LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 78, 29 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TbeTui is to sail from Foxfcon for Wel« lington" on Monday at noon. TheWmperor of China, who is sixteen years old, eats with gold-tipped chopsticks of ivory, arid sleeps orr a bedstead carved and ornamented with gold and ivory, which has been used for two centuries. »He studies Chinese and marches threo hours a day, and spends two hoars m archery aud ridinjjr. Everyone, even his father and mother, kneels to him on entering hia pacred presence. He is attended by eight eunuchs, who will not let him overheat. A story is told of a bishop, on good authority. The bishop who has for some time back been m extremely delicate Health, was told, some few days by his physician that a trip to Nice was' -absolutely necessary to set him up m health ; but he positively declined to entertain the idea of going, and shook his head so determinedly that the man of pills and potions thought it only right to express himself m plain terms. *My lord,' he said veTy solemnly, ' X tell you most candidly that your case is a most serious one, and if you do not go to Nice, you must go very soon to heaven.' /Oh j well, m that case,' eflid the.bish.Qp, very dismally, i I will go to Nice j' As illustrating the rapidity with which rabbits ioorease when free m a suitable country, a paragraph has come under our. eye where a gentleman who is now m Sydney states that 16 years since he turned out on his run m New Zealand, believing he could keep the number with" m bounds, (wo pairs of rabbits. These within three years increased, to aueh. quantities that at least twelve men were kept oanstantly at work m their destruction, yet failed to do more than keep them from increasing. An elderly school mistress is mentioned, m the recent report of a Church of En«gland school inspector who, when he proposed to hat that the children should sin?, shook her cane m the faces of the young folks, and said,' Row, you little wretches, sing, 'God is Merciful, 1 will you V Writes a Wellington paper :— Our friends at Palmerston North will be pleased to learn that the Bishop has ap* pointed the Rev, W. E. Copinger, who arrived from Adelaide last week, to the charge of the above-mentioned parish,

The Re«\ E Whitehonae, who is expected to reach from India on Friday next, has been appointed to the parochial district of Patea. The Marlborou<»h Times of a recent issue snya : — Tendera fur the dclstrnotion of wild heep m this district were opened i his morning, but as no eligible tender was m it has been decided to cull for fresh tendera. It is estimated that there are bout 3000 wild sheep at large, and each akin is reckoned to weigh about 201 b. > The remains of the unfortunate girl Jlga Stennes3e were buried on Tuesday morning. The funeral, which was conducted at the expense of the Government, , was a remarkable one, inasmuch as there were no mourners. A funeral without a single* follower is probably a fitting close for such a tragic drama as a suicide, but v; certainly saeais, (says a Wellington paper) to aay the least of it,a most peculiar , circumstance that even the man whose negligence, perhaps, hastened her "death,"* and with whom she had lived on terms of the closest intimacy, did not think fit to Day a last tribute of respect to his late paramour. The partiea who paid a , predatory visit to Mr 'fhacker's garden recently will find j a notice of interest to them m our adi vertising columns. Boring J anuary, twenty-four estates of deceased ueraons were placed m the hands cf the Public Trustee. Two were of the value of £3,U00 and one of £1,000, one of £700, and one of LSOO. The only Otago one was that of Darid Store, of Oamaru — unde>.vL2oo,

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