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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 126, 23 April 1884, Page 3

Tawwira is an additional entry for the Flying Handicap for the Palmewtop Winter Race Meeting. •.'.,. / l Messrs Stevens and Norton's next sale' at Feilding will be held on April 29. The entries at. present received are published m our advertising ' coluaihs. They inclflde—welUbred weanera, store cows, 2« year steers, mixed cattle, fat wether*,^. i breeding eves, store sheep, horse?, etc. ; A young jockey named Reid sued •Mr Keith at'the Wanganui R.M. Conri ; yes--1 terdrtj, for £11 Is' for wages due fnr rid.ing at, Palmerston last year. Evidence was taken, showing that the boy was claiming remuneration at too high a rate. Judgment waß given fur £5, with costs 19s, and counsel's fee £1 la. About 30 years ago a Canterbury farmer, , while making his way home, disappeared m a very^mysterious manner, and nothing was ever heard of him until a few days a«o, whannn old man named Hubbard, ojer 60 i; yeafß of age,' w'hile lying upon his death*bed, confessed that he and two : othef ; men murdeied him, juried , the murdered map,, and agreed < hat t,be mair w'bovturvLred the other two me,njehould confess the crime. The wbrd 'fast- -is^aß great a contfodii* tion as we have m the language. >;Thk Delaware was fast because the ice was immovable j and .then t ho, ice disappeared fast for the contrary reßsbti — it was loose. A clock is cilled lfasc when it goes quicker than; time, but a man .is told to stand fast when he is desired ib remain -Stationary. ..People fa_Bt when they have nothing to eat'; and eat fast consequently when opportunity offers to eat. It appears that m New South Wales, as m New Zealand, the expenditure &jn national education \s rapidly expaudin^ t,o 'alarming proportions. The'iilinis'ter <if Public Instruction for Kenr South Wales requirjs this year a vote of £845,755, an advance ©f over 20 per cent, upon la^t year's vote. A fourth of the children attend Koman Catholic school!*, and a cod siderable number are taught m private schools, to .which the State contribute.--nothing. The iietual cost per child is about £4 per annum. , ; r - ■ t)r Sinclair arrives to-night at '5.3') He has taken the office lately us d by Mr Warburtou, the Square, where he. ., can be consulted. .'. ' „ To-day being St. Gebrgt's Day the banks were all closed. ' . j A butchers' employe named Prescol,^,-. hung himself-in a water-clo cv ea~ly thisthis morning. He had only recently been I married. Some performers were considerably injured at the;punedin theatre last night, \ through a portion of the stags giting way.' They fell 30. feet. ;:-■■;;_, , -._, t - } { ; ; [ \ Some of- the Atfstralianl cricketers ] l^eached London, and the rest will arrive. ! on" Monday. They will stay irPMretobk;,. Hotel, Convent Garden. ; An additionial ' : match' will be: that with Liverpool, to take place towards the end of June. . '■■ . There was a very larga attendance ,at the PeoDle's Mart tlm atternoon. ' ' '