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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 275, 24 October 1883, Page 2

> ;• (ißez*.s.s. Waihoraatithejß rtlufDl i:-m ! UHXTBD FBESS' ASSOattTZO& )j f^e'! Sanbridge Muriicij^^Cbunc^ 'are^ the ?aa>i«abili(;yi of 'leering the name. One party suggests port * Melbourne, " While j!thV; faVors't^ie name Sottth Port. -? jfip? questionremains m abeyance' foe 'a month. t; ■•-•' •; ••;■■" '■ •■ •■ ; <*■ ) J f' A difficulty has 'arisen' m regard to' 'tHe conveyance of the Victoiian firemen to tHe Brigades' demonstration, Sydney^' 1 !on gtjfKovember. The* Kailway/ DeM! partment are unable' to spare it]ie. G nwessary rolling stock'-bwingi^blthe! Exceptional requirements of the' trknic' 'on,that day. '■■ -'-■-■ ■-'■ .■.■. mi | '■]' *' .'Mr Justice Molesworth has 1 granted £rofcaWin the estate of W/^tookj who was missed from the Manapouri J ."'6n: 4 Voyage from Melbourne ■■ to)]jlew Zealand m February li»st: • vv V i (^ The. proceedings against Dr Marr, "of J Eagle Hawk, for firing <at: his house! keeper'in September, have b'ecomb' complicated. When released on bail l/ th'elpi^onerniiarried the prosecutrix, so ' ihat sh© is unable to give evidence.! It lis-probablethe^maUerchargeofjasault will be .. j Asad JalicidenV6cc^rte.dLat_Quebns-- f! cliffe on Snnday. W. H. Smit^, partner m the firm of "Wm. "Wa£so { Dr< and Sods, warejbiq.usemen, dived 1 ' into shallow water ai the Queenscliffe baths; and fractured his'spine, causing death. A disgraceful sdede ooourred atfhe cemetery an Sunday. Between jtwo' 1 and three hundred larrikins obstructe'd 1 the burial jrftes of a Chinaman, tramps ling overthe:grayes. and behaving m a disgusting manner, y \ The.Jßey* I) .r Jones.garner has pub-, lished" a 1 statement' of 4he widespread '; immorality'alleged to be the result of mixing the*sexes' m the sobools.The Minister"of Education has resolved to instituteiih inqufry;il >l'■' -Jo> I ,nvr, » jaj iSx^iTßr, October 16. A report was current that a Chinaman' on -bd^rd the' mail steamer Axatralia was suffering from smallp6x,but on 1 investigiation it provedl to ibe^a case; .of measiea. "-'■ '■' r vm'tf.^i^,,;,-.- J„. : Mr Shearstone, the seamen's missionary/Tvas brutally "assaulted* and; rbb'b'edi on Circular Qtfay while'returnirig firom a visit to the tvegsels. His assailants .aM-as^yetundisooyerea. „ry., - } 1 -ow : The,T^eafiurer has stated thai a bew war vessel for the defende' of this colony.: was m iooiirse of "ciwisiffuoticlif^ |andi> jvould leave England m January or February. *" "" I i system of direct 7 cbmmumcajtiono between engine-drivers, passengerß|and , guards nas been tried successfully. -The ;^stem'ia'kfi6>n <^as 'Spigholemi^s. ■* ; rThe a uf Australian); iEegister estimates, -thit, with favorable condi-J 4ibns, 1 tlie'aver&ge' yi4ld M whe^tiwill be ten bushels % the acre this ye<r. i .i^jj-juf;'. -i ' Tle'Oolonial'- Secretaiyfihas^received a telegram stating that 15,000 acres of sugar l'andthavfr been bought m New Guinea for one penny per acre,' th^ owners being unawarVof thenature-ofc the transaction.' This early intrc due-* tion of the land-sharking elemett 'is generally'condemned. '-'< ■■{ "1 ' v>.j The schooner Ellengowan has arrived from -Port- Moresby, bringmgCTaptAinj ;>rmit, the..Argus correspondenjt m li&jrj Guine^>, and, !Mr rlioftUs 'Irying,both ill iitli- f ever^"' Denfon died at Berigabad, on the 26th August, : of'fever., Qaptain Armit telegraphs to the Argusjthatpn the v lßthj August Mr Denton,-comp ained of indisposition, and refused-food; and medicine, j 'lie carriedDenton into .Lochivago, arid on the 26th i started for Morqka with benton jon, a ,stretcher. ;,Tbe , fever attacked: Captain Armit/ at half-past? 8 ou, thenightlof the 26th Augus^when the professor died,; an^.' was f, jburied| nekt •mortdngl!' Captain'A^oit speaks enthusiastically 'of ''thjß j aild h^tives, \\yy-i. . • ";'',, V^-.^'i i ''"""'