Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 58, 7 February 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

tk We -^quetted to atate that Mrs Harvey doea not intend opening a dancing class. ' -' • The Ejjmont Courier has the following: From a private ]etter received frotn Eawbia, we hear that the buyers of iectiona at the recent sale have already com* raenced building operarions. During the last week three steamers visited the harbor, bringing limber, &c. Messrs Lang" ley Bros., it is understood, contemplate erecting a hotel to cost about £2000The amarte'st 'shearer on the Bflrcoo is, according to the Egmont Courier, 'stated to be Chrjsty Gretz, an Australian native, who eased U^< 0 s,heep of t(,e r floeces m ' 100 days' work on onp atationj and on another occasion shore 105 sheep m eight hours, tbe shearing being very highly spoken of by managers as being clean as well os rapid. At a prpdjtora' meeting m Dunedin the Offtcittl Assignee eai4 that a ttreat deal of trouble had arisen, through a misunderstanding as to the form of proof of debt required under the new Act. Fresu forms were necessary, , There were two separate forms ;* one -for a firm or oom>« pany, and the other for an individual creditor." It would save a great deal of trouble if people would supply themselves with the proper form. A Southland resident now on a visit to Scotland has, of course, carried with him

aooie of those customs peculiar to colonial life, among others that of lighting matches on his nether garments. He happened to. put his free-and-easy mode of striking a Httht m practice m presence of a youthful denizen of the secluded vale of Eddies' ton, m Perthshire, and whs> no don atvastly amused when tRo boy'exclaimed— !' Kh ! See till the man wi' ths electric breaks." According to a North If land. conteju>, por«ry,. thf Goreninieht ; h»B{only'^E7o,doo available for distribution under th-; 'Jioad.l aud Bcjd^ea Construction, Act.'^ As thii sum will bo divided pro ratn, there will be a terrible anting down m the amounts applied for _ o'«jugh», Colds, SnU* BronchUie,' <fe(T., are . quiokly cur^ti by usin^ Baxtor'a " Lunpr Preserver." This old-esiablish^d modicine is pleaKa"t'to the palite, an<l highly ftxtolled by tnuniber? of tlie medical &hd clerical profession. Tlond .advertisement. Indigeiition and Liv«r Oomplnints. — PJor 'hew compliiinl'j Hixjer'ji Compound Q-iinine PilU luve provod a specific, act* ing powerfully on tho livur And mildly onthe stomxoli. Sold everywhere, or pO/st free from J; Baxter, Cbristchurch, for 19 or 4 . " :"i ;•"! j Painless Dentistrj-^Mr Greeblwdod. Surgeon Dcntint.will visit Pulrterst^n;pfijifgursday, 15th of Febrnary, M^GreeJ^wspd^illbriug bis nitrous oxide gas appuratui with hiar for painless extraction. — (ADvr.)