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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 264, 4 October 1884, Page 3

"Tlie s.s. Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington on Tuesday at 10 P.™. : Further cases of small -pox . are reported m and near Melbourne. Mr Snelsbn had a large attendance and on the whole a capita k sale at the People's Mart this afternoon . - The Bryce effigy-burners were to-day fined L 2 for burning "rubbish" within.the Wanganui Borough without permission. . Mr E. Shaw has no lens than nine criminal briefs for the Wellington Supreme Court to ait next week. 1

The |l»arquo Gannymede from London has reached Wellington 118 days out. With to-day 'B issue is published a four-teen-eolumn supplement, consisting of selected reading matter and advertisements. Messrs McDowell Bros.' altered advertisement appears over the leader announcing the arrivaj of their second shipment of spring goods. A correspondent of the Nelson Colonist tells an extraordinary yarn about a plague of rats, which exist m thousands between West Wnnganui and Capo Farewell, destroying the crops and travelling m such droves that pedestrians make way for them. The story seems to us rather " tall" to be altogether credible. Mr Murray lias arranged to come down next week to erect the machinery at the Dairy Factory. The company-have after much importunity on their part sueceded m getting then application for an additional railway crossing at the. factory. The Railway Department and members of the House had been interriewed without any success by the Company, and not until the affair was placed m our members' hands did it appear likely to receive anything like due-consideration. Mr Ma cart hiuv however; has sueceeded-in haying the nqcessaryi instructions forwarded to the department, and the company to-day received an official communication, notifying the fact of their application being assented to. ■•;