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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 259, 29 September 1884, Page 3

Messrs Stevens & Gorton will hold their usual stock sale at the Foilding yards to-morrow. The entries, which will be found m onr advertising columns, comprise, beef, steers, yearlings, and mixed cattle. ' Those boys who intend offering their services as choristers are requested to meet at All Saint's Church this evening at 7 o'clock. ';':-"• We are informed by a Fitzherbert settler that a slip had occurred on the road near the one which happened at the time of the heavy flood. Our informant reckons that those slips are rather a blessing than otherwise as the necessity of clearing them away widens the road. , Mr G. M. Snelsoii, will hold a sale of^ stock at the Fitzherbert-st. sale yards on Saturday next. The entries ■ at present comprise, milch cows, yearlings, steers, &c. Further entries are invited. v Mr C. Whitehead, inserts a notice |n this issue, cautioning anyone from £upchasing section 33, borough of Palmerston North. The pure-bred Clydesdale stallion, Sir Robert Bruce is announced to travel this season. Fnrt tier particulars will be found m an advertisement id another column. ' Somnus and Danebury two sir.es to have paraded on Saturday last did hot put m an appearance. Mr Baker informs us he quite intended to bring Somnus up, but after getting him ready the weather looked so threatening he was persuaded notto risk the danger. Weather permitting, Somnus will be at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next Palmerstou sale. The URiial monthly meeting of the Education Board will be held to morrow. : .!,.. ■■ ■. • ... The Chronicle's Parliamentary 'special' says that the present Ministry seem to have tactics, but no policy. The .tactics chiefly consist m abusing and vilifying Major Atkinson, bedaubing Sir George Grey with fulsome adulation, and m making things comfortable for members m general by means of large honoraria, pleasure trips m the Hinemoa, &c. The fl.'s. Hauroto left Sydney on Saturday afternoon for Wellington. ; The Borough Council does not meet this week. The councillors are all new, ' and as the chairman will he away as a witness m the libel caso, there will be no means of swearing In the new councillors. The Road Board meets as usual. Our (ChranicU) obituary notices contain the announcement of the death of Mr Thomas .'Higgle, one of the ,pione(«r settlers of this province. . The deceased gentlemen arrived m Wellington m 1841, by the ship Olympus, the late Dr Featherston, of Wellington, and Mr Thos. Scott, of Rangitikei, being fellow passengers. Very soon after his arrival Mr Higgle was engaged by the Government to build the barracks at Mount Cook, Wellington, arid Poririia,' and also the stockadeon Rutland Hill, Wnngnnui. The present and former bridge at T«rakina was also built by him. Deceased afterwards purchased the steamer Prince Alfred, which was at the time stranded on t)te south spit and successfully launched her. He also built and launched several other vessels here. He subse-. quently settled oh land and was the first to take cattle on to theManawatu Block. Deceased. was a much respected resident of this district m which he has resided ever since his arrival m 1848. He ' leaves a large family of grown up sons and daughters. . ■ .