LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A telegram from Kockhampton says an alligator ovejr 19 feet long has been shot a* RaglaaQreeJc. . Selling JiqbjSr says An exchange is n profitable business. In a case just heard at Preston JSriip > a publican said the: profiT%n-Bpirits was about .100, per, cent, .and another, who had been m thef trade all his life, said chat for an expenditure of £100 there ought to be a return of yß2<"o, for after reo^, rates, and taxeß were paid, there should be a net profit left of 40 or 50 per cent. Prince Bismark's manner of eating as* tonishWtha critics. He dines riot wisely, but too well, it is said. His appetite is not only "gtfcantic, but it ia satisfied at irregular intervals. Sometimes, when he \9 much absorbed m affairs of State, he eat» nothing to speak of m a couple of days. Xheo he, mak ( QB up for bis abstin" ehce by ft feast of Homeric or oaVgantuan proportions. It has jugfc transpired that four artisans recently found nearly £1000 concealed near the bank of the Grand Cana), Dub' lin. Tt was contained m a leather bag, which w»s brought to light by a . do^ ti./f sing at the. string 1 which was 'attached, j The fourfiuderp, after dividing the money, j separated. One got married, and left for Australia. Another followed m his wak«», and a third has sailed for America. The fourth, a labouring man, ffcpains m Dub* , lin. The money is supposed to be part of the sum ttolen from the Muneter Bank. •The World says that one of the pos> sibilities of the early future is an offensive aud iiefensive alliance between England and Germany ; and the adventurous policy of France m various .quarter r of the globe, witlt Jke , [agSpfwaXve w^it shoyn! -lby f Ruesia m the East, may largely contribute" to an Anglo German anderstandina; which could not fail to be advantageous to the woria. >■/.;'•'?: i '•• iiwt'<' Mr ParneH-hag, it^sigtited, out of the national tribute, paid off the charges on bis estate amounting to £18,000, The amount was paid by a single cheque on the National Bank entlorsed with the certificate of the manager that funds to that extent were m his hands. There was but a single mortgagee to receive payment, Mr Parnell's estate, which is said to yield, together- with bis sawmills, an income of between L2OOO and L3OOO a year, is now believed to be absolutely free of debt*