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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 134, 14 May 1883, Page 2

The river at tha^ Lower Grorge was so hisfh to»day that * the punt could not work. ■„.-. , . , In a coffin with a deceased : Heathea Ohinee lately shipped frba£ WelUugt^^ were placed two bottlea of branly, a pair^ of socks with the tops cut-off so: that they might be put on without difficulty, a hat with the leather cut out, two boxes, of cigars, and fifty sovereigns. Diphteria is at present very prevalent ia Hokitika, several, cases being veryaVribua* " Four' boys', under twelve" years of age, have been sent' to the reformatory -for having "stuck-up "other children ia the streets of Melbourne, and robbed them of their money. ' ■ ■■■-.; '. .','■'■_ Tenders for clearing for. Messrs Russell Bros, at Te Matai, close to-morrow. Tenders for sleepers for the Wait Coast Railway close toi-morrbw; It is officially notified, nnder the hand of the Chairman ot the r County Council that Messrs Stevens andGdrtbn's aaleyards at Awahuri, are a public pound; -arid Mr W. K. Samuels is gazetted poundkee'per. ' Seven violent deaths were 'recorded m the four principal boroughs of the colony iducina: April. Folldwingis the list: — Fracture nf 9pine,at" Auckland; fracture of skull, : at Bu.nedin ; killed by falling' Off a lift, at Wellington ; kicked bya horse Vat Christchurch ; erhauslioa' after r 6p»rati6n, at biihedin ; " overlain* by •mother,,/'- two cases, one at Chriatchiirchi and.another at Dunedin. ••■--• <Mr J. Grey, a well- known Auckland ginger-beer man, has. the following placed prominently m hi 3 office: — "Officebours — For listing to solicitors 'or church subscript tions, from 10 tolj book agent's, 1 to 3; advertising men and life insurance agents, all day. We'atte'nd to our! owni business afcnightl" ' The one huniredtli locomotive lisa juat been turned-out at the Phoaaix Factory. Ballarat. . "''■ l ' -' O:£ i It is expected that the . through railway line from Sydney to Melbourne will be opened on the 16th inst^ ' - - "O'Djnamite Eossa," is what the American papersjnave christened the aroh<* aasassin.