The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 50, 27 July 1885, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth pa?o to-day will be found an interesting article entitled the " Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation," and other items. Messrs Stevens & Gorton's stock sale at the Eeiltling sale yards takes place to<iriorrow, at 1 p.m. The compositors m the piece-room at the Government Printing Office have received ah intimation from Mr Didsbury, to the effect that m addition to the penny per thousand which they are to ;get, he will recommend a bonus at the 'end of the session, m order to equalise the amount received with the number of hours, so that the men maj f be placed, on a Biniilar footing to those working m private offices. ! The compositors have expressed themselves satislied with this concession. • , The following tenders have been received by the Directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company for No. 3 'station contract, Wellington. : , to ."'Paramatta: — -Brown and Dowdeswell (accepted), £1282 ;• James Eussell, £1406; Thomas Orr, 2446 2s. And for No.; 4 station contract, Wellington ■ station buildings — Jaraes Wilson (accepted), £734 14s lOd ; Thomas Orr, £763 ; Tliom'son and' McLe'an, £75)7; Scoular and Archibald, .£825 ; James Russell, .£347 19s ; B. Davis, £1039 14s. j.Tbe Governor bus authorised the issue of the New Zealand war tnediil to' Private T. F, Buniess, 2nd Wnikato Militia. Edward Trickett, according' to latent advices, was lying dangerously HI with fever at Rockliainpton, Queensland. An advertiser wanisto let or lease . a 4^ acre section adjoining the residonce of Mr R. S. Abraham, of Park- Ro Ad. ; Almost. the most interesting -London Bight is the ; eager crowding . hoiqe- of the myriad moichanfa, clerks, &c..,*a't-5 and 6 o'clock of an evening. Trains filled fo overflowing fwllow each other from all thegreat railway 1 stations 1 to the' various sjbu'rbari retreats. And very charming, retreats ;many : of . th&n are, I think nothing mundane can exceed m pleasantness your well .todo. London .merchant's-, country home Gardens crowded with the choicest fl^\^ers,irooms complete with exquisitely luxurious furniture, servants to anticipate every waijt, merry hearted Yyoungsteis, full .of the d.y's eVents, smiling matrons eager for. the city tiows, a glorious fire blazing away m every grate aud last, though not. least, a : table groaning beneath creature-comforts such as might excite the envy of a pampered Roman of the Augustine era, exceedingly pleasant all this. Alas, thnt the enjoyment should be dashed by tlie thought of Lazarus at the gate " full of SOroS !" "•....* . : ;,.'._ j During the next 251 yoars, it has been computed there cati only be otic total eclipse of the sun — that of August 12, 199«)r— which- can be seen- in England. ■ . The Hawera Star says: that the Maoris ; are getting . tired of Titokpwaru; H« takes their money and they \do not know what becomes ef it. ; At the last /meeting at Taiporoheuui . there were some very straight questions put to hi?) »8 to where the money had .gone, but . the- explanations wero 1 so paltry that the •natives laughed at them. ■ - • "The Napier News says that Sir John "Hall will pibve.- an acquisition to thie large landed estate party if he ieturns.j The Wairoa district Hawkfcs Bay has sent'Bome excellent samples of oranges, lemons, carraway seeds, walntrts, filberts :nnd silk cocoons, to the Exhibition. •-.^•11 done Wairoa. ' ■' From the. Hawera Star we learn that -■jtlie funeral of the Rev. Mr Torry was attended by over 300 persons. Th^ jsubool children were given a half holiday to attend the funeral, the deiceased gentleman having been a inembei* Of the School Committee. The f uheVal services were conducted impressively by the Rev. JlTreadwoll. of Wanganuijj '.who took occasion to refer to the per| _Bonal friendship which, had existed the Rev. Mr Tbi'ry and himself; 1 From a return compiled by the Ciisf ••"toliis Department, and forwarded to th^ : Imperial. authorities by'tiie Governor, as •..bearing on the question of the naval defence of New Zealand, it appenrs that .between, the, Ist ,of . Janiiary, 1880. and *;tlie '^Otli April"; 18^5,1 thevo liaye only ' fte^n 14 visits of English in,en-pf : war to N ; ew Zealand porits. During llio same - period the colony' has received eleven visits from German war ships, two from French war ships, two from Japanese war ships, and one each from war ships' .flying the Russian, and American flags respectively. j .'