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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 64, 14 February 1884, Page 3

We hear that the county cricket match, Rangitikei v. Manawatu, is not likely to lake place until Saturday, March 1. The annual election of Licensing Committee will take place on "Friday the 29th inst. Nominations must be m by Saturday 23rd inst. A letter m the Marton paper commences thus ; -Sir,— 'In your valuable and hion-toned paper of October 23rd of last yelir, you had a kind and sensible leader reminding your agricultural friends of the loss they sustained last season from the defective building of their grain stacks.' This gushing adulation would please the proprietor all to pieces. Ke would go out into the garden, and roll m the crass, and scratch his back against the fence, m an ecstacy of delight. He likes to be rubbed down ' with the hair.' It is stated that for the insertion of a column advertisement for a year, the Chicngo Tribune has received 5,200d01. The New York Herald gets for its lowest priced column B,ooodol,Bnd for its hiabest 13,000d01. The New York Tribune get for ita lowest 5,000d01, and for its highest ]7,000d01. The Ffilding Star notes the fact th*Oa number of people are now visiting the district on the look-out for land. A correspondent of a country paper, m Victoria writes : — ( While 1 whs visiting some farm.", I noticed several of the farmers' wires and daughters out m tbe fields, helping to cart m their crops, and on enquiring the reason I was informed that they were obliged to have them out m the field, otherwise they would not get the crop 3 enrted m before tbe month was out, as it was an impossibility to get a man to help them for love or for money. Over fifty adults have been converted through the instrumentality of the Salivation Army m Bulls. What a shocking wicked little spot it must have been before ! The Fire Brignde beld a hook, ladder, and bucket practice last nighf, about 7 o'clock. The book and ladder carriage was taken to the western side of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's store m Rsingitikeistreer, where the men were drilled by Captain Bentley. After practice the carriage was taken round the Square, and its novel appearance with the ringing bells attached, attracted ciuite a crowd. Mr Thomas Chenery, \T.A., whose death whs recently announced by cable, \va9 well-known as having succeeded the lute Mr Delane ns editor of Tbe Times'. He w«s born m Barb.adoes m 1826, educated at Kton nnd Cambridge, and afterwards called to the bar. He bad a distinguished reputation as an Oriental scholar, and was one of tbe revisers of the authorised version of the Old Testment. He was for niiny years liord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Oxford University. He became editor of The Times m November 1877. W. C. McDermotr, who is alleged to have embezzled Government Insurance money, is a relative of Chief Justice Prendergast.