LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sole at tbd Borough Yards will take place tomorrow at 1 p.m. ' The Road Board require tensors ipr.2s\ chains of metalling on Karere Kairanga road. Particulars will be found m advertisecient. The Wellington Building Society is about to be wound up. The defalcations of its late secretary. " Charlie" White, amounted to £2,000. In another column we give the regulations for the formation of special settlements lately referred to by the Hon. Mr Ballance, as gazetted, and which, no doubt, will be perused with interest. Tho Cardinal Vicar, by order of the Pope, has, m regard to public health, issued a dispensation from fasting duringthe whole time the cholera epidemic lasts. The Bloomfield Estate, formerly the ; property of the late Mr Peter Laing, was sold at auction for £3850 . The Hawke's Bay Herald says that Mr' Ballance's association land regulations , have been adapted almost entirely from : the. old Provincial .regulations of Hawke's Bay, framed" by "Mr Ormond when he was superintendent. The {eadiug idea is the same, and so are many of f)ie details. The machinery has, says our con.temporary, been proved by experience to work well, ; Dip a sponge m Uerojjojxe and apply it ' to the horse's ears and neck, Jt will; keep the flies off for two or three days, when the operation may be repeated. So says that good fanner, J . B. Porter, of Stow, Mnss., m that good paper, the N.E. Farmer. A sprey of chloride of methyl is said to be a sure cure for sciatica., It should 1 be directed along the limb affected, along the course of the sciatica nerve and its branches. The effect is not so painful as when the hot iron is used (as m ordinary treatment), and the curative results are stated to be instaneous. It is welNknown that many " swells"; have fallen -from their high estate to the' pilotage of the London Gondola. On, the cabstand 8 of the great metropolis: there are, 'it; is said, officers enough to have led the Soudan expedition, doc-, tors enough to keep half-a-dozen graveyarda constantly yawning, lawyers more than it would need to set a continent at logger heads. Speaking of the removal of police inspectors the Wellington Pgst remarks : — {,* The periodical removal* of the Chief .Officers of Police are undoubtedly lioneficial m an official public point of (view. The curious thing about these ■re,woyaJs is that Dunedin appears the .only pjaca where the Inspector of Police .is an absolujte #3f ture." The Post might add Wanganui to Dunedin, as it would eeeiu Jnsjpector .^am.es is a fixture there too.

Tli(! nominations for the election of tiic Government Insurance Association Board arc fixed for tho 20th December, and the election shortly after the New Year. It may save adding to the list of useless reminiscences about Ospreys if we state that the proof required by the Claimant to establish the Osprey link m his case is as to the arrival m Hobßon's Bay of an American schooner of that name m July or August, 1854. The Claimant gave the date of her arrival as July 24t!i m that year. Ospruys anywhere else, or at any time, can have no connection witii the Tichborne case. The Full Court m Melbourne has given a decision of very great importance to licensed victuallers. In the caao of the Court v. Nicholson exparte Minogue,the Court decided that a married woman is not capable of being the holder of a publican's licensn while she lives with her husband. The Post lias heard from private sources that it is tho intention of Hay, the well-known trainer, to migratein a short time to Melbourne, where ho will race a small stud of his own horses, including probably Welcome Jack and Sou-w ester. His health has been very poor for soino time past, and his medical advisers have recommended a change of climate. Bay is said to be worth fully £20,000. A correspondent writing from Marton to the Post makes a mis-statement to the effect that a " train leaves Wanganui for Foxton and vice verd each moining calling at all intermediate townships. It is scarcely credible, but neither of these carry a mail, the .only service being thatr m the evening both ways." The inor.n : ing train from Wanganui to Fo'kton does carry a mail and there is no morning! train from Foxton to Wanganui, as thai train only goes so far as Feilding, and it also' takes a mail from Palrriorston to Foilding. The early train from Palmeis ton also takes a mail to Wanganui. The Woodville Dairy Factory will be Opened on Monday next. A mpstextraordinary instance m which a married woman, served her husband with a summons for debt cropped up last week m the Wellington Magistrate's Court. The defendant did not appear, but the summons was returned with the endorsement that the summons had been served by the defendant's wife. Mr Wardell, R.M., of course accepted