LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 141, 20 May 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are requested to reuiiiiu tlioso interested Iliat acceptances m connection with the race meeting elosn t li i »* evening ntiil imiHt be left with the Secretary, Mr T. King, not later than 9 o'clock. The Arawn arrived m Wellington from Port Chalmers on Sunday evuniitii. She will remain there about ;i wuuk ami puts out about BGO tons of Wellin^tm. cargo, hosid«B -300 tons of transhipments, taking m 3000 carcases of mutton. Slu then calls at Naph-r and LytUllon, leaving the latter port for London on June 6. Tli« prospectus of St I'atriok'uCollegp, Wellington, is published m the Welling- j ton papers. The institution is under the presidency of the Right He r. Bishop j Redwood, and the Very Rijv. Dr Watters, S. M., is Rt-ctor. The course of instruction will he very complete, fitting students either for learned professions or for commercial business or Civil appointments. From the character of tho College, it follows that the religions | education will be attended to as a mat- j ter of tho first and greatest importance. Non-Catholic in-door students will be ; lequircd to attend the common religious exercisuß and to conform to the rules of the College Parents and guardians are requested to nuko early application for the admission of students. The building is n fine one, and is excellently situated. The establishment of such a Collego is eminently creditable to the Catholics of Wellington. He drew his breath with a gasping sob, with a quivering voice he sang ; hut his voice leaked out, and could not drowu the accompany isl'a clamourous bang. Ha lost his pitch on the middle A, he faltered on lower D, and foundered at length, like a battered wreck, adrift on the wild high C. In connection with tho Bryce-Rnndpn commission, we learn from the Herald that the exhumation of the bodies at Nukumaru cannot b« proceeded with at I present, ttS the consent of the natives interested has not boen obtained, souao of them boing at Parihaka, and others m the back country. It is probable that they may not be exhumed at all, but tho course to be taken will bo decided lator on. The Okoia Dairy Factory Company have given instructions for the shipment of four tons of cheese to London, at the first available opportunity, either m frerziug chambers or otherwise. It was also resolved that th« defaulting sharps be declared forfeited to the company. Hani- hearted and soft-hearted old Professor Blackie thinks there is *' far to much of everything" — except gvod sense m these days. ■ " Yi-s ; too much eating, too much drinking, too much preaching, too much writing, too much speaking. Sermons would be vastly improved if preached only once a month. ..." 1 care little for politics," he adds : " attention to politics, us ordinarily understood, eutails too great a waste of brain." . . The following paragraph appears m the Martou paper: We have received a letter signed " Progression " advocating the immediate sale of a certain Govern inent township. When the Government forward us an order to advertise the said township for sale, wo shall be happy tt insert the notice. We fail' to see why we should be asked to advertise a Government township any more than a private one on the choap. Some people seem to imagine that newspaper folks live solely for tho advantage of their fellow citizens, and that, m fact, they live like tho fabled chameleon — on air. Our correspondent is manifestly trying to work a point on behalf of somebody. But he has come to the wrong shop. By an American paper we notice that Miss Christina Boyd, formerly of Wangnnui, and who figured as defendant m the celebrated McGregor will ccaste t is now residing m Chicago, where, according to the paper from which we quote, there are attractions that will probably prevent her returning to New Zealand. — Chronicle. One of the strangest people with whom the missionary has to do arc the Falashasiop Ethiopia. They «re black Hebrews, about 200,000 m number, -living West of Jordan, who have as their holy writings the Old Testament m a Jjjthiopic version, ami who still rigidly adhere to the Mosaic ceremonies and laws. They are the children of Hebrew immigrants, who, m the time of the great. Dispersion, settled m Abyssinia and married wives of that nation — something not strange as the Ethiopians are Semitic m nationality and language. In a race against time at Tauranga the other day, tRe horse jTam O'Shanter covered 18 miles m 48 minutes. M. Dc Ilarven is trying to secure an estate near Wnimate, Canterbury, on which 'to place 500 Belgians. The electric railway at Brighton, England, has carried 200,000 passengers m six months, at a cost for h.tulage of 2d per train mile. The vehicles ran 15,000 miles. The late Mr James Linley, who died m Wellington on Sunday last of cancer m the throat, was a very old colonist. He arrived m Now Zealand by the London, m 1842, and, although he made one or two lengthy trips since then, was almost entirely a New Zealand settler. He was ono of the many who went from this .Colony to the Bailarat gold rush, and was celebrated m another way as having been closely > concerned with the William Tapscott affair here m 1873, when three men, charged with' attempted murder, were acquitted, mainly through the