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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 25, 28 December 1883, Page 3

It is rumoured this that a draper m Georgw Street is' aboiit-removn ing into the premises m the Square recently erected adjoining Mr Whitehead's new premises. Te show vhat a serious matter the preparation of Christmas cards has become,' it may be mentioned that m September the large wholesale houses of London' had tbe' whole of their new designs, for, Christmas, 1885, not only drawn and selected, but m actual course of manufacture. It is necessary to be thus at leasVeifchteen months ahead, m order to keep pace with the growiug demand. The Premier retu.ned to Wellington on Sunday-morniog„ by the daurot<V rfrbto Sydney, his private secretary. Mr Fox,* accompany ing him. Mr Whitaker h,as lletf t S^dnev for Auckland by direct steamer.. The Honi E. : Mitchelson, Minister for. Public Wor.ks, accompanied by hid private secretary, Mi D. Godden, and Mr J. P. Maxwell, General Manager.New Zealand. Railways, left for Auckland m the Takapuna on Sunday. Their ■ absence, will probably extend over three weeks. At the Bale of an restate m South Canterbury the-other day the auctioneer pointed Out that the property wast intersected by good roads, and remarked that; the pro* prietors" had "either been members or chairmen -of the. Koad -Board,(and had made gcps ija'sej b£AtlieUr J- opportunity. Many a true word is spoken m jest. We hear that Mr D'Dea, of Pateaj ia the successful tenderer for tfaeierection of the new convent at New Plymouth. A German newspaper' has compiled statistics-relating to actresses who have succeeded m gaining coronets. The total is not particul irlyencouraging to favori es of the. foot-Ughis, as curing, the last 20 years only one iv every 846 has married a royal .prince,, one m every 512 a duke, one o'utof 200 a cbiint, and' one out of 170 a baron. This list includes hot bnly Germany biit all European countries.; The drought'in the Macquarie district, N.S.W., has caused a teMble destruction of sheep. One squatter carted 10,000 out of the sheds, andhad-th<un burned, besides losing thousands of others he could never get ml The Colac Herald .hears that a gentle* man who recently died near Geelong, and supposed to be *vorth £400,000, made a free gift of,all his property to his!children before his death, and thua avoided a legacy duty of something like:£4o,ooo. In our present issue, room has been made for advertisements recently received from Wanganui. Others from the same place arc still held over., F. H. Crawford, formerly of Palmers* ton, and more recently of Bulls, who has lately been carrying on a brewery business m Manaia has filed his schedule. The weather again this morning was most unseasonable there being a succession of heavy squalls with rain during the fore noon. The season is altogether one nf the most remarkable withiu the memory of tbe oldest inhabitant.