LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 304, 26 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

%• " : 'Zgi&i x * ' is from the «• The World: : , of ,last v aeason^ ia n^iiy^wan^rlmember,^ laoy wasseen m the ,;d):|win^rptfmfl, the reputed wealth 6f '^piu^Ma few mouths water, nnd ohftined,\i(iA«^de a younj; nobleman, who had previously met with a marked absence jjfjjood fortune m his swoop upon the ,h^Trehßeß or^jPacific slope. The lady i-wab intelligent, flo longer i^her firat youth, and of mixed piirenta?e,lier mother having jbeenaNeWjZealand Maori, married by bier father when he gate Up wkaling, and took to beachcombing and the acquisition of Hand m tbe islands. So well did Barney Rhodes prosper that this daughter of his hajraft' uWomejof JS4O,oep * ,year. She got through her short" experfence of Lin- _ don m safety, went back to New Zealand, ia'uds^ißp ju|^ given her hand to a local young man, the son of a late Bishop •of -Napier.' | . ; .;Xiie Ministry T do not. often get tackled by women as the nursefs m t^nVirftin'ngf™ ton , hospital have done. In a letter; to a local paper they write:— 4 lf xhe Govern* tnenfc have the courage to investigate the working of the institution, some of us will 'ifrftlkblejtp fj»»ten a ;c^aij?e of harshness, and perhapß something mdf-e, upon 'i ;of the honorary staff.' It is signed f by " Nurses Lloyd, Young, Lid ton, Templar, .jßeavfH*, pollock. Curiosity is being '«x« cited' m Wellington as to what the ' some- , tbjpij more' is. j \ of^qfcßior DsnE%n&h9/^«Jtela^i|h sayffii "^arf"M;r ,I)enton'a firm betTef tnat in'firinen^snd-AH in* flammatory diseases, abstinence was an unfailing specific. He used to tell a friiand, JlrTerry! witfajWhoDi/he lodged for months during nis stay .ip/ Melbourne, tbat once, when he was Btricken with ferec iij America he fasted, and allowed nature to i®cj»Sßf uUy ,work a fapjdcuce. -Captain Armit tttregraphetttftfj-'in iiis ifrsUickneaa j i P?ofs|>or Denton refused all nourishnieot, doubtless inobedience to the conviction he had . Jornaed jth^tj -fop^ .^only serve^ to stimulate tne progress of tire disease.' • i; A curios sentence was passed recpntly by Judge Krekel, of the Distiict Cou^rt of ■ Missouri. ; Ap ( illiterate, map having been convicted of ~a minor offence, 'he was or" deted by.tho Judge to be detained m gaol until he should be able to read and write, . and another offender, leas ignorant; was ''sententfetF to' be Similarly imprisoned until he should have instructed the former m _ those valuable arts. It is stated that m thiee weeks the man reappeared, able to f writo pretty well from dictation, and both . pupil and master were discharged. '; :. , Thto JapWttJ Weekly Mail gives publicity to a terrible story which comes by telejigramjcoto Hiroshima. It \§ tp the] el!«ct that on th«s "njght' of 'Sep i fenib J er i ß'cd,' it abouVlQ o'clobk, a fife broke out [at^ thej: gaol, £nq spread with such rapidity that ' atßhV oWinga from the first to the '12th ward were destroyed m aj very short space of time. In each ward b fro pi (30 to 80 criminals are cohfiney, ; and it is stated that tbe occupants 6f' lih* 1 four^ and fifth wards, 61 persona m alt, were burned to death, while 156 priione&j Were more or less severely injured] One hundred and twenty escaped; but mf these 16 were wcaptured the same night.