Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 125, 4 November 1884, Page 3

Messrs' James Purkiss o£ Halcombe, and James Beattie of Feilding are gazetted as registrars of marriages, births, and deaths m their respeetiye localities. At a meeting of the Athletic Sports. Committee held last evening it was decided that ponies of any size be admitted, and that the Smoke and .Saddle, Pony Race be one mile, and the distaDCo where the dismounting on the near side and remounting on the off side takes place shall be at the half-mile. The b.s. Jane Douglas arrived m Foxton at 9 a.m., and. leaves again this evening after the arrival of the train. By cable to-day We learn that the disaster at the Pacifip Star Theatre, Q-lasgow, was of a most serious nature,-; ttyei number of persons injured' being very large. . Mr MoElwain . has just- completed -af. comprehensive bird's eye photo ofPaltnerstbn and Gorge v.'ews containing seven m all and well executed. ' The - picture is illuminated by Mr Hawrkiris very tastefully indeed, and should be a capital Christmas card to send to friends m the Old Country aud Australia. The following are the scends of the ■different pictures : — Gorge bridge, ; Palmerston railway works, Lake Awapuni, pastoral nook, cntranco to Gorge, portion of Pahnerstou Square, rapidß of the Gorge. • ' "■'■'"■ " The Anglican Church Concert to take I place on Friday next should be a. thorough success. The programme (an ; exceptionally attractive one) will appuar m to-morrow's issue. ; 'I A verdict of not guilty was returned against John McLeary on a charge of arson at Nelson. ' At the' Police Court to-day, bftfbr^ Messrs Snehum and Waldegrave, J.P.s, Win. Hilliard was dealt with m the vipual manner on a first charge of drunkenness. A man named Darrell Gilmbrai, ! ' ©a a charge of vagrancy, was sentenced' td three months' hard labour m Wanganui jail. " . ' ■ WtrjW. A case of robbery with violence has •' occurred m Oamarn, two men pulling a traveller off his horse and robbing him . of his watch-chain and some money. Both have been arrested. To-morrow is the anniversary known as Guy Fawkt Day.