The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 106, 12 April 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Tom Zing, as manager of the Brewery Company, is mf usiug consider - able energy into the conduct of its' business, with the result that the concern is doing considerably better than some time ago, and the prospect to the share-* holders is consequently more encouraging. We understand that Measra Palmers* ton & Scott have entered into a contract with the Government for the survey of a block of 50,000 acres near New Plymouth. This rather extensive professional underfaking is to be commenced at once, and will occupy some months m completion. Mr Wollerman is new turning out a brew that is very highly spoken of, and for which he ia getting orders from all over the district. Mr A. Oroskery adrestises a special unreserved sale of furniture &c, on Saturday next, to wh eh the attention of purchasers is directed The Volunteer Drill Hall will before long be an accomplished fact, a consummation which will be due almost lalogether to the liberality and energy displayed |byMr J. Carroll m the matter. This gentleman has seta worthy example m ■ acting so liberally both m the matter of the drill hall, and also of the newly constituted Volunteer Baud, If all districts had so liberal a patron of the volunteering movement as Mr Carroll, we venture to say that the espirit de corps would rise normally higher than generally is the case. ■■-. We learn that the Sandon Farmers' Club proposes to have a show some time during the present month. Jeremiah Murphy, who is now missing from Wellington, has not been seen since | the 23rd of last month. To»morrow is the day of Dr Curl's usual weekly visit to Paloaerston, where Ihe may be consulted after 1 p.m. at Remington's Medical Hall. Telegraphic communication with Auckland was suspended yesterday, probably I through heavy weather. Tauranga was ! the furthest messages could be sent. It wns restored to-day. i Tenders are invited for the erection of loose»box, feed and saddle-rooms, a3 additions to present stabling attached to the Standabd Office. Tenders close at noon on Saturday next. The schooner - Hannah Barratt, now believed to be lost, was intended to be sold immediately after the crip on which she was last' bound. No further tidings have been heard of her, and her captain and crew are supposed to have been drowned. The demolition of the Oldham-street Wesleyan Chapel, Manchester, has been resolved upon. This chapel, which was the first of the denomination built m Man* Chester, was opened on the 20th of March. 1781, the preacher on that occasion being John Wesley. Among the eminent Wes» leyan divines who have teen stationed at Odlhara-street Chapel were Dr. Adam Clarke, the Biblical commentator, and Joseph Benson twice president of the Con. ference, and grandfather of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Among the prizes to be awarded m 1883 by the Academy of Medicine, Paris, is one of 25,000 francs, which will be i given to auyone finding a remedy againet I diphtheria.

The usual offical announcement will t be found elsewhere m reference to the election of wardens for the Manawatu Highway District. Mr F. Beaven announces a great clearing cash sale for 10 days, as he is about to relinquish business m Falmerston. The price of horseshoeing m Wairarapa has been reduced to 4s 6J the set for hacks, and 6s 6d for draught horses. A complete and very elaborate set of Masonic jewels for the new Scotch Lodge m Palmerston has been received. The Burgess Roll of persons eligible to vote m the municipal eleotions, and also the defaulters' lists, are notified as being open for public inspection at the Borough Office until the 15th inst. Of course defaulters will be disenfranchised for the year unless arrears of rates be paid at once. A special meeting of the Wanganui Education Board was to have been held this morning to take into consideration the state of things at Halcombe, where the School Committee have suspended the teacher, Mr Harris, for misconduct. . ; Modern Society says;- The Princess of Wales is looking scarcely a day older than when, on March 10, nineteen yearg ago, she stood at the altar by the side of her young husband. Nor do advancing years change, save to deepen and strengthen the regard and affection m which she is held by the people of England, By common consent she is beyond the region of criticism. " What the Prince does" is the topic of free discussion— praise or blame — every night at a score of clubs and m drawing-rooms innumerable. But the jodd taste of " what the Princess does" m never for a moment called into question.