Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 62, 12 February 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notice ia eiven elsewhere that rates due to the Oroua County Council muat be paid forthwith, and diJieji are appointed at the various places when the collector will "be ia attendance, after which legal proceedings will be taken without respect of perfloop, as all liabilities to the Manal watu County Couucil muat be paid oil before can take place.. '

, Still further additions are-made to the Annual Rain Fair, on toe 19tb, and the Awahuri stock 9ale on Friday. ■

Mr Greenwood, deritiat, will paj hie next profeeeional visit to Palmeraton on Thureaay, and may be consulted at Walkley'e Commercial Hotel. A' Wellington paper has tKo following : —Odd rumours of extensive and clever forgen e« have been in circulation these few daysr. Names have been mentioned in most circumstantial manner. We hope these ominous rnmours are incorrect, but if there, are KrQ.unde.for them we also hope the matter will be thoroughly sifted. A wholesale forgnr ia aa dangerous to society as a wholesale poisoner.

It i« § rewarVable thiaf. eaye the European _ Mail, notwithstandins: the 'rush which has been mude to Canada lately, and the quiet manner in which emigration to Australasia hia been conn ducted—so quiet that the southern colonies seoraed almost to have passed into the ' cold shade of neglect'—that the re» turns o? emigrants tq AMatraJaeia show a large inpreaae, putting into one scale the diaadvant&ge of the lengthened yoyage to Australia, this faot prove?, on the other hand, the permanent position which the rapidly progressing colonies of the Pacific- have made for themselves in the minds of the public '

The Christchurch Exhibition building was put up to auction- oq Saturday; on account of Mr Gas*, the'con tractor erection, . but the sale was a complete failure. For the whole building, "00f;t long by Sift wide, of wood, 'and'sprint, i'3so was offered and refueed. 6Q(t of it was sold for L3l ss. It will be dismantled and the nißterials .soldi

Ppder th.c pew B.a»kruptoy Apt the Court may order that the bankrupt should not be entitled to his discharge until there shall havejbeen paid out of the estate, during the continuance of bank* ruptcy and thereafter, dividends or a composition in such sum in the pound aa the Court may fix, or until eecurity has been found, to the satisfaction of the creditor, for the payment thereof.

The following marvellous escape is narrated in a recent issue of the Liverpool (N. 5... W.) Herald ; A man was leisurely crossing tjie viaduct near the paper mill, when the goode«train came at a rattling pace. Aβ he saw no chance by running or jumping, her threw him, self down between the rails and allowed the engine and trucks to run over him. Aβ Boon as the lest van passed fee up an 4 wayed his hat fp a' number pf ladjee who witnessed tbe affair and who ■•reaped lustily all toe time.

An intersting paper on the Antiqui'y of Manwar read before the Wanganui Fie thought Asaociittion on Sunday. The conclusion arrived as was that mnn has been on the earth in a state cf society or serai-civilisation for at least 30,000 years, while the evidence goes to show that he has leftjtraces of hid existence which go back hundreds of thousands of yean. It was announced that Mrs Moore, who delivered an eloquent lecture some few weeks ago on Woman's- Influent, will lecture next Sunday on Spiritualism.

The .railway employes buted among themselves the sum of £200 in aid of the widow of the poor fellow Wilson, who was killed by a fall of earth near Patea. This is a very creditable result.

The state of the Normanby natives (say.s the Herald) seems to be exceptionally hard, their reuts were due in July last, and as yet they have rfiot-re-ceived them. In pastjears the£ had a large revenue^comii^g & from i cocksfoot seed, (in fact they usually made over, £3000 in a eeasoni from this source), and this'year' their,'lai»'ds are leased out to settlors, who are deriving the benefit of the cocksfoot while the natives do not, even receive their reaK

Details has been received of a terrible crime committed near Jackson , , Michigan, where four person?, living in a farm-house, were found murdered. The victims'were chloroformed and then shot, one woman, who made a desperate struggle, being shot six times.

A test of mijk sold by a wholesale dairyman in London, recently, showed the fluid to be adulterated with 27, per cent of water. He was arrested and given the alternative of paying a fine, of £10 and costs or going to gaol for a month. He paid up.

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