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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 29, 3 January 1884, Page 3

The R.M. to-day stated that in future when a claim was under £5 counsel's fee would ,not be allowed except at discretion of Court. Where the amount involved was a larger amount counsel's fee would be in ratio to the amount for which judgment was given not on umount of original claim as had usually boen the practice heretofore. The stewards of the Eacing Club meet this evening' io settle all accoiints in connection with the recent meeting. Mr McDowell is advertising for a smait boy for parcels delivery. Mrs Ross, Broad-street, is advertising for a few respectable boarders. The postponed match, Mr Lloyd's Eleven v. Feilding, is arranged for Saturday* at Feilding, wickets to be pitched at 11 o'clock. Players will go out by the nine o'clock train. The following is Mr Lloyd's team : — Messrs H. J. Lloyd (captain), H. Hussell, E. Charles, Fulton, Baker, G. Lloyd, Macquarie, Pivani, Martin, Turner, and Hopkins. Emergency, W. Lloyd. Messrs Bartholomew, sawmillers, of FeildiDg, are advertising for an engine driver. The election for Borough Councillor Till take place on Monday 14th in«t. not next Saturday as stated in error in yesterday's issue. : Two horses were killed by lightning at Inchclutha, Otago, on New Year's Day. The Phcenix Novelty Company's programme in the Wellington Autumn meeting will be found advertised elsewhere. . The consultation will close at the end cf this month. The weather has again turned wintry, and is very unpropitious for the hay hartvest. Such a remarkable " summer J> is surely almost without a parallel. It is feared that the weather may militate somewhat againsb the success of the Horse Fair, at Bulls, to-duy. which had the day been fine promised to be a great success. We remind our readers that the out j ward 'Frisco mail will close at the Pulaierstoa post office- on Friday evening at a quarter to eight o'clock. We agaiu remind the ratepayers of the public meeting on Friday evening to consider and discuss the terms of the proposed loan of £30,000. By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that the schedule detailing the proposed improve menta may be inspected at the Borough office during office hours, and in the Public Library m the evening. From a Wanganui paper we learn that at the request of a number of settlers in the district of which Okoia is the centre, the use of the newly erected Dairy Factory was granted for a dunce on Mew Year's night. About 30 couples disported themselves merrily on the concrete floor, to excellent music supplied by Air Armstrong, dancing being kept up till daylight. Refreshments were supplied from town by Mr Hicks. The company literally " went home with the milk in the morning/' for about the time the dancers cleared out of the factory the first cans of milk for cheesesmaking were taken in. It is a peculiar fact that the charge on the railway line from Christchurca to Timaru is 44s per ton. From Ly Helton to Timaru 4 further distance, the charge is 18s. A merchant residing at Christchurch could rail goods to Lv Milton at 6s 6d, thence to Timaru for 18, in all 235, or one half what it would coot him to send them the shorter dis'ance from Christchurch to Timaru. The explanation of this anomaly is that the department is competing with water tiaffic from Lytlel'on to Timarou A machine for c impressing sawdust an fhavirgs into small cakes or bales to be used for fuel i< attracting considerable, attention. The iui'l thus made has an ascertained value of 3Jol 25c. per ton, and is manufacturer at a total expense ol 70 cents per ton < n board vessels or cars at place of manufacture. Some ingenious individual has been couiittn^ the di flute articles in on? issue of the .London Tim if, aad has discovered that from one issue might be made up no ltss than eight column?, each one containing nothing hut the little word " the "rcepeated ad fin.