LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 147, 27 May 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. Mr Clover, Primitive Methodist Minister at Feildin<£ delivered an address m the Town Hall there on Suuday evening m support of the teaching and authenticity of tho Bible. Mr T.U. Walton delivers one m reply next ciuuday evening at the same place. . Or Wylds informs us that on inquiry he learns that his complaint of the Stan dard having published Borough Council business transacted m Committee was not justified by the facts. What ho understood to have been purely Committee was, it appears, afterwards before the Council m the form of a report by the Committee, when of coursu it ws,a longer specially privileged. Cr Wylds was undi-r the impression, at the time he alluded to tin; milter lv the Council, th;tt a breach of confidence had b«en committed, which after due investigation and a conversation with the Town Clerv he frankly admits was a misapprehension on his part. With this explanation we are perfectly satisfied. . Several complaints have reached us of tho manner m which tradespeople are at present treated hy certain railway offi. eiala who have taken the place of Air McKenna during his absence. On n> account will these gentlemen deliver goods m the evening, although the same may be pep"Bhable~imn u^i^t-ftH : -§*ie-Dy r ' the following day. Cases of goods for ! Palmerston North are also often k«pt m the Fox ton railway shed instead of being forwarded here until tno contents am almost useless. P*n<onally speaking w» may »ay that underMr Mi-lvenna'n regime we have invariably experienced the utmost courtesy, and on more thau one occision have been beeu under an obligation to him for services that many stationMiiiutcis would have curtly refunn \. His assistant has also been uniforml.civil and obliging, but tho above complaint is well authenticated, and others somewhat similar have reached us from varjous sources. , A? subscriber complained . to us yesterday very bitterly of impounding notices not appearing m the Standard. ssnm« of his stock have been impounded, of which fact h* was not aware, and the charges have now mounted up until he believes they represent nearly the full value of his cattle. In reference to the above and other similar representations, we may state that m future all Borough impounding notices will be copied irrto the Standard for the benefit of those settlers, (now a very large number) who see no . other paper. We intended to have carried this into effect before, but it escaped our attention until reminded of it by the incident referred to above, which has involved considerable hard- ' ship and actual loss to an industrious settler. We regr«t to think we ourselves are to some extent responsible m not having before this copied the impounding notices, as we had fully intended to ; do. We shall be glad if the Borough Council will authorise the poundkeoper to forward us the notices m question for gratuitous insertion, so that th*.y may appear with as little loas of time as possible. An American paper states that a heavy wheat train pulled into Fargo by one engine recently, on the North Pacific Railroad, consisted of 110 cars loaded with wheat. This would make, allowing 550 bushels to the car, a weight of 3,639,0001h., while the cars weigh 2.729, 0001 b., making 6,959,0001 b. pulled by one locomotive, or about 3,180 tons. The train was over three-quarters of a mile m length. The Englishman newspaper mentions an interrestiug historical discovery lately made at Calcutta. This is tho exact site of tho inonumeut erected to Hoiwell, the survivor and annalist of the Black Hole. Special internet attache? to the monument, as it marks the spot where the victims were buried. When the search began tho Government of Bon gal gave a small sum, but that grant was .expended, and tho work continued at the cost of Dr Hantor and some oilier gentleman, it is proposed to murk the spot with n slab. Full and complete plans and specifications for the survey of this MastertonMangahaho Special Settlement Block have boon issued. It is feared (says the Star) tint after 600 acres ia deducted for roads, and the township area is takfn out of the 11,000 acres, not more than 88 sections will be available for tho settlors. Cauuh-a-ballah, a well-known steeplechaser, was Hold at on- 1 , of Mr F. Buokland's auction salos at Hamilton for 253.

A trout weighing over 4011) has been I fouti 1 dead at th« head of Lake Wakatipu. Fungus disease was the cause of its death. It was noticed on the Wellington wharf on Motniny that the vessels m port only diaplnyad bunting m honor of the Queen's Birthday nfter the example had boen set by a foreign skip, the German barque Carl Both. Even then only a iniiiorily of the vessels at tin; wharves and m tho stream took the j trouble to do co. Between 500 and 600 Maoris from all partH of the country are now aaaoml>l.:<l at Parewanui. The pah is taxed to thn utmost to find acuoinmod itiou for them. The local Natives are hospita<>ly entertaining their visitors, and th'a consumption of food every day is something enormouN. On Thursday a large number of Europeans went down to th<: pah, and. m honor of the visil, about 250 or 300 Maoris daiiuod a haka. Yesterday a letter of condolence from the Maori King to the friends of the late Kawana Huuia was read, and a lot of speechifying took place. — Marton paper. The Titnani representative of the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company supplies the following to tiie company 'b circular of the 21st instant :— Our local refrigeiatiug works are being pushed oji as fast as possible. The buildings are m progress and will be completed »arly m August. The machinery m now iv a vessel bound for this port and is due about the end of July. Th • capacity of the works will he 300 sheep a day, with storage for 7000. Operations will, wo expect, be i commenced m October next.