SECOND EDITION

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

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(united press association.) ,' Chri^tchtjbch, Janufiry 18.! The Tarawera startVo^'j?ev second excursion Tomorrow; , Eighty .passengers have already been booked. A small comet wan seen here on W.e^nesplay. evening, due west, at about 8.80. .Ib.was not visible to the naked eye. The tail was scarcely perceptible. The-Moorhouse Memorial' Committee t >u sfcillhv-anfc' <£100 before the order for the statue can iVe sent Home, and have . withdrawn the limit of five guineas foi* subscription^. : : \ : The Salvation Army . will make Christchurch their head-quarters. '" . ' ' DuNEDiNy . January 18. The Tarawera returned from her excursion trip to the" West Coast Sounds this morning.. The weather 1 was all ..J&at could, fee wished;. The tojas of the mountains iw^ie sometime? enveloped m clouds, : but the trip was very enjoy^, able, and not marred by any accident! The weather here .to-day has been quite wintry. ' A very heavy sea is iinnv ning outside from the'southmrcl^ \ , vjii,. •,.-:.•:■ Auckland, January 18. v' ! The. report on the scholarships examination was read at the meeting- of $leL/ißbafd of Education. , There were 147 candidates against 186 Jast year. Twrelre district scholarships were offered ,_fox competition. There were 33 candidates qualified, for. scholarships and certificates. - >x ■' ■'■'••■• At the sitting of tbe Eree Methodist: Church Assembly -An amendment of the Rev. Mr Baxter, That thet Assemicblyr<sould not recommend to : their "rinial Church the a'dbplion "of a, basis. of i union without the ' apprbbatjon of the i Horne 1 atifchdrities, J was rejected by •1 3 ■ tO 4. , , ' . . ' :,-■■' ■■ At a last night it was de-< cided to form ( a ' Christian s Evidenc^ , Society, to Circulate the best literature 1 , Jani i; prbvide lectures on evidences, in^ £ivour of the Christian religion. \ There is a- ship m the Gulf, believed to be the Opawa, from London. '' ' •• ''"V WELMirGTON,. January 18. •\ JIJ Mr J 'SJio"ddart, of Hampden, an Otago : -iettier) : whp i Las returbod ■.by. the ft^o^rig|, brought; out with him 100,000 'litJbh "LeVeh" trout, ova. .;The iboxes Lave been opened here and it is found 3 Hktit portion are dead, some apparently haying been impregnated, TKlb ova m one box, however, is m fairly gq^d^ condition and will b 4 B %rWarded to OtagOjbyjfchß.Te Anau oii Monday j The Loch Leye,n trout ova received "by the AorangiTof the Otago Acclimat tisation Society~ii i "a present ?from Sir t jJAme^JH^itland^BWrt., of Stirling. ' .' ■ pPhis^is-^a (joi'rection of telegrams received' yesterday, /tfhich we .read as if liflie: figltres represented money, for in--vestment.] ' J : ..' '. .'/,., i '