LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 28 April 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' I preserve my equilibrium under all circumstances,' she was beard to Bay m a pause of the music to the tow«beaded youthjwho was her escort. 'Do you ?' he answered softly. ' Mother cans hers.' Then the music resumedThe winter now about ended m En?" land and Scotland, was the mildest ever experienced within the recollectiou of living man. Roses were m full bloora m the middle of Janu iry, usually the coldest portion of the year ; butterflies were abundant m England, and the heat of London was quite oppressive. The sinking mountain of Faiba, m Alciers, is one of the mo9t extraordinary ot the many disturbances of the earth's crust. Daring the last couple of years the mountain has been gradually sinking into the earth, a deep subsidence marking the place after settlement. This sinkingis not attended by eavthqu iker, nor is it the result of a volcanic eruption. Some short time ago the Waikato Cheese Fact try received an order for a ton of cheese from a firm m Queensland, which was duly forwarded. Ou I'huraday ( a cable message <vas received ordering a further consignment of two tons, which left the factory on Monday, together with half a ton for an Aucklaud customer. Our cheese is steadily winuin? ita w«y m the colonial markets by its intrinsic merits. . The deep bass of the organ ceased sud" denly io a church m Lewiston, Maine, when a lady's voice was heard by the whole congregation distinctly to declare, '• I don't care oue bit j 1 do want a piano.' A singular accident recently occurred at Manchester. Air Oavruthers, a young surgeon, was calltd to pee a lady who had been injnred by a f-tlleu chimney, and while attending to her another chimney fell and killed him. A young tenor obtained a hearing before the manager of a provincial theatre. He sang ; but the manager stopped him at the end of three or four notes. ' Leave me your address,' he said, 'and I will think of you if it should happen.' ' What do you mean, by 'if it should happen 1' demanded the young tenor. ' Why if my theatre should>Cdtch fire ' ' Well?" l I should engage you to cry Fire !' ' The following choice specimen of literary ■ tfovts is a verbatim copy of notice posted on a patent gate, exhibited at the Louisville Exposition, near the depaitment occupied by the (Jorticelli, Silk Company : ' Evry, won, should, Eec, and, try, this, lovly gate, it, i», just, what, you, want, dont, you. Morne, five, hundred, solde, m. this, state, every, one, thinks, its, the, best, gate, they, ever, heirn, tel", on, git, wun.' We regret to notice that the Hawke's B iy Horticultural Society has had to suspend operations for want of support, aot« withstanding the vigorous m 'inner m which Mr Laseelles has worked to make it a success. At the wiading-up meeting the Chairman said that with one or two exceptions, none of the lar^e landed proprietors m the province had given anything m the shape of a contribution. The new editor of the London Times is Mr G. E. Buckle, who is about 30 .years of age. Anent Mr Buckle's appointment, the St. Stephen's Review remarks : — ' £2(KO per annum for the great editorial seat which Mr Buckle now fills, vice Mr Dbenery, deceased, does not ppbui a very grand scale of pay. It is a position which many Minister", especially unpopular Ministers, might envy, aud with reason, but the emolument is beneath contempt, considering the interests involved. Why, j the mere turn oi a sentenca m a leader is ' even now powerful enough to cause a i panic on the Stock .Exchange. Yet Mr Burnaud, who is responsible for what appears m Punch— Bnd the responsibility is a heavy one — receives £1000 j while v certain scribe, whose name is a household word everywhere, can, when he feels disposed, earn £60 to £70 per week ceitain.' The Thames Advertiser has, m obedi* ence to the Government mandate, re' turned its free railway pass enclosed m a mourning envelope. Oar contemporary has over a column of a leading article on the subject headed 'In Memorial!,' and rejoices that it is able to yiuld the privi* lege of free railway travelling for press purposes with resignation, for the reason tbat there are no railways m the district upon which lo travel. A collier having eloped with a friend's wife, writes to him to a iy, ' I have asked Sarah whether she would like to go back to you, and Hbe says, ' I would rather die first., Under these circumstances, kindly. 9eini me a vote, signed by your own h«nd, stati'ig that you are willii/g for me to make tier and the children a comfortable home, on the receipt of which I will forward ycu 10^ m cash.' To Hiis ihe husband hits replied that he is willing to come to terms 'at the figure named.' What a favorable contrast dues this present to tardy and expensive proceedings of out Divorce Coarts. Drowsiness, biliousness, pains and aches, and ague, Hop Bitters always cures. Head. - Agonizing Neuralgic Pains. — Baxters AntHiNeuralaic Pills have; been named by the public '• Magic Pilte '' on account of their marvellous action m curing Neuralgic, Toothache, Sciatica, Lumbago, and other Neuralgic pain?. — To be had of all chemists ami storekeepers, or post free on receipt of 19 or 44 postage stamps. — J. Baxter, Chemist, Victoria- street. Christ* church.