the service as correct. The Patea Mail with untimely levity thus records a berious accident. : — A very painful accident happened to Mr William Kraack, a well-known settler. It happened while he was felling bush on Wednesday, and while chopping a large treeit suddenly cracked and gave Kiaack a crack on the shoulder that cracked it out of joint. He was brought into Dr Crofjt who found Unnecessary *° place, the patient under ctyt* 0 * 0 * 1 * before the ' injury-coum be reduced. The residents of Hawera and the neighbourhood are getting a new track cut to the summit of Mount Egmont. An attempt was made to take advantage of the preseuce of Government surveyors on the Iron Sand Block to get the work uoue at Government expense, but it did not succeed. The formation on the proposed line is hard rock, which is a great improvement on the loose scoria of the old track. The new line will be finished m time for use this season, and the more easy access will probably induce a large 1 number of excursionists to try the ascent. It is believed that £40 would cover the cost of a good liurse-track, three-quarters of the way up the mountain, biit the money would have to be subscribed. „, -- ""'"■ It isstateVU^^^j* 11 ** Her f d that jAJ^ eraser will probably proceed to Sydney with the s.s. Triumph, and thence take her Home. A Marlborough paper says : — l: We regret to learn that m consequents of -.„.« :ii-n/lutßed public remarks of fy[r Harding, the G.W.C.T., at Picton on Monday last, Mr Henry Jellyman, the district Deputy of the Order, has resigned his position." Mr Harding, censured th pi gentleman for voting for a brewer at the* last general elections. London uses 140 tons of chloride of lime, worth £5 a ton, for the daily deodorising of the sewer outlets m Barking reach. The Union Steam Ship Co. distribute about £30,000 m Wellington. The Awahuri Bridge is again threatened with serious damage by floods — this time at the southern approach. Mr Armstrong has gone out to sac what is beat to he done. MrD. H. Macarthur, M.H.R., was offered a scat on tho Waste Lauds Board for the Wellington provincial district, but was compelled to decline the (honor as he would be unable to regularly attend the sittings of the Board. Mr A. V. Macdonald, district railway manager having inspected the extension to.Tahoiaite. has decided lo run thejfirst through train on December loth this day week. According to the Star the present cream separator at the Makino Butter Factory has been found very inadequate. It only separates 20 gallons per hour, whereas the company require the meaus of separating at least 60 gallons m that time, and are importing another machine that will do 40 gallons more, This is almost daily expected, and m the meantime the work of the factory is suspended. The survey of the first section of the Main Trunk Railway line (says the Auckland Herald) has been commenced m earnest, Mr Holmes and party taking the first five miles, Mr Hursthouse and party the second, and Mr Rochfort and party the third five miles, so that the survey will be completed by Christinas. Tho same expeditious system will be used iv his office as m the field, and advertisements be issued early for the tenders, so that no time will be lost. It is said thai Mr 'sd ward Wakefield," M.H.K., who is about to Beyer his connection with the Timaru Herald, has been appointed to the editorial chair of the Qlngo Daily Times. The Examiner regrets to hear that there i$ some talk of opposition at Ashurst t,o the scheme for raising money under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act for the erection of the bridge at the Lower Ferry. We have I blamed M»naw at v people m the past for their apathy m regard to this bridge, j and now when the work is on the verge of being carried out, it is to be hoped they will now show a little generosity. We presume (says the Napier Tele- \ graph) the Government are aware that there is no coroner m the Hawke's Bay district. Drs Hitchings and Reid have j had to relinquish their appointments j owing to their continuance m medical practice. i Sir John Hall, replying to the welcome accorded him iv the Horqrata district, 1 : on his return, said since he had left them he had travelled a great deal m various countries, both new andoJd,butin allhia wanderings hehad not seen any coun try iv which, if he had his choice to make again, he would desire to live m preference to New Zealand. (Cheers.) He wcib sorry to say, however, that owing to family arrangements, his present return was not a final one. Iv about a yeq.v j/oncc, if all went well, he looked forward to returning once more with Lady Half and hi£ jfamily to take up his abode amongst those neighbors whom he had learned .to esteem so thoroughly. London has an average of 2,000 births •■ a week. . ' ' . !