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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 3

Some idea of tlje fii'q^ hold which the Anc'ieht ' 'Order, of Foresters has obtained m Wanganui may. I % gathered from the fact that 79 members of ihe brder injjjrelied' ( ".m. (> I the. latfyMi^ J. ~W. Robinson's funeral procession at Wanganui ye9tprilny;T( ; — - i'iV, : -' There will be three direct service Bteamertogptfaeriiu WeiHngionliarbour next month, viz., the -Rnapehu, Doric, and Bombay. , p ••'«.; , ' ,J$ the meeting of the Auckland Society foi. the ; Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 4udge Munrd i asked if the society liacl an, agent at Rotorna, as the natives there had the hprrible 'custom of throwing live animals, and particularly hogs into the; boiHng'spriugß. - ; Ai paraßol has been left at St an dak d Office, i ; :Will owcer please 1 call and ciaim |t.. I IV : -ft »..■....■:■ _;-■♦ • _ recently out from London informi ajt) exchange that, a friend bf bis, a nj9rchant, : advertised for a clerk at a sailarj of.^ £1 a.jwejek. rilo one 'day the adTeVtwe^rteceived^O^npplicationp,..:.; We 'learn tjhat ,.^easra .Fgrguston andu Monrad purpose .paying, \ he : : Ofeqia^iryi ; Factory* ' a ' visit at an. early aatfy ,w|th a yiewlo rnhke themselves fairiijiar jWith i, i>i working abd- iniWnal^ arranfeeno^n^.':" We trust ilheir visi^ Will 1 be both 1 plea'saufr and profltrtble. ■ : ; , Mr Li.n.ton.ftt;ain left for Wellington!today. »■,/!/• ;- '-• ,-j V\;': \l /. ••J The Brst antounl general nieetiga pE th,e ■harehoMeid l 6f J the' Daii'y Factofy Conii pany will be hold-oii Monday next al 3 p.ta. ia. nbvelty ' m ' the " x of cricket matches is .to come off 6rt. Wednesday afternoon, at Cook's Ganlens, Vangamii. The contending knights of tha willow

will be, on the one hand, the brewers and publicans combined, and on the other tbe butchers. Th« representatives of the iiquor trade are to play with an empty bottle m; each ajun's belt, and ihe butchers 1 are to take the field m full uniform. The inner mm is not to be for- . go.ten, mid,the butchors are .to.-prrfvid.e-' thesaadwic&es aud their'ogjpqnenis the beer: A telegram m a Sydney paper says ; — .Experimental shipments of- salmon ova are to be made to New-Zealand by the ships Ruapehu and Florida, which sail m Junuary. *-; • • ■'■ -: In the course.of an address on Anne'XiU lion and Federation, ftt Auckland, the Hon. Mr Whitnker said that,'as to the 1 annexation of New Oxuinea, he believed it would be an accooopliahed fact within six months. ■; ;;