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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 49, 26 January 1884, Page 3

The Times appears to doubtwhether Mr denied agreeing to,, endorse letter approving of certain ward bounduriesl Why, Mr Snelson has told half-a-dozen people that the statement m the Times was an absolute untruth, m fact "an outrageous falsehood." It was very wrong 1 indeed of the Times to make such a wilful mis-statement. We are sorry to hear that Miss Mat-kin, assistant teacher afc the Public School,, is m a very precarious state of heal tli, and the services of Dr Haijyey had to be called into requisition,, at a late hour l»u»t night. His treatment .was successful m considerably diminishing the dangerous sj'mptoras which accompanied the attack 'by which Miss Mackin; was prostrated. . . Advertisements from Dr Sindair and Boaz,. with other announcements from Auckland, Wellington,' and other parts of the Colony will appear next itaek. With a view to facilitate the r pei'ations of the Hai-boi Trust, it is in-, tended' to exteud' Plinders^s^reel to the Melbourne" Gakwotk's*. ."'..■ The postmasterinforms us th^tt owing to the sailing- of the Aorangi ha<vi'ng been altered, correspondence for England ip be deKpal.cbed by her ; ca.n : be posted here up to t.45 p.m;on Mo.uday, . Ou't?^ contomjwrary asserts that our recent articles on the- BoroaghWatds question ." consisted menely of abuse' of Messrs Milverton and Abrahams." We challenge' him to reproduce a single word of, abu.se m any of them. 1 But really as no. one seems to pay the slightest attention to what appears m that paper, it is hardly vor-fch while contradicting its' falsehoods. Besides, it is unpleasant and becomes monotonous proving a paper guilty of deliberate faKsiiication of facts lime after timei The Rev. 'Mr Wright is to preacT^ a special sermon to the young io-morrow, m the Presbyterian Church.' ' A.coriespondent asks, ( ' Whether; or not there was not a paragraph m the Times a abort, time agOj'-asking w.hat had become of the Wards .Petition 1 Was this a blind,; or is this - the para:, igvaph Mr Milvt-rtou spoke of ?" j We learn that: an analysis of the vothjgv for the Borough Loan proves that the majority m favour were small holders, the opposition being representativesi of absentees. -.•..• We are sorry to learn th;»t Mr Lowater, formerly. ofj?a!nierston, ia serioaalr illi<> Wellington, rand .his ; recovery is scarcely •expected. • ;.'.-. ,■■■.:> Two- five-shilling pieces were found on the person of, a man who w.as recently "nrrestecl for some offence m London. 'Che coins were hollowed out, nod m eaoh hollo nr waa a mirror, and, while they vyere lying on the table at an angle of forfy'five decrees behind a stack of coin mi fronH of the dealai', he could see every card held by bia opponent?. i: . r., Vi Oman, with doc -jumping after, to Profeisor, owner of the animfcp—' p p r Heaven's sake, man, call your dogoff^or ho will upaetme*' Profeßßor,"SttSiKng"6n one f<)ot and scratching his head^f.Qne. minute madam, one minute; (to. himself ) as soon aa I can remember the infernal . brute'B name.' The; Auckland Sta* stated ithat oh •Saturday last Mr |Vereker Bindpp, the newlyHrtppoirited Inspector of schools for the Wanganui Education District was progeising rather slowly^ towards recdvery, Mr Bindon ia fluff erinp from inflarriination I of the lunga.. ;...•; % ■••■ ;»vi . A certain: ;tobacconist wiio •joined : th'e ; army, ' Said to a customer, : *':l have 'just been converted, ?o when you want a cigar on Sunday you' muafc'cohie round to the backdoor." s - At the Auckland police court a charge for selling liquor on Sunday, w»s dismissed, the man obtaining the" liquor having passed himself off as a bona fide traveller; It may be as-well for the public to know that any person passing himself off aa a b'ona fide tra,veller without that being the case, is liable to Be prosecuted under the 157 th clause of the Li«en3\ng Act, and rendering himself liable to the infiic« of a.penaltj ..of £5- Sergent White in* t>m ( ated on Saturday that m tutureiper' sons gnilty of this offence would be vigorously prosecured. . A Yorksliiroraan, whose .well oaved m, contrived to make the authorities suspect that he had murdered # a rsau and put his body at the bottom of the- well, .and took things easy at the jail while'th^y dug his well oufc for him. Bets" now suing the town for faUft imprisonment; i' rThe Dunodin Herald says : of -»^ EWakp^ild ;— ' He i§ ps regardless ot truth as any public man we ever knew.* People reading this, and suspecting that.ithe writey ii Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.R., will Buake their heads.