LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 249, 22 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

From to-day our early country edition re-commences, Tbe first edition goes to press _little"6fter 12 noon, so as to reach, our, Foxton, Oroua Bridge, and other subscriber* on that line early m the afternoon of the day of issue. We trust this step will be appreciated by our numerous", readers m whoseint'ere.Btspeciallyithasbeen taken. Advertisers will please remember that; advertisements to appear m the coun- i j try edition must be m the office not later than 11a.m. Rlr Booth, juti;, of the firm of Messrs Booth and Sons, implement manufacturers, of Christchurch, was a visit to Palmerstonthis'week.' He 'was on a bridal tour, and hadivisited a large portion of the North Island. A ' ' ' We have seldom come across so pithy and sensible a summing up of the present state. cf\ things at New Plymouth as the reasons given recently for discontinuing io subscribe ;tp a newspaper-—" Times bad ; economy necessary ; nbw bankruptcy law very, stringent I" , George Barber, a larrikin, was cbasad by, a policemen along King*»treeit, Mel^ bourne. He burst open the door of a' private house. , And haying run upstairs entered the room of a young married couple.^whp, were jii bed and showed some surprise at the constable and. the V larrikin , fighting for/ mastery m their bedroom. The first cattle train from Manutaihi passed through to Foxton about midnight last night, and being a heavy train made an unusually, loud 'noise. The stock started, ori -their v journey to»day en route for Wellington, and should, be there on Monday. Had they been driven right through the journey would have .taken over a week, and theistoct would have depreciated m weight: and ; condition. ■. When the railway is open right through to Wellington, stock trains: should be almost nightly occurren; CBB. Ji >>•;; ,-,.. j -;,';..-'. -• ; ,' - - # ■ , |Mr John Anderson, of Wanganui, i« busy with the furnishing of the Club Hotel, his contract for which he expects to have completed by. Tuesday. . . ; Another draper and haberdasher is about* establishing himself m Palmerston, and enquiry was being made to-day. for suitable^ premises! xin the Square.. Still, they^oorne" I v?/o\l u:^.: : :. „.-. -. ,r;.,n I We hear that Mr W. Deards, one (four oldest settlers, is about leaving -for Wellington, wheve, he T intends taking up his residence. Mr Deards has been identified! with Palmerston from- its so to speak, an at one timejwasin'a very large way of businesses' storekeeper; He has; had bia ups and -downs, and has lost, money to a laige amount, bat is still game to seek his fortune elsewhere and make a fresh-start m life. We wish him the sue. cess his? energy and proverbial enterprise entitle him to anticipate. ; No less than twenty stowaways were found on the British Queen between the passage from London to Lyttelton. . i