Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 51, 29 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Oriental B ink Corporation referred to iv our cables ..f yesterday has a capital of £1,500 000. The reserve and lnaur* ance funds amount to- £500,000. -I he. company is engaged m business m India,-. China, Japan, Australia, and Sooth Africa. •--> Michael Crawford, the second m»te<£ the American sealing schooner isarah w.aunt, is still an injnite o^the.Uanediii Hospital. It will be remembered that he had his shoulder badly .injured on ,the veese 1 The direct result.of his sufferings" when he wasleft oii Campbell Island with his comrades i* the loss of a big toe trnd one of his lingers, ; : : > ! Our temperance reader?, say s.,theljoat, will doubtless learn with" regret' that jthe number of cases of . .drunkenness de»U within Weilin'rtf on last year was greater 'by 140 tiian during tha preceding twelve month?; The c*us* ( of ; the, iuereaae ia assigns 1 to the jrreat influx, pf people by the direct s'eacu6,rß^oraL'pn j don.. ; On Friday, accocdine to Times.A dufendant at the Resident Magistcate'tfCourt.tfurura,, wh,p; evidently had no leaven of reverence m his composition, m answering a , charge of .' leaying-ihw vehicle unattended,' remarked that, had he known he was bound to leave spfflabody m charge of his cart while makiUK his ordinary business calls, .he : wouU hav/'£t thLon^table t> hold his horie ! The 'bench smiled, the $ab\\? gnn"ed, and the members of the force gasped ;for breath at the jb"t the speaker looked quite aatisaed vfuh himself. .f !.„ (T 7■:j:' ■'. > •-> '■ i Of the two dozen gentlemen summoned to serve on the speeiatijury ltf the biipreme Court recently, says the Lytteltou Times, no fewer than twelve .Wert eicii-ed onon«plea oranother. Six.-were•hare-holders iv the defendant, company m the case, two were, excused. for..illu;ea*, puejwas over aae, one had ; uyt been served, fend two were connected withlhe, Bank of New Zealand, and to a. certain : exten^ mterested m the case. • ,: ' | Some of tho recent Mormiin converts who left Caterton^ several months agtf for the promised land, hare returned hbme from Salt Like City, not having found the equal to ble*)iuff of realistic iVtorua >njmu' to the visionary beneiksnf ihe.n f aw.Caasaan held- out by the Uiah missionaries *-ho have lately been. 4 doing' the Wairarapa,. The Diario de Brazil eaya. that wfiile wpr^tn^n we ? e «!«af.» n S oUt tne T \ vei^. Joanna, one of the small Streams; tunninß through Rio 5 a large and very old cednr cfeest, was cpme upon buried m the udud, and when opeued was found to ojon. taiu many valuables, with gold and diamonds, such as .lamps, pwords Ac,, which were tHken to the Museum, jAs usual, the treasure -trove?, is supposed; to have belonged to the; Jesuit", and to have been thrown by them into the river when pre?««d m their flight from Rio. Kimperman, the young man. who fell out of the Star Hotel window at WelUn^M ton on Tuesday night, and who is now an inmate of the Hospital, is reported to be progressing safisfactorily toward recovery. There are 2,000,000 widows m <aer» many, it 19 said. Some of the husbands are m heaven, ;but the majority ard m En-land.