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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 133, 15 November 1884, Page 3

The funeral of Mrs T. R. Walton is to take place to-morrow afternoon. v "Mr Greenwood's nex£ professional visit to Palmerston will be on Friday the 27th "iust/ • ■•■■ '■■'■•':- : - The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington Tuesday next, at 7 p.m. T^nderV' for Harper's estate most be m the hands of the Official Assignee, Wellington, on 'Wednesday the 19th instant. Mr Thomas Bracken is announced to appear m Palmerston on Wednesday for one night only, m his entertainment entitled "An evening with poets and humourists," which is highly spoken of bythe New Zealand press. * The 27th instant has been fixed for the complimentary banquest which the Hon. Mr Ballance is to receive. No weather report from Captain Edwin was posted yesterday nor any to-day till we went to press. 1 Those'd©BJro^B_;qf securing advertiser :menj; space pnvthe SIiAIDAEp sljeet aa- t mariac for 1885 should apply early,' as nearly all iare already bespoken, v, „ . Forged Bank <>f New Zealand £1 notes ate 5 m citculation at Christchnrcb;. Thoy were circulated on the racecourse, and were. .detected. by eight .of them being paid mon account of a publican who had a booth on the cbursef andwho had been deceived by them. .Messrs Stevens -and Gorton have abandoned: the'r intention of holding jthoir contemplated wool sale at Palraerston, 'and \vill only holdjhe one at Bulls on. Thursday, December 18. ■'• The Martbn paper is informed that Mr !H. Sarison intends to .protest m regard to the Oroua ridiug election, on the ground that a number of defaulting ratepayers tendered their rates, to the -returning officer on the day of polling, but were not allowed to vote; ' Says the ' Hawera Star .—The many friends of Mr Gillies, Resident Engineer at the Hawef a end of the New Plymouth section of railways- will regret to learn that he is about to leave us, haying received orders toi proceed, to the Manawatu.at the end jof the month, to superintend the construction of the railway through the r ■ Manawatu Gorge, Mr •Koch will accompany Mr Gillies, and it is possible some other officers of the department stationed m Hawera may be included m the ; party. During' his stay here Mr Gillies has made many friends, and he will be missed not only m social and musical circles, but: also as a courteous arid efficient officer 1 . Miss Kdto !Lee and vMr Richard I M^Kertzle, two) prominent Masterton ! Sal v^idnists, were married by the Rev ' Mr Fulton on Thursday, y r In their final report, tho Printing and Committee of the ' House of Representatives stated that thtey had under consideration a scheme forjhe publication of a Daily Jffansard, irt, which the speeches would be reported <m the third person, the publication, of cp'irse, to be under proper editorial supervision. The further consideration of the matter they, however, deemed it desirable to leave over to next' session. Bishop Cowie!, when m England, was taken to a grand conservatory to feast his eyes:on!a marvellous speci'pen of a wondrous exotic, which his \botanical friends were very proud of. He found it was the kowhjai of the New' Zealand bush! : \ -'■'■', Sanatorium ' has been nine years m building, decorating, 1 and furnishing, and contains provisions for four hundred patients, with separate sitting and sleeping Rooms for each. Its cost was half -a-million, and it, has an endowment of £50,000. In the HollowayColjege there is a fine art gallery, the' contents of which hare cost £100^)00; -• v /•■"■■Si? Hefcutes Robinson, who has had a terribly.iresponsible time Binoe-,hi undertook' the l Gio»tornorship of Cape Colony, writes to a private friend i» m England that he deeply regrets leaving New ... He says he means to resign his present post sliortly unless the Home Government agree to support him m some decisive' aqtipn iv Becbuanalaud. , .. s - There recently came t6 Melbourne, as jone of -a Wery"- large^" excuirsion party, a farmer who Had W an iininterrupted 30 years' residence m the" wilds of Wimmera. Thirty long' years had passed fiway since the old ' man' gazed upon the ; sea. Since the time ,he . left the ship, which "landed m Melbourne," he had -never seen the bowsprit of a vessel. His children had grown up to man's eatate, a J nd his eidest ton was ; thinking about getting married, ■ but up to now had, never been outside his bush circle. Property^ holder^ often allow themselves to be summoned for rates which they are cdnfidant they don't owcj (says, , the W.anganui Herald) because they have given rip the property on which the rates are levied. They should take warning by the-case which came.on this raornjng at the R.M. Court, m which a person who had beep out of possession for more ..jthan-a year w ( as mulcted m the amount clairqed because he had riot given, the Property f TW'C6inmißsi6rier notice of the alteration. •• •-:■•'. ; .: • ">■, j From an excharigewe learn that '♦ it is prbposed by the Tasmanian Government to give 500-acres of land to Fanny Smith, who is positively declared to be the last of. the Tasmanian aboriginals." W£ had always understood that the last Tasmani^.diedia good many years ago. ;<; A Road Bpardin Marfborongh offers; two-pe.ncVa dozen for the heads orj eggs of spartows and linnets. All the small boys, in Ihe'neighboiurhood are' indulging 1 in' Viwons; of untold wealth. 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