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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 243, 10 September 1884, Page 3

A special announcement from F. J. Jones, grocer and general dealer Wanganui, will be found in our advertising columns, to which the attention of all classes of the public is directed. The 'Frisco Mail will close at Palmerston on Friday evening at 7.45 o'clock. On that occasion the Railway Department has undertaken to run through to Foxton, but whether with passengers carriages attached is not yet known. The owners of property on that side of the Square from Linton's office to Leary's chemist have arranged to have a 10ft right-of-way at the rear of their sections. This will be a great convenience to the residents and will besides, afford them considerably more frontage to the Square. A special cablegram to the Standard received as we go to press states that Earl Northbrook and Lord Wolsely arrived at Cairo yesterday. The Orient steamship Lusitania arrived at Plymouth yesterday from Melbourne. Messrs Foley and Berkley have kindly arranged for a benefit performance in aid of the Public Library to be given tomorrow (Thursday) evening. Apart from the object and kindliness of these gentlemen in giving their professional services gratuitously the capabilities of the artists ought to be sufficient to draw a large house. Mr Clifford has removed his boot and shoe business to Terrace End. The dairy factory building committee meet to-day at 2 o'clock on the premises, Longburn. Mr Lyons is busy fitting up his new hairdressing salloon and tobacconists shop, and hopes to have everything comfortably arranged in the course of few days. Sir George Grey has introduced a Bill to abolish the postage rates on newspapers printed within the Colony. A man named Wm. Randall, a passenger by the Southern express train was from Oamaru to Port Chalmers was run over by the train in a tunnel and killed. It is not known how he got off the train. Nothing has been heard of the missing prosdector, Moonlight, whose mysterious disappearance from his camp on the West Coast is still unaccounted for.