Stock Sales

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 3

Stock Sales

Messrs Steven and Gorton's next f ale nt Palmerston will be held on April 8 The entries at present received are published in our advertising, columns. ! They include beef, mixed cattle, two and two and a-half-yeav-old Hteers,CQWs, : yearling stears and heifers, fat sheep, Ronmey .Marsh vams, aii4 - horses, e \p» ■. ■■ • ...'.■ - ••'- .

Details as to Messrs. Becketjt, Hammond, aud Dick's annual horse fair at York Farm are published in our adyertisiujjColttinns. We notice that 120 horses h aye. already been entered, including stock from Well-known breeders. Thei sale will begin at 11 a. m., and entries will close on the * d,ay : drevious to the; sale. There should be a large attendance on this occasion from all parts of the Coast, i>B- tko horses to b^ offered will be of a class .suitable for^the wants of settlers generally. ■ ;

There are two Oaptains and a staff sergeant of the Salvation Army at present mtircevruntf 1Q Bulls. We hear thnt Mr Mncquarie *nd fftmilj bad ft very pleas mt trip to Melbonrne. they leave for Home direct on the 19th inst, Mr J. G. Wilßon, is already preparing for a contest fur the Foxton s^at, to which he is certain to be returned. At least two of the defeated candidates of last election are going, bo says rumour, to ran Ag&inab him, one of them being uow a resident of Palmers ton. The distress all orer New- South Walei through drought is deplorable. , A fiarce native war is raging among the inland tribes ia New,Guinea. , '.:<- The Foresters' have a spacial m feting: this evenina; to deal with the appointment 6fa.»urgeon. ' . ,-':.-( ■ .i The public are of Meisr,« McDowell's display tb^nightf ; : ' The Rev. Mr Griffith ldaye» Pa' no enton by early ti-ain tomorrow morning for v Auckland via Wan.fHnui. ..._.' The Tui leaves for Wellio^ton, at mid« > night to-day,' ' '' [ '• „ !