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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 237, 3 September 1884, Page 3

The floods have been severely felt m irfasterton, and the lives of several families living near the rivers m the neighbourhood have been imperilled. It is rumoured that the Tenui mailman has been drowned. Coach and railway communication near Masterton is entirely .suspended, the town itself also beipg flooded. •We have to acknowledge receipt of complementary ticket for the annual ploughing match and . dinner to take ptyce under the auspices of the Sandon and. Carnarvon Farmers* Club on next Tuesday. 'We/were glad to see Mr Ferguson out to-day for the first time since his illness. He looks considerably shaken. . 'Mr Pbstans.head-mastetof the Marton ichool, died yesterday of tyhoid fever. He leaves a young widow, and child. HU life was insured for £500. ' Ijast night's mails may be looked ' for to-night. It is presumed the rivers on thecoast are all m high flood. The" Chic" Company are announced to; appear m Palmerston on Saturday evening. Their entertainment is Baid to bfcfm excellent one, and is well spoken of .by the presi generally. ; . 'Domino parties are fashionable entertainments m New York, the women but not] the men wearing masks. At one entertainment a young man was flirting desperately with a domino, when to his astonishment, the voice from behind the mask said; " Why, Bobby where did you learn such frightful things." The domino prpved to be his mother.