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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 21, 23 December 1884, Page 2

If you want to keep flies out of your rooms place a couple of pots of geraniums m the open windows. A private assembly ball will take place m the Foresters' Hall on Boxing Night, which promises to be a pleasant gathering. The adjourned meeting of the Acclimatization Society will take place at Mr Linton's office on Monday next at 3 p.m. We are requested to mention that the Post and Telegraph Office will be dosed on Christmas Day. On Boxing Day the hours of attendance, will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Those who wish for a cheap return fare tq Wellington can go by the Tui, which is issuing holiday return tickets at the exceptionally low price of £1. A numerous cavalcade of Natives on horseback passed through Pahnerston this forenoon bound to Awapuni. They rode m military style, m files of three. Some distance behind came the oommissieriat department with pack horses. A post ofHce will be opened at Bunny, thorpe on January Ist. The schoolmistress at the Manchester School has been appointed postmistress. This will be a great boon and convenience to the set- ' tiers m the district. Mr Snelson announces his usual monthly sale of horses at Tattersall's btables on Saturday, 27th inst, at 1.30 p.m. There will be a number of special turf stock offered. Entries will be re» ceived till 11 o'clock on day of sale. It will be seen by the schedule of prices of admission to the course on Boxing Day that the only inorea.se. m rate is that <*f admission to the couYse of male adults on foot who will have to, pay 3s instead, of Is, a.s formerly. The B.M- Court Office \will be closed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next, and will not open till 2 p.m. on the following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The offioe will also be closed on Ist, 2nd, and 3rd January. The a.s. Tui leaves for Wellington tomorrow night at 12 o'clock. Eachel Johnstone, on the application of her husband Mr Wm. Johnstone, was yesterday committed to the lunatic asylum at Mount View, Wellington, the medical certificates being sworn to by Drs. Macintire and Marriner. The poor creature was this morning conveyed to Wanganui en. route for Wellington. The order was made by Messrs Walde* grave and McNeil, J.s P, The summoned, meeting osthe Fores. te,rs fakes, pjace thi/e^tog;a.t r 7 p. m^ '"M^fift^e.pl tune md p^ce. fa* taking poll for'Qprge Bridge, ia ebo> where aflnounqed, with other requisite particulars, We are eorry to learri that one of Mr Beaveu'fi children received rather a nasty scald to-day. Some effectual remedies haviug been promptly applied the pain was soon . assuaged. The m» juries are not of a serious oharacter,