LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cable communication between Port Darwin and Ba_j6ewa_gie was restored on Iftfiday. ■ AA n '-■■ The friends of the Rev. Mr Wright will be f glad to learn that his health is so far imoroyed that -he was able to occupy bis pulpit yesterdaymorning, and preached to a large congregation. Mr fright will preach at Woodville next Sunday. It was announced yesterday, that the (Rev. J- Lloyd formerly of Palmerston North, will conuuct Divine Ser« vice on Sunday pejt at All Saints' Church. i >. B_rs Hambson, the - evangelist, t , is expected soon to arrive m New Zealand, where she* has relatives located, i She will rest m New Zealand during; tbe summer, then proceed to America, and probably; return to Australia next year. - An investigation. has been commenced into the conduct of Father Villeneuve, of Montreal, About six years ago he started a monster lottery for religious objects-, And although an enormous number of tickets were sold m Canada and the PnitedStjS^S 9 dewing has npver taken plact. ' The Eechflitite Order has bepp poking good progress lately. Since tbeannivtr? »ary -last year the Djttript p^ief Ruler apd piatrict Secretary proceeded to Paljperston jtoqpep the Tept there, the yielflpg ana* Maitejton Te»ts fcavpig

opened shortly before. Id the last three months Tents have been opened at Hastings, Carterton, Halcombe, and Hawern, making a fatal of about twentycfive m the colony. Mr Levy, P. S. C.R. who is travelling ou behalf of the Order, hopes to open Tents at Bulls and other placts, which he has on his list to visit. The Mormon settlement has been broken up atDedham,Mas.. On 11th September, a leader named Evans, who had a large number of Yankee wives, was sentenced to three years m the Penitentiary for iamorsl practices. His wives came into Court, and expressed their belief m Mormonism, and defended polygamy. Mr John Read writes to the Chairman of the Oamaru Harbour Board that he has chartered the steamer Delhi, of 2000 tons, to make six voyages from Oamaru and Port Chalmers to London, and bi urges the Board to be prepared to receive her. The steamer Delhi, which was formerly a Peninsula and Oriental boat^ has been fitted up with new engines and boiler. She will have refrigerating .■ machinery and be capable of carrying about 24*000 _ carcases of sheep each voyage. She is to commence loading her first cargo m February next, li is antici i gated that a berth will be ready for the Delhi by that time, and that the Oamaru Freezing Company will be then m operation. , . ;;,.";; j Mr Anderson, the Victorian Minister of Justice, has died of heart-disease. > "' A% a meeting of the provisional direct tors of the Wellington Meat Preserving - and Refrigerating Company, on Friday, it was resolved that, » the required number of shares hay ing now been subscribed, the companT'shpuld^be registered' forthwith, and the business 5 of Messrs J. and Et. Barber, and Woods, Crosbie, and Co. taken over „t the earliest moment. ■-.••. -, ''>c '■■ ' '■ *) : .i'j >y<*~. j David- UVquhart. a laborer, thirty* three years pi age, went to his; ihouseip Hilltown Dundee, late on a recent Saturday night, m a half drunken, state, and quarrelled with his wife, who took refuge m a neighbour's house .to escape from (his violence. "The' man 'then .attacked his three children, the eldest of whom, Laviniaj aged four yeaw, was beaten to death, and another little one was so badly injured that it is not expected to recover. The murderer then decamped; The Waiarapa Daily has the following _ paragraph ;-^-« ' The Canterbury, "ioupfr ' Men's Christian Association have written for a free copy of what.they are pleased to term 4 qur valuable ' 'paper'-*'"' Let them . render unto Csssar that which unto Oasar is due, 'iz.— seven and sixpence perquarter, and these pious young men shall ha/c it.':' j- 1 •- ■' -'- ; - ' -'-• - 1 - ---' ' •x ■ According 'to the| Cape" papers, We c bli, of Captain Webb? whb lost■his life "m trying ;to swim the "NiHgara rapids, ,< became deranged npon^hearing' bis ; death,. and drowned herself. '•; She had . resided ati Lady Smith, Natal, for the last three years. She dissappeared mysteriously,^ and 7 her body was subsequentlyfound m the Klig river. -^.Shprtly after the close of the session, our press- telegrams informed us "that Ministers wpre about, to consider; ineatis as to th- re» organisation ;of the C vil Ser ice. As a re-, ■suit bf the reform initiated by the Ministry, itis reported that a number of Civil 'Servants have received notice that their services are no longer required. The Woodville Postmaster's " help" has not yetarriyed.andtheevef obliging little Ooctdr's promise has been broken. It is hardly fair that Mr Motley can be expected to efficiently fulfil and carry out- the , amount of work conducted' with his multifarious offices In the Empire pity, about', ten !' howling swells" would be' told 'off io perform tha same quantity of work, and yet one man is ex* peoted to do it there. ' ':.■'■•■. ■'■. > , -'rom Melbourne another attempted tragedy is . .reported. While a man' named Walter Stewart was m the , bar of an hotel m South ; Melbourne* on tbe morning of the 3rd inst., talking of his intention to seek a .divorce from his wife, she suddenly entered r the 'hotel armed with a five«barrelled re.' polver, f tdlv loaded, ana fired at her husband, but the bullets missed him; and the woman : was arrested. Domestic quarrels are said to be the cause of this attempt on her husband's life;;- A.f: '■■ I ■■; ,;■•:;, ' s • The Irish World has closed the fund if or the families of the men convicted of the Phoenix Park murders. One thousand dollars willr be given to the dependents upon e?ch of the , eight convicts. The surplus of 1193- dollars is to be sit aside as the nucleus of an O'Donneil Defence Fund., The paper solicits contributions to satisfy the ''claims of thiß noble man." ; A steamer has-been built m America te carry 600 saloon and 2,000 steerage past . sengers. . The new Victorian loan of £3,000,000 will 'be floated m January next. #•> -i r , ■"■ :■ I „