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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 123, 1 May 1883, Page 2

The blue ribbon: morement appears to ■be making steady progress ; m Auckland] says the Evening Star, several hundred persons having already donned the badges Steps have, been 'taken for •_ the formation of companies m the various suburban dis-4 trusts, persons having been nominated to undertake the iformation of each of the seven local contingents. Nothing further will be done until after the monster nieet« ing has been held. ' There' has been a great demand for tickets for the demonstration, and the attendance is likely to be remarkably large: A coffin containing a dead Chinaman ha? been stolen from thereof ton Cemetry, and no" trace of itcan be found. \ A special meeting of the Palmeraton! Borough Council 'was • held yesterday afternoon to consider and determine ob» : jections to the burgess roll. No objections were received, aud the burgess list was formally passed. """""" . Formerly the richest countries ; were; those m which nature was most active ; now the richest countries are those m which man is most active.. , ,' . ; A Committee meeting of the.Manawatu Racing Club will be held at the Com* mercial Hotel this ievening, foiftheitrans-: action of general business, and to receive, nominations for the District -Produce Race. No less than fourteen, steamers were m Wellington harbour on Monday, the white; and red flag of the Union Company flying at the mast-head, of four of them. No longer ago than Thursday five of this Company's vessels were lying alongside the Queen's Wharf. Says an' Australian exchange :— 535 M'Cormack machines are coming to Australia for the next harvest. Twice as" many are going to New Zealand,