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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2

Mr Snelson advertises another impor. tank sale of freehold property on Saturday May 5, particulars of which will be found m advertisement, Our readers are reminded of Mr SneU son's great horse sale on Saturday next. The catalogue is almost full, and the entries will exceed m number those of the inaugural sale. The attendance at the Fire Brigade meeting laftt ni^ht was not sufficent to justify any action being taken. It is probable Mr Bentley will now move m the matter among his friends and aca quaintance, and we trust with satisfactory \ results: . i A correspondent writes to the Taranaki Herald with reference to the question as. '• to how many sheep it was possible for one man to kill and dress m an hour." He says the fastest time he heard of was that of a man at Howick, near Auckland, who wa3 m the act of catching his fourteenth sheep when time was called. A Dakota farmer. Hying near Grand Forks, discovered smoke rising from one of his straw stacks. He mounted the stack with a pail of water intending to fight the fire. Thh flames, however, had eaten out the interior, and as he reached i the top the thin layer of straw gave way and precipitated him into the burning crater, where his body was entirely Cun« aumep.