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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 21, 22 December 1883, Page 3

Some privileges were to be offered at auction' to-day, and the sale had teen advertised m one Palmerston paper, but not m the Standard. "What was the result ? There was but a small attendance, no one knew anything abqufc the privileges, there was no bidding and all were passed m! People will soon begin to notice these facts, and to fiud pu.fc which paper has a genuine and wjiich a sham circulation. Time will telj, and indeed is now telling every day. And this notwithstanding all the blather. skiting, and all the bunkum' that is published, which deceives but few* and those few only once. By last Frisco mail we received copy of a circular dated Dresden October 14, 1883. Thus m a little over two months the circular had left Dresden, been set-up, printed, distributed, and., posted out to New Zealand. Verily, these are the days of quick communicntion. Subscribers and advertisers are informed that the Standard wiU not be issued on Tuesday, being Christmas Day. A nian named Carpendale McKenme, formerly of Palmerston,' but recently of Hastings, near Napier, has filed his schedule. He used to drive a fi.'h | cart and do a little trading of one kind and another. On ThuradAy we received the following cablegram , from the , firm m Sydney through whom our new plant has been ordered, " Your esteemed orders for large imposing surface and hot air engine will receive our very beat attention." The engine is to be of latest design, with all i ho recent improvements, that gained the prize raedaL,at the Berlin aad other Continental exhibitions. . : , : Mr JRedwood/s Sir,€raorge, m charge of itt irainer, Gentry, arrived m the Stormbird yesterday. Sir George is a hot favourite for the Manawatu Handicap on Boxing Day. _ ; At a sale of jewellery this afternoon the vendor goo quite impatient as lot after lot was passed m, his remarks causing those present no little amusement, Finally he ejaculated, " Oh, dash it all, sell some* thing, don't pas? every lot m. I'll smash the lot up if this goes on.' But either buyerß were not there, or they had. no money to speculate with, and the bidding did not improve.