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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 97, 20 March 1884, Page 3

The order applied for by Mrs Staite,i against AY, S. Staite, yesterday, was not a 'protection 1 order, but prohibition.. After hearing evidence, the Bench det /cided to! grant the order forbidding the ' publicans m Feilding, Halcotnbe, and Awahuri to supply liquor to defendant for the ppace of 12 months. Defendant gave . notice of appeal under tbe 220 th Clause bt the Justices of the Peice Act. ' A.woroan who bad been " married " to "'■&' creature of her own sex, and had lived with him for 23 years, never disclosed her secret until his death. A Wnirarapa paper considers that tbe Ministry will make a groat fuss;,for a littlti tihie'about economy nn'd reform, to serve a purpose. Then , things will turn (J to the Old y«my and the friends Hud sycophants : nf Ministers will" have highly paid new billets created for them, ■ jusfc m the evil, corrupt, and jobbing style of the past' ■'.<.:,. Another batcU of Justices of the Peace has been gazetted (says a Southern pVpef). They »re getting as plentiful as blackberriesj and' we would caution littie boys not ta throw stones, for if they do they will be almost sure to crack the head, of a: J.P. This. • applied more suitably to places outside of the Taieri, for m this favoured district justices of the P* ace are few and far between. By our commercial news by cable"' it will bo seen tbe market rate of discount m the London market haa further fallen to 2$ per cent. It is prqbably ; that a match will be arranged between Hearn, of Wellington, and Hanlon. . Tae ioooflaotive for the Wanganui Heads Railway has been landed m Wan* ■ , gnnui. Over 1000 kegs of butter were shipped ■ to Sydney by the Rotomahana, from Auckland. - , Wanganui is proceeding most enthusiastically to test tbe Tuhua gold field. Amongst the horses shipped from Wanganui last night for the Nelson races *c:o Mr Biggie's Dusk, and Mr Wratt's :flinemoa. The Alexandra Cavalry troop will attend the Easter Encampment at Wellington. Tbe^iwiU start from Wanganui on Tues« day, Bth April. The natives who assembled at Parihnka for the monthly meeting on Monday last Are making arrangements for dispersing iaeain. In consequence of the increase m the railway passenger tariff, it is proposed to run a coach between Kaiapoi and Clfiistchurch, at a return fare of 3?, m oppoßition to the iron hors>\ Mißisrs DaWgety nij-i Co,, of Dunedin, have recehed 'a cable message to the effect that the s.s. Bombay arrived at Itio on the 16th inst. Her mutton was iv prime condition. : .•■••' To the great joy of the residents of North Street, tho. Borough is about to do some milch-needed metalling, for the want of which last winter the street was literally impassable. Miss Keeling left to-day en route for the 'Home Country travelling by the Lfidy Jucelyn. Ibe young lady intends completing her education m England, We wish hern pleasant voyage, i Thelßorough finances are found to be m a more satisfactory condition than was anticipated) and with care and economy the. Borough will be able to pull through it's diiiiculties and still keep moring. We are requested to state that the letter fra/n the Public Works Department which appeared m yesterday's issue of our contemporary was qoj; handed to it for publication, and wa3 not intended for publication, u» it. had not yet been before the Council. The letter m question, it appears, was left inadvertency hy tbe clerk m tho Times office, when thereon rate collecting business. The Mayor ssiyit is never the custom to publi h Borough Council correspondence iv the public press., before it hate been submitted to, and dealt with by the Municipal body. Mr Snelson had a fair sale yesterday, and a considerable number of articles were sold und'.r the hammer at satisfactory pricei, Attention is directed to the advertisement over^ tbe leader from Mr D. M, George's drapery and clothing establishment, which has repenlly been consider* . ably added to, to make provision for a rapidly increasing trade.