..": have to acknowledge the receipt of No. 9 of Hansard and other Parliamentary papers. . . '.' < The imports from America received by way of San Francisco m 1884 amounted to £48,372, of whiuh £17,552 wasrepie-, seiited by dried fish. The exports only "amounted to £30,530, all of which was ■exported from Auckland. Gold figured < for £13,562, whalebone £11, 677, gum £2165, and seeds £795 . or: There was some extraordinary scoring, on Tuesday, Juiie 2, at Lord's cricket-f ground, m the match between the Mary-; lebone Club and Yorkshire. On the thtj M.C.C. had completed an 1 ijjnings f.pr 148, and the Yorkshire had jafjso finished an innings for 60. On Tues- ; "day, m the second innings of the M.C.C., Gunn and Barnes became partners at : . aquarter to 1, with} the score at 72 for ,' three wickets, and when they were separated at seven minutes after 6 the total • 'stood at 402. , While they were together 'th*y put on 330 runs. This is the highest score recorded m any first-class 1 . : match: ; ' Commotion has advanced to the position of first favorite for the Melbourne ?,Cup, being quoted at 100 to 4. Captain Edwin telegraphed as follows " on Saturday: — Every indication of tur- , tberriße of glass, and fr«stor very cold .-tprnight. ..On Wednesday, Dr Lemon visited Pahiatua for the purpose of making arrangcmenlß for the telephone between Woodville and Pahiatna.— Examiner. ■ A Mr Tinline, before leaving New Zealand for Englnnd deposited £1000 to he m vested, tl]e interest to .be applied "towards the inainten^nco of a scholarship at the New' 'Zealand Uiiivcrsity m .connection with Eiijjlish literature. It 4s.Jo.be open to . all undergraduates iin . fbe first or second, section ■-. of .tl\a B.A. e^iiiination.^ „,.,.>,.- , ". •.. . ; f T;lie<directorß • of ,the -AV^imea Plains . ftaijway •Company.', state . 'thai they are jfpj; prepare«i;"to bu\). the jiiiV to the colony ipxctpt at it's^ceriilied 'cost. The earnings of the. railway thjs year are, £s3B ■over* last year's.- < ' . ' | : The Pajmerston branch of the N«w Zealand Clotliiiig Faotory is oxociitMJg an orHfrfor iinifonns for the momueri .

The "Anglo- New Zoalander anuouiicatt the licit li, at Orpington, Kent,- of Mr TlmopliSlua Heale, a gentlemen well known m many parts o£ New Zealand. After a long residence m the "North Island, he wois appointed Chief Surveyor of Southland on the separation of that provinou from Otago. 'Afterwards, he occupied tlit) position of Judge of the Native Laud Court. Iti the early.; days" of tho Constitution he was a -member of this Houas.of Representatives. Mr Henle was. a man of much reading and ability^ His death will be jregieJjteA^by^ ihany f riends-itif this Golbhy; iv ?' " **• "; While excavating a well m York, Maine, the workmen found the" roots of neighbouring oak and hickory trees embedded m the rock forty feet below the surface. In many instances they had formed cylindrical channels :in the "stone. *''"'■: The number of messages sent and received per day at the General Post Office, London, is from 50,000 to 60,000 exclusive of press messages, which amount to several hundreds of newspaper columus daily. To the above total the ' metropolis contributes from 6000 to 7000 messages daily. The most promising greyhound m the Wairarapa the Wairarapa r Star) ' has succumbed' to a brief illness. We rotor to " Steam " the property, of Mr, T. E. Chamberlain, and the winner, two years m succession, of the Wairarapa | Coursing CluhV Cup; ." Steam "; Was l>y Don, imported, and only 6 yea,rs old. He has left to. perpetuate piis strain; a, promising sonywho" carried 'oft some of ttie honors at the last coursing' meeting m the valley.' . Messrs Snelson & Co notify m bur-ad-vertising columus their o.ext stock, .sjilo to 'take pfiice on Saturday : next, lia the Fitzherbert Jrtrc-et. yards.' • I'he enterierf are numerous and it is' expected will bo considerably added to bef o.re"sale -day; The friends of Mr G. F, Hawkins will b« pleased to hear hc'isVrecoverihg and will probably be able to attend to professional.duties m a fen' days. • ' When a crack is discovered m. .a stoy.e through which . tho lire or s'npko petaetmtes, the aperture may be completely closed m a moment with a composition consisting of wood ashes and common salt nude lip m a paste wall a little water, and plastered over the crack. The good effect is equally certain whether the stbve is hot or cold. •*.