action of Mr Linley and j one or two others. Mr Linley, many I years ago, imported several wooden hou- . ses m panels to Melbourne, where he | had them erected. For many years prior j to his doath he had carried on business las a general denier, and he instituted, ' amongst other things at one time " Jack m the Green" festival? on the Ist of jMay. He was 72 years of age, and hale Jang hearty for his years, shortly b»fore lie died. — Wellington paper. As there were a number of errors m i the Statement of the Estimates of Re- | ceipts and Expenditure for the Borough I of Palmerston and also of the Public Library, which was advertised by the authority of the Town Clerk m the Manawatu Times, we have been requested to publish same m a correct form. The statement will be found elsewhere. The Manawatu Road Board are inviting tenders for road formation on Newbury Road. : C. M. Ross and Co of tho Bon Marche announce the purchase of a job line of untrimmed hats which they are disposing of at wholesale prices, also that their Millinery, and Show Rooms are now under the charge of Miss McKenua, late of Victoria House, Wanganiii, a lady of practical experience m these branches of business. A Wellington paper heads an article on the defeat of the English vote of .censure thus :—" The Grand Old Muddler's Costly Victory." Attempted assaults by Fijians upon I white women are said to on the increase m Suva, and the local journal has an .article warning the authorities what will be the inevitable result if this class of crimo ia-not suppressed. Already, it is said, " feiuali-s who have to traverse at night any but the main street where that is well lighted, are resorting to the carrying of fin-arms for their own protection," and it ig very plainly intimated that if the Government does not stop this thing, the " Fijian Whites " will, , strongly and etornly,

ltofcri'ing to the Bryco-KusJen libel c;ise, the Wellington correspondent of an Auckland p:iper telegraphs : — The Commission on this cause celebre appointed to take evidonco at Wanganui, will hold its lirst sitting on the 11th inst. The Hon. P. A. Buckley and the Hon. J. A. Tole left Wellington on Saturday for that town. lam told that evidence is to be given by witnesses brought from as far us Parihaka. There are seventeen bodies to be exhumed, and, I suppose, examined, for what? The answer to this question is, for sabre cut 3. This looks very wide, I must say, unless the sabre cuts were on the skulls ? But what then ? A triend of mine told me the other day that between Taranaki and Wangamti the skulls of Natives word m olden times otten found with a cut m the scalp, not by a sabre, but by a tomahawk. Universal respect tor the deceased was apparent from the large attendance at tho funeral of Mrs Harvey, of Ashurst, which took place on Monday last. There were over 60 followers, mostly on horsoi back, besides those m traps. The Borough Council meets this even* ing at tho usual hour. . Poor Lady Stewart has never lifted up her iioivd since the uews of her husband's death was communicated to her. She had only been married eight years, and was devoted to him. They have two little boys. Mr Bartholomew, of the Feilding Sawmills, is one of the most enterprising men m the whole district- If ever a vessel enters tho Wangauui River and is hard up for an outgoing freight it is only necessary to lot the gentleman mentioned above get an inkling of how the case stands, and he will take immediate steps to fill her up with timber for some port or other. The T. W. Lucas is now taking m a cargo from his mills for Queensland, the only drawback being that she caunot fill up more than half her carrying capacity, owing to her draught of water being too great for the river and bar, Mr Corn foot and Mr Ha trick arc also contributing to her freight. — Chronicle. A meeting of the Directors of the Cooperative Sieaui Shipping Company was held at Foxinu yesterday. The sitting of the R.M Court takes place to-morrow. There aro some 20 cases set down forbearing. Considerably over that num(».-r are already summoned for next Court day following. Wo are requested by the Deputy Official Assignee to remind all interested that the tonders for the purchase of the stock-in- trade' and book debts iv the estate of D. M. George will close to-mor-row. A tea meeting and concert takes place at the Town Hall this evening under the auspices of the Catholic Church, and a very enjoyable and social gathering is looked forward to. The following programme will bo rendered : — Overture, " Lucretzia Borgia," Harmonium and Violin by Miss Boyian nud Mr Rutherford ; Glee, " Carriovale" by the Choir ; Song, •' Jenny who lives m the dell" by Mr Bickerlon ; Recitation, " Asleup at the Bwitcb," by Mr A. B. Tell; Song, "I'll be all smiles to-night", by Miss Boyian ; Duett, " Army and Navy", Messrs Harbott and Healy ; and after an interval of tun iniuutesthe 2<id part as follows : — Duett, ('Piano) Pleiyh race galop, with ' bell accompany inent, by Miss Boyian and Mrs Anderson ; Song, " The Angel at the Window" by Mr Healy ; Song, 41 Far Away" by Miss Hanlon ; Song, ♦'The Little Hero" by Mr Belt ; Solo, (pianoforte) " Fantasia on Irish Aira," Miss Boyian ; Song, "The Alpine Storm,": by Mr Harbott ; Duett, " How sad it is to say Farewell" by Miss Boyian and Mr Healy ; National Anthem.