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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 3

We "understand the Feilding Jocjfcey ClubJrayeiy«i«atedjMri.B. Leigh toja'ot,, as CJfer&JoJS Settles Ul^fcnejr coming race, meeting. ,:,, We havqtp jacknowlfcdge jthe receipts from ; Messrs Palmeratoo and Scojt, the local agents of tho tfbrthi British and Mercantile Insurance Company^ of a very .splendidly executed lithographic Almanac L-for 1884.' <Tlia dates. ; are moveable, and (he card on which it is printed being oi a convenient size,!,;t.he almanac will be 'handy, ornmental and useful. • ■„ , By telegram from Giaborne, we learn: of the death of Captain , Kenneth Kerr, the recent' ed'ilor of a newspaper cal-jB J .. Facts, published at Giaboine. Captain Ken has had a somewhat chequered' and t exciting; pare©*. Jffe. first . artiy ed m New Zealand aa second .lieutenant of H.M.S. Peloruß, then under the command of Commodore, Seymour, now Lord .Alcester. This: 1 was 1861, V u 9n/ the Mfcpri man was 'Vfiljiiig in Taramiki. The Vessel was lying; ; inactive m the Wellington, Jiarbor while seainenwent to the. front. Her lieusoon becoming tired of mererriu- . 'tinfe duty, left his vessel, «nd tried station 'life m W»iVkrapii. Gettirigwearied of pig-' hunting' and' 1 stock-driving he re-. turned 1 to Erglfthd. where having great, family influence, hU es^ipide was pv6i,v looked, and he ,was >; re-instated m tUe , JEtoyal.N-avy, m which service he remiinecT until be. attained the position of Post Cap- '■ 'tain, i! awßrde!i to him for 'bra^ery m ' ftltacWng the, piratical nissts on tb« Weati Oo&sV -of Africa; !i He 1 tnen returned, tp New and residence m Auckland, Recently he took to ionrna|iam. After .the decease of, the Poverty Bay Standard he started a paper,; called Facts,, of which piper he was pepj^ piietpr and edlCor until teceritly. Thie^JanePougiaa left Wellington -for Foxton at ofie o'clock yesterday afternoon, and experienced a very rough passage lasting over 17 hour?, VL>it arriving ; till G o'clock this aaorning, ■ -■ • ( We (Wanganui ' Chronicle) regret \6 find that Sir .Robert Douglas atill lies ill at Mr C. H. Ashforth's .residence, and that his condition is still such as to excite grave apprehension amongst his friends., Everthing that medical skill and careful nursing on the part of Lidy Douglas can possibly do, is being done for the patient. Aii excellent ' pidcle- of • workm m ship 'has com© uoderour notice, m theabape of a pony phoeton made ,to;^he order ot a, gentleman residing at Terrace End and' executed, we were informed, at llie work- . chop of Mr Stratford, of Rangitikei» street. : The Egmpnt Courier tiontainri the fol* lowing paragraph :— lt is rumoured that MrStandish, policitor, intends contesting ,the , Plymputh seat^ ;witb ;i :^tr T. jE«IIy,!^IJ.R.!, at next general ejection, v >Ve i givo the rumour for what it is worth, but take leave to doubt if. Rumour; is also busy with Mr Samuels' name as a probable , candidate for Parliamentary honouTß. • • ' ! . ! Mrs Wx>lseley, mother of General Lord Wolseley, died ..at Richmond on October ,7 r at the age of eighty twp. The.deceiised f la^y, Ft aricer Antic,' wwass s a dad 4ter of Mr Wilti»w/ ; sniitli',, of Golden Bridge House, county XJnblip, and was born m 1801. She married m J825 Major Garnet Joseph 'Wqlseleyj of; the King's Own Borderers, but was left a widow m 1840. Westerns Australian produces far larger qu pities, of, wheat, barley, and oats than populous oblofly of Queensland,