■■■_ .-:•?.. ■].; ■ ' The defence forces of "JTew South. Wales will amount to 10,000 men when tho volunteer force is raised to a Strength of tih'ee thousand. - . ". . v ; The Examiner says :-f-Brightwell f of Eketahuua, had his shoulder dislocated, m bushfalling. He 'was .brought on^o \Vooilville where ho • was attended to . by Dr ,-JFussell v . ; ; <:• ■' The immigration Vetrirns 'laid on, tlio table of the Houso shovv that the total passage money paid, during the period from July Ist, 1884, to May 3 1st, 1885, ■amounted to £t7,071 10s, and the cash given m the colony for nomiriat d itnmito £2004 '_ 10a. The total aumber of adult, iminigr'aiits during the same period was 1 1 16, of whom 260 were. for Otagb; The nntitmiilitifs were as follows : — English, 565 souls ; Irish, 446 | Scotch, 141; Swedes. 5 ; Danes, 6; German and Norwegian, 14. The total nhmb'er nominated since the initation of the system is 71,388, and the number arrived 28,675, the :inin: ,ers for OlkgobeingM-espectiveiy 23,600 and 8463. /\ . ,-: .■■";_. .The drawing of Jacob Faithful's consultation ori the Wellingion Stejpl chase took place m the preseuco. of a nmnerHud committee of subscribers from town, and c6untry, : and ;of represgntative's of •th« Press; Everything 'was carried out with the regularity' and fairness for wliich Jacob JFaithful' has become noted. Thß-conßultatibn closed with 2099 subscribers. The principal cash prize of £70 went to a lady iiiNapieiyand others were well distributed ovor the province. Ituvenßwood. stays m -Nnpier, Fleming--ton went to Tomoana, Kin? Arthur to Kaikora. Berrihgtoii to Auckland, Erebus to Taradale, Komeo to Wangariui, : Macaroni to Waipawa, Orient andFaugli-: a-ballagh to Napier, Billy- go-by-'eiri to ■ Petane, :; Bobbie to Featherston, and . Fair.Play to Danevirke. A country resi- ■. deritipreseyt at the., drawing .suggested UVatipahevirkiß Miad got what it had needed; for several ye.irs past.— jHawke'a Bty: Herald.. .'.. : ; . " \ '.: '•.' - ) i The .attention of those of. ■• ottr:readers whoaro fpnd.of-th.e saddle is; directed to, a notice m the wanted column, inserted by,Mr Eringle. . . '. ..'■ : u Bankruptcy business m connection with the pistri^^Courtwillbp, heard tomorrow. : ' '.'.'';'■ '.- The following are the players chbßeri to rfpr-setit. Wanganni m the match to be played next Satiiiday against Manawatu County oh the' Recreation Grounds : — Messrs Turner,. T.-Coakley, Cojffiill, :Copeland, Kitchen, Gray , Powell, Walker, Chubb, (Captain), Craig (2), Rankin, Peat, Roddy, J,. Cpakley,'; etherge^Jcy men. Oudaille, Greenwood, and OliT^r. ' The next *ittihg of the R. M. Cburt will hot take place till tho 6th of August. ; : • ■• A sharp shock of earthquake occurred last niglit at a' quarter to eight. ' ' .'. Messrs G. M. Snelson and Co. have been instructed to sell m the premises m. the Square lately occupied by Messrs Moore and Carter, on Wednesday .Wextj at 2 p.m., the rem-iinder of the Bankrupt stock of watches, jewellery, &c.,: amounting to Q. ' - We have been requested to state that th«< Dramatic Cliib have made arrana;e---mentß for the production of a piece at their next entertaiumeht which will entail the procuring assistance of ladies.' The Committee are determined to make the. 2nd performance quite' sis successful aB the. inaugural entertainment, and they hope to be able to secure the necessary talent without difficulty. Eadifis wiih ; ing. to. become members of the Clnb shonld send m their applications to the Secretary as early as possible; The last of ;the jury cases. in the Dis-i trict Court was taken to-day. Weisner V. Sykes, claim os;6d. ''" The Bor6ugh Council moets on ;Wedrnesday evening next. ■ Oiir Bunnythorp'e readers are re-r minded of the-me?ting : to be' held this: evening m, cOnriect : on. with ; the : Blue Ribbon mov«menr..' > Particulars will be found m advertisement. The Becpnd : o| the series of special Gospel meetings, iconrfihwiced last even- \ ing at the Town. Hall, will be held tomorrow, evening at 7.30 plui. All seats are free. j