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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 56, 5 February 1884, Page 3

The London Chartered "Bank of Ana? , tratasia whioh has lost £90,000 by the recent -^defalcation's was incorporated by f,oyal Charter m 1852. The capital is 1,000,000 m fully paid shares of £20. It has had; a reserve, fund of £120,000, and tias generally paid dividends of 8 and 9 per cent. j ■. We are glad to see the crops m the Lower Rftngitikei District looking fairly well, notwithstanding the recent adverabweather. Mr D. Fraser feared his crop would never come to anything, but last week it ripened splendidly, and reaping was *to be started to-day. It is to be hoped it and the other crops m the district will be saved. Some of them are very heavy. ■;r/ A meeting of all persons interested m .the Queen's Birthday .Race Meeting is convened for Thursday next a\. the Commercial Hotel at 8 p.m. The business to be transacted comprises election of stewards and office bearers, &c, &c. Mr Coombs has just returned fro^i Wtipukuj-au where he purchased (m, con> junction •'with Captain Hewitt's manage?) a large" flock of sheep which are now dnthe road to Manawatu. He describesjthe ■feed m the district through which he travelled as moat abundant, 7 I The Palm^rston School Committee inyife,applications for the position of pupil teacher. ; : fV'The poll for the works on No. 4 Line, "PitzHerbert; under the roads and Bridges Construction. Act, was taken yesterday, and resulted iii favour of the proposal. ; The Bon Marche announce a great un* ..reserved sale of stock at and under eojat 'price; to extend for twenty.one days only. The great features are no reserve, genuine bargains, and clearing prices. The first sitting m Christchurch for the purpose of taking examinations under tfye Bankruptcy Act was held on tbe'3oth ulti Mr JusticeJJohnston presided and moot of the debitors came ihrdugh the ordeal satisfactorily, tp themselves. '. Mr Graham, the official assignee m bankruptcy, after receiving. number of applications, and going thoroughly info them, has appointed Mr Notman his deputy m Wanganui. • \ . Mr Gill, Government Land purchase Commissioner, and Dr.: BulJer, who [is professionally concerned for Reoata 'Kawepo, of Hawke'a Bay (the latest claimant to the land), were passengers by train to Marton last night, overland from Wellington.' It is understood that the division of the purchase "money of the Qt;amaka,pua Block, of 90,000 acres, will take place to-day or to-morrow. The amount to be divided is, (we understand, about £45,000.'' . An addition of 40 fat sheep, has been made to the catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale afc the Borough' Yards . on Tuesday. 1 ■ • ■ . : 1 At Mr Sholson's sale of Mr Gunder" grn's effects there will be sold under warrant Of ( distress two cases of- ney; chairs. ; :■ ■.■.-. ■ •. ; '•Mr Cralvin, of the Egmont Courier, was a visitor to Polmerston to-day. He' has been having a holiday. 1 And. has also been on business to J^UpieK., The proceedings at the annual meeting, of. the Dairy Factory convened for yesterday afternoon lapsed through wapt of a quorum, the required number of {twenty •shareholders not being m It 1 further transpired' that to render the pro 1 ' ceedings legal, (notice should have been §edt to each individual shSreholder, whichi. had not been done. The annual meeting will therefore, we presume, have to be postponed to a future date to allow of the necereary f >imalities being conformed to.