LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1022, 10 February 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■< Now that a grant of £5000 has, thanks io oar representative, Mr. McDonald, been obtained for the Ormond Road, it is hoped the County Council will take immediate steps to bare other district main roads metalled before the coming winter. To enable this to be done, action should at once be taken to get in the rates, some £2000 which are in arrear. If the work referred to is not completed before the wet weather sets in, traffic will be seriously impeded, and the "alougha of despond," which be things of the past, again become open at had 16 plainWorship of ■ to the is to leave Napier this She takes 297 bales Bay wool, Bhipped by Graham & HIST, valued at £5002 Da. At the R.M. Court to-day, C. Priestly, for riding on the footpath, was fined ten shillings. At the cause list of the civil side of the Court there were 13 cases, none of which were of public importance. According to Timaru gossip, a divorce case of a peculiarly interesting nature is on the tapis, and in all probability will come before the next Supreme Court. The parties to the suit occupy very prominent positions, and the revelations to be made, unless the case is settled beforehand, are likely to be of a very startling character. It is intended to introduce in the Victorian Telegraph Department, as soon as possible, the quadruplex instrument, witha view to facilitate the transmission of Press or other long messages. With these instruments messages can be sent and received along the same wire. The quadruplex instrument is already in use in