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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 225, 20 August 1884, Page 3

A meeting of contributors to the Dungan Memorial Fund will be held at the Clarendon Hotel, Palmeratbn North, on Friday 22nd August «t 7.30 p.m.

Mr Asher, of Wellington, is showing a really excellent and choice assortment of curios and fancy goods of every description at Gillett's buildings opposite Leary's, chemist. For particulars wo refer our readers to advertisement appearing m this issue. j The Borough Council will meet this evening at 7 o'clock. : The Australian cricketers commenced a match at Cheltenham on Monday against an eleven of the County < of Gloucester. The Home team went m first, and were all put out for 183. The Australians then went m for their first innings, and scored 176 for the loss of 2 wickets before the stumps were drawn. Murdoch and Scott had then each scored 65 runs, and were playing brilliantly. JThe^Wajrarapa sailed for the Bluff from Melbourne yesterday. - A Miss Agness Benedict is to attempt to swim across the English Channel this month;^ > ■;■ : ' Si* George Whitmore has been sworn i\ as a member of the Executive Council, without portfolio. ■The Kiwitqa Road Board struck a rate of fd m the £ for the current year. iMr Ballance, M.H.R., has resigned his seat m the Wanganui Harbour Board. We have received another consultation advertisement from Sydney, which is held over pending further inquiries as to bona fid^s, of which we have some doubts. The Tarawejra arrived at Sydney yesterday from New Zealand.. - The first m Mr Hoe's new building was driven to-day. We remind our readers of the general meeting of the members of the Racing Club to be held at the Commercial Hotel, to-morrow evening, at 7.30 o'clock. The business comprises election^ of- stewards and office bearers and general. We regret to hear of the death of Mrs John M'lntosh, of the Lower Hutt. Mrs M'lntOsh was a. very dld : settler, haying arrived m Wellington byihe ship George < Fifth m 1842. Breaking a bloodvessel was the immediate cause of death. '„; A native youth named Poroua AmaTtaraka has shot himself at Haotti, near Cambridge. He had been crossed m love. Ho had tied the gnn to a tree, and pulled the trigger with a string.