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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 8 November 1884, Page 3

Owing to continued Southerley gales at Wellington, the Jane Douglas is detained there till to-night; she will leave Foxton on Monday at 2 p.m. It is officially notified that the Awahuri Bridge is unsafe for traffic until further notice. In the House on Thursday, a motion by Mr Fitzherbert, to obtain a holiday for railway employes on Monday next was lost. No official information was vouch safed the local stationmaster yesterday from the District Manager as to the cause of suspension of railway traffic from Wanganui, so that the many who inquired could ascertain nothing as to what arrangements were likely to be made. We think a little more consideration might be shewn in this respect - to the general public, who are naturally anxious and uneasy when trains fail to arrive to time. The stationmaster could only regret his inability to furnish the desired information, and was uniformly courteous to all inquirers. Notice is given of the bankruptcy of Peter Sheridan, of Ashurst, labourer. By a notice in the Wellington papers we see that the Wairarapa Races have been postponed till next Monday, in consequence of the heavy rain. Special notice is directed to the advertisement from the Dairy factory, with regard to the prices of milk, cream, and butter-milk. The carts will commence running on Tuesday. There was a large attendance at Mr Snelson's sale of general merchandise this afternoon. Our Supplement with to-day's issue contains the concluding chapter of the Australian tale commenced a fortnight ago, also other interesting reading matter. Mr R. T. Wheeler, of Dunedin, who tried to get to Wanganui to catch the steamer for the south, only got so far as Feilding, from whence he had to return to Palmerston. We hear there is an enormous slip, in the Gorge, which will take many days to remove. Meantime alll traffic is suspended. The mails are sent accross the slip to the coaches on either side. We learn that Messrs Stevens and Gorton bad a capital sale on Tuesday at Bulls. Some Wanganui buyers were unavoidably absent through the trainservice breaking down. With the exception of some bulls every line was sold, and at decidedly improved prices too. The detailed report will appear in our next issue. The attendance of buyers was unusually large. Mr Shailer is getting up very tastefully executed local views for Christmas presents. The get up is most artistic and appropriate. By telegram we learn that Mr Wylds' schooner Clyde lost her mainsail and topsail, in the terrible gale after she left port. She also had her boat smashed. She is now in Wellington to repair damage. The brigatine Enterprise from Napier also had to run to Wellington having lost her topsail and jib. There will be a goodly blaze in the Kiwitea this summer, if the weather is at all favourable, there having been a large area of bush felled this year, besides a considerable quantify that could not be burnt last season. For abusing a judge who had passed a sentence pf 20 months on him, a prisoner of Bowling Green, Ohio, had his term of imprisonment promptly increased , to 15 years. The streets of Alexandra, Egypt, are paved with stone blocks so neatly that horse cars run upon them without rails. The cars are open, and appear like an ordinary vehicle, except that the wheels are twice the usual size. Mr lnnes received a telegram from the Wangauui postmaster this afternoon that the train was to leave at the usual hour this afternoon. How far it will be able to run is another question. Till we went to press there was again no weather telegram from Captain Edwin. People begin to wonder , if he has departed this life.