LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 28 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The favourite steamer Tui is appointed to leave Foxton for Wellington on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr Cross, the agent of the United Insurance Company, yesterday paid Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew, of Feilding, the sum of £800, being amount of loss on the Alma from VVanganui to Rockhampton. Te Awamutu settlers, m anticipation of the early opening of the cheese factory, have been making large purohases of springing cows. Jt'is expected, tljey will supply 1500 gallons of milk per diem to the factory. The work of transferring the meat frozen by the WelUngtou Meat Export Company to the s.s. D^ric commenced at 6 o'clock at night by means of trollies which loaded up at the Company's works and discharged at the Bhip s aide. There are 5200 carcases of frozen sheep waiting to be taken on board, and about 30 head of cattle. The loading waa continued during the whole of the night, and will probibly be completed by this time. It may be mentioned that the Compauy's machinery is wbrking te the utmoßt satisfaction of all concerned, and that all the carcases examined have been foun<J to be m a splendid state of preservation. It is reported that Mr Edison is build, ing an electric locomotive of 375 indicated horse-power, and 6ft driving wheels, which is to be used on the Underground Railway m London, V where smoke and sapors are very offensive." This engine is to haul from eight to ten passenger coaches at a high rate of speed— from 40 to 50 miles an hour.

Mr yesey Stewart thus concludes a letter of general news which appears m the Bay of Plenty Times :— '* I shall, howevor. be obliged to go over to that most wretohed country called Ireland to trans* act important 'business' copneoted with property there^ that is to say, if hmdlords can now flatter themselves with the idea that any property U left,"

An Anti-Blue Ribbonist reporter went up into the gallery of a certain House of Parliament (we don't bar oar own) to take his turn, m rather an hilarious condition. After a while he wrote a few lines to the chief of the <*taff, and m handing it over it fell over the rail on to a Taranaki Member's head. This member had just risen to his legs when the note struck him, and he stooped and picked it up, which read as follows : — " For heaven's sake lend us a sixpence. [ c«n't report that blank tool of the Major's without a drink to stiffen me up." The note caused some sensation m the House, and how, we believe^ the reporter has gone into the Maori country to see what opening there 1 is of starting another Waka Maori. A correspondent sends the Post the. following, for the truth of which he vouches, remarking that it may be m» tereating as showing the hardships of child-life, even m Wellington :— " The other morning a bright little chap of barely six summers called at a house m Te Aro, when the following dialogue took place between him and the good lady : — Quoth the child — * Give me a bottle, please.' 'I have none to give away,' said the lady. ( I see one under your house ; may I get it ?' Permission being given he said — * I'se got no moth or ; she's dead. 1 • Have you a father P' ' Yes, Iso hungry ; have not had any breakfast ; have to get enough bottles before breakfast.' The mild was hungry, and a blackened eye showed that he was no stranger to ilUusage." We scarcely ever came across a man able to read large print and to write bis name (says the Dunedin Herald) who did not believe himself competent to edit a newspaper. An inquest was recently held at Torworth, near Retford, on the body of a farmer named Newcome. It was shown that the deceased m his garden was etung on the forehead with a beej and that he died almost immediately from the effects', of the injury. The trout ova at the Inaba, Hawera district, are looking well, and it is believed that the prospects of a successful hatch-ing-out are favourable. Up to the present, there haß been scarcely any mor. talitj.