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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 154, 8 June 1883, Page 2

Our collector will be at Ashursfc on .Tuesday next, when. a prompt settlement , of all accounts re adered, is requeßtsd. _The Fancy 't>reas Ball m ' conaeofcion with the Football Clab, promises ; to bs a very successful affair. There are to be extensive decorations m the way of flags, evergreens, an I Chinese lanterns. Mr Gr. M Snelaoa has certain alterations m his list of properties for sale, which.will.be found elsewhere. Messrs Bentley Bros., special advertisement jf ill appear, m tq. morrow's paper. ...a(.t Qate elsewhere gratefully aqkno w« led?e tho assistance 1 of 'tnose who helped to save his dwelling from catching fire last night, when Mr Greaney'a house wa§ destroyed. Mr A. Dundas is : in want of a lad for farm work.ft ,-'.;/' Several njsw announcements will ba found m our advertising columns. A notification: from the Manawatu Road Board appears elsewhere with reference to its intention to strike a rate of five-eights of a penny m the £. Mrs Mansfield is, requested to call or send her presentadress to the Standard Office, /,, ,; v --,,, * Mr' Remington's specialties will bo 4 ound announced elaewhere,- : the list com* prising some very useful family and toilet requisites. '"'•'' ; c . A case of so,me~ importance to bakerq waß ! heard at the Beaideat Court on Tuesday (says thei Te .>Aroha Mail^. A local knight .qf the ; dough-tub summoned a customer fqr a small debt for bread; sold and delivered.. In, his bill of. particulars whicjhyhe submitted to the Qourt, the loaves were Charged -by ; number, instead 1 of \>y weight..; His' Worship, m drawing attention to the matter, said baker* would have to renieajber that there was such an : act extant as the Millers and Bakers Act, which required that bread should be sold" By weight, and not by nunibdf. It thbae :: breaking the law-4id not. deaist from so doing, a heavy penalty might probably be instrumental m securing- compliance. '•' In America dtr.ihas;; been ;prjpppsed to utilise; the railway, embankments b'yt plant* ing timber, trees that , wquld^f urnisn wood for sleepers, which^ require 'renewal about every Beven years. l It is cUlcdiated that for every mile of ro'4d about 25 acres of land for timber-growiog would be required, and as that would cost on an average £100 per mile it.wpuld .be a good investment for the! companies. ';;Cpuldnot" ; tlie sug« gestipnbe u'tilised^ m Austrahwia ? The morganatic widow of 'the late Czar has returned to St. •< Petersburg with her three children, and the faithful blaolf setter that always accompanied This puts an end to the absurd story that [ the Princess was banished from her native country for ever by order of the present I EmpeYor. ■'- ■ ; v— ■ i ■■'' - ;r?0 >'-£■> ... A Russian n .was banished to Siberia, owing to participationih'^he Polish insurrection of 1838, haa just returned home i 'after ! nearly fifty -.years i imprison, moat. ,-=-...«.- ' (i ' As tHeir ; moted is .never ltd' hrd^ their light under, a bushel, Bentley-Bros., wish the people of Prtlmerstdn;tQ If now tuaf their ne^radveßtiaement^will appear morrow on the top of the first page of the Standard. A reduced price list is offered which will be found well worth inspsctmg,— [A»yi r ]