LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Until our supplements come to hand, an extra ftmouut of reading matter will be with each. Saturday's' issue. ToImorrovr will be published tiro complete tales; both of thrilling interest. One is entitled '-Snakes m the Grais,' a story of life on the American prairie, and the other 'His Wife's Husband, 1 or an incident m a man's life not to be forgotten.. JBjth-.will, be found well worth retding, bein^j well written, and frill of iuterest. la reference to missing parcel of suppl*. men 1 8, we. give the following -extract from *a. letter received" lfl»t niirht from our WeU lington agents, Messra Levin & Ob. "On getting your memo of the 19 h inst., we at once saw thi Union Steamnhip Company about your parcel of supplements, and got them to search their Melbourne manifests from the 20th December to see if they could find any truce of them, and. we have also bad enquiries made on the wharf, but m both cases unfortunately , without suocess. We have written to 'the publishers about the supplements, but sirne considerable time must elapse bafore we can cet a reply." Our first conaignmenl; of : new by: steamer Rotomahana, from Sydney, reached Palmerston )fi^i"Poxtqfi o td^d»y;: The shipment comprises two casas of type, two packa«eßframeß,onecaieoE machinery; 1 besidei suttdry other material, including a large iron imposing surface over six feet m length. With this new plant to band we hope to effect very considerable .improvements m appearance of the paper bei fore. long. ■ The goods h»vo beflneloie'-on a month on the road, so that the detention m arrival of other parcels expected iff not •6 difficult to explain. The Waioui-o-mata waterworks Were seriously damaged by the recent floods. This is the third occasion that, the works have been put back by a similar cause. On this last the contract wai almost ready to be handed over. The contractor appears to have luck dead against bim. By telegram elsewhere it will be seen thftt.the whole of the sections com prising the Government township of Jtawhia were sold by auction at Auckland. '^It was rx» pec ted, previously, by the Minister for Lands that they would be boaght on speculation at high prices, andjsuch pro ved ■to be r the case. _The.area sold was, in all, & acres, and it fetched the handsome sura of £4498, being at the rate of over £1 00 per acre. It may be interesting to mention that Captain Heale,, of the^urora, the pioneer vessel to Wellingtoii, who^se naiuq was referred f o at the" Jlarly Colonists' Dinner on Anniversary night, passed through Wellington last month on his way to England, where he intends to spend the remainder of bis days m the enjoyment of his well- ; «a>n»ii : pension, ;He wVnt Home 4h the tf.s; Tongariro. ' The largest rainfall for one day of twenty- four hours during which rain ha 9 1 bean officially recorded m Wellington was Registered for th« twenty-four hours end ■ing 9 oilock on Tuesday mbrninp, being ■y, Two western piers of Peterborough -Cathedral are now condemned m addition to, those alrqad/ demolished,; and ;this will entail on the' Dean and Chapter an additional, expense of L 6,000. The, sum required lor the complete restoraliou is over £60,000, of which only £17,000 has bo far been collected. . . „ ....-, Mor» people arrived at th« port of Auckland last year than any other port m ;i the colony.! : , \ J: : .J - — JXha following paragraph from a Chicago ; paper would suit our circumstances exactly, were January «übatituted for October, aud v Captain. Edwinnfor. general "Haeeta '',^- 1 Such weather ! 'H*ere yre hkve had but eight d*ys during this long month > of October ,upon which; the sun has shone. It* was not so m the days beforo the Go* vernmenc. began; tot niedd^e ; with tjbt weather. Why " there are poems ' t> and poeuis inspired by ' beautiful October !' General Haien you ' are a' fraud 1 The Weather Bureau must go 1' ' i : ' ' '^