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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 247, 15 September 1884, Page 3

It was expected that the' slips m the. Gorge would be cleared m 'time to let traffic get through by noon to-day. There is a heavy slip on the Ashurst road, at Grammar's Cliff, but coaches manage to get past. Victoria is getting anxious to know whether the colonies endorse the Bill introduced into the Queensland Parliament for the exclusion of French criminals. ' Twelve persons' are now suffering from smallpox m Sydney. Hani an has challenged Beach to row within Be ven months for the championship of the world. - [ Iftji has Agreed to join m the guarantee of £15,000 m connection with the. appointment of High commissioner of New Guinea. A Wellington Corporation driver, named John Rudraan, was killed by falling off his dray ou Saturday. Several small-pox patients will be released from th'e Sydney quarantine today, no fresh cases haying occurred at the station, Mr Bailey leaves for Wellington m a few days to interview members of "the House re railway freight on timber. It is thought a very large trade may be opened up with Australia through the exportation of New Zealand timber, the only drawback to the scheme being the heavy railway charges. The debate to-night at Young Men's Mutual Improvement Class will be '' Do men make . circumstances, or circumstances make men." Messrs Grace, Dillon, Jones, and Whitehead taking part. Mr Hugli, watchmador and jeweller, of Feilding, was m town to-day looking for suitable premises to open a branch establishment. : . ■ Mr Bray, junr., Feilding, complains of ; the way m which a Palmerston paper wrote m reference to the rates transferred, leaving it to be inferred that he had embezzled the amounts received, . which had been applied for by the Man- . awatu Board, through error on Ins pprt m transferring the same. A satisfactory settlement of the affair will be arrived at this week. Mr Hoe goes up to Feilding on Wednesday to have an explanation and settlement. Owing to the overflow of the Kiwitca, between two and three chains of road, about a mile out of Feilding on the Kiinbolton road have been washed away and rendered impassable, and travellers have to leave the main road and' make their way through Normau's paddock and so regain the road. ; i A resident of Feilding is about to suo the Borough for alleged damage to property, through flooding by the Warwickstreet bridge being washed away and river running into his property. The claim is for £200. Couuselhas been rej tajned. '•''" ' . Mr Lyons opened his new tobacconist shop on Saturday evening, and did a capital capital business., Thehaircutting branfeh of the establishment will be fitted up and completed m a few days. The Financial Statement is to be delivered to-morrow evening. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court do not open till Wednesday at noon. There is a reasonable prospect of the Woodville Dairy Factory soo» becoming an accomplished fact. The Wairarapa County Council are moving m the matter of inducing the Government to open up the land m the Forty-Mile Bush for settlement. Improvements m the Tahoraite Block, recently sold, aye being pushed on at an unusually rapid pace,- oay4 the Examiner, and some huudreds of acres of bush have been felled tljis BpapQM, . The new ovga.n fpr the Church of Eng-: land services m Woodville has arrived m Napier, and will probably be m use next Sunday. The Examiner says it is a magnificent instrument,