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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 128, 25 April 1884, Page 3

In the case Woods. v. Loudon m which judgment was reserved by the District Court held here last January, Judye Hardcastle has given judgment through the Clerk of the Court for defendant with costs, court fees 17a ; cdunsel's fee £5 ss ) .witness's expenses £4 84 ; total, £10 10s. Mr Perkins wns solicitor for defendant. A return football malch with the Maoris will be played to«morrow m Mr Fenton's paddock, play commencing at 3 o'clock. The arrangement of both teams will be the same aa last Saturday, F. H. Smith will captain the local team, and Pora Kuro the Maoris. The San Francisco mail closes at the Pairaerston Post Office this evening ft!) a quarter to eittiit'o'olock 1 .

Ta-.!ay is being obsetved as a holiday m Wangatiui. m consequence of the annml gathering of the Caledonian Society. The town of Norwich, m England, has a nuwspaper 170 years old — the Mercury — which was started, or is supposed to have been started, m 1714. From the year 1727 the file m the office of the proprietor is complete. Reprints of the issues m 1727 are being made. There is great discontent on the Railwap worka iit Manutahi (says the Putea Mail) with regard to the Government failing to make progress payments to the contractors. In consequence of this the contractors are unable to pay thai r men, and the men of course cannot settle their accounts with the storekeeper on the worka, Mr Whiitem, we understand, went down to Winganui the other day m reference to the state of affairs, but the result of his mission we have not jet ascertained. ■ . A witness m the Supreme Court at Wel» lington the pthei day, alludin? to his washerwoman, described her as the " lady who did his washing." His Honor Judge Richmond, who was subsequently quea* tioning the witness, alluded to the same lady as the witness 1 washerwoman, but apologised for his slip, and afterwards used the witness' own expression, remark* i ing that nowadays there was no such thing: as a woman — they were all lacies.