Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 2

The authority which has been iilv<n u Offlvial Assiv'iieea tu frank and reo-ivu — free of postage and telegraph, oharga— - letters, parcels, and telegrams oi tlie public service hivs been cancelled, except so far as rentes to telegrams foi« warded to th.o Justice Department, Wellington. Official Assignees will' therefore have to pay postal and telegraphic chafes in the ordinary way, and debit the esute to which such communication relate?. "^ftailwSy tfavelliriatY in Ihdia is cheap.- A correapondenr of the" Southland News nvers that during the Exhibi* tion. period iie^Lravelled - f ronr-B im b»yto Calcutta, a distance of 1540 miles, for JL2 6s Bd, and that a journey of about thirty iniiea by rail in any direction fromjCaN - ciitta can be made for sixpence ! According toan American p^per, Slade, the " Waori," a« he is called, out Who is in reality a half-caste belonginir to S u'h Canterbury, his netted 37,500 dpllars during Ids stay in the United Suteji We understand that Mr Hardcastle, R.M. has seiVt in to the Grovernmont un application for sir^ months' leave 6i absence on the ground of ill-health ; LytteJton can claim to be the model Borough of the Colony. Its general rate. of 9d in the £ includes lighting : and' scavengerin?. Mr Andrew Young left Wellington by the Hawea oh Sunday en route for Englanid, via San Pfapciacj. The steamer Hauroto, which leh for "Sydney uii Saturday, "conveyed 1 43 draugtrt'i '4i0r?03 from Port Chalmers, and 65 from "Lyttelton.for Sydney. ,' TWeAve Ctft'nAuien. also left by the same boat, i ' { The, T^ranaki Herald etatei that Mr Coleman, of Messrs Bail, C.o'exnan, a ,d Co , is coming to New Zealand for! the ,'purpose of introducing th'bir(fefri,'eratinx . machines, aad will shipt mutton (Qjme for jbhaarni. ! -' l^/ ■.' ],':•{ .', : '-ff ! :. t .. Messrs Greenwood & Son, Deritisty; Wanganui, Registered under the Imperial' Colonial Acta.DeptUtry in all its br^nqhes,; Next visit to f alhierston oh Thursday, lOih April, ( Walkley'B Ho.tel.)—^dviL "