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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3

The Palmeretoh Volunteer uniform ar« mcd to-day from WeHißgtonjhaving: been broußht to. New:. Zealand :S>y the steamship British Queen, on her last trip from Home. The' tunics are red with bltfe helmets .and' trousers. The cost of the officers artiform is about £14 and ttiafc. of the privates £2 3s Bd. A paride WiH-jbe oalled for on Monday next. In their new unifewn-our Volunteer* will' hay* a irue martial and' gay appearance. Three week ago . (says, the, Wanganui Chronicle} neatly' everybody' in Wangnoui wos complaining 'bitterly of the cold ,w.eathejv and, diners $f gardens were much vexed m spirit by. , nightly frosts, yesterday,, morning the ]Dheraiometer stood at 90j and the doctors are rubbing their L "hftndt at 1 the prospect of cases of -sunstroke, -■■■''->■ ■'■' L '-' u ■-■ v "- : - ' ' • A. nasty accident happened to one of JdAjaatton'B phildm^^atepday^—ghe little "fellow" while playing with another oflildpiliout hiaoowJi : age r ' received a^aih m ope of h« fingers fr.om a pick, The oat J *»J) StfW&e 1 <thit # ty**- "ttnd necessary to hare the. arouud lewn up by a medical gentle.ra'ei!^ ]p - > ■ -The.^FifO Brigad-e-dtd—nofr^bold — their annual monthly^ meeting Jast night, but it is expend ' thfe^Brigallb wi|l turn oat for practice r wrth t -tUeir v- ai)fHHtioes oom» plete m the course~of~a day or two. ■By advertisement elsewhereyHjji Wfli be seen. that Madame ;Mollep's Operatic and Ballad Company will open m Palmerston m the Forester's Hall on the evening of the 14th instant: Madame Moller has the repiitationof -being one of the best musicians m the colony. She is accompanied by ijlisil Mbller", (soprano), Mr fEllery Gilbert. ,(t,enor), and Mr ( Gray (bari* PW\i "-^ ■■■' ■'••- •■:■ ;, We .aunderatand that G. F. Eoe, fprmeriy [proprietor of ../the Temperance Hotel intend^ shortly paying the Kawhia Harbor distiio6 a visit, with a view of settling 1 there. '' ■''■■> -The Premier (Major Atkinson) passed through Palmerston iir the train last eve* uiugj bnl his way to the seat of Go^einjnent.^tHe,looked ettremely carewgrn 1 and anxious. Possibly the great, deficit m the'reyenue, troubles him. He left Fox« ton by boach this mominu; * • The police have laid an information Againsi the licensee of one of > tho Wanj?-, anui'Jiotelß, on a charge; of -supplying a drunken man with liquor. The oaae will -come before Mr Ward, ( 8,M., on Saturday next. ■-,',.: ' To '■b© Editor :-— Sir : I hear ratepayers I remark fhat bur population is too small for" a- water supply, or a sewerajie scheme, • ihat Wellington did'-tiot hate water worksj until' her population was double that of Palmerston, Auckland the same,'. N«pier; and. other places ditto. This is perfectly true! Bujpmark the result-. It was not until WelliiiKtou was rudely awaken from her lethargy, by " typhoid fever,. which madV homes desblate, that Wellirigtonians asritated for pure wnter an 4 good sewerage. The people of Auckland wepe forced to haw a water gapply when the heane was, the moat \ . fashionable vehicle seen tjtvellipftithe sheetc, and the inhabitants oj,ii,apier took up the question of sewer* 'age when tfieir township became known as a pest-ridden spot. Do these intelligent ratepayers desire to wait until Palmerston obtains such » name P — l am, Ac, Sigma. A gentleman who retired from business m Wauganui some few months ago, and who has since (says the Chronicle; occupied bis time m getting m book debts to the extent cf about £600, classifies the ability or disposition of his customers to pay, m this wise. He finds that the total on the books resolved itself into- four nearly equal parts. Class A paid 20d m the pound. Class B paid from 10a to 12i . 6d, though the. persuasive screw had to be put on to a considerable extent. ' Class 0 is just being operated on by our friend at the preeenjt time, apd be will he intensely surprised if it realises an average of more than 5s m the pbudd all round As for olasa D, he mournfullj, confesses that It will not pay the. cost of collection, and that. all the ". bits of .blue gaper," and all .xhe small Pouf^a |ft the polony would be of no avail, except to pjovide pastime for idle houre. t