday morning was a quarter of an hour late, the delay being occasioned by the salt water washing . ox\\ tb the rails along the Hutt road. Saltwater, it appoars, makes the rails slippery, fresh water ' having little or no offect upon them. - : The New Zealand Shipping Company is likely to soon have some formidable opposition iv the meat freezing trade. •'We (Wairarapa exchange), see by circulars now being distributed m this district that the Dunedin Freezing Compaqy has received an offer of a fast steamer for »ix consecutive trips carrying 35,000 sheep each voyage at a freight which would t mean to the shipper lfd per lb and. 5 per cent primage per sheep as compared with the freight of twopsnoe per lb, and 10 per cent primage hitherto paid on a 721 b sheep. This would mean a reduction of 3s per sheep." It will be seen from our telegrams that both the New Zealand and Shaw-Savill companies hav^ reduced their rates to lfd per lb, /

A street brawl occurred one day, and a number of the peace breakers wtre apprehended and brought up before the Baillie for trial. After witnesses had been examined pro and con, the Baillie curtley decided, 1 ' Half-a-croon a-piecfel" against all concerned, witnesses and prisoners alike ! Of course this decision was called m question by the witnesses, who submitted that they were m no way connected with the disturbance, but I were simply onlookers. But the Baillie was inexorable — "It dis na mat.ter a button, ye— had; nae business there— | Half-a-croon the piece, or ten days I" | Before finally quitting the stage m 1 1883 Adelina Patti will make a rapid, tour of the chief towns of India, Australia, and New Zealand. She will be \ accompanied by Signor Nicolini ' and a carefully selected concert party. " 'this, says the London correspondent of ( the Dunedih Star, will bo the only opportunity the. people m your part of; the world ate ever likely to have of hearing the famous ,paptatf ice." Says an exchange : — While the Freethinkers of Sydney were engaged m, feasting, and showing their want of loyalty by intentionally leaving out the toast of " The Quoen," their brethren m Melbourne were not much behindhand m their aggressiveness. The annual meeting of the Lord's Day Observance Society was held on the 20th October. At the meeting, Mr Syraes who! was specially sent to Australia by Mr Bradlaugh to rouse the 'freethinking cpUse m Australia insisted on speaking, | and the result was the gas was turned down, and the members of the society brought their meeting to a close. Matches were struck and Mr Symes addressed his freethinkmg friends, and after a time candles were procured and lighted. The advocate of " freedom of speech " when interrupted kimself, quickly had the aggressor turned ,out — such is the freedom of speech that these blatant orators accord to their opponents. After a time the men ivho had engaged the hall, by the aid of the police got the assembly dispersed. ! „.; The oldest clergyman m the Church of England is believed to be Richard Moore, Vicar of Lund-in-the-Fyjlae, Lancashire. On a recent Sunday, he' completed his ninety-fourth year. •He was ordained m 1815. and his health is still good. He is also the senior justice m Lancashire haying been appointed by the crown m 1820. ! The only pace of the elephant is the walk, whichis capable of being increased to a fast shuffle of about 15 miles an hour for a very short distance. The elephant can neither trot, canter nor jgallop, nor can it make the 'smallest spring either m vertical height or m horizontal distance; ' „, It is estimated that m two years there will be uninterrupted railway communication between the capitals of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria^ A loving bride was heard to wish that she was a saloon, so that her husband would. run m eighteen or twenty times a day to see her. ' A clergyman was telling a marvellous story, when his little girl said, " Nowj pa, is that true, or is it only preaching ?" The course of tbe river is often brdkeu by sudden rapids or perilous eddies. jTfie life of the good man is not one perpettial flow of buoyant meiody. It nap its breaks, its discords, its attritions. Likethe river, its course is often fretted by, the eddies of trouble or disturbed by the sand-bars of defeat. . j ..'...'. 1 New ; Girl— Shall I lock the front door, missus. Mrs A. (whose husband 1 has gone to .the lodge)-— No, leave it as it is. New G-irl — But some burglar might' get m., Mrs A — l shall remain m the hall myself. New Girl— Mercy save uslr An' phat for. Mrs A — lain, waiting for the late male. ' : .' A horrid case of a child being worried by a dog happened a short time ago at Birmingham. :It was'seized by a liaii- ; bred bull terrier, which ■ could not be knocked off until it was rendered insensible, when it still retained its grip. On the child being .released, it was placed under medical attendance, and lies m a precarious state. The dog was at once desttoyod. J / :' "'_ '■-'■'■■'•■' ■'■■■■ . • A Methodist minister once, started a church m a young town, but for.; want f of pecuniary Buppofiwaß soon obliged to abandon itr His farewell sermon to> hiis lukewarm ''brethren^ was character-' iaed by more heat' than elegance. IHe ended thus : "At the last day the Lord , will say to St. peter, >■;' Where is your flock ?' and St. Peter will answer, 'Hers Lord.' He will say to Calvin, ' And where are your sheep ?' and Calvin will reply, ' Here,' Lord' ; arid so all of the shepherds can answer. But when he asks me, • Where : are ■? your sheep ?' ho Wi will you feel when lam compelled to reply, ' Lord, I havn't any, ; mine were all hogs." - : How very nearly (writes The Globe) the sublime approaches the ridjculoiis at times' is well shown by the most heroic, action (recorded of the Crimean veteran who died on the 15th August at Canterbury. lii the bloody battle of the Alma Michael Keesham bad an arm : taken off by a cannon ball close to the shoulder. He stooped down* picked up his arm, and marched off the field with it. As a pantomime effect m a sham fight on the stage, Michael's heroism would have been greeted with roars of laughter. The new Duke of Wellington is the . great-grandson of the rustic beauty who, as readers of Tennyson are aware, being born a "village maiden" of Shropshire, was suddenly elevated to the painful dignity of a peerage by her marriage with "the Lord of Burleigh," whom she and her parents had taken to be only a landscape painter.'V From being plain "Sarah tioggins, of Bolas Magna, m the county of Shropshire," she found herself Countess of Exeter, and "«the burden of an honor unto which she was not born," threw her into a consumption and caused her early death only six years after her marriage. : Referring to the late Napier Show the. Herald says :— A good example for the' need of dairy produce factories was 1 shown by the dispiriting fact that there were no entries m the class for cheese, of which such large quantities jare annually consumed m Hawk'e's TBay. It is to be hoped that a change m this Tespect may- take place before the next show is held, and that Hawke's Bay may soon cease to import an article that onght not only be made here for local consumption, but that should also help to swell the list of our exports. Quite a sensation was created on Jpri r day night m the Legislative Council by the Hon Mr Peter, who asked the Him the -Colonial Secretary, by leave of the Council without notice, a question which, he said, reflected seriously upon the management of an important institution m Otago. Was it true, the hon gentleman asked, that the body of a dead lunatic bad lately been forwarded for burial to Dunedin, m an old olothes basket ? The! Colonial Secretary for a second lost his {accustomed self-posses-sion, but replied, that the Government had heard nothing of the matter referred to by .the htfn member, btit . he certainly would make inquiries with a view to ascertain the truth Or otherwise^ of the alleged impropriety.