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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 42, 17 January 1884, Page 3

The tremendous gale of Tuesday night wrought great damage to roofs, chimneys, and ' fences all over the W'angatiu'i.district, though, so far as we (Chronicle) have heard at present, without injury to life or limb. The brick chimney of Mrs Price's hotel at Waverley toppled over, and crashed through the roof, destroying furniture and other property. The-Jn-matea of the hotel had a narrow escape. The Hon. Mr Bryce is now on a brief visit to his home ut ike Brunswick, hay ing arrived there from Wellington at Uk beginning of the week. Tuesday next, being the anniversary of \ the Province of VVe.UiDgton, will be observed as a holiday at the local Banks. V\ c do not know of any special festivities or holiday -making iv Palmerston. At Wellington the great event is the Druids' fete, which this year is to be a big thing. \ Mr John Greenwood, surgeon dentist, i has just returned hume after a six weeks' ' visit to Greyraoulh, where he has not oi.ly renewed, his youth m the htppy scenes of bj"gone years, but (which . is perhaps n good deal better; has dou« a very quod stroke of professional business. During his abspnee from Wanganui, Lia practice was efficiently conducted by his sou and partner, Mr .John Charles Greenwood, 1 who is a duly qualified dentist, and has for some time past been, registered under the Act- ' After the Christmas and New Year holidays, business as a rule is always dull m this colony. But this year business people complain that they etinuofc remember a similar period of depression that now exists. A gentleman whose line of trade affords him an excellent opportum y of discerning the monetary state of affairs, estimates that during last year from £12,000 to £15,000 was expended by settlers m bushfalling and farm improvements around this district, while this season, not more than £30U0 or £4000 at the moat has been spent. Whether this is mainly due to the extraordinary weather experienced throughout all parts of the colony, or to the tightness of the money market, he cannot prof ess to determine. The State School will reopen on Wed* nesday next the 23rd inst. Mr Rochefort, the Government Surveyor, whose trip through the country inland from Wanganui and through the centre of the King Country hus attracted so much Btteution recently, arrived m Palmerston yesterday. He states that | the country tnrough which he passed was mainly of a good agricultural and pastoral nature. Although some parts were very rough, yet not near so rugged as he had experienced m the Middle Island, esspecially on the West Coast, la the very interior of the North Island he found that civilisation amongst the tribes was rapidly extending, and that the generation now springing up more readily understand the powers of the . British, race than their progenitors He believes there will be little or no difficulty m making the railway from Waikato to this part of tho colony, although it is possible there will be as usual some native bounce and puerile threats.