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

The Standard will not be issued on Tuesday, the 22nd mat. that day being the anniversary of the Province of Wellington, and .generally recognised as a public holiday. Among the passengers by tbe Aorangi, was Mr O. Hulke, foruierlyschooluiaaier ni F..-X'i)n. " Will you pay me tha*. account that has been so lonif overdue? 1 ' gently m" quired a long-sufFerine: creditor. li tf, you bother me about paying d«btß, I'll punch yoir head far you,'' waa the reply of the insulted debtor. A Wellington p9per very much regrets to learn that the well-known 1 cture?s on social matters, Madame Lottie .Wilmot,lies m a precarious condition at the house of Mr" Morret, of the.Lower Hutt. The wherabouts of Madame Wilmot was quite unknown to her Wellington frieoda till last evening, when she wrote to a gentleman, m that city informing him that she bad for the past six months suffered the most acute agony, and the last four months she had been confined to her bed. In a most pathetic manner she writes — '' If I have any friends, 1 need them now. lam here, I fear, on. a death* bed." •'■ ■'■■-■•■;: Mr T. S. Hoe has been appointed trustee m the bankruptcy of J.. A. ; Seaton. It is rumouied that an Oranee Lodge will be opened at an early date m Feild* ing. Madame Moller's concert party secured a crowded house at Saneon on Wednesday night.. St. Mary's Church Wanganui will, be honoured by ah episcopal visit on Sunday. Bishop Kedwood, who left New Plymouth and arrived at Hawera on Thursday",; will come into Wanganni io~day by train. ; . The Eveninpr Post states .that during the absebce of Sir James Preridergast, the functions of Chief Justice of New Zealand will be discharged by bis Hotior Judge Johnston. , , V : r ■'. ■ ■ ; The opening of the railway extension . to Pat^a and ' MHiiutahi has not beeu ' altoghter a unmixed boon to Wanganui. Formerly all the wool up the coast as far a? Waverley, and even from places beyond that towiißhip was brought down here for export, but there, has been a marked change this season. .It is estimated that over 1000 brtjes from "Waitotara norlthr wards have been sent to Patea instead; of. to Wanganui, the owners thus effecting a : certain saving m freight and. a considerable saving m wharfage Mr Langbridge, who died suddenly at Auckland to-day, was m 1869-70 editor of the New Zealand Advertiser. In 1873 he Mtarted the Bay of Plenty Times, and m 1875 purchased the Waikato /I'imes from Mr Jones, the present proprietor, of the Oftmaru Mail. The Times he afterwards "sold to its present proprietor. In 1879 he established a news and advertising agency with which he has; been; connected up to the present.