LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 275, 17 October 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Levin and Co., have beeu advised that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's chartered steamer, Coptic, left Plymouth for Port Chalmers, Wellington, Napier, and Lyttelton, on Saturday last. She has 299 passengers of all class9B. The circulation of the War Cry m Masterton is put down at 240 copies, and m Wellington it is estimated at 840. The Salvation Army undertakes some, .tough contracts. "We visited," writes the Picton officer " the Maori Pah this morning (Thursday), and ' Four Maoris got fully cleansed." The porter at the Napier Hospital gate slipped the other day and injured kirnself. He applied for superannuation m consequence as it is feared lie will not recover from the effects of the f all,being a very old man of 75, who had just taken a wife. Mr Charles Edward Neville, who served a term for bigamy at Toronto the other day must be a nice sort of young gentleman. The judge sent him to jail to cure him of his bigamatistical proclivities, when, lo ! and behold, what does he do but elope with Jie gaoler's wife, having at the. time " several of his own" outside the: jrabW > • It is stated, as an instance of how the business m the' Resideut Magistrate's Court at Wellington is on the. 'increase that up to the present date this year: there have been more civil summonses 'than there were for the whole twelvemonths of 1883. \ ' The Feilding School committee have passed the following resolution :— That that owing to the falling off m the attendance this committee will enforce the compulsory clauses of the Education .Act,, and the secretary is -instructed to get the necessary forms printed for giv* ing nolice to the parents.^ „ The ex-hangman, Thomas Long, is again before the public. He did not appear to answer a charge of having publicly exposed hjs person. SergeantMajor Goodall explained that defendant was so drunk that he could not be brought up before next day.'

The trial of ono of the largo locomotive engiues which recently arrived from the workshops of Messrs Manning and Wardle, Let-ds to the order of the directors of the Wellington mid Manawatu Railway Company, has proved eminently satisfactory. The engine is fitted with several of the latest improvements I amongst which may be mentioned Sln.'iidley's s^etl iuili..'.itois, which enables the driver to ascertain the speod the engine is running at. The locomotive is highly finished, and the work put into it reflects the highest amount of credit upon the makers. The following tenders were received by the Wellington and Manawatu Kailway Company for No. 2 permanent way contract : — Accepted: J. Saunders, £3027 7s 6d. Declined : A. and D. VVilkie £2915 13a; Jno. Whitaker and Co., £3616 13s ; Maco and Bassett, £3253 ; J. G.-PeudcmiiDg, £3187. A smart piece of work was recently 1 accomplished by a native (says the Napier Telegraph"). Immediately after a number of summonses had been issued against him, he went round to several of the tradespeople who had issued the •' blue pills" against him and squared the amounts, without, however, satisfying the costs incurred. To-day His Worship, when appealed to, said if people took money m such cases without receiving their costs he would not allow the the latter later on. Moral, never accept moneys after issuing a summons except through your solicitor. A number of summonses had been issued agaiut n Napier Native, named Henare Tomoana, the cases to come off on a recent date, but all of them were postponed for a week. Defendant made a rambling statement that trese .cases were brought into court so us to force him to sell land. His Worship said if that were the case he would use the power entrusted to the Resident Magistrate's Court to stop the executiou-»-the result being that defendant's barber, jeweller, ironmotiger,boottnaker,butcher, publican, and tailor, all of whom had issued summonses, will have to wait some time longer for their money. A number of the natives not being satisfied with the intention of the Chief Justice to close the Land Court at Wanganui for a time, have sent telegrams to the Native Minister and "Sir Gr. Grey, pointing out the injustice which will be done to them if alter waiting so long, the Court is now adjourned for some months. ' A Parliamentary return is to be prepared, showing all lands -reserved iti the colony for educational purposes ; return to show the acreage and present value respectively of the endowments for (1) primary education ; (2) secondary education ; (3; high: schools and universities. Our readers have often heard of the Irishman who directed a letter '• to my brother's wife, Wellington, N.Z.," but a correspondent of a Napier paper knows a reality that beats this. There is now now lying m the Post Office at Frasertown, a letter directed m a clerkly band to "the late Cfuirles Lloyd, Frasertowu." Perhaps some spiritualistic medium would undertake to convey the message. One of the defendants sued for rates by the Napier Borough Council is now a resident of the "interior of Sputh Africa," consequently personal service of the usual summons was dispensed with, and m lieu thereof it was fixed on a "conspicuous" part of the ground belouging to defendant. In this case the plaintiff was nonsuited, through the fact of the summons being served not being advertised m the newspapers*. A lad of tender years (whose name . for obvious reasons, we Herald suppress) was charged yesterday morning with stealing a pair of spurs, and pleaded guilty. The Bench ordered him to be Ulun fn l»ia punjuto anth «t*BC7and~thr«tlfa-' ing administered, and commissioned Detective Benjamin to see that this was done. . A case of peculiar hardship has been laid before the Feilding Star. A laboring man iv the district took a contract to supply the Government with a quantity of posta or sleepers. The contract was iv part completed and vouchers sent m the usual manner for £60. "This was done three months ago' and yet the money has not beeu paid. As the man has not " a bank at his back," he is put to considerable straits by the absurd red. tapeisin of Officials. We understand the membber for the district, Mr Macarthur, has the matter iv hand. ,