LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 234, 30 August 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In Tauranga the nightwatchman calls out all the hours, and acts as a special 'constable besides. -„;■■-■ ; ? We pifblish with to-day's issue a/fdurt'een column, supplement, containing, specially -selected reading v'ma'tte/ on one side, and advertisements oof the .other, y / . v'Vv •/ \^ / .'\ "-•./ We remind our town subscribers that on Monday our collector' will make " h~is* usual four- weekly call to collect amounts due for subscriptions td,STANDARD. We solicit a settlement to date in all cases, hoth.of four- weekly .amounts and also of arrears. We are glad to learn that With very few exceptions, the new sysjtem of short periods is: giyinjgj. general satisfaction and is mucli 'preferred to the -quarterly, half -yearly, or still inpre extended systems of payment. 'An elderly -woman named Gallagher, who had been missing from her horn* for two or three days in Christchurch, was found hiding in a cave at the tap of one of the highest of the port hills. When found she was in the most adfvanced" state of emaciation, and it is '4n<Sre than probable, had she- not been discovered, she would have perished from cold dtiring the next wig&t. Ifri'B L suspected that she is of unsound mind/ *-■'■• Bed tape delay of course, writes the Bay of Plenty Times. The local Rifle Cl,ub, after two months' correspondence with the Defence Department, have just received notice that the rifles promised tb them have been shipped to China, and thus for ! the present : the I new'memb"erfl 'of the Club are forced to do without rifles. We learn also that all the old amunition • which has bepp !in, tjtock here and at Opotiki for years past has been ordered to be Jfoi warded to Wellingtons it is -believed en route for China likewise. • . . > . It comes like an echo from the past tb hear that Mr F.N. Crouch, the composer of " Kathleen Mavoufneen," is still alive. ' It is painful to hear that he is old and poor, with a poor old wife. It is pleasant to hear tfiat a generous., Ameripan has taken them |n to his'hduse and provided for their remaining days. Mr Crouch is an' Englishman ', \- - l -ib>erß pf Soetland-'s popular. gan\e wiHataftfecia'te the following, giveit by the North- British Mail: — " An. irate skip, jgfeatly^disgusjtedjyith.the pjay of his' leader, but not wishing tosend him t direct to, a certain nameless had, . recotjfse to the- .folip.wihg^ldelightful euphemism :—i' Man, Jock, its a guid ; fffing ye'fo g* an whew ihcreHl nae ice /" i. gp^snjaß Wftijteoo>uHWate \\p .Chinese trade pn the 'Victorjan years ago. ' Hp got a,phinaman ta wri|ji: '.qimj^sigi^ a^d'was Ania^cq v^o and flie c Geleßtial trade fall off at on'oe. ' 'At last he got his sign interpreted, and found that \t ran, "This man is a blooming rogue." "' The conjecture that,_,Yo'gßl,< was the caußO of .the late Ministerial defeat, and and consequently the present state of chaos,, is borne, out by the Napier Herald's cbrrespohdentj' v Whoi ' ( Ba^s Ju yesterday's issue that Major' Atkinson proposed to Mr Stout that Canterbury, .should. . select any . tw'Q .-members they ichi^Be, provided thatVogel was not included. Mr Stout inuißted on Voge'l !' !again, at a further'meetirig, when Major ; AtljinQpn stated that his supporters. dis-i tinctly refused to have anything to do with any Ministry of which Sir Julius' "Vogel. was a member, which closed the negociations with the Vogel-Stout party. Obi the' other hand we have 'already seen thatiSir George Grey put his foot' doWtf against yogel from the beginning. '

Two gentlemen, a lawyer and an auctioneer, were charged on Monday last, at Napier, with disobedience to the by-law which forbids smoking on railway platforms, while it is allowed on and in the carriage*. For the defence, a technical j point was raised that the by-laws nad ' not been posted in a conspicuous place, as required by law. The cases woretherefore dismissed. / A large number of me^a.u,r.Q.o»t~of em- ~ ployment in Adelaide. The Goverment is making every eftort-fy provide, work $\}& wagesJbamg'6s 6da.^JV w kk tools aud tents found. . ,Mr Wardell r th© Wellingtoa E:jM.; bni Thursday made well morited strictures upon the manner in which the Resident Magistrate's Court is being used for the recovery -of Small debts. Yesterday there were no fewer than nijnety-four small debt, cases set down for hearing, andt^ut bf^hiS' f tfrtnidablejlist , there ! was only one case in which counsel pn both sides appeared. The ,Besidenit , Magistrate remarked that it appeared, to innTas if the* Court was being turned into a huge debt collecting machine. ' It is understood that James Ames, the Returning officer for Fo-xton, will, within the next -few days/ apply 'f or a summons against/ the Hon. C. J. Phatazyn on the charge of illegally voting at the Tina T kori-road booth at the* recent general .elections. ■ ijj( : . a ;..■..,.;.,„„■;<' ;•■• !.T '•""'. | fi . The Masterton police are pretty confw dent that the luirnau skeleton found on a run near Mastbrton last week, is , .that; of a Maori, who was. buried ! tee» yetirs ago: Uh'dter the circumstances, it is not deemed necessary to hold a corouial inquiry, and the remains have been reinterred. ,", '. . * '.-... The Marton paper says that in a portion of the Kiwitoa jdistrict last week the ground was covered with hailstones four inches deep. - „ At yesterday's stock sale at Marton cattle did not sell well,buc sheep fetched veryhigh prices. ~Tery few ho»es were offered for sale. , r ''■■'■ ' ; V^e' ati "glad 'to learn thnt the Fasten tramway is being considerably used. The settlers are finding it* a great convenience. . ... r Ithaß been decided to told the proposed free excursion 6a tk<e tramway on Tuesday next. The special train is to leave Foxton at 9.30 a.m.; returning at 5.15 p.m. A committee. ,has the matter jtti hojid^ a'od* th6''metnberß are working hard to make the affair a suc-