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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 206, 28 July 1884, Page 3

The matoh Australian Eleven ▼. Sussex was drawn m favor of Sussex. . The next meeting of the Palmerston Borough Council will be on Wednesday •vening, at 7 o'clock. Messrs J. & A. Anderson, contractors, Longburn, are advertising for sale two first class draught horses, steam hoist, and a quantity of contractors plant. . By cable to-day we learn that a conference to consider the question of IralerW federation will shortly be held m London. and the leading members of both he Jiiwril «i} 4 Gpnserntive parties , mre apnounoed their iQteo^Qtttljjpg

Radames h*B been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. Mr J. Dinsdale left to-day for Woodville en route for Wellington and Auckland, m which latter city he contemplates settling down. His many friends m Palmerstou will at all times be glad to hear of his welfare, and we trust yet to see Mr Dinsdale permanently taking up his abode m this district. The shipbuilding industry was never brisker m Wellington than it iB at present (says the Post). Contracts amounting altogether to over £23,000 have been entered into recently, and are now being carried on. Mr Seager has m hand an iron tug boat for Greymouth, and the repairiug of the s.s. Oreti ; Messrs Luke, Sons and Williams are busily engaged on a large steam boat for the Coast trade ; Mr Coffev has received an order for a launch for a resident at Picton; Captain Williams is making arrangements for lengthening the s.s. Grafton, and several hundred pounds are being expended m the execution of ! smaller works than those mentioned. Captain Ted Wright, of the Salvation Army, was fined at the Wanganui K.M. Court for having jumped off the train when m motion. The Chronicle learns that at a meeting held at Bulls on Friday last it was de-cided-to Btart a daily newspaper m that township. An order is to be cabled at once for the plant, and no time will be lost m getting ready for issuing the new journal. Gentlemen whose names have not been disclosed are already under engagement for the literary and mechanical departments. '. From the Post we learn that Mr F. W. Roydhouse, newspaper proprietor, has been charged with having published telegrams supplied by Reuter's Company The*case|was adjourned until Wednesday afternoon. A boy four years of age was killed on Saturday on the Tinakori range by a log rolling over him. The charges preferred against Dr Levinge, of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, have not been sustained. There are a thousand Natives at Parihaka, who have been there since the 17th, and still remain. No speeches have yet been made. The weather last night was boisterous and inclement m the extreme, and the I night before there were some exceedingly violent squalls of wind, hail and rain. A Mrs Collins, residing near Featherston, Bet fire to her house on Saturday, and received such severe burns that she died from the effects. There died m Nelson a few days ago, at the ripe age of 87, a lady who was one of the pioneer settlers of the colony, having arrived m Nelson by the first ship to that port. Mrs Snow was m the early days of that settlement noted for ' her hospitality and kindness to all j | around her, and it is needless to add that she had a host of friends m the i province she has so long resided m. She leaves a number of grown-up sons and daughters. At the official declaration of the Wanganui poll on Saturday, there was no alteration m the numbers. Mr Ballance thanked the electors for his return, and said he would go to Wellington feeling that he had the good feeling of a majority of the electors. The other candidates were not present. The scare created at Kaiwarra on Wednesday by the report that a man resembling a lunatic had been seen m the bush at Mount Misery turns ont says the Post to be a most amusing affair. On the receipt of the intelligence at the Police Station a constable was despatched to Bco'ur the country m the locality m quest of the alleged maniac; and was not long; m discovering that the excitement had .been occasioned through the inability of some children to distinguish between a bouafide madman and a butcher hurrying after a runaway pig. Enquiries made by the officer showed that a member of the porcine tribe had managed to escape from a slaughterhouse m the neighbourhood, and was being pursued by a man holding a knife m his hand when seen by the children.