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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 211, 2 August 1884, Page 3

Mr Sly wishes to i exchange a heavy { draught colt for an . upstanding trap horse. The Palnoerston School Committee wili ; meet on Monday next, m tho School, at ' t.30 p.m. Two-thirds of the capital required for ' the erection of a new theatre on the site of the old Opera House, m Wellington, has been subscribed, and acompanj' will at once be formed to undertake the erection. A man named Henry Pratten, hailing from Kaikoura^ had a narrow escape, from drowning m Wellington early yesterday Inbi'uing. While drunk, he fell off the )>feastwork, and was rescued by a constable m a very exhausted condition. jHis logs had become entangled m the . kelp. = . . • ! ; Messrs O'Connor and Scally's tender for tlie Wanganui " Heads Railway has been accepted, and the work is to be proceeded with without, delay. This will bo gratifying news to the public of Wanga nui, and will be accepted, as the beginning of that' prosperity which everyone a.s hopiug for. >\ A debate will take, place at the Young /Men's ..Mutual' lmprovement Class on f^Tdniiay evening at the Wesleyan Schoolhouse, the subject being "the Press and the. Pulpit." Messrs Powell dad Dillon we believe are the champions for the pulpit and: Mr Grace and Master Haybittle for tho Press. A very interesting meeting is looked forward to and there should be a large attendance. During the voyage of the Hauraki from Wellington to Wanganui, on Tuesday night, her mast-head was carried away, and she had to take shelter uuder Kapiti to repair damages. . Tenders are shortly to be called for the Marton water-works undertaking. We have had quite a stream of visitors this week to peruse J. L. Kirkbiide's letter to the Marton paper, which is pasted up m our sanctum among various other literary curiosities. A friend came m yesterday suileriHgfrom a complication of bodily diseases, toothache, lumbago, St. Vitus' dance, neuralgia, dyspepsy, tic-douloureux, carbuncles, impecuniosity, flatulence, a corn on his big toe, and a cast m his eye. We made him read that letter out aloud, and he . laughed till we threatened to put him m a straight jacket if he did not sober down. He-left saying he was cured, and he has told so many that now the stairs are blocked all day long with the halt and the maimed waiting to read the first epistle by John Law Kirkbride. We know a place ou the West Coast where the reading of that letter would just bring the house down.