Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 263, 3 October 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During the discustuon iv Committee, oh Wednesday night (says thu Post) on the Honorarium Bill, Mr O'Connor briskly informed hpn. gentlemen* that few of them indeed there were who, m their ordinary .capacities, were worth half the amount mentioned m the Bill, viz., £210. The utterance of this Parliamentary, enormity passed off int>rrily. The Propoganda has invited the Metropolitan Synod of Melbourne to indicate a suitable coadjutor to the Bishop of Sandhurst. Lord Salisbury has addressed ameeting on tho Franchise Bill, ami has been received with a great enthusiasm. It is the opinion of many m London that the New South Wales loan has been issued too cheaply, and it will bo a success as the market is iv every way favorable. The School Committee will meet on Monday next at the school, at 7.30 '. Sir George Grey has given notice of a Bill to provide that Judges of the Supreme Court shall be appointed for five years and no longer. ': A The present Government intend to introduce a Bill prepared by the late Government, dealing with an alteration of the insurance laws, to enable a married w.oman, by the consent of the husband, to borrow on the policies made out m {lie name of such husband. Theie was an auimated discussion m: t^Ue House on Thursday night with regard to placing the country volunteer corps on the same footing with the garrison corps. The general feeling appeaivd to be m favor of the country corps as they constituted a better class of men m case of active service. It was decided to make no distinction. ~The advance to sixpence a pound on frozen mutton cabled this morning (says a "Wellington paperj will be good news toHhe colony and the Gear Company shareholders m particular, as that company were shippers of 0000 carcases per the Copiic. Now that the winter is setting m at Home, there is reason to believe that the present price will harden.