LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 177, 24 June 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The election for Borough candidates takes place to-morrow. The Feilding Variety Company give a performance m the Foresters' Hall tomorrow evening. The meeting at tho Ashurst schoolhouse re the bridge over the Manawatu takes place to-morrow evening. We direct attention to Mr James Laird's advertisement. appearing elsewhere, m which he offers fruit and forest trees m large numbers at such prices as should plantiug, aud so improve-' their properties. : Mr Ayers, the Wellington herbalist, has a very important notification else-: where with reference to a very useful and necessary work which he is offeriug for sata, and which every family library I : should include among its contents. 1 The Wellington Spiritualists under- . stake to give a block vote at the next "general election and claim 100 votes. Mr J. C. Harris, of the morning paper, is a bright and shining light among the body, whose intellectual calibre can thus be accurately estimated. It is said his addresses are occasions of great aftermirth among the members, who enjoy the fun of elevating him to the highest pitch of self-conceit with his own wonderful attainments. For the quarter ending Dec. 31st last, there were on the school rolls of the colony the names of 17.120 children. Tho Indians have cost the Americau Government £14j000,000 m -the last ten years. Taiaroajthe Maori footballor, is twentyone^ years of age, and is qualifying for the practiceof. the law. Morgan, who was executed the other day for violating and murdering a girl, had been married twenty-eight years. So much satisfaction does the .Wanganui Dairy Factory seem to to have given that the Herald says several of the settlers talk of doubling the number of their cows for the next season. The Gear Company' have jiist entered into a contract with the Admiralty, at Sydney for the supply of 23 tons of preserved meat. San Francisco has, a Chinese doctor, whose income, it is said, nets him £14,000 a year. He is a druggist as well as physician, and as the drugs are all imported by him from China,hls profits are enormous. Carl Bock, m his " Temples and Elephant," (a tour through Upper Siam) tells us that one prince he met had bought 13301b5." of Holloway's pills. England's throne is only an old oak chair of some 805 years of age. Derritt rode 116 races last season jand won 56 of them. A better record thau - ; any of Archer's m England. -:■ It may be as well says the Herald's correspondent, to remind the Hawke's Bay electors that next week will probably beHheir last chance for placing their names on the electoral roll, as he Act provides that all voters must be enrolled fifteen days before the issue of the writ. A contemporary remarks : — ln these times when the problem of poverty is exercising the minds of all politicians, it hiight be worth while to enquire into the s'peial system of the Mormons. Thu people embody the ideas of Land NationFisation and Socialism m their system, and m consequence there is no pauperism, no poor laws m Utah nor the need of any. Their religious system-may be wrong,but evidently their industrial system is right-. . It is said that a paper has been found m a desk used by the late Duke of Albany with: these words on it:— l wish to be buried m St. George's Chapel where , I was happily married, and where I shall always have beautiful music played over me. . The Woodville Examiner complains .that contractors under Government are vory wretchedly treated m the way of] payment. Lately the contractor for roads through /new Crown lands m the district had several hundred 'pounds owing him, and could not get a penny of it. The Government above all should be prompt m tlieir payments, for other people have accounts to meet, and they cannot meets thfein unless they receive payment for I the work they themselves have done. : I