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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 3

The outward Mail via San Francisco will close at Palmerston North, on Friday the 2nd November, at 7.45 p.m. We have been shown an egg weighing 4 1/4 ounces and measuring 7 3/4 inches by 6 1/4 inches, laid by a pullet bred by Mr Haultain, the clerk of the R.M. Court. The breed is called "Majorca." The egg is now on view at Mr Park's Stationery Depot. The owner has for several days been astonished at the size of the eggs, and has been putting them down as ordinary double yolked eggs, but was greatly astonished on finding out that they were being laid by a pullet and are not double yolked. The circus had a large audience at Foxton. The electric light was shown to advantage, and was greatly admired. The company left by the Oreti on Sunday for Christchurch. Wednesday is the day of Mr Cottle's professional visit to Palmerston, his consulting rooms at Mr Leary's. Mr W. Dixon's extended advertisement will be found elsewhere. Messrs Stevens & Gorton will hold two important sales at Feilding to-morrow, details of which are enumerated in advertisement. The temperature in the Gorge yesterday was intensely hot, the sun's reflection off, the rocky precipices being intensified and diffusing a tropical heat all round. The breeze at the bends was quite reviving to travellers and their jaded steeds. A meeting of the provisional directors of the Manawatu Cheese and Bacon Factory Company is announced for Wednesday at 3 p.m. W learn that Messrs Stevens and Gorton's intend inaugurating a series of periodical sales of hides and skins, tallow, &c., very shortly, which it is expected will be liberally supported by producers and the general public. " Ivo" is announced to deliver his Free thought Lecture at the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening. Mr Larcomb is inviting tenders for repairs to a residence in Palmerston. It is rumored that Lord Normanby's term of office as Governor of Victoria will be prolonged. Messrs Chapman and Hall announce the publication of a history of Australia, of which Mr Rusden is one of the authors. Lord Derby, has intimated to General Mclvor that if he persists in his proposed New Guinea expedition, the Pacific High Commissioner and Commodore Erskine will be instructed to interfere for the protection of the natives. The ship Mirzapore, bound for Melbourne, is reported ashore near Boulogne. Passengers and crew are safe. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the contract with the Orient Steamship Company for the conveyance of mails between that colony and England hadbeen approved. A conference of delegates from all parts of the country has commenced its sittings in Sydney, to consider the land question, and to discuss the provisions of the Land Bill which is about to be introduced in Legislative Assembly. The road men on the Stoney Creek road are in the habit of leaving their wheelbarrows behind the toi-bushes at the side of the road, just so as to send a shying horse into the ditch and perhaps cause a serious accident. Through some persons blundering, the mails for Palmerston and Wanganui were not taken out of the coach on Saturday evening. They were brought through yesterday on horse-back. A Figaro mare belonging to the Standard, on Friday dropped a filly foal to Morpheus, which is as handsome progeny of that splendid sire as has been seen in the district. Owing to the accidental carrying on of the Ashurst parcel of Standards on Friday our subscribers in that district were deprived of their copies! The omission was no fault of the runners. A native trap came to grief just over the Stoney Creek bridge this morning through the horse shieing at Nelson's coach. The roadway at that and other places is notoriously unsafe, being too narrow and round to pass with safety. Our informant states the accident was not so serious as it might have easily been. A horse and cart, belonging to Mr Ellis James, bolted down Main-street furiously on Saturday, but were stopped in the Square. The youthful driver seemed too small and slight to have charge of a horse and cart, but stuck manfully to his reins, though evidently sensible of the danger he was experiencing. The animal is apparently accustomed to being driven fast—in fact faster than should be allowed. Mr McGregor, Government Inspector of steam engines and machinery s now in the district on his periodical official tour. Mr McDowell had a very choice window display on Saturday evening, which was the admiration of all beholders. It was about the most tastefully set out draper's window we have noticed in Palmerston. Mr Lowes has changed the name of his hotel to the Manawatu Gorge Hotel. It is now a favourite house with travellers, and has been most comfortably fitted up. It is rumoured that some fresh discoveries have been made with regard to the illicit still case, which may, if pushed, compromise the position of certain persons in prominent positions in society. Fifty head of Australian sheep were imported from Sydney by the last steamer. The price paid was 776 dollars 50 cents each. The animals are imported by Mr J. B. Haggin, a large sheep raiser, to improve the Californian breed of sheep. By cable news to-day, we learn that there is a prospect of suspension of friendly relations between Russia and Bulgaria, and that the breach threatens to widen considerably, It is said that Mr A. H. Malcolm is now in Sydney, with the object of floating a banking company for Levuka ! We learn that Mr Gillett's property in the Square has been sold to Mr Beale, who intends to reside there. Mr Wray's new saddler's shop is now nearly out of the contractor's hands, and has about the most imposing front elevation in the Square. It is really a handsome building. The Bon Marche was doing a brisk business in clothing on Saturday night, the news having got abroad through a local in the Standard, that exceptional bargains were obtainable. We understand that the run on the particular article mentioned was quite unprecedented, The Egytian War Diorama was exhibited on Saturday evening to a rather thin house. Honestly we cannot say very much for the merits of the entertainment, or the style pnd pronunciation of the lecturer We notice that the Waipawa County Council are inviting tenders in the Woodville Examiner for metalling the Gorge road. Specifications can be seen at Messrs Monteith and Fountaine's store, Woodville, where tenders can be left. Tenders close at noon to-morrow. The Ready Money Store has re-opened its former branch at Terrace End. It is probable that the Borough Loan proposals will be submitted at next meeting of the Borough Council, on Wednesday week.