The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1702, 7 May 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have recived several letters on the Eev. Mr Wright's action re appeal to the Board ; but m "the present position of matters we think it better they should not be published .'-as the matter is virtually sub judice. / The Wellington papers are full of correspondence re the outbreak of typhoid fever. It is attributed to the removal of night-soil through the city at night, without previously deodorizing, and to bad water. Mr Frank W. Evans, formerly of tb.3 Butland HotelJ Wanganui, lias, we understand, completed arrangements for taking possession of the Hunterville Hotel. A Wairarapa paper says that the Maori chief " Isaiah," as he was commonly known, whose funeral took place on Friday, was a strict follower of the Mormon Church. Although he was suffering from lunjr disease he would regularly take Ins ablutions m the Wairarapa rivers, and so grsat was his faith m the teachings of Joseph Smith that he really believed himself relieved by these periodical dippings. The late chief was thoroughly conversant with the Scriptures, and would sit and talk by the hour, especially about the prophets. The funeral was conducted m accordance with, the rites of the Mormon Church. s The local Star has the following : — The Hawera Borough population shows a slight decrease since 1881, the numbers now being 1021 against 1219 m 1881. The falling off is no doubt due to the cessation, of public works, ; and especially to tho completion of the railway between New Plymouth and Wangauui, many families of the navvies and contractors haviug shifted down teMarton within the past year, [And yet Mtrton only made an increase of 248 m the five yearn. Were they all from Hawera we wonder. Ed. M.S. j How often do we hear a man joke his wite about getting married a second time, or a wife perpetrate the same sort of ghastly pleasantry at her husband. They would hot do it if they were to think but a moment. Did you ever bear a wife joke about the death of her child, of her mother, or her brother sister or father? No, no. But society is running over With those who joke about the death of their husbands. It is the most thoughtless sort of humor ev«r invented. It is trifling with the most serious subject on earth.— Exchange. One of the Supreme Court judges of Victoria thus lays down the law of libel — You may republish whatever is paid m Parliament, however .defamatory it may be, without risk, but if you venture to comment upon any statement made m the same place, however tree it may »eem, without ascertaining that it is absolutely true, you bring yourself within the law of libel. - Referring to the usual quarterly bank returns the New Zealand Trade Review iemarks, the balance of indebtedness of the public to tho banks is reduced since the December quarter by £381, 382, but increased since the March quarter of 1885 by £641,365. .. The changes are not great, but as far as .they go they are m the direction of an easier condition of the market. We have excluded from our reckoning the Government deposits, which stand at £717, 969.

The property of the late Mr Richard Qoldsbrough, of Melbourne, has been ■worn at £175,000. He has bequeathed legacies of £1,000 a year to the Melbourne and Alfred Hospitals and to the Melbourne Benevolent Institution. Among, minor legacies is an annuity of £100 to Mr Jobli Pickersgill. A man known as " Tom the Cook " ia Bourke f New South Wales) is reported to have come into the possession of the title and estates of the Earl of Eglinton. He has been supplied wi(h money, and has gone to Melbourne to see solicitors, who are sure that he m the right man!. He is married, and has been cooking for shearers on Boomery Station. In the course of a sermon delivered at St Mark's harvest festival m Wellington, Rev R. Coffey expressed the hope that as the agriculturists' of the district had reaped a bountiful -harvest they might also reafise good prices for their products. For his own part, he often regretted that the cost of food was not a little higher, m order that farmers might be better fed. Of course there would not be so much money for others to spend, but when people could not buy their pipes and beer arid other things that were not necessary — nay, that wero positively Doriiiciotis— they would be m a better position to acquiesce m a rise m prices .iv . order that agricultural pursuits might be rendered more remunerative than they are at present. ='•■ \ • The Committee of the London Wesleyan Methodist Missions have recontly decided on a schurno of aggressive evangelism on a very extensive scale m the western part of London. The Rev. El ngh Price Huahes, M.A., of Brixton Hill, and tho Rev Mark Guy Pearcej of Bristol, the Wesleyan author, are designated to take charge of the movement, and will have a free hand for the development of their characteristic methods. The necessary funds, though large, will be forthcoming.