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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 115, 10 April 1884, Page 2

NOTICE. TO OUft ASHTJRST SUBSCRIBERS. OTJR Collector will visit As-.hurst on Tuesday, 22nd inst. ; when a settlement of all accounts due is requested. STEAM TO WELLINGTON. THE Favorite steamers TUT, HUIA and STORMBIRD, trading regularly between Foxton and Welling- \ ton, leave Foxton as under (weather and other circumstances permitting) — For Freight or Passage apply to JOHN W. LIDDELL, | Agont for the owners. N.B. — Passengers by this line have the option of travelling by way of Wanganui, either by the Storiubird or Huia. D.M. GEORGE Has much pleasure m announcing the arrival by last 'EEISCO- MAIL STEAMEE Of an Exceptionally Choice and Carefully Assorted WINTER STOCK, Now opening up at his Fashionable Warehouse, direct from the LONDON AND CONTINENTAL MARKETS. j FAJJIIIiY MOITRJIXJV&. j Speciality K^IAPOI AND GEELONG- TWEEDS. Millinery;! Drapery ! Clothing! —ALL FIIEbHCOME AND INSPECT. Strangers who have not before visited my Establishment, will please notice the Address — NEXT PUBLIC HALL. AUTUMN AND WINTER SEASON. Window Display Every Evening ■•...■ OF NEW ANJ» FASHIONABLE GOODS AT Maryborough Ho user EENTLEY BEOTHEES, Drapers and^Clotbierts. COME AND SEE. C UMMERCIAL. THE LONDON MARKETS. (by electhlct tblbgbaph. — copstcght.) (beuteb's telegrams.) London, April 7. Tonaols are quoted at 102.} New Zealand securities as follows :— fi per cent. 10-40 loan, 103 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 105 4J per ceut. 1879-1904. loan, 101^ 4 per cent inscribed stock, 101 Bank jate of dincount 3j per cent. Market ratfc of discount 2 percent. The wheat market is quiet. Adelaide, ex store, 43» ' . New Zealand ditto, 35s to 41s Adelaide flour, ex store, 29s Auetraliau tallow — Beat beef, 37s Best mutton. 40s (PUBLISHBD DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1884. JLOCAL, A\fl» ftEWERAIi. » Sentinels of tbe Royal Castle at Ferlin claim to iiKve lately seen the traditional spirit of the ' White Lady ' walking m the corridors of the castle. 'I'he legend is that the spirit of the Countess of Orla- \ nninde appears, warniug the people of the approaching death ot the head of tht> Hobeazollen family. The Auckland Naval Artillery haye challenged the Tsukuba to a twelve-oared cutterra.ee. The challenge baa been accepted, and the Japanese have gone into training. Two grand nieces ; of the late Mr Edward Costly, » residing at Ontario, Canada, send an application by the last 'Frisco mail as to whether they were named m the will which: left his property to Auckland City. The Rev. Stephpn Gladstone draws a larger stipend— more than £7000— from his rectory of Hawarden than his father Mr Gladstone receives as Prime Minister. A fashionable young man had acquired considerable fame as a musical bore on (he violin. One night at a social gathering he announced that he wna going to send for a violin and draw a few of Beethoven's sonatas <>ut of it, as it were. To his umtszemrnt ;>U the gentlemen present ' volunteered to ?o for the fiddle, and up tn date none of them have got back with it. An Irishman, who was very nearsighted, about to fight a duel, insisted that he should stand six paces near to his antagonist than the other did to him, and they were both to fire at the same time. It has been resolved to hold a public meeting at Auckland to celebrate the beginning of the second year's existence of the Auckland University Colledge. The Governor is expected to preside.