LOCAL AND GENEEAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 9343, 23 February 1881, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENEEAL.

+- Horseflesh. — A large mob of horses have just been sent by Messrs Stevens and Gorton from Eangitikei to Napier for sale. St Hill-street Yards.— Mr P. E. Jackson will offer a quantity of stock, several town and country sections, and the Ngaio Glade estate at auction, at the St Hill-street "V ards to-day. Auction Sale.— Spring Creek Farm will be put up by auction to-day, by Mr Joseph Chadwick, and he will also sell a farm consisting of 93f acres, in the same neighbourhood. Both properties are very valuable. Hotel for Sale. — Mr A. Barns will offer for sale at auction to-day the Wairoa Hotel, atWaverley; some sections of land in Hawke's Bay and Aramoho, and a £100 share in the "Wanganui Graziers' Company, Limited. New Zealand Alliance. — Steps are being taken to reorganise this Association in Christchurch. The object of the Alliance is the present curtailment and future suppression of the liquor traffic. : Wanganui Autumn Meeting. — Our readers are reminded that the general entries, and nominations for the Handicap Hurdles, for the Wanganui Autumn Meeting, close on Friday, the 25th inst., at 9 p.m., at Mr J. W. Jackson's Pier Hotel. " Exquisite Pleasure." — It is really dreadf ul when a chap eats a peach and then sits down and writes about it in the following strain : — " We would fain quote poetry but fear we could not do justice to -the luscious beauty calling for attention. The delicate bloom, soft and roseate hue which attracted our editorial eye, was forgotten in the exquisite pleasure of munching the fruity pulp, and we must depend upon our notes taken when -the fruit quivered in the scales for the presaic qualifications of ponderability and other less interesting characteristics." "We at once appreciate the '■' palatableness of the edibles," and fancy we see the water running out of both, sides of the editor's mouth. ,