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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 154, 28 May 1884, Page 3

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(%V EtadTTvic TELEGtum- copyright} (rel-teu's telegrams.) Received 2sth; AoSn. fciYDtiEt, fhis Day. New Zealand footballers were accorded a heai'ty reception on landing. They play their first match to-day at Parramatta.

A French industrial society has advocated the suppression of all circular saws, on tho ground that they are wasteful and dangerous to life. We are glad to hear that it is proposed to give a concert shortly, tho proceeds of which are to go towards recompensing Mr Partridge for the serious loss he sustained m the accidental drowning of his cart-horse. No doubt the townspeople will willingly assist m such a commendable proposal, and a full house should be the result. Per next Court day at Palmerston, tomorrow week,there are an immense number of cases down for hearing, and probably when the day arrives, the total will be little short of 200. Several consultations and other new advertisements are unavoidably held over. Tenders for the various properties and businesses advertised by Mr Snelson close on June 10th. Tenders will be received for any one of the lots separately. The full programme appears elsewhere of the sacred concert m aid of the Wesleyan trust fund, to take place m the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening. Mr Cleary, station master, at Feilding, is to be removed to Patea, and Mr Roache, of Patea, exchanges with him. Mr Cleary is deservedly popular m Feilding. A resident of Wanganui has drawn a prize of £370 m Ada Matua's consultation on the Dunedin Birthday Handicap. The Native chief Wahanui was entertain at luncheon at Wanganui yesterday. A billiard-marker at Gisborne has won a £750 prize m Ada Matua's Consultation. A Marton butchery is advertising prime legs of mutton for one shilling each. The Stewards and Committee of the Manawatu Racing Club are requested to meet at the Commercial Hotel tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Some business of an important character is to be discussed at the meeting. The inauguration of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society took place m the Wesleyan Hall, Broad-Street, on Monday night, when the president, the Rev. R. S. Bunn, gave an excellent address, holding the attention of his audience for an hour and a half. He dwelt upon the qualities of patience, perseverance, resolution, determination, punctuality, and abstraction.