LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 191, 19 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An infant child of Mr Heaton, jun., who had been ailing for a few days died somewhat suddenly tb:s morning. The exact nature oi the eomplaiut we have not learnt. A man named Alexander Augas is remanded ia Wellington on a charge of appropriating a parcel the property oftheEev. Mr Griffith, who was staying for the night it the star Star Hotel, m order to catch the coach for Foxtou m the morning. The accused was m the bar when Mr Griffith gave vis i a reel m charge of the bairiuaid, and >be fellow shortly after came m, and making m quiry for the parcel said it was his aid ■ u-ircn«d off with it. He was afterwards arrested. The Chronicle understands that criminal i rooei-Uiij'ga L>r' fraudulent bankruptcy have been instituted at Wellington by vlr o'beymo and other creditors, against Mr Win. Lingard The creditors represented by Mr George Howe are also moving m the same matter. Some people think that Mr Bryce'a denials of Rusden's serious charges are not altogether satisfactory. Our own opinion is that he is not very eager to institute proceedings. At a meeting of ratepayers he'd m Wanganui, yesterday it was resolved to recommend the division of tbe county m two, the river formin.2 the dividing line. It is understood that the Hon. Ernest Gray, of Canterbury, intends to resign his seat as a memberof the Upper House. It is rumoured that three of the Supreme Court Judges are about to retire. The Auctioneers' Bill, which has passed its second reading, is likely to be amended m Committee, with a view to placing agents and valuators and auctioneers on a similar footing. The Boston Pilot is rather rough on the aunexation of New Guinea by Great Britain It says ;• — England has stolen another island. New Guinea, her excuse for the burglary being that Germany was going to steal it- Now loot outforseveredebunciationsof the Papuan ' rebels,' if they offer any objections to the robbery . The place that England would not steal is very inaccessible. She would steal perdition itself, if she had not already ac quired a fair title to it by colonisation. A correspondent, writing m a London paper, says : — You alluded last week to a man being sent to prison for selling asses' meat m Bausiges. and you ri'/btly pointed out that the fle<h of that animal is moragreeable to the palate than either beef or mutton. It would seem that persons m England are not aware that the famous sausages owe their delicate flavor as well as their ed hue to being made of asses' flesh, A Haboinmedan paper says thatan inhabitant of India, who is eight years old, has iust paid 81, ( '00 rupees for the hand of a girl of eleven, and the marriage will soon tnke place. At a recent execution m Japan it o k thirteen sit okes of the sword to decapitate the criminal. T c ed/eofthe instrument had been pur* r.os-ely dulled, m order to make the a^ony as great as nossi h le Uperations tiave commenced by which, at a cost ot £250,000, New-street Station, Birmingham, JKngland, wi Ibe converted into the largest railway depot m the world. It will cover a to'al area of 45.000 square yards, or over eleven acres, and wiii have three . ftatfonns ewulvW feeUong,