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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 38, 12 January 1884, Page 3

Certain of our contemporaries are now seeking <o establish themselves; at Ashurst. We fear the effort has come too late. To-day our Ashurst list numbers forty-one! This is a hard nut to crack. Mr Ellery Gilbert has arrived m Palmerston, and it staying at the Commercial Hotel. Allotment calls m connection with the Butter Factory are due and payable at Mr Mowlem'a office. ; It is scarcely worth while to refer 'further to the matter of. Mr Russell's discourtesy with regard to the Borough Council document. As he aptly remarks: — f'The public now know where the discourtesy caino m, [although we are not surprised, for you' can't make a silk purse out of a 1 sow's ear, nor is it wise to expect a sweep! to be a model of cleanliness.'' ' : It appears that the Woodvllle Pximiiier is precisely m the same fix with ha supplements as we are, owiog to their^nqn-arxi-val. In last Friday's issue is the followv ing paragrnph ;— ' We regret that we are yet unable to present our readers with the illustrated supplement* to be issued with the Examiner on Fridays, these not yet having arrived from Melbourne where the order for printing was given/ A new way of advertising is being adopted by the^Voluntears. _. A. Captain's parade is announced by notices st\ick up here ai«H there. Is thia .the proper way *o ■ make such announcements ? Mr Svenden's late partner has left suci* ' dehly for pastures new. He nave, so we ,ara informed by Mr Svendenji/o intimation that he intended leaving the district, and what ia still ; worae , without the funds to pay his sharH 0f... any. liabilities they may have incurred?.,*.. JIe r w-.P° w - .M 4 ' alone to btf^iil'hia losyj.in a pecuniar^aense. 'Mrs Harvey's school is to reopen on Monday week, the 2lst inst. when the attendance of pupils is requested. The following notice appears on the door of Mie Wellington Atheuseuun. "Jn consequence of the House of liepresenta* tives having reduced the grant m aid hi the Athenseam Free Library from £220 to £50 per annum, the Committee regret to announce that on and after the Ist day of January 1884 the Reading Rooms and Library of the A.t:henteum wiU be close*d to all pei'sbnl. except subscribers. " This is certainly not a step m advance for the Empire City. Mr E, T. Gillon, the manager of the United Press Association, is at present suffering from ' partial 1 loss of voice, the result it is euplpoßed of severe cold. Mr Gillon can scarcely speak above a whisper. , , • • ; ■ The Wellington Evening Post is now erecting its new four-feeder printing machine, received m lieu of the one that went to the bottom of the sea. > The new machine is to be working about the first week m February. ..■'.•.. ' The circulation of , the Standard m Foxton is steadily on the increase. Almost every, week instruciiohs are received from the agent to add to the numlier m the parcel sent down. Symonds, who hsd not the wherewithal to pay the n'ue of 40s inflicted on him by Mr "Waldegrave for drunkenness and bad behaviouc, accompanied Julia McGonagle 'o the W*nganu.i . gaol yesterday. They left Palmerston under the watchful care of Constable Gillespie who did not appear at all proud of his convoy. Several gentleman from Hawke'a Bay have recently been making a holiday tour through the Manawatu and Wanganoi district, and have expressed their surprise at the large extent of splendid country to be seen; but whatseems to hate astonish e4 them most was the contrast between ofh*| cialiam on the different sides of tho Islandl On presenting themselves at a window of ; i6ne of our local offices, they were, gruffly asked " What do you want ?'' v Civility," was the reply, "and two firat»olass tickets for Wanganiii." Both were smokers. As usual there was no stnokiug carriage un.til reaching Halcombe, and the guard forbid them from enjoying their -weeds, until ■a smoking carnage was put on with a, strong biht if they disobeyed his injunction they would be thrust out of the carriage. They observed that; on rio[ other line m the colony ia there to be found Jess ci" vility on more official Bnobbery. : f The Chronicle learns that Mr Soraervilie, Cbdirman of the Wanganui County CouuciJ, wilt have some startling disclosures to make, on his return from Wellington, as to certains letters written to the Government by the Rangitikei County Council pledging the Wanganui County to expenditure and liability, without its knowledge. ,