LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 297, 19 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Parnell, ha?, it is stated, out of jibe pnUofajU -tribdte,: p^idvn^ the ohttrg& pu.hip; estate amo«ntitig to £13,000. The • 4n*ounjj#as,:pflid:,b>>!^ iiagli fckstffie- orf ,thc[:,NatiQnaliu'Baßk,v enefdrsed ' n»?ith thte certificate of the .manager 'thaffuttds toe ,that.iie*teot7J(JJßre jn! bis hands. There iwas I buti i A^SJnjrte'<9iri6¥tajjße to Teceive J^ZBlJea^ Mr Parnell'B estate, which is aaiij to jieldj-toKßtheß^witljrbjssawinills, 'au inWmfrof.^-bfetWeen'ifiiOdb'and £3000 a year, is now believe,d . to be .absolutely ■ fre%iOf deb?.'- w Lu?J?y jptnrioi U l ;. - r^li ' Thie inscription o? New Zeafancf bonds, • IRlficji'ji^CflWl^lL /$&!M» R^ft.t*®Ußa the. agency of tbe Bank or England, is to L 30,000 per annura r Agput» Qepexal jnade .■qme^ha.t. Tt otAjQaefla of the 1 preliminary ttnti provoked ;ion» b.ofiti]B criticism' in; London j but hkkfo . tor* have been set right. ■ .. .- - at Thursday's meeting"" of the Bouthl»nd -Land Board ; — ' The bearer, Lawrence Dwyer, deferred. p.avjnent-pnyme.Q.tJieJecn tor, Ryftl Buch, is hard pressed m circurastanegs. His wife has been newly con— , fin^^^twina.^ A prnvioua birth, a short tima?Bmc e ,,was%'so twins, and he has a large BmaU >^»^y besides 1 he therefore toib^^abted^a few weeks' further -atjlbe m p^nig^up^ his arrears, and I |bHnkhik;^fß^ss^.t'.e uiatter of ip/preasing mflVjtopuhiition entrttea him \tin. Wlf|tle'<a^m^ith?iic consideration. — J. L. , Will^r^^f;|^peal^(addß the News) the Board, after mildly quizzing the happy father grandug fa? extension prayed.for. . j j The Smarter ton Oliver stains thaj j Xha much Vexed question of theiVaftarapa I Lake has at last been settled by the Njtt\ye Land Qotfrt SW ftittipg at Gieytown. The Judge has' decided that the jjtle conies under English l*w, and not uuder~tEe Treaty of VVaitangi, and the Observer unde^sjban^crthat the Govttrn* meni navef ■mad > e i^af*angeinen<* ■tb-pur-chase the Lakes from the Maoris. This ;^lf ibo-a-gjeat^relief^to the Lower Valley so v iors» James jDlenient a Lanchaehira imtui- , grant, who. was working m liogers's form- ! drjr; M- '^vtlfodhunlalttnd^ ujSreSrcastlei. N.S.W., has been arrested for having brutally assaulted his wife. H« poured ,ajcei.lj!e4>f boiling water over her head and face. Dr R. Harris, the Government medical officer, dressed the woands. Tbe yatienii* •*"*' uv: v, jvlr :/ S|jout has been lecturing m MoK boiiifiie^ and Sydney to orowded houses. On a. recent Sunday evening his subject 6 was^'lnspiration ," whieii-Ji* sdescribed by j^ Sydney _p«per as having been of most -Upijd a.nd^ loffieaTcharacter. He~toofc-th« gVo^Ojji tfox^io^ ifsCowj4diJ^^\obuld vpth^iS ""us s»ve"lby~ dxpefiifnofp^aid 1^ that4bipi4>a*Mt»B._wa? imprebable and uuneceasary. Marquis Bibbero, the well ■ known >Eg Hj*'y hit intention^swlmrai^ itidNiigia Rapids, Bw§m m the Thames .on September 3, with his hands and feet securely bound, i .frtfltt^Wei^niinistex * Bridge i-. /unii] jus*, before reaching Pimlico Tier, a diafantfey oVti nUi^^n^lmin 40sec.