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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 92, 13 March 1884, Page 3

i A ! freehold m Mairi»street, consisting of section and cottage ia advertised for sale, A general meeting of the Palmers ton Football Olub is convened for Saturday evening at Walkley's CpmmerciaJ Hotel, '■ The Marlon branch of the Blue Ribbon Alliance have passed the following resolution, vj.z-V That this meeting 'request: the Licensing Committee not, to grant licenses to extend over JO o'clock at ... nighf, or to grant any permits to any person during the next year." .; The Wanganui Heads Railway looks at. lasV like coming to something definite,' and a local paper anticipates a speedy clearance of all the difficulties which have besetthe path of the directors; '>'- ■' ; Sixty-seven medium and heavy draught horses have been shipped from Christchurch for Sydney by the Wakatipu. Tbe Wellington Harbour Board haa resolved to immediately carry- out Bell's plan for the- ocean steamer wharf, and> certajn portions of replamtion and dredg- j ing recommended by himj ,a»)d- ; jil§Q, to Queen's wharf.

At lias iJiiiieiiin Wa*ie l^uii L>-m/ii moctinfr an opinion \va^ n-ni-ivcl fimn the Crown Solicitor to the efix-ct thai tlie Becond highest bidder for a section ciiunot be declared the purchaser when the license issued to the highest bidder hia been forfeited. The Board decided to forward the opinion to the Minister of Lands. It was expected thnt the Kennedy family would visit Palmerston. Many of of our readers will regret to learn that theso talented vocalists will not 'show' m any of the country towns. From Wanguuui they proceed direct to NApier. We learn that Mr Wordsworth has sold hia farm to Captain Brown. The Terrace School ha 9 not yet been inaugurated, but will be established before long. It is probable that if the attendance justifies it, the new school on the Board's ground will be built shortly. The Wellington Woolen Factory have secured a site of eleven acres for a factory at Petone, six miles from townThe banquet m the honour , of the recent success of the Wanganui- "Volunteer representatives at the firing competition iv Auckland will be held this evening, anj is expected to be a great success. •Several very eligible medical men, with high diplomas and certificate?, are now m communication m reference to takin/ up their residence iv Palinera'on. The difficulty will be to make a phoice, all be* ing so anxious to come, and all being 80 well recommended. The dueofc sfeiojers give wonderfully rapid results m the conveyance of good.-. An order was sent Home m January from the Standakd for a shipment of 200 reams of paper, and the iudent is now m New Zealand, being m the Florida, we were advised last night. The order was by cable, according to a pre-arranged code. Had tha goods been sent by sail" ing ship, they would not have been to hand for weeks to come . Mr Micainh Reid, of Wellington, is now on a visit to Palmerston.. .The inteiim agricultural statistics of Victoria show the yield to date to have been thirteen million bushels, an average of fourteen bushels